Snow Child by Emma Reeves

Emma’s stage work includes the Olivier-nominated adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather, The Snow Child, Carrie’s War, Little Women and Cool Hand Luke. TV work includes The Worst Witch (Lead Writer) Eve (Lead Writer and co-creator) The Dumping Ground, Young Dracula, Tracy Beaker Returns, Belonging, The Murder of Princess Diana, Spirit Warriors and Doctors. She has won Best Children’s TV Episode at The Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards twice, and been nominated on two other occasions. Her work has won a national RTS award, an RTS Scotland award, been nominated for two BAFTA awards and two Broadcast awards.

Joanne trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. She then worked with Kokuma dance company in Birmingham which enabled her to work with some of the best African and Caribbean tutors, Koffi Koko, Peter Badejo, H pattern and Patsy Ricketts to name a few. She has 18 years performance experience working for a variety of companies including Ace Dance and Music (contemporary/African fusion), Foot in hand (disabled and able bodied dancers) and tutti frutti (children’s theatre). Joanne went on to become movement director with Red Earth Theatre based in Derby for 5 productions and then returned to tutti frutti as a choreographer for their autumn show Silly Billy and has been with the company ever since.

Joanne has been a rehearsal director since 2004 working with companies such as State of Emergency and Rosie Kay with who she was rehearsal director for four seasons between 2005 and 2010. She was rehearsal director for Tavaziva dance during the critically acclaimed 2004 production ‘Bophelo’ in which the company toured to Zimbabwe as part of the Harare International Arts Festival. She returned to Tavaziva as rehearsal director for ‘Tavaziva Ten’ in autumn 2014.

Ollie trained at LAMDA. As an actor: His recent THEATRE includes THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI Arcola MOBY DICK Arcola THE NORMAN CONQUESTS Liverpool Playhouse THERE IS A WAR National Theatre FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY Arcola ALICE Sheffield Crucible

He is co-artistic director, writer and composer for En Masse which produces original family theatre.

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.

Mark trained at Central. His stage credits include – The BFG (Dukes, Lancaster), Porridge (The Lowry), Life of Pi (Greenwich Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Keswick), Moonlight and Magnolias (Vienna’s English Theatre), Dangerous Lady (Stratford East) and The Firebird (The Watermill).

Musicals include – original principal cast of Ghost (directed by Matthew Warchus), Blues Brothers (West end), Heaven Can Wait (Perth Rep), Carnaby Street (Hackney Empire), Bugle Boy (West end) and Snow White (Qdos).

Shakespeare includes – Twelfth Night (open-air), The Tempest (Heartbreak) and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (OSC).

TV includes - Hornblower (ITV), Strutter (MTV) and Crimewatch (BBC) plus many adverts from Branflakes to Genes Reunited.

Mark is also a busy writer and director, recent work includes directing for Quantum Theatre and Cinderella for ATG. Most recently Mark spent the summer being the Ringmaster with Seaside Cirque.

Theatre includes: Unearthed, Larksong, The Gift, Half A Horse (New Vic Theatre Staffordshire) ; The Revenger's Tragedy (Brockley Jack); Not With A Whimper (Arcola Theatre); Duvet Day (Theatre Delicatessen); Price Tag, Emil And The Detectives (Red Earth Theatre/UK Tour); The Tragedy Of Mariam (Tristan Bates Theatre); Gulliver's Travels (TNT/International Tour); Electra (The Space); Hecuba (New Diorama); Wheelman, Stronger Even Than Me Is We, A Puppet In The Works (BAC).