BS* Productions is a theatre company founded by Benjamin Sumrie. Due to the nature of the acting industry, this company is a conduit to connect and collaborate - prioritising new writing & art that challenges the status quo. Putting the artists first and defending their right to creative expression for the betterment for all, especially for those who's voices are not heard. It is up to those who are willing to take a risk in order to make great work.
As an actor and producer, Ben is interested in work to invest creatively in.
Ben’s acting credits at The Edinburgh Fringe include: The Addam’s Family: The Musical! (Paradise Green), 20 Minutes of Action (Pleasance) and This Side of the House (Space, Triplex). In London, credits include; Four Play (Mountview), You Won’t Help Me (The Other Place), Conversion (Lion & Unicorn), Shoreditch Muse (Theatre Royal Haymarket’s Masterclasses), and Swans are F****** Arseholes (Pleasance Scratch) & One Hundred Percent (his playwrighting debut) which continues to tour in multiple theatre festivals.
Ben recently appeared in a one-man show, An Actor In Search Of A Plot (Greenside @ Riddles Court) at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025.
His directing credits include: The Roses of Eyam, CandleWasters Shorts, Precarious Nights I (ongoing).
He believes that ‘art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed’.
Emma is BS* Productions’ creative associate & playwright.
Emma Zadow is an actor/writer, and an alumnus of the Soho, Mercury, Menagerie and Criterion Theatre Writers Labs.Nominated for Tony Craze, ETPEP, and Vault Five Awards. Her award-winning BBC New Creatives short “Jigging” with Screen South, is on BBC iPlayer. Emma has performed at the Arts Theatre, Pleasance Theatre and will be performing at the Edinburgh fringe festival 2025.
Swans have been performed at union theatre, Pleasance theatre and an upcoming showcase reading at the Criterion Theatre November 2025.
Emma credits include Fridge (Hope Theatre), Hamotzi (Theatre 503), and Black Hills (Pleasance), published by Renard Press. Commissions include Mountview Academy, Les Enfants Terribles, and The Sunday Boys Choir. She received Arts Council England funding for an R&D of her eco-play KIN FOLK, in association with Mercury Theatre. Emma’s screenplay “Fridge” was runner up at the British Independent Film Festival for Best Unproduced Screenplay 2024. As an ITV Creative Access Mentee, she explores class, identity, gender, and technology. She trained at Rose Bruford College and as an actor, has starred in TV, film and theatre, winning the Fringe Encore Award at the Soho Playhouse, New York. Emma is currently on the prestigious creative writing masters at University of East Anglia.