House Residence
A home for talent
House Residence is a collection of bespoke Residencies for writers, directors and producers at House Productions.
House Residence’s mission is to build on the ethos of House Productions, to grow talent by investing in long-term developmental relationships.
We foster a creative environment for Residents by providing the time, space, stimulus, insight, relationships, mentorship and support for ideas to thrive.
Our 2023 House Residents are Samuel Bailey, Jon Brittain, Tommy Edwards, Rhianna Ilube, Tife Kusoro, Isley Lynn and Nikhil Parmar.
Our current Mentors for 2023 are James Graham, Lucy Kirkwood, Theresa Ikoko and Pete Jackson.
House Residence is supported by BBC Studios.
Our House Residents
Isley Lynn
Isley is known for Skin A Cat (Pick Of The Year - Vault Festival, nominated for four Off West End Awards, including Most Promising New Playwright and Best New Play), War Of The Worlds (British Council Recommended Show), and Albatross. She is a two time Literary Death Match Champion. Isley is currently under commission to the Donmar Warehouse, Francesca Moody Productions, and Vicky Graham Productions, as well as developing original projects for television.
Jon Brittain
Jon is a playwright, comedy writer and director. His critically acclaimed play Rotterdam won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2017, he went on to direct Richard Gadd's debut play Baby Reindeer, which won the same award in 2020.
His other work includes the cult hit shows Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows, the Fringe First Award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), and the UK Theatre Award-winning Billionaire Boy: The Musical.
He directed both of John Kearns’s Fosters Award winning shows Sight Gags for Perverts and Shtick as well as shows for Tom Allen, Mat Ewins, Tom Rosenthal and others.
He co-wrote a dozen episodes of Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball and was a staff writer on seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown.
Nikhil Parmar
Nikhil Parmar is a London-based, Manchester-born actor, screenwriter, and playwright. He is currently writing feature scripts for New Regency/See-Saw, SunnyMarch/Anton Corp, and Yann Demange’s company Wayward. In 2022, Nikhil’s OFFIE nominated one man show Invisible premiered at The Bush Theatre to five-star reviews, it will return to the Bush this summer before transferring to New York. He is currently developing original projects for TV with Fifth Season, Element Pictures, Drama Republic and Baby Cow.
Rhianna Ilube
Rhianna is a playwright and events curator from London. Her debut play, Samuel Takes A Break…, was Highly Commended for the Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award, and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. She has been a member of the Royal Court Intro Group, Royal Court x Sister Productions group and Oxford Playmakers, Omnibus Engine Room. She is now developing her first pilot with Expanded Media for a Sky Table Read. Rhianna has worked for interactive theatre-makers Coney for 3 years and became a film programmer for BFI Flare in 2023.
Tommy Edwards
Tommy Edwards is a London based writer and director, whose vision centres around characters from marginalized groups, looking at the smaller stories that reveal big ideas.
He is developing his feature film Boat Jacking with Moonage Pictures and currently developing a new TV show, Adult for Life with House Productions, a coming-of-age drama about an imaginative 18-year-old boy navigating his new connection to the drug dealer that has been dealing to his parents for years. Off the back of his most recent short, All the Trimmings, Tommy was selected to be part of the 2021 BFI Weekender Cohort for New Filmmakers from a working-class background.
On top of Tommy's narrative work, he works as the Creative Producer for a youth led production company, working with diverse young people, developing their skills to create innovative content, helping break down barriers to access opportunities in film and media. In the past 10 years, he has worked with over 1000 young people supporting the production of hundreds of films, funded by an array of charities and grant givers, with several of those films being screened at festivals around the world.
Samuel Bailey
Samuel is a playwright and screenwriter from the West Midlands, now living in London. He has developed plays with the Old Vic, Orange Tree Theatre, Tobacco Factory Theatres and Bristol Old Vic. Most recently, his play SHOOK won the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize and sold out it's run at the Southwark Playhouse before securing a transfer to Trafalgar Studios. He is currently working on a new commission for his next play, and developing original projects for TV and Film.
Tife Kusoro
Tife is a Nigerian-British writer and performer. Her first full length works for theatre were shortlisted for awards including the Alfred Fagon Award, the Verity Bargate Award and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. She has also undertaken attachments with Talawa Theatre Company, the Bush Theatre and the Royal Court, and is one of BBC Writersroom’s 2021 London Voices. Tife is currently under commission to the Bush Theatre and to the Royal Court as a 2021 Jerwood Playwright and for TV she is developing projects with Sona Films, Little Door and Dancing Ledge. Her Pilot Butterfly was recently picked up by the Ink Factory and Sky for a table read.