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Led by Director, Composer and Researcher Anna-Helena McLean, MOON FOOL has been hosting international theatre and music exchange since 2004. The umbrella organisation creates and tours original work, offering unique performer-training opportunities specialised for professional actors and conservatoire acting students. The company produce music-driven theatre shows for international touring as well as events, training and education for an international audience. MOON FOOL have been supported by Arts Council England, British Council, MacArthur Foundation, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust/Warwickshire Consortium, Diazoma, Society of Theatre Research and Local Education Authorities funding as well as in partnership with South Hill Park, Trestle Touring, Amy Mueller, Helena Richardson, The Old Truman Brewery and Stables Theatre Hastings (see also below). Anna-Helena is currently running a 'Female-First' research Lab out of Guildhall School of Music & Drama as part of her doctoral study, exploring gender, identity and interpretation in actor/voice/performance training as well as running voice work on the BA Hons Acting Studies course with Danny McGrath.
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"MOON FOOL is an international company with passion and talent that has fused together a unique theatrical practice that is proven groundbreaking and world-class."
Dexter Bullard, Head of Graduate Acting, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
"McLean's training is truly participatory and establishes bridges between indigenous musical forms and urban audiences and, in a lineage practically centred around male trainers (Grotowski, Staniewski, Bral), McLean's committed work proposes a ground-breaking alternative."
Dr. Konstantinos Thomaidis, University of Exeter
Dexter Bullard, Head of Graduate Acting, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
"McLean's training is truly participatory and establishes bridges between indigenous musical forms and urban audiences and, in a lineage practically centred around male trainers (Grotowski, Staniewski, Bral), McLean's committed work proposes a ground-breaking alternative."
Dr. Konstantinos Thomaidis, University of Exeter
ANNA-HELENA MCLEANlead artist and director
Photo: Francesca Cambi
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BA Hons Music & Drama, Royal Holloway Uni of London (2000). Principal of Gardzienice in Poland 2000-2007. Performances include Metamorphoses & Electra. Leader of international music & theatre exchange work worldwide since 2004. As composer & ensemble coach, productions include Yerma, with Kathryn Hunter; Arquiem, Periplum (RNT); Nothing Left To Lose, Company Collisions (LIMF); Glasgow Girls (NTS); It's a Wonderful Life, Theatre Ad Infinitum (Bush); Bangarang (Dundee Rep). Former principal of Awake Projects, Awake Love Orchestra and Awake Youth (AWAKE Jackson's Lane). Currently lead tutor on the BA Hons Acting Studies at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Previously guest director at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland since 2004 as well as NSD, Delhi; DePaul Uni, Chicago; Volda College, Norway; Edinburgh College. Former lecturer in extended voice and performance as well as module coordinator at the Uni of Winchester. As a director, productions include The Lear; Richard III (Aegis Productions); Romeo and Juliet; STORM for Libraries (Shakespeare Week) and Mme Butterfly (IJ Productions). As actor-producer/musician-composer, productions include ill Met by Moonlight, Trestle; Titania - A Solo Cabaret. As an actor-musician productions include King Charles III by Mike Bartlett West End and Broadway (Sonia Friedman Productions) and How To Be Immortal, Penny Dreadful Productions. Recently developed The Wig Show & Resonant Tails with Tract and Touch and undertook guest lecturing in Polyphonic Song and Shakespeare at Rose Bruford College. Anna-Helena is currently engaged as a Doctoral Candidate in Performance Practice at Guildhall School of Music & Drama while engaged as a Voice Tutor on the Acting Studies BA Hons course also at Guildhall. Anna also collaborates on freelance music and composition project (recently including Phosphera cello duo, Dan Horrigan Productions). Interview on Theatre Mix. Most recent TaPRA nominated publication The act of listening See also The British Grotowski Project TRACES, 2008
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COURTENAY JOHNSON |
creative producer |
Courtenay is an independent arts and cultural producer based in Northamptonshire. Her work focuses on producing inclusive, female-centred work alongside larger arts & heritage projects. Courtenay runs Carbon Theatre and is Executive Producer of 60 Miles by Road or Rail.
