Yvette Freeman is a theatre designer and performer currently studying at University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College (2014-2017).
As a designer, No Fixed Abode will be her first independent collaboration but she has been gaining experience with Dramacube productions, Geraldine Pilgrim (site-specific designer) and Attic Theatre Company in April 2016. She has trained as a dancer with Debra Simmons School of Dance and Active Dance in North Manchester; U.K.A distinction in lyrical ballet and Grade 3 I.D.T.A in modern Jazz and ballet. Since moving to London in 2014; her interest has focused on immersive and physical theatre; attending workshops via Sadlers Wells and the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Network. In 2015, she saw her debut as a dancer in You Me Bum Bum Train and ChannelUs Music Video (YouTube Channel). This year she will be appearing in Geraldine Pilgrim’s Handbag, April 2016, Euston and her site-specific performance of Flight, July 2016, Lake District (which she will also be part of the assistant designing team). |
Luke Davies is a theatre director, journalist and academic researcher.
His academic research interest is radical literature. He has an AHRC funded PhD from UCL on representations of homelessness is interwar British literature. As a theatre director he trained at LAMDA. Since 2015 he's been joint artistic director of Dragonflies Theatre - a company dedicated to producing new LGBTQ+ writing - with playwright Patrick Cash. He's also one of the co-founders of the Con|Eva Project - a collaboration between a group of theatre makers and the poet Kimberly Campanello. As a journalist he writes freelance for various online and print media. He's had book reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, the LA Review of Books, Review31 and The Literateur. He's written articles and comment pieces for Left Foot Forward, Attitude Magazine, Exeunt Magazine and The Conversation. He generally write on subjects related to literature, social issues and performance. website |
Abraham Parker is a playwright, director and co-founder of London & Scotland-based theatre company Vocal Point. An alumnus of the Royal Court Young Writer’s Programme, he is currently developing Vocal Point’s production Mooring for Totally Thames Festival 2016 and is under commission to Breaking Fourth theatre company. Ctrl, his virtual reality play for the latter, will be released mid-2016. In 2013-14 Abraham volunteered extensively at Glasgow City Mission homeless centre, serving regulars at the soup kitchen and running a weekly drama session. From these experiences he developed Vocal Point’s 2014-15 production Bloom, which toured Glasgow, Edinburgh and Athens. Other staged scripts include Vocal Point’s Splintered and The Brains of The Family, and fringe sucesses Haider and Brewing. Direction includes Strindberg’s The Stronger at Summerhall, Niklas Radstrom’s Monsters, David Eldridge’s M.A.D., and an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida. He currently volunteers at the 240 Project centre for the homeless and vulnerable, and Lambeth and Southwark Oasis foodbanks.
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Laura Kurlansky is a dramaturg, writer and live artist. She studied English and Theatre at Warwick University and MA Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
She is currently focusing on bespoke inter-diciplinary dramaturgy and her own work as a writer and artist. She specialises in participatory performance that pushes the boundaries of the audience-performer relationship and asks questions about agency, intimacy and the democratisation of art. She almost alway works collaboratively, seeking new ways to mix practices and crafts and to create inter-dicillinary practice. She is interested in what the 'aesthetics of democracy' might look like and is always making work with that image in mind. www.laurakurlansky.co.uk |