Remi Rachuba (actor/writer/producer) - www.remirachuba.com
Remi Rachuba, is a London-based Polish actor and writer and a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumnus at the Berlin International Film Festival. His first professional job was performing in a dreamthinkspeak’s site-specific production titled ‘Before I Sleep’ presented at 2010 Brighton Theatre Festival, awarded with the Peter Brook Best Ensemble Award at the National Theatre and subsequently presented at the Holland Festival. He has also performed in subsequent dreamthinkspeak productions such as ‘The Rest is Silence’, ‘In the Beginning was the End’ and 'Absent'. He also worked with Katie Mitchell on ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Royal Opera House. The opera has been revived twice since its premiere in 2016, most recently in April 2024. Remi worked on his bilingual (English-Polish) solo-play, ‘Intruder/Intruz’ since 2020, which premiered at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival(Summerhall) where the play received an extension. In its initial stages the play was supported by Creative Scotland and subsequently received Arts Council England funding. The play was on the final shortlist in BBC Writersroom Drama submission and was shortlisted for Adrian Pagan Playwriting Award at the King’s Head Theatre. It was the recipient of the 2022 Vault Festival Summerhall Award and was chosen as Evening Standard’s Top Show to see at the 2022 Vault Festival. As the Arts Desk wrote in their review ‘Rachuba is such a magnetic and charismatic performer’. The play, presented in London (Theatre503, Camden People’s Theatre, POSK) and Warsaw (Teatr 2 Strefa), has two language versions: English and Polish and Remi has been performing both versions of the play. Remi was also selected for the Actor’s Centre BBC Talent Boost and made a short film with Sue Dunderdale titled ‘The Sharp End’. He also worked with two Scottish Bafta award-winning directors: Andrea Harkin (Time, The Confessions of Annie Langton) on ‘The Flyer’ and Chico Pereira on ‘The Way to Macondo’ Remi is a voice-over actor. His most recent role was in an award-winning animation called ‘A Bear Named Wojtek’ dir. Iain Gardner. It was produced by Iain Harvey from the Illuminated Film Company, who executive produced the BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated ‘The Snowman’. The animation was funded by the Polish Film Institute and Screen Scotland. The film has recently been awarded the Best Long Form Animation at the British Animation Award. Additionally, Remi has provided VO for a computer game, WARTHUNDER, and Amazon Prime’s ‘Lewandowski - Unknown’.
Marcus Montgomery Roche (director) - http://marcusroche.strikingly.com
Marcus Roche is currently assistant director to Declan Donnellan at Cheek by Jowl and is touring with their new production of Pericles by William Shakespeare. In 2015 he toured with their production of The Winter's Tale. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and École Philippe Gaulier in Paris. In 2012 he directed The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey which received critical acclaim was nominated for a CATS award and the Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award. For Taganrog Opera and Drama Theatre (Russia) he directed a contemporary movement version of Romeo and Juliet. In 2014 he created Vote For Me which was part of the Early Days Festival at the Arches. He has directed The Night before the Trial a couple of Chekhov's short stories as a curtain raiser to the Tron Theatre’s production of Three Sisters. He has directed for the Tron Theatre, the Arches, Play, Pie and a Pint, Wee Theatres, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Theatre 503. His productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth toured Scotland in 2011. He has worked closely with Rachel O’Riordan on Macbeth as associate director, and as assistant on both Cinderella and Neil Simons the Odd Couple at Perth Theatre.
Basia Bińkowska (set/costume designer) - www.basiabinkowska.com
Basia is a performance designer based in London. Before completing a theatre design course in the UK, she trained in fine arts in her native Poland. She is the overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2017 with the winning design for Lyric Hammersmith's production of Othellomacbeth. She was nominated for the Best Designer at the Stage Debut Awards 2018 and has been recently nominated for an Offie for Best Set Design for Blood Knot at Orange Tree. Recent credits include: Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company), Acts of Resistance (Headlong Theatre & Bristol Old Vic), Wolfie (Theatre503), Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre), Othellomacbeth (Lyric Hammersmith & Home Manchester), Cuckoo (Soho Theatre), Devil with a Blue Dress (Bunker Theatre), Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic).
Charles Webber (lighting/sound designer + tour technician) - https://www.youtube.com/user/operaNCV
Charles Webber is an electronic artist who has worked in experimental performance for the past 30 years, working across the disciplines of electro-acoustic music, moving image and lighting design. He has a proven track record for delivering integrated multi-media works and design at the highest level both as a collaborator and solo artist.
Charles has worked with many of the countries leading performance makers, often with multiple roles within individual projects, across the fields of theatre, dance, installation, contemporary puppetry and opera. Such projects include; Dead Wedding at the 2007 Mancherster International Festival and Barbican BITE, with puppeteers Faulty Optic (Lighting Designer / Sound Designer), Fevered Sleep's An Infinite Line at the 2008 Brighton Festival (Sound Designer / Film-maker) and Kanaval by Hubert Essakow in 2011 (Composer / Video Designer). His most recent collaboration has been with choreographer Gary Clarke, working on the 2016 multi-award winning COAL, for which he was nominated for the prestigious Knight of Illumination award for lighting design in the dance category, and most recently the critically acclaimed 2019 work Wasteland (Composer / Lighting Designer / Video Designer).
As a solo artist Charles has produced a myriad of cross-artform works over the past 3 decades, with works being performed and screened nationally and internationally at venues including; The Walker Art's Centre USA, Weils Centre of Contemporary Art Brussels, VIDARTE in Mexico City and London's ICA. The culmination of his rigorous multi-disciplinary approach can be seen in his own electronic chamber operas, all of which have received Arts Council / Lottery Funding, these being; Four White Walls in 2003, an Opera North