Her previous projects include:
60 MILES BY ROAD OR RAIL by Ryan Leder, directed by Andy Routledge at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, 22-25 September 2021. The production was part of a wider year-long community, arts and heritage project focussed on Northampton and Corby’s New Town stories involving a documentary film, photography project and exhibition at Northampton Museum, Heritage Open Days at Grosvenor Centre, co-created Hometown activity, Oral History interviews as well as talks and events.
SEEDLING by Helen Crevel with Anne Langford, an audio installation in Grosvenor Centre Northampton, exploring potential motherhood, environmental responsibility & multicultural family heritage (2021) ★★★★★ Centre Stage.
MY SENSORY ADVENTURES (2020-21), an inclusive sensory project which included free video activities, resources, original songs & free packs for families to enjoy at home. The project continues this year, with more activities, live sessions in Kettering and Corby and a new interactive digital adventure experience to be released later this Autumn.
WHEN WE DIED by Alexandra Donnachie premiered at VAULT Festival 2020 (★★★★ London Theatre 1) and a filmed version of the production premiered digitally as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021.
BLODEUWEDD UNTOLD by Jo Blake at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 (★★★★ Broadway World UK) supported by Pleasance Futures. Courtenay is currently working with Jo to develop a new piece, THE WITNESS, about the gospel of Mary Magdalene.
WELCOME…? by Lily Lowe-Myers (★★★★ Spy in the Stalls) at Nottingham Playhouse & Bridewell Theatre 2019, with baby friendly performances & research exploring pregnancy within the arts.
MISSION ABORT by Therese Ramstedt (★★★★ The Stage) Edinburgh Fringe 2017, VAULT Festival 2018 and London/Sweden/UK Tour.
Her previous projects include:
60 MILES BY ROAD OR RAIL by Ryan Leder, directed by Andy Routledge at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, 22-25 September 2021. The production was part of a wider year-long community, arts and heritage project focussed on Northampton and Corby’s New Town stories involving a documentary film, photography project and exhibition at Northampton Museum, Heritage Open Days at Grosvenor Centre, co-created Hometown activity, Oral History interviews as well as talks and events.
SEEDLING by Helen Crevel with Anne Langford, an audio installation in Grosvenor Centre Northampton, exploring potential motherhood, environmental responsibility & multicultural family heritage (2021) ★★★★★ Centre Stage.
MY SENSORY ADVENTURES (2020-21), an inclusive sensory project which included free video activities, resources, original songs & free packs for families to enjoy at home. The project continues this year, with more activities, live sessions in Kettering and Corby and a new interactive digital adventure experience to be released later this Autumn.
WHEN WE DIED by Alexandra Donnachie premiered at VAULT Festival 2020 (★★★★ London Theatre 1) and a filmed version of the production premiered digitally as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021.
BLODEUWEDD UNTOLD by Jo Blake at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 (★★★★ Broadway World UK) supported by Pleasance Futures. Courtenay is currently working with Jo to develop a new piece, THE WITNESS, about the gospel of Mary Magdalene.
WELCOME…? by Lily Lowe-Myers (★★★★ Spy in the Stalls) at Nottingham Playhouse & Bridewell Theatre 2019, with baby friendly performances & research exploring pregnancy within the arts.
MISSION ABORT by Therese Ramstedt (★★★★ The Stage) Edinburgh Fringe 2017, VAULT Festival 2018 and London/Sweden/UK Tour.
Research supervisors
Dr. Rachel Hann is a cultural scenographer who researches more-than-human cultures of performance design, climate crisis, and trans performance. 'Beyond Scenography’ (Routledge, 2019) is Rachel’s first monograph and was shortlisted for the Prague Quadrennial 2019 Best Publication Prize. It provides the first theory of ‘scenographics’ as the place orientating traits of staged material cultures: from gardening to visual merchandising, installation art to theatre. Rachel has also published chapters & peer-reviewed articles on subjects such as costume politics, heritage visualization, practice research, & the performativity of architecture.
Since 2019, Rachel has been investigating trans and nonbinary approaches to performance making. This includes arguments for 'atmospherics' as nonbinary stage aesthetics and 'gender-assemblages' to analyse the more-than-human practices of gendering. The overall objective of this ongoing enquiry is to platform the vitality of trans and nonbinary experiences in understanding the impact of cisgenderism on artists, audiences, and academics.
