About Us

 

JANET YOUNG - ACTOR/ADMINSTRATOR

Janet Young is an actor and Big Window Theatre Company administrator. She lives in Derby and completed a Theatre Studies and Creative Writing degree at Derby University in 2004. She has since worked for many local theatre companies including Red Earth Theatre, Tangere Arts, Roundabout at Nottingham Playhouse and Sustained Magic.

 

She also regularly works as a role-play actor, playing patients for the training of psychiatrists, a role for which she has been told she a particular aptitude (!) possibly as she used to work as an Occupational Therapist in acute psychiatry prior to her theatre training. She also teaches the piano and tries to sell her husband Niall’s art-work.

 

 

 

PENNY BREAKWELL - DIRECTOR

Penny was a founder member of West End Arts Centre in Hampshire which is still a popular touring venue in the South East. She was Associate Director of Reunion Theatre Company and has directed plays for theatre, television and radio. Notably ‘VE NIght’ and ‘The Night John’ by Peter Terson, both of which were performed in Chichester before going on a national tour. She has worked in Repertory Theatre, Community Centres and Festivals.

 

She moved in to Theatre in Education as an actor and director and worked at South Hill Park, Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and recently for Big Window Theatre Company of which she is a founder member. She also taught dramatic arts and theatre skills at Suffolk College and Blundeston Prison. A spell in local politics in Ipswich gave her less time for directing for a while but she is very happy to be back and working in theatre for young people.