We are Working Birthday.
We’re the filthy joke that makes your mum laugh in spite of herself.
Natasha Sutton Williams - Writer Composer Actor
Natasha Sutton Williams is an award-winning writer, composer, actor and journalist. Her plays have been produced at multiple London venues including Freud The Musical at VAULT Festival, King’s Head Theatre, Reading Fringe and Space Theatre; Dead Lucy at Southwark Playhouse, Brasserie Zedel, Waterloo East Theatre and Angel Comedy Club; I Am Not Sick at the Pleasance; Clown Sex at Arcola Theatre, King’s Head Theatre, Camden Fringe, Reading Fringe, Chelsea Theatre, Bunker Theatre, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Angel Comedy Club, and 2Northdown; Brother Don't Preach at Theatre 503; Lily White Light at White Bear Theatre; and Prone to Mischief at Old Red Lion Theatre.
As a playwright Natasha has twice been a finalist for the Old Vic 12 playwriting programme 2018 and 2019. She has been twice shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s Young Writers’ Award and co-facilitated their Young Writers’ Alumni programme for four years. She is a graduate of the Criterion Theatre’s New Writing and Story Development programmes.
As a journalist Natasha writes for the Independent, the Stage, Little White Lies, London Calling, Culture Whisper and Disability Arts Online.
Natasha is a professionally trained actor, singer and composer. She studied at Arts Educational, National Youth Theatre and Birkbeck University.
She sings early jazz and musical theatre internationally and composes and performs the music for her shows.
Steph Weller - Producer
Steph is a theatre and festival producer, working with hundreds of artists from across the UK and internationally each year. Her specialism is in creating and delivering art in unusual spaces, and finding new ways to tell epic stories. She produces three annual large-scale arts festivals: Reading Fringe Festival, Reading Thames Festival and Magical Reading, a month-long Christmas programme. Steph is an Old Vic 12 producer (2018-19) and a Stage One bursary holder.
With Working Birthday
Freud the Musical (Reading Fringe Festival/VAULT Festival/King’s Head Theatre/Space Theatre); Clown Sex (Camden Fringe/2Northdown/Reading Fringe); More More More (R&D) (Pleasance Theatre).
Other credits
Black Power Desk (in development – Old Vic 12). Matilda the Empress; Reading’s Royal Burial (Reading Between the Lines). Alby the Penguin Saves Christmas; A New Coat for Christmas (Reading Rep/Oxford Playhouse). The Very Perry Show — Best Comedy Show (Hen & Chickens / United Theater Solo Festival New York).