In 2013, Rachel co-founded the biennial conference & exhibition Critical Costume. This international research network has since expanded with events in Liverpool, Helsinki, Prague, Guildford, and Oslo. Rachel has led a number of Critical Costume's core activities including co-convening the first and third main conferences, co-editorship of a special issue of Scene (Intellect) & writing the organisation’s first constitution. Her work in the formation of this network was shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Early Career Prize 2017 for 'leadership in the areas of costume and practice research'.
Since 2019, Rachel has been investigating trans and nonbinary approaches to performance making. This includes arguments for 'atmospherics' as nonbinary stage aesthetics and 'gender-assemblages' to analyse the more-than-human practices of gendering. The overall objective of this ongoing enquiry is to platform the vitality of trans and nonbinary experiences in understanding the impact of cisgenderism on artists, audiences, and academics.
In 2013, Rachel co-founded the biennial conference & exhibition Critical Costume. This international research network has since expanded with events in Liverpool, Helsinki, Prague, Guildford, and Oslo. Rachel has led a number of Critical Costume's core activities including co-convening the first and third main conferences, co-editorship of a special issue of Scene (Intellect) & writing the organisation’s first constitution. Her work in the formation of this network was shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Early Career Prize 2017 for 'leadership in the areas of costume and practice research'.
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Niamh Dowling is Principal of RADA and former Head of School of Performance at Rose Bruford College. She has worked extensively internationally as a Movement Director, leading workshops in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia, South and Central America and Russia. Niamh trained as a teacher of The Alexander Technique and in movement with Monika Pagneux in Paris and Ann Bogart, Nancy Topf and Eva Karczag in New York. She has collaborated closely with Teatr Piesn Kozla in Poland for the past fifteen years. Niamh has a holistic approach to education and performance training with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of movement and voice and is one of the practitioners on the recently launched online Routledge Performance Archive.
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Dr. Alex Mermikides directs the unique doctoral programmes at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, which has a distinctive focus on research in, through and for the performing arts.
Her own research also bridges scholarship and practice, the latter as a director, dramaturg and playwright. She has published on contemporary theatre-making (particularly devised and interdisciplinary performance) and the interface between theatre and medicine in the UK. Her edited books include Devising in Process (Palgrave 2010). Her current project Careful, developed with support from the Arts Council, explores themes of compassion, care and empathy through the perspective of nurses. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement and on This Week (BBC Radio 4). |
ERIN NICOLE WASHINGTON (USA)
ACT ENSEMBLE, EDI CONSULTANT & ACT INTERNATIONAL MANAGER
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Erin Nicole Washington. Actor, movement artist, acting & dialect coach for TV/film and theatre. From Inglewood, CA, Erin began her training at Amazing Grace Conservatory to SUNY Purchase then to Harvard ART IATT & is currently in post-grad at ATI-LA. She has studied in Bali, Poland, Russia and Italy. As an advocate for individuals who have the desire to transform their communication, Erin gives you tools that you can employ and adapt throughout your journey.
When she isn’t dancing with dialects, she is collaborating with multi-disciplinary experts & artists from around the world, exploring the embodied body via cultural exchange, seeking to decolonize imagination, tap in to primal processes, a mutuality that tends to link the inherent connection between ancestral wellness, relationship to nature and somatics. We can peacefully coexist because of our differences. Diversity is what makes our species stronger. Erin is in her second year of teacher training at Alexander Technique Institute of Los Angeles and recipient of the Judith Leibowitz Diversity Scholarship. |
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EMILY JANE GRANT (ITALY)
ACT INTERNATIONAL MANAGER & ACT YOUTH LEADER
Bilingual performer and workshop leader. Trained at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) in France and with Moon Fool / ACT. Companies include: Theatre Sans Frontières. She works as an Artist facilitator for The International Schools Theatre Association, Freshwater Theatre in London and Snappy opera team with Mahogany Opera.
Founding co-creator of Join the Dots theatre company, London. Emily has assisted MOON FOOL's director on countless occasions including the British Council ACT workshop tour of India in 2009 and ACT Anidra 2018 in Italy. She was a principal member of the RnD ensemble working on Romeo & Juliet (Teaterhaus Mitte) and Richard III (Aegis productions) and performed in STORM for Libraries during Shakespeare Week in 2014 while delivering ACT Youth's schools programme. Emily remains an associate of MOON FOOL while stylistically working within youth work and teaching. She most recently contributed workshops in devising techniques and participatory performance as part 'The Singing Village' virtual choir that ran during lockdown June - August 2020 and has been part of the Practice Research into the company's latest production INANNA.
Founding co-creator of Join the Dots theatre company, London. Emily has assisted MOON FOOL's director on countless occasions including the British Council ACT workshop tour of India in 2009 and ACT Anidra 2018 in Italy. She was a principal member of the RnD ensemble working on Romeo & Juliet (Teaterhaus Mitte) and Richard III (Aegis productions) and performed in STORM for Libraries during Shakespeare Week in 2014 while delivering ACT Youth's schools programme. Emily remains an associate of MOON FOOL while stylistically working within youth work and teaching. She most recently contributed workshops in devising techniques and participatory performance as part 'The Singing Village' virtual choir that ran during lockdown June - August 2020 and has been part of the Practice Research into the company's latest production INANNA.
Kat Shaw (Australia)
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act core ensemble & assistantKat Shaw is a performer and theatre-maker from Perth, Western Australia. She has a Cert IV Jazz Music (WAAPA), BA Performance Studies/Creative Writing (Curtin), and completed an Internship Program with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, 2014. She was a founding member of The Open Lid Ensemble (Helena; Risscht! The Little Match Girl Theatre Award Finalist, FRINGE WORLD 2017; Hypatia nominated Best Independent Production, WA Performing Arts Awards 2018; Further to Fall) and was nominated for Best Newcomer, 2018 WA Performing Arts Awards, for her performance in Hypatia. She completed an MA Collaborative Theatre Making in association with Frantic Assembly (Coventry, UK), graduating with distinction and the Course Tutors' Award. Upon returning to Australia amidst the global pandemic she delved back into music joining local post-punk rock band MK Ultrasound and made her debut as sound designer for Fremantle Theatre Company's sell-out show The Last Train to Freo. She began training with Anna-Helena McLean in London, participating in ACT International 2019 and the first two iterations of the International Singing Village. Kat is thrilled to be returning to Italy and the ACT method for ACT International 2023.
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RobI Bogdanov-Schein (Romania)
administrator & assistant
Robi is an actor and theatre-maker as well as a core member of MOON FOOL. His journey so far has led him to work internationally, viscerally, physically, musically and towards meeting different cultures and languages. He comes from Romania, but started out in a German Youth Theatre before undertaking training at the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth University. He has participated in the ACT International Voice and Performance Residency at Centro Anidra in Italy in 2018 and 2019, playing Bottom in a site-specific production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Enki in Inanna. His recent experience also includes workshops at the Odin Teatret and Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, as well as with Gecko Theatre and Cardboard Citizens. He has co-founded The Void Theatre Company, where he has produced and tour managed performances such as Old Clown Wanted and ART. Further to regular coaching and participation in MOON FOOL’s research practice Robi is now administrator for ACT International Residencies and was the director’s assistant for ‘Singing Village’ a virtual choir ‘bringing us through and beyond the pandemic’ June - August 2020.
Claire Jamison (USA)
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DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANT & COLLABORATORClaire Jamison is an actor, writer, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Minneapolis, MN, and Harpswell, ME. Her work focuses on social, racial, and class divisions, the effects of isolation (psychologically and physically), and common humanity. Through narrative storytelling, she immerses audiences into the character’s lives: fostering empathy, community, and catharsis. Her love of collaboration and in-depth research on all her projects allows for many perspectives to shine through the performance and design elements of her work. THEATER: Paloma in Sex Play (New Ohio), Desdemona in Othello (all-female production directed by Trezana Beverley); TV/FILM: Rebecca (Hulu), Inventing Anna (Shonda Rhimes/ Netflix); The Enemy Within (NBC); Know Nothins (Josh Kirk/ Amonini Prod.); Arbor Day (Larkin-Stanhope Prod). Claire received her BFA in acting from SUNY Purchase in 2013, and founded the non-profit arts organization, Power of People Combined (POPC) in 2017.
