Production Manager

Yorkshire born and bred and proud, Chris started out in theatre training as a performer then found his niche in technical theatre, starting out at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford. Now 16 Years on Chris has worked his way through the ranks from stage crew up to Production Manager with bits inbetween including asm, tech stage manager and even a ring master for the Chinese National Circus! He is delighted to be part of the Keepy Uppy Tour and working with Tutti Frutti on this new and entertaining show!

Production manager credits include:

Bitched (Tristan Bates Theatre, West End), Pippin (Hope Mill Theatre,Manchester),HOME1947(The Lowry, Salford), ISHQ The Musical ( Sadler’s Wells Theatre),1984-Orwell live reading( Senate House, London), Snow White, Peter Pan, Cinderella(Venue Cymru, Llandudno).

Further Theatre Credits:

Technical Stage Manager- Jus’ Like that the Tommy Cooper Story(UK Tour), Tour Manager/Ringmaster (Chinese National Circus)

Dom loves writing music, playing music, recording music and listening to music. As a boy he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, singing everyday for five years and sometimes making records and being on the TV. Later he went on to play lots of jazz and was a finalist in The Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Then Dom went to university to learn more about music and since then has been lucky enough to be able to pay the bills just by doing something musical. He has written music for lots of different people -from Atomic Kitten to Opera North and the BBC to a feature film starring John Rhys-Davies. His music has been played on national television and radio and in theatres throughout Europe. Dom is Director/Producer for the record label Jellymould Jazz and also plays the triangle.

Evan is a Canadian-British playwright who grew up in Toronto and now lives in London, England. He recently won the Writers’ Guild Award – Best Play for Young Audiences for his play Girls Like That (Synergy Theatre/Unicorn Theatre; first produced Birmingham Rep/Theatre Royal Plymouth/West Yorkshire Playhouse.) A new play for NYT’s West End Season will premiere in October this year, and his play Scarberia will be produced in Toronto in 2016. His other plays include: Pronoun (National Theatre Connections); Mother of Him (Courtyard Theatre, London; winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing (UK), RBC National Playwriting Competition (Canada) and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest (USA).); Banana Boys (Hampstead Theatre); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Scan Artists (BRIT school/ Yard Theatre); Little Criminals (York /Plymouth/Polka) and Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project, schools tour & Unicorn Theatre; winner of the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People.) For radio: Mother of Him (BBC Radio 3 “The Wire”/Little Brother Productions).

Evan has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio, Birmingham Rep, the Unicorn Theatre, and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He was part of the Kudos/Bush Writers’ Initiative, Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting, and was a finalist for the Red Planet Prize. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He also teaches playwriting to young people for various theatres, as well as in prisons.

At 16 Joêl found breaking enabling him to externalise expression that would otherwise remain internal. After many adventures in the breaking culture he went on to train at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, what started as a means to an end initiated a fierce passion for expression through dance and movement.

After co-founding Champloo Dance Company (2008-2013) and touring its debut show in UK, Europe, Canada and India he works as a freelance Choreographer, Movement Director and Performer. Other work includes Boing! Travelling Light theatre, Cinderella: A fairy tail Tobacco Factory Theatre, Peter Pan Bristol Old Vic and Pulling Out Documental Theatre.

I have been working in theatre lighting for 10 years now. Most recently designing ‘Exactly Like you’ at the Vaults in London, I enjoy finding small shows with big hearts to be a part of. I am extremely passionate about all corners of the industry having worked in places from the fringe to the Coliseum, but my favourite type of show to work on has always been children’s theatre.

I have had the great fortune to work with Tutti Frutti on several shows, ‘WiLd!’, ‘The Snow Child’ and ‘The Princess and The Pea’. Each one is magical and captivating in its own unique way and I am looking forward to being a part of another one.

Associate Designer

Kate has designed shows for The New Vic, Birmingham Rep, MAC, Pentabus, Birmingham Symphony Hall, BAC, Polka Theatre and Northampton Royal and Derngate with whom she has designed several large multi-sensory interactive installation plays for young audiences.

Kate designed Michael Morpurgo’s ‘I believe in Unicorns’ for ‘Wizard Presents’. The show premiered at Edinburgh Festival and following a national tour enjoyed great success in the West End 2014/15.

Kate has recently worked with Tutti Frutti designing the ‘SnowChild’ and 'Wild’.

Kate has also worked as a Design lecturer for The Royal College of Art, Central School of Speech and Drama and held prop and assistant design roles for The National theatre, BBC, RSC and Almeida. She trained at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design - MA Scenography and a first class BA Hons in Theatre Design.

Kate lives in St Albans with her partner Jon and two children.

Artistic Director

I have held the position of Artistic Director at tutti frutti since 2005 and have directed all but one production in partnership with York Theatre Royal, touring nationally and internationally and co-producing the Little Feet Festival of Children’s Theatre and the First Words writers’ development programme

Before working with tutti frutti I was Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company, and previous to this; Merseyside Young People’s Theatre Company in Liverpool. Over the years as a freelance director work has included; Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Crucible Theatre Sheffield, Hope Street Ltd, Oxford Stage Company, Unity Theatre Liverpool, European Stage Company, Theatre Royal Stratford East, and Contact Theatre Manchester. I currently live in Leeds with my partner Mark and two sons Louie and Eliot.

Danny graduated from ALRA:North in 2013 where he was nominated to represent the school in a ‘Laurence Olivier Award’. Starting life as an actor with a rural UK tour of ’12 Miles from Nowhere’ (Karen Simpson/Action Transport Theatre), Danny then moved onto roles as ‘Wishee Washee’ (Buxton Opera House) and most recently ‘Grandson’ in Michael Morpurgo’s ‘FarmBoy’ (Colchester Mercury). Danny has been a part of the ‘Tutti Frutti’ family before, enjoying a national and international tour of ‘Rapunzel’ back in 2015 and 'Ugly Duckling' in 2017.

Eden graduated from Italia Conti Arts Centre in 2015 where she trained in Performing Arts. She has been performing from a young age having sung in the choir of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at The Wimbledon Theatre when she was 5 years old!

Since graduating her credits include, Principle Dancer/Understudy in All or Nothing the Musical (The Vaults Theatre, London) Dance Captain/Understudy in Dick Whittington (The Belgrade Theatre), Ensemble/Featured Dancer in Secret Cinema present’s Dirty Dancing (2016) and Moulin Rouge! (2017). She has also enjoyed performances at The Tate Britain, Frieze Art Fair (Regent’s Park), the celebration of the closing of the BBC Television Centre and the Vault Festival.

Eden is very excited to be on tour for the first time with Keepy Uppy!

Vittorio Angelone is an Irish musician and actor. He studied at the Guildhall School from 2014-2018 and has involved himself in various projects across both music and drama. He is one of the leading members of the Wind-Up Penguin Theatre Company, taking theatre, music, clowning and workshops to disadvantaged children across the world. He recently performed in Flush at the Winemaker’s Club with Matchstick Theatre and in 300 el x 50 el x 30 el with FC Bergman at the London International Mime Festival.