The Company

Founded in 2004 by John Newton Webb and Rhydian Caines, EverAfter Theatre Company is a professional theatre company touring one or two shows a year across the UK. All the work of the company has a distinctive Christian ethos and is presented in EverAfter's trademark storytelling style.

We are based in the Hertfordshire but work all over the UK, producing theatre both for adults and for children which not only entertains but challenges; theatre which is not afraid to engage with big issues, to explore both the light and the dark in life and to energise, excite and amuse.

We also believe that theatre should be accessible to all and we aim to achieve this without compromising our artistic integrity or our Christian faith.

People

John Newton Webb - Artistic Director.

John has worked extensively as an actor with Riding Lights, Rhema, Onatti, Phoenix and Actors in Transit theatre companies. He also runs drama workshops for Barnabas Live, Riding Lights, The Lighthouse, Youth For Christ and EverAfter and has written material for a number of companies and venues including Riding Lights, Imaginary Friends, Coventry Cathedral and the Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne. In between EverAfter productions, John continues to work as a freelance actor, writer and facilitator and also writes and performs sketches at various church and university CU mission events. He also has a degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick.

For EverAfter: Writer, Director and Performer for 'Hudson Taylor', 'Home', 'Into The Wild' and 'Great Escapes'.

Sally Okafor

After graduating in 2003 from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in drama, Sally has been touring the length and the breadth of the country with theatre companies such as Riding Lights, Sixth Sense, Chalkfoot and Split Moon.

For EverAfter: Performed in 2006 tour of 'Home'

Rose Patrick

Biography to follow

For EverAfter: Devisor for 'Home' and performed in it on 2005 tour.

Rhydian Caines

Rhydian works as a professional musician and guitarist performing regularly across the UK, and has long been involved in a plethora of musical outfits from functions bands and church groups to barbershop quartets and rock gospel choirs! He has also worked as a recording session player on a number of local projects. After meeting John at university he helped establish the EverAfter Theatre Company in 2004, and until recently was also touring with his own critically acclaimed band Slybob, which he also co-founded. Rhyd has a degree in Maths and Physics and keeps telling himself that one day he'll put it to good use. He does not smoke a pipe in real life.

For EverAfter: Composer and performer for 'Into The Wild' and 'Great Escapes'.