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ANIRUDH NAIR (india) |
ENSEMBLE PLAYER, act facilitator |
Photo: Pau Ros
BA Hons History, St. Stephens College, Uni of Delhi. MA in Theatre Practice at the Uni of Exeter, with Professor Phillip Zarrilli. Theatre practitioner based in New Delhi. Founded WIDE AISLE PRODUCTIONS (WAP) in 2005. Directed Meet Will for schools and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and As You Like It. Anirudh has recently collaborated with Ben Crystal's OP Shakespeare Ensemble at The Globe and toured internationally as a lead actor with renowned director, Sankar Venkateswaran.
Core trainee within the ACT team further to first meeting MOON FOOL’s Director at the British Grotowski Project in Kent in 2007. Anirudh produced and assisted two ACT workshop tours with Anna-Helena across three parts of India in association with National School of Drama (Delhi) and the British Council, 2010. As an ensemble player he devised the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Working Party Berlin and Ariel in the director's reimagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest, called STORM. Anirudh has been the India representative for ACT and continues to reference the 10 year collaboration with Anna-Helena McLean in new company work, and forging his Delhi-based profile with Guild of the Goat.
Core trainee within the ACT team further to first meeting MOON FOOL’s Director at the British Grotowski Project in Kent in 2007. Anirudh produced and assisted two ACT workshop tours with Anna-Helena across three parts of India in association with National School of Drama (Delhi) and the British Council, 2010. As an ensemble player he devised the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Working Party Berlin and Ariel in the director's reimagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest, called STORM. Anirudh has been the India representative for ACT and continues to reference the 10 year collaboration with Anna-Helena McLean in new company work, and forging his Delhi-based profile with Guild of the Goat.
Chris-gerard heyward (USA) |
ENSEMBLE PLAYER, ACT facilitator |
With an early start at the South Carolina governor’s school for the arts and humanities Chris-Gerard began his pre-professional training. Moving on to receive a BFA in acting from The California Institute of the Arts. While there he studied, on exchange, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he first met Anna-Helena McLean as a guest director. He played Romeo in Ulysses Teater's ‘Romeo I Julia ’68 ’ and toured with the Rock Band LISN in Croatia. Chris-Gerard later played Mercutio in MOON FOOL's production of 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Quadrangle Trust in Kent, England before being cast as a principal in STORM (2015), an urban retelling of 'The Tempest'. Chris-Gerard had the pleasure of teaching with MOON FOOL at the Beras summer academy (Jarna, Sweden), Pacific Union College (Napa, CA), FoolsFURY (San Francisco, CA), and PhysicalFEST in Liverpool. Chris-Gerard now plays Mr. Sunn, a recurring role on Netflix’s 'The Outerbanks' while continuing to collaborate with MOON FOOL remotely throughout the pandemic.
Wanning jen (CHINA) |
act facilitator |
A Taiwan American / an actor/ a registered drama therapist / fomerly an engineer. Wanning pursued acting after he could no longer stand fixing machines on the industrial peninsula in Mie prefecture, Japan. Drastic changes of profession and his multi-cultural background shaped Wanning into a sensitive and empathetic actor. To him, theatre is less of an entertainment but more of a vehicle towards self-expression and personal growth. Apart from acting, he received his M.A in Drama Therapy from New York University. He was appointed by Robert Landy, the founder of NYU’s drama therapy program, to be the only rightful and authorized representative of 'Role Theory' and 'Method' in Asia.
His recent drama therapy activities include: Drama therapist, the counselling centre of Taipei National University of the Arts; Keynote speaker, Second Middle School Education Theatre Conference; Trainer, anti bullying campaign; Co-presenter speaker, The second CTLA conference on drama and education. His recent acting work includes: Cheng in The Peace Inside; and John in Anna Karenina - Anna Karenina won awards in 2018 Worldfest Houston, 2018 Fastnet film festival, 2018 Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, 2018 Soho film festival and 2018 The European Independent Film Festival. The photo features Wanning in the role of Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream, during MOON FOOL's ACT Training residency in Italy, 2018 in which he participated for 3 weeks and has continued to work with the director remotely ever since.
