Rae McKen
Director
Rae studied for her MA in Text and Performance at Kings College London and RADA. She was a recipient of the Channel 4 Regional Director’s Scheme. Rae is Artistic Director of Custom/Practice.
As Director, theatre includes: As You Like It; The Malcontent; Romeo & Juliet; Macbeth (Custom/Practice); Gravity, Respect (Birmingham Rep); Jamie the Saxt (Finborough Theatre); Origin Unknown (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Airswimming (Salisbury Playhouse); Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (mac and national tour); Women Beware Women (Landor Theatre).
As Associate Director, theatre includes: The Wiz (Birmingham Rep)
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Noughts and Crosses, Penelopiad (RSC); The Snow Queen; The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal Stratford East); 93.2FM (Royal Court); Much Ado About Nothing (Salisbury Payhouse); Mother Courage and her Children (Nottingham Playhouse); Simply Heavenly (The Young Vic).
Rosa Maggiora
Designer
Theatre includes: Stones In His Pockets; Women, Power & Politics; Category B; Seize the Day; Detaining Justice; Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse); Free Outgoing (Royal Court/Edinburgh Festival); The Penelopiad (RSC/National Arts Theatre, Canada); God Is A Dj (Oval House/Tour); Waiting For Tamara (Old Vic); Anansi and the Magic Mirror (Talawa); Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse/Tour/Hackney Empire); Waiting For God Knows (Riverside Studios); Everyman (RSC/US Tour); A River Sutra (Three Mills Island Studios); Shakuntala (Gate Theatre); Making The Future (Oxford Stage Company/Young Vic); Easter (RSC/Barbican); No Boys Cricket Club, Party Girls (Stratford East); Happy Days (Glasgow Citz).
Dance and Opera includes: Awakening and Another America, Fire (Sadler’s Wells for the Push Festival, a collaboration between Push, ROH2 and ENO).
Film includes: Of Mary; A Stiff Drink; Out There.
Simon Bond
Lighting
Simon trained in house at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Theatre includes: The Just Price of Flowers (collaboration with Stan’s Café), Hip Hop Hero, Respect; Writing on the Wall, 8 Sixteen 32, Cling To Me Like Ivy, Gravity, Notes to Future Self (Mac and tour), Importance of Being Earnest (Old Rep), Mothership (Edinburgh Fringe); Dead Eye (Soho, collaboration with Kali Theatre); Looking for Yoghury (International tour, collaboration with Joyful Theatre, Kijmuna Festa, Hanyong Theatre), Strawberry Fields and White Open Spaces (Pentabus); Wasted (Women In Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Dracula (Birmingham School of Acting); As You Like It (Custom/Practice).
Darren Lang
Illusion Consultant
As Illusion Consultant, theatre includes: Some Like it Hop (Peacock Theatre); Doctor Faustus (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Darker Shores (Hampstead Theatre); Faith and Cold Reading (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Alice in Wonderland (New Vic); Newsrevue (Canal Cafe & Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival 2010); The Stag King (Edinburgh Festival 2010); Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Threepenny Opera & Peer Gynt (The Arts Institute at Bournemouth); A Mad World My Masters (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Doctor Faustus (Creation Theatre Co.)
Opera includes: Queen of Spades (Grange Park Opera)
Darren has also worked as associate to Theatre Illusionist Paul Kieve on a number of shows including The Phantom of the Opera (UK National tour); Mrs Affleck (National Theatre); Aladdin (Theatre Royal, Stratford East and Hackney Empire).
Edward Lewis
Sound
Edward studied Music at Oxford University and trained as a composer and sound designer at the Bournemouth Media School. He works in theatre, film, television and radio.
Theatre includes: Gravity (Birmingham Rep Theatre); On The Rock; Amongst Friends, Darker Shores (Hampstead Theatre); Slowly, Hurts Given and Received and Apple Pie (Riverside Studios), Measure For Measure (Cardiff Sherman); Emo (Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic); Once Upon A Time in Wigan, 65 Miles (Paines Plough / Hull Truck Theatre); Krapp's Last Tape, Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck); The Shallow End (Southwark Playhouse); I Am Falling (Sadler's Wells & The Gate), Orpheus and Eurydice, Quartet (Old Vic Tunnels); The Beloved (The Bush); Hedda, Breathing Irregular (The Gate);Madness In Valencia (Trafalgar Studios).
Angela Gasparetto
Movement Director
Originally from Nova Scotia, Angela is a London-based movement director, actor and teacher. Angela is currently directing Lois Tucker in Fabled for the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe www.angelagasparetto.com
As Movement Director, theatre includes: Nights at the Circus (Fourth Monkey; Edinburgh Fringe); The Vagina Monologues (V-Day London, The Bussey Building); Faith, Hope & Charity (Leap Productions, Southwark Playhouse); Monteverdi's Flying Circus (Armonico Consort, UK tour); Emma Thompson presents: Fair Trade (Latitude Festival, Rich Mix & Edinburgh Fringe).
Margo Virginia Cargill
Voice Coach
Margo Virginia Cargill trained at Central School of Speech and Drama where she completed the MA in Voice Studies. Since then she has worked with a variety of individuals as well as film and theatre companies as a voice/ accent and dialect coach.