Ollie trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and

is a founder member and co-artistic director of Filter. He has

performed in all of Filter’s shows – Faster, Elephant, Caucasian

Chalk Circle, Water and Twelfth Night. 

His many other stage credits include work at The Royal Exchange,

Manchester (Great Expectations, and The Dead Wait – for which he

won The Manchester Evening News Best Actor Award), The Royal

Court (Workers Writes), The Sheffield Crucible (The Comedy of Errors),

The Chichester Festival (Pravda), The Salisbury Playhouse (Beautiful

Thing, Five Finger Exercise) and The Playhouse Theatre (The Creeper).

His many television credits include lead roles in Law and Order (ITV),

Breaking the Mould (BBC Four), Harley Street (ITV1), Larkrise to

Candleford (BBC), Fallen Angel (ITV1), He Knew He Was Right (BBC),

Byron (BBC) and Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC), Casualty and Doctors (BBC).

His film credits include Cosi, Nostradamus, Rocknrolla and Pest. Radio

drama includes Sharp Focus and In The Company of Men.

Tim is a composer, songwriter, and producer with studios in New York

and London. He studied music at the Guildhall School of Music&Drama.

He has written music for many screen productions including HBO’s

Entourage, Company Pictures’ Talk To Me, Tightrope Pictures’ RTS

Award-winning Instinct, and the BAFTA-nominated The Last Post

(with Chris Branch).  He has scored the last 6 series of C4′s massive

hit series Shameless.

In addition to Filter shows he has written scores for many plays,

most recently for the Donmar Warehouse production of A Doll’s House,

and Juliet and Her Romeo at Bristol Old Vic (with Marc Teitler). Tim has

recently completed the pilot of Satisfaction, a television drama series he

created with the writer John-Henry Butterworth under their joint venture

Eat Me Productions. He is also developing a musical Burn Me Dead at the

National Theatre Studio, as well as several other music theatre projects

with Marc Teitler. His new album of songs The Armstrong Tapes will be

released in 2011.

Ferdy trained as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He Co-founded Filter with Ollie and Tim in 2002 and has performed in

all Filter’s shows ( Faster, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Water, Twelfth

Night, Three Sisters and Silence). Away from Filter Ferdy has worked

extensively in the theatre, his most recent credits include Wallenstein

(Chichester Festival Theatre), On Religion (ON Theatre), The Birthday

Party and The Dumb Waiter (Bristol Old Vic), Switchback (Glasgow Tron),

Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse), The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company),

The Sea (Chichester Minerva Theatre), Playing The Victim (Told By An

Idiot, Royal Court), Another Country (West End). His Film and Television

credits include, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Autumn 2009),

Mr Nice (Autumn 2009), Honest, Goldplated (C4), MI High (BBC),

Your Mother Should Know (BBC). Ferdy is an Artistic Associate at

The Lyric Hammersmith.