The Company

Gwyn Harwood currently works as a peripatetic teacher for Somerset County Council, supporting the children of travelling communities within mainstream schools. Gwyn was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 and decided to use this life changing experience by helping to form 'Little Gift'. She has found her practical knowledge and wide experiences as a teacher and counsellor invaluable for her part as a theatre company member, a performer and in helping to devise and write `Time Bomb'. Gwyn is married with three daughters and a son and lives in the West Country.

Marina Sossi is a professional theatre performer and director with a growing reputation for creating vivid, compelling, live work. She has toured internationally as Marina Sossi Group with solo performances: Miss Majorca and The Little Death and is currently developing new work with other artists. Marina has worked with Little Gift from its inception; initially to enable Jill & Gwyn to voice perform their personal story and over time to develop Time Bomb into much more than a 'breast cancer play'. Marina is an Affiliated Artist of The Merlin Theatre.

Jill Miller is a novelist, who has worked as `Writer in Residence' with various creative projects in women and men's prisons from 1992.2000. Her first novel `Happy as a Dead Cat' published by The Women's Press in 1983 was a landmark book for popular feminism and remains a text for Women's Studies. It was one of a list of a hundred books chosen by Britain's chief librarians to take into the next millennium. (The Independent Wed 8th Dec 1999). As a result of her own breast cancer in 1993, Jill founded Positive Action on Cancer - a free professional counselling service for people affected by breast cancer. `Time Bomb' has fulfilled a lifetime's ambition `to perform'