about us
Our Mission
At Open Page Productions, our mission is to create compelling visual stories that connect people and inspire action.
Our Approach
We take a collaborative approach to every project, working closely with our writers, actors and directors.
Our COMMUNITY
We want to create a collaborative community between writers, actors, directors and technicians to create engaging and thought-provoking content for stage and screen. Providing a platform for creatives to unleash their imagination, telling inspiring stories in varied and inventive ways – be it the power of words or physical performance.
Our ETHOS
We are an inclusive and diverse company. We believe in fair representation for everybody, not solely at a creative level, but also at a production level. Regardless of age, race, sex, disability, gender identity – we want to tell your stories.
Our Impact
We are also an environmentally responsible company – we aim to limit our carbon impact by means such as: being paperless, holding auditions via zoom, re-purposing props and sets, and adhering to the Theatre Green Book wherever possible.
meet the team
annie power
Annie is the founder and Artistic Director of Open Page Productions. She is a producer, director and an award-winning writer, having authored plays, screenplays and short fiction.
Annie is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and was a member of the Director’s Cut Writers Club. She has had multiple short plays staged at venues such as The Soho Theatre, The Old Red Lion Theatre, The Hen & Chickens, The Pleasance, Octagon Theatre, Leicester Square Theatre, The Etcetera, The Rosemary Branch Theatre, The Tabard, The Bunker and the Cockpit Theatre. Her first full-length play, ‘As We Unravel’, debuted at The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2019.
Annie has written several short films which have been screened at various film festivals, including the London Film Festival, and in 2014 she won the Best Screenwriter award at Underwire film festival for her screenplay ‘Caravan 9’. She has also directed two short films, ‘Eve’ and ‘The Burning’, in collaboration with Godiva Films. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and an anthology. In 2020 she won first prize in a competition for Writing Magazine and was shortlisted for The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2021 and The Doris Gooderson Short Story Competition 2021.
She also trained as a FCP Editor at Ealing Film Studios, works as an Extra and is a fringe theatre reviewer for London Pub Theatres Magazine.
Tippy Elgar
Tippy is the Creative Director of Open Page Productions. She is an award winning director, actor, film maker and practitioner for stage and screen, based in Chelmsford.
Tippy has experience directing for stage in multiple venues across Essex and London including The Kings Head Theatre, Drayton Arms Theatre, Hen & Chickens Theatre and Harlow Playhouse. Most recently she directed a new play The A Word written by Jade Winters which raises awareness of domestic abuse in the LGBTQ+ community, in collaboration with the charity Safe Lives.
As an actor, Tippy has appeared in a range of supporting roles for Netflix, Amazon Prime & Channel 4. She is an award-winning filmmaker and her most recent experimental film Terminus, was screened at BAFTA qualifying festivals and won at the London Independent Film Awards.
Being an experienced practitioner is always at the heart of her work and she is continually inspired by the creativity of the people she teaches. Currently she is collaborating with University Centre Harlow, Essex Film Collective, Film Barking & Dagenham. Tippy is part of the Director’s Development Programme at The Mercury Theatre where she has had the privilege of being a practitioner for over a decade.
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We rely on donations to keep costs affordable and enable us to keep creating original work, and we can’t do it without your help.
So why not support us? Every contribution, large or small, helps.
