Theatre that playfully explores the paradoxes of modern identity, inspired by the unique collaboration between Tim Cowbury and Jessica Latowicki. Dynamic, devious, visually arresting, verbally sharp performances and projects that jump in at deep ends and explore what it feels like to be alive now. Work that challenges dominant assumptions and structures of the waning west, asking how and why we tell stories in a world overloaded with stories. Funny, sad, provocative stuff to witness and be part of, for anyone who looks at the world and is confused, amused, thoughtful or downright angry.
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Made In China formed in 2009. We have developed and performed our work across the UK and beyond, at venues including: National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Royal Exchange Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Forest Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre, La MaMa, and Paradiso Amsterdam. Made In China was a National Theatre Studio affiliate company 2010-12 and an Arches Brick Award nominee 2013.
Made In China work closely with a range of collaborators, but our main ones are Christopher Brett Bailey, and producer Beckie Darlington, and you can read more about them and us below.
Who are we?
Jessica Latowicki
Jessica Latowicki is a theatre-maker, performer and co-artistic director of London based theatre company Made In China. She had written and performed in six full-length shows with Made In China, as well as a number of smaller works. Along side Made In China, Jessica has collaborated as a performer and maker with a wide variety of artists including Nigel and Louise, Nina Segal, Coney, director Ben Kidd, Bryony Kimmings and Uninvited Guest. As a solo-artist and curator, her work has been seen at The ICA, BAC, The Gate Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre and Shunt. Jessica has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths.
Tim Cowbury
Tim Cowbury is a playwright, theatre-maker, teacher and researcher. He co-founded Made In China in 2009, has co-led on the creation of most of our shows to date and usually travels with them across land and sea to keep reminding the performers what they’re doing wrong and operate light/sound. Tim’s ‘dazzling (The Stage) and ‘furiously funny’ (Exeunt) solo playwriting has been staged at venues including Young Vic, Crucible Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre and Sao Paolo International Festival, and is published by Oberon Books. Tim gives lectures, creative workshops and residencies in community and education settings across the UK. He is currently doing PhD research into the politics of alternative theatre work in Britain at Royal Holloway, University of London (Techne AHRC scholarship)
Christopher Brett Bailey
Christopher Brett Bailey is a performer, theatre-maker, writer and musician. His critically acclaimed solo debut THIS IS HOW WE DIE received the Arches Brick Award, and an Off West End Award, and was shortlisted for Stückemarkt, Berliner Festspiele 2016. Performance credits include associate artist of Made In China, work with BBC Radio 4, National Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and collaborations with Andy Field, Mamoru Iriguchi, Glen Neath & Hannah Ringham, Nigel & Louise, and the late great Ken Campbell. As a musician Bailey is ½ of ambient music duo Moon Ate the Dark, and leader of guitar-noise project THIS MACHINE WON’T KILL FASCISTS BUT IT MIGHT GET YOU LAID. Christopher is a graduate of East 15’s Contemporary Theatre programme and Goldsmiths College, where he earned an MA in Writer’s Block. www.christopherbrettbailey.com
Beckie Darlington
Beckie Darlington is a creative producer working across a range of art forms. She works closely with artists and organisations to conceive, develop and deliver new work, including festivals, touring theatre performances, participatory art works, installations, and one-off live events. Beckie has worked with organisations including the Natural History Museum, Museum of London, The Yard, transmediale, FutureEverything, Forest Fringe, and AV Festival. She is currently working on projects with Andy Field, Bourgeois & Maurice, Christopher Brett Bailey, Gillie Kleiman, Greg Wohead, and of course - Made In China! Alongside her producing work, she also collaborates as an artist with Andy Field on a series of experimental performance projects with children that ask us all to think differently about the world around us.