CANDY is Tim Fraser’s debut play, which started as an idea as part of his NFTS Screenwriting course. Originally a 15-minute piece, CANDY was selected from over 1000 short plays and performed as part of Reboot: Shorts at the Bunker Theatre in London in 2018. In collaboration with Reboot Theatre Company and Nico Rao Pimparé, Tim Fraser developed the show into a full-length play, which finished a sell-out preview run at the King’s Head Theatre in London in early 2020, and followed with a special online performance released for ZOO TV/Edinburgh Fringe in 2021. The show returns to London following a month-long run as part of Underbelly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2022, before a full run at The Park Theatre, London in late summer 2023.
CANDY is Tim Fraser’s debut play. He is the co-writer of Juniper Mae, a series of illustrated children's books, the first of which was published by Flying Eye Books in March this year. Tim has an MA in Screenwriting from the NFTS and was part of BBC Writersroom’s London Voices in 2022.
Nico is a British-Indian-French director for stage and screen. As a theatre director his credits include Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse), Rainer (Arcola Theatre), CANDY (Underbelly, King’s Head Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre/ZOOTV), Reboot: Shorts 2, The Interpretation of Dreams (Bunker Theatre), Jules César (Voice4Thought International Festival, Dakar), Dead Souls (Theatre N16), and Nozdryov (Young Vic, Freshworks). Student productions include Three Sisters (LAMDA) and The Great Stage (East 15). His film work includes The Start of Nothing (short), They Just Use The Sky (short) and Love and Other Emergent Phenomena (feature / in development / BFI).
Michael Waller plays Will. He is an actor, producer for Reboot Theatre Company, and doctor. As an actor his credits include CANDY (Underbelly/Edinburgh Fringe, King’s Head Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre/ZOOTV), Reboot: Shorts 1 & 2 (Bunker Theatre), Love and Money, Macbeth: Reboot (Network Theatre) and Stace in Space (Vaults Festival, Waterloo). Michael is the co-founder of Reboot Theatre Company and works as a respiratory doctor specialising in cystic fibrosis.
Michael trained on the MFA Theatre Directing course at Birkbeck and is the co-founder of new writing company Dissident Theatre. His work as a director includes Snowflakes (Park Theatre/Old Red Lion Theatre), DJ Bazzer's Year 6 Disco (Riverside Studios), Lone Star Diner (Omnibus Theatre), Graceful (RADA Studios), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stage Door Southampton) and Tape (Edinburgh Fringe).
Stephen is a pianist, composer, teacher, Head of Music in Newcastle (and brother of Michael). He has worked with composer Stuart MacRae and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and arranged for conductor John Wilson. Stephen has a passion for choral music and theatre, having written for Voices of Hope and Robert Icke. He is currently working on his second musical with lyricist Craig Dacey.
Faidon and Athena have been instrumental in the foundation of Reboot and its productions. They have helped develop, produce and perform its work (Reboot: Shorts, Stace in Space, Love and Money, and Macbeth: Reboot). They lead the marketing for its productions, including the credit for CANDY show image. Despite moving back to Greece, they remain an active part of the Reboot family and support its work from afar (often a remote Aegean island!).
Reboot Theatre Company and the Team behind CANDY wholeheartedly send eternal thanks to everybody for supporting them, the production and its development. We send particular thanks for the following people. To Annie Brewster and Jerwood Space. To everybody at Underbelly and ZOO Venues. For CANDY (ZOO TV) - Niall Webster (Director of Photography), Neale Ross (Sound Designer), Peter Owen Brook (Video editing). To the team at Blue Elephant Theatre, London—Niamh de Valera, Jimmy Chamberlain, Ella McCarthy and Kome Ovuworie. To Giles Abbot (Giles Abbot Voice and Story). To Rachel Daniels (Berlin Associates). We also are indebted by the immeasurable support and love of our families and friends— for understanding when we’re home late for dinner, missing those weekends away, having less time to play, and for being there when things got tough. And to those that started the journey with us, and remain in our hearts and memories, but can only watch the show from afar.
Reboot Theatre Company is a London-based theatre company, co-founded by Michael Waller and originally formed by a passionate and diverse group of actors committed to producing exciting theatre to challenges audiences and support new work by emerging artists. Reboot Theatre Company was formed in September 2015 by a group of actors after they trained and performed together at Morley College in London. The company’s name, Reboot, was inspired by their first production, Macbeth:Reboot – a physical theatre interpretation of Macbeth. Recent productions include a sellout series of new, short plays (Reboot: Shorts) by emerging writers, and was the foundation for CANDY’s development and future productions.