His recent drama therapy activities include: Drama therapist, the counselling centre of Taipei National University of the Arts; Keynote speaker, Second Middle School Education Theatre Conference; Trainer, anti bullying campaign; Co-presenter speaker, The second CTLA conference on drama and education. His recent acting work includes: Cheng in The Peace Inside; and John in Anna Karenina - Anna Karenina won awards in 2018 Worldfest Houston, 2018 Fastnet film festival, 2018 Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, 2018 Soho film festival and 2018 The European Independent Film Festival. The photo features Wanning in the role of Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream, during MOON FOOL's ACT Training residency in Italy, 2018 in which he participated for 3 weeks and has continued to work with the director remotely ever since.
Anannya Tripathyi (india) |
lab participant & trainee |
A theatre actor, based in Delhi. She has done her post graduate in Psycho-social clinical studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi and holds a diploma in Bharatnatyam from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad.
She has acted in the National Award winning movie 'Dharma' and now practices theatre in Delhi with some of the leading groups and directors of the city namely Tadpole Repertory, MOON FOOL, Turntable Productions and Improper Fractions, ArtBlend Ensemble. Her artistic practice has primarily focused on the body, its relation to space, time and other bodies. As an actor, she enjoys processes where the body has been the starting point of creating text and its performance. She has been a part of rigorous ACT training residencies in Delhi and Bangalore and now collaborates with the company remotely as well as co-producing educational outreach.
She has acted in the National Award winning movie 'Dharma' and now practices theatre in Delhi with some of the leading groups and directors of the city namely Tadpole Repertory, MOON FOOL, Turntable Productions and Improper Fractions, ArtBlend Ensemble. Her artistic practice has primarily focused on the body, its relation to space, time and other bodies. As an actor, she enjoys processes where the body has been the starting point of creating text and its performance. She has been a part of rigorous ACT training residencies in Delhi and Bangalore and now collaborates with the company remotely as well as co-producing educational outreach.
Noah Silverstone
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Lab participant & trainee |
Noah Silver is a final year actor-in-training on the BA World Performance Course at East 15 Acting School. He specialises in devised physical theatre and has trained with the Grotowski Institute’s Studio Kokyu. Noah recently directed the puppetry piece Hermit Crab which was scheduled to run in March of 2020 (now postponed) and appeared as dancer in the music video Tiny Kingdoms by Sable. He has worked with Anna-Helena McLean in an ACT summer intensive residency, weekend workshops, and also in one-to-one settings.
Policy advisor & Mediator (Australia/uk)
Brodie Turner has a Master of Cultural and Creative Industries from Monash University, with a thesis on consent in creative practice. She has explored consent and safety in her own immersive and cabaret performance, and recently consulted on safety, safeguarding, inclusion and intimacy for shows by Immersive London and Inventive Productions. She was also invited to participate in an Equity roundtable on safety in immersive theatre, and presented at UK Theatre’s Building Resilience conference. Brodie also led the conception and organising of Consent Festival, a conference event exploring issues in the LGBTIQA+ community, which opened Melbourne’s queer festival, Midsumma. Brodie is a proud trans woman.
DEMetris zavros |
creative advisor |
Demetris comes from Cyprus where he lived until the age of 20. He lived in Louisiana (US) for six years where he studied Music composition at Louisiana State University - with LSU Boyd Professor of Composition Dinos Constantinides and Stephen David Beck (Electroacoustic Composition) – as well as Mass Communication.
He then moved to Bristol and completed an MA in the Composition of Music for Film, TV and Theatre (with composer Martin Kiszko). On completion, he moved back to Cyprus where he worked as a teacher in Primary and Secondary Education as well as started to collaborate with some theatre and dance groups.
In 2005 he moved to Leeds where he started working towards a PhD, and since then he has worked extensively with many artists in theatre, dance and music (including Takis Tzamargias, Lea Maleni, Hanan Snir, George Rodosthenous, Elena Christodoulidou, Riccardo Meneghini, Alex Panayi, Christina Argyri and others). He completed his PhD in 2009 and continues to see himself as both an academic and a practitioner.
