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After five years together, a millennial couple decide to A comedy drama about a 32-year-old woman who Bob, a lesser-known Tarsier Bear, is critically try an ‘open relationship’. has to break up with the love of her life because of her endangered and looking for love. A dark, animated biological clock. comedy, set in a world populated by anthropomorphic MATILDA WNEK and RYAN O'SULLIVAN have animals. been a writing team since they were teenagers. JENNY BEDE is an actor, writer and comedian After a few years writing sketches for the from London. After studying at the Royal NICHOLAS ORAN is a writer and comedy Footlights, they found our comic voice in 2013 Academy of Music, she turned to comedy after improviser based in London, having written B a

with the creation of their award-winning live a stint in the topical sketch show Newsrevue. She a number of short comic plays performed at b y act Beard, with Rosa Robson. They now co-run then created a series of YouTube sketches and the Derby Theatre, RADA and the Southwark Embolon Theatre company and just completed was consequently commissioned a BBC sketch Playhouse. He mainly performs with Do Not a residency at Camden People’s Theatre. They pilot. She wrote and presented Mad on Chelsea Adjust Your Stage (of which he is a founding started writing TV Drama scripts in 2016 and for 4od, the fan show for the BAFTA-winning member). They have performed at festivals this month sold their first hour-long script to Made in Chelsea. across Europe, created shows for the Natural Kudos. Their first short film was screened at the History Museum and the National Gallery, and London SyFy Film Festival this February and She has also acted in numerous other shows appeared at the prestigious UCB Theatre in New came second in the 48hr Sci-Fi film competition. including: Lovesick (Netflix), Stan Lee’s Lucky Man York. Last year, Ryan’s prose was nominated for a Stack (Sky) Episodes (BBC2), Josh (BBC3), Crackanory Award for Original Fiction and Matilda was (Dave) Murder in Successville (BBC3), Watson CAST shortlisted for the Old Vic 12 as a playwright. & Oliver (BBC2), Misfits (E4) and Broadchurch Bob (ITV). Jenny also writes and performs stand up WILL MERRICK CAST comedy and is currently writing her second show United Agents L Polly Eggtime for the Edinburgh Fringe. Dave/Panel 2 as t

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