Role: Creative Team

Tour Stage Manager Kirsty is the Admin and Operations Manager at Tutti Frutti, with over a decade of experience as a touring stage manager. She has toured with multiple different children’s shows including The Boy Who Bit Picasso, Getting dressed, Mirror, Mirror and Tutti Frutti shows Keepy Uppy and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Director Placement Saniya Saraf is a writer, director and theatre-maker from Calcutta, India. After reading literature at Durham University, she trained as a theatre director at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) in September 2023. Her practice explores cultural intersection, identity politics and tragic-comedic styles and genres. Her work examines the intersection between [read more]

Composer & Sound Designer Lee is a versatile composer, music producer, and sound designer specialising in creative content for theatre, dance, film, and radio. His extensive portfolio features productions for notable organisations like Derby Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, and The British Library. He’s contributed to a wide range of works, including Kiss Me Quickstep, Death and [read more]

Set and Costume Designer Catherine has been a freelance designer for over fifteen years. Her designs have travelled the world with audiences seeing her work in Toyko, New York and Kong Hong. She first worked with Tutti Frutti in 2005 and over the years has designed many shows for the company including Ugly Duckling, Rapunzel, [read more]

Student Placement Brandon is an early career Northern Director and Writer based in West Yorkshire. Having previously trained with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, he went on to graduate with first class honours from Leeds Conservatoire BA Acting, having been the first person from his family to attend university. The myriad skills that [read more]

Movement Director Vince is a Bradford born choreographer, performer and vertical dancer/director and has performed, presented and collaborated in 28 countries across 6 continents.  He is currently touring his Imaginate commissioned outdoor dance works Pop! and Then What and has recently been a guest choreographer for Northern Ballet. He is also Associate Aerial Director for Upswing’s Bloom and Choreographer for Mind The [read more]

Movement Director A researcher, teacher, and choreographer with over 23 years of national and international experience in classical and contemporary dance. He holds a Diploma in Musical Theatre Dance from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, an MA in Choreography, and a Ph.D. from Leeds Beckett University. Through his company Rhythmosaic, Shambik brings a [read more]

Writer Manjeet is an actress, author, playwright and screenwriter. Manjeet spent two years as an associate artist at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Soho Writers lab and Quarterhouse Theatre in Folkestone. Her plays have toured nationally to critical acclaim. Most recently her stage adaptation of her debut novel Run, Rebel won best production at the 2025 [read more]

Amily is a performance designer with a BA in Theatre design from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and an MA in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University.  Amily has designed for The Everyman theatre Liverpool and the Hippodrome Birmingham. She is known for her puppetry which she has developed and created for festivals all [read more]

Sarah Cotterill is a Scriptwriter, Storyteller, Journalist and Arts Practitioner with oodles of energy. With a career in Theatre, Film & TV after a degree in Writing, Directing & Performance, Sarah was a founding member of RJS Productions, staging the seminal site-specific performance of Agatha Christie’s Olivier nominated courtroom drama, Witness for the Prosecution. She [read more]