He then moved to Bristol and completed an MA in the Composition of Music for Film, TV and Theatre (with composer Martin Kiszko). On completion, he moved back to Cyprus where he worked as a teacher in Primary and Secondary Education as well as started to collaborate with some theatre and dance groups.
In 2005 he moved to Leeds where he started working towards a PhD, and since then he has worked extensively with many artists in theatre, dance and music (including Takis Tzamargias, Lea Maleni, Hanan Snir, George Rodosthenous, Elena Christodoulidou, Riccardo Meneghini, Alex Panayi, Christina Argyri and others). He completed his PhD in 2009 and continues to see himself as both an academic and a practitioner.
George Bellamy
Ensemble Player, ACT Youth Leader 2012-18 |
Photo: Pau Ros
Ezra Faroque Khan
Ensemble Player 2015-21 |
 Photo: Karol Jarek
Alexandra Kazazou
Collaborator 2014-15 |
Danny Kearns
Ensemble Player 2014-19 |
CORE FUNDING PARTNERS
Society for Theatre Research, VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association), Arts Council England, MacArthur Foundation, British Council, Trestle Touring, DIAZOMA, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Warwickshire Schools Libraries Consortium, Culture.PL, West Kent Local Authorities, TDPT Journal and Blog
British Grotowski Project, National Theatre of Scotland, Giving Voice Festival/AMATA/Falmouth University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, South Hill Park, FoolsFURY Theatre Company, Amy Mueller, Huddersfield/Exeter/Plymouth/Wolverhampton/Winchester Universities, Old Roots/New Routes (Ideastap), THE VAULTS London, PhysicalFEST, PASS Edinburgh College, The Working Party and Teaterhaus Mitte, Walkabout Theatre, De Paul School of Drama, National School of Drama Delhi, The Old Truman Brewery (Juliet Kennedy), The Quadrangle Trust, Studio 301, Studio 180, Culture Monks, Arshinagar Project, Southstreet Theatre Reading, The Nightingale Theatre
British Grotowski Project, National Theatre of Scotland, Giving Voice Festival/AMATA/Falmouth University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, South Hill Park, FoolsFURY Theatre Company, Amy Mueller, Huddersfield/Exeter/Plymouth/Wolverhampton/Winchester Universities, Old Roots/New Routes (Ideastap), THE VAULTS London, PhysicalFEST, PASS Edinburgh College, The Working Party and Teaterhaus Mitte, Walkabout Theatre, De Paul School of Drama, National School of Drama Delhi, The Old Truman Brewery (Juliet Kennedy), The Quadrangle Trust, Studio 301, Studio 180, Culture Monks, Arshinagar Project, Southstreet Theatre Reading, The Nightingale Theatre
collaborators
Flavia Bertram, Elly Ball, Jessica Bockler, Aleasha Chaunte, Rachel Dawson, Eleanor Debreu, Akshay Deokuliar, Richard Dumbrill, Andrea Foa, Gavin Hoare, Dan Horrigan, Dominika Jarosz, Ben Joiner, Anoop Mohandas, Ian Morgan, Prajith Prasad, Pamela Prather, Pau Ros, Monica Sadkowska, Sid Sawant, Rowan Sawday, Matt Smith (Videofeet), Ben Spatz, William Summers, Konstantinos Thomaidis and Elzbieta Rojek. Past collaborations took place with Stadium Teatralne, Studio Matejka, Farm in the Cave, Biuro Podozy, No Fit State, Luminescent Orchestrii, Hydra Vocal Trio, Gre Badanie Experimental Choir, Periplum, Vanishing Point, Aegis Productions, The Awake Projects, Au Brana Cultural Centre, The Beekeepers and Studio 180 (Tom Leamon), The Explorers Club, Redcape Theatre, David Glass Ensemble, Theatre Nation, and individuals; Jane Frere, Jonathan Grieve, Helena Kaut-Howsen, Kathryn Hunter, Rosanna Lowe, Ed McGurn, Thom Pasculli, Jason Singh, Max Webster.
Recent/key trainees
Claire Jamison, Laura Hopwwod, Yuxuan Liu, Rea Mole, Laila Mnii, Sarah Nicholls, Oscar Zito
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