a company he formed with Mark Down, to make new shows with puppets for adult audiences. Nick designed, performed and made puppets for the company whose own productions included Mr China’s Son, Tramping the Boards, The Spaceman, Pirate Puppetry, Martin’s Wedding, A Puppet in the Works, Low Life, Call of the Wild, 1984, The Heads and The Table, many of which toured to theatres and festivals nationally and internationally. In 2005 they collaborated with Anthony Minghella on the ENO award-winning production of Madame Butterfly, providing puppets for the production and performing with them. Other major collaborations include: Shunkin, A Dog’s Heart, Master and Margarita (Complicite), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre), On Emotion (Mick Gordon, On Theatre), Faeries (Royal Opera House), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep, WYP), Kommilitonen! (Royal Academy of Music) Last year they oversaw the puppetry in Danny Boyle’s spectacular opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. As a theatre designer Nick’s credits include: The Barber of Seville, Rhinoceros, La Boheme, L’Elisir D’Amore, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Carmen, Aida and The Magic Flute, West Side Story and Showboat, Martin Guerre, The Wiz, Danny 306 + Me (4 ever), Hansel & Gretel, Miss Saigon, Bombitty of Errors. Previous productions for Theatre Royal Stratford East include: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Familyman.
CHLOE KENWARD LIGHTING DESIGNER
Chloe’s recent lighting designs include: What Happens in the Winter (Upswing, Stockton Arc, touring), La Boheme, Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Isango Ensemble, Hackney Empire), The Centre, Frank and Ferdinand (Islington Community Theatre, Pleasance Islington, Soho Theatre), You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse), Mack and Mabel (Greenwich Playhouse), The Quick (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Chloe has re-lit many productions around the world, for companies including Hofesh Shechter, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Headlong and English Touring Theatre. Chloe has a First Class degree in Drama from the University of Hull, and also teaches Lighting at Rose Bruford College, Central School of Speech and Drama and Goldsmiths College.
In 2006 Chloe won the Michael Northern Bursary Award from the Association of Lighting Designers for showing ‘exemplary talent in lighting design.’
SARAH WELTMAN SOUND DESIGNER
Sarah’s current and recent projects include The Ring Cyclotrope (Royal Opera House installation), Sound Designer and Consultant for the new Sam Wannamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), Cape (Synergy Theatre Project), and A Passionate Woman (Sheffield Theatres, UK tour 2014). Prior to this – Next Thing You Know, A Winter’s Tale, The Hired Man (Landor Theatre), Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic), Donny’s Brain (Hampstead Theatre), Burning Bird, Glengarry Glen Ross and Convictions New Plays Festival (Synergy Theatre Project), The Riots (Tricycle Theatre), Wolfboy the Musical (Trafalgar Studios), In The Spirit of Diaghilev (Sadler’s Wells), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic), Marriage of Figaro, Damnation of Faust, Elegy for Young Lovers, Idemoneo (English National Opera). Associate Sound Designer credits include: Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic, West End and UK Tour), Street Scene (Young Vic), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Garrick Theatre). Sound Designer and Install Engineer on the Globe to Globe 37 Stages Season 2012 (Shakespeare’s Globe) and the York University Theatre, Film and Television facility built in 2011.
Sarah has been assisted with Musical Arrangements for Crowning Glory by Jacey Linton.
DICK STRAKER PROJECTION DESIGNER
Theatre credits include: A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester), Going Dark (Fuel Theatre), The Lessening of Difference (South East Dance), Orpheus and Eurydice (National Youth Theatre, Old Vic, Tunnels), Tristan and Isolde (Grange Park Opera), Fat Girl Gets a Haircut (The Roundhouse), Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre), The King and I (Curve, Leicester), Desire Under the Elms (New Vic Staffordshire), Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre), Tales of Ballycumber (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), It’s a Wonderful Life (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios), Just Add Water, Faultline (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), Rushes (Royal Ballet), The Ring Cycle (Royal Opera House), Sugar Mummies, Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court Theatre), Julius Caesar (The Barbican and tour), Richard II (The Old Vic), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre, London, Marquis Theatre, NY), His Dark Materials, Henry V, The Coast of Utopia and South Pacific (National Theatre), Jumpers (National Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Brooks Atkinson, NY), The Duchess of Malfi and The Powerbook (National Theatre and tour). Dick studied Fine Art combining photographic and mixed media installations with postgraduate study in graphic design. Dick has designed for much seminal theatre, fashion, commercial and architectural projection events and formed the company Mesmer for video designers with common interests in visual and performance based activities. Dick’s range of experience has extended over technological advances whilst still being grounded in traditional visual language. He is involved in image production, post-production editing and animation and the delivery of the content into the display system. Dick’s interest is designing projection that involves creating content for unusual spaces and contexts.
CORAL MESSAM MOVEMENT
Training: Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits: The Lightning Child (Shakespeare’s Globe), Feast (Young Vic), Faustus (Royal Exchange), Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre), To Be Straight With You (DV8 Physical Theatre). Television credits include: Game of Thrones (Choreographer and Performer). Movement direction includes: You Could Move (Arcola Theatre), Amen Corner, Death and the King’s Horseman (dance assistant), (National Theatre), Sweet Taboo, Enter and God’s Property (Talawa Theatre), A Doll’s House, As You Like It, Private Lives (Royal Exchange), Houseboy (Tiata Fahodzi workshop), Ruined (Almeida theatre).
Research and development includes: Othello movement director (Royal Shakespeare Company), I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebayo), Britannia Rules The Waves (Royal Exchange). Coral was the Stadium Arena Stage choreographer for the 40th anniversary celebration of the United Emirates in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Coral is also
