Role: Creative Team

Warda is a miniature model-maker with a focus on sets for theatre, film, TV and commercials. Over recent years she has self-taught many of the necessary skills for design and model making, and has worked as assistant designer at Tutti Frutti and Leeds Playhouse.

Sundeep is a movement director and choreographer passionate about driving narrative through physicality and immersive performance. As a parent to two young children, she is committed to making excellent theatre for young audiences and families, and has worked for many regional theatres including Watford Palace Theatre, Queens Theatre Hornchurch and The New Wolsey.

An award-winning storyteller in her own right, NikNak is devoted to developing her unique practice as a DJ and turntablist, sound artist/composer, producer, tutor, sound engineer and radio presenter. She’s also a strong advocate for diverse representation in the music industry, especially within the DJ and music production realms, and musician wellbeing/mental health.

Writer Mike Kenny is one of England’s leading writers specialising in young people’s theatre. He was included in the Independent on Sunday’s list of Top Ten Living Playwrights and his plays are performed regularly throughout the UK and internationally. Mike won the 2015 Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Younger Audiences with Three Wise [read more]

Musical Director Christella Litras is a songwriter, musician, composer, vocal arranger, record producer, creative support officer (Leeds Playhouse) and founding member of Caution Collective. She composed the musical score for Windrush: Movement of the People by Phoenix Dance Theatre, which celebrated the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush.

Callum is a lighting designer based in the Suffolk countryside with a rapidly growing design portfolio in a variety of genres and styles. Callum is keen to work on productions that make theatre accessible to all, be it the way that the show is presented or by the story it tells.

Tayo’s recent work includes: Much Ado About Nothing for New English Shakespeare Company at The Dubai Opera House; The Panto That Nearly Never Was at Theatr Clwyd; Sonnet Sunday, Henry IV pt 1, pt2 and Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; The Whip, Royal Shakespeare Company; Pulse, Bamboozle.

Nick is an award-winning puppet and mask maker and has a varied career in film, TV, and theatre. In 2006, he co-founded the award-winning Scratch Built Productions, creating imaginative new shows which include Baby Boomers, Knight Time, How to be a Hero and The Three Sillies.

Music Direction Theatre as composer/musical director credits include: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (New Vic Theatre), A Tiger’s Tale (M6 Theatre Company). Television as composer credits include: Survivors, Kenny Everett: Licence to Laugh (ITV1); The Unseen Eric Morecambe (Channel 4).

Movement Director Holly is a performer, teacher and movement director. Holly has always been passionate about how dance and theatre can be used to educate, inspire, and entertain a diverse range of audiences. Credits include: Open Clasp Theatre Company’s Key Change (Best of Edinburgh Award, Fringe 2015), and Take Off Festival Scratch Artist 2015.