Structures Theatre Co
is a partnership between Jemma Churchill and Janet Goddard
We produce plays with visual dynamism and literary flair that both entertain and challenge. –
Jemma and Janet first met at The Activists, The Royal Court Young People’s Theatre, (1978) where Jemma, a flamboyant fifteen year old, bursting with confidence; just having appeared as DONNA in Stephen Poliakoff’s, ‘BLOODY KIDS,’ took to the stage in ‘An Evening of Innocence,’ directed by Janet.
This was the first of several collaborations at the YPT before JEMMA went to train properly at The Guildhall School of Music and Theatre and Janet headed for Liverpool to train at THE LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE as an Arts’ Council Director.
Jemma Churchill has appeared in:
TV: includes Holby City, Footballers’ Wives 111, Midsomer Murders, Murder in Mind, Jonathan Creek, Eastenders, Poirot, Brittas Empire.
- FEATURE FILMS: Bloody Kids, Scrubbers, Arms of an Angel, (winner BBC Short Film Fest 1998).
- RADIO: includes New Grub Street, Brideshead Revisited, Five Days, (Woman’s Hour serial), Love, Vanity Fair, Three Little Pigs etc.
- THEATRE: includes Jemma has toured extensively in the UK (Having A Ball & A Happy Medium UK No 1 tour) and abroad Macbeth, Bubble Theatre, playing Lady Macduff. She has played in repertory at Liverpool Everyman, Northampton, Leicester, Chester and Coventry and appeared in When Did You Last See Your …Trousers? At The Garrick Theatre.
Janet Goddard has worked extensively in TV, film and theatre as a writer, producer and director.
- 1982 original casting director for BROOKSIDE casting all the lead characters for the series.
- 1985-6 Producer, ‘Letter To Brezhnev,’ – cast the film and engaged a full crew, put together deals with Palace Pictures and Channel Four ensuring full payment for cast and crew and return of investment and 100% profit for investors.
- 1997 Writer of HER SISTER’S TONGUE performed by Plain Clothes Theatre at The Lyric, Hammersmith Studio. ‘Janet Goddard’s comic tragedy ploughs the family furrows of pain and cruelty … in so sparky a manner that she makes these much touted truths seem surprisingly and deeply shocking.’ Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 23/07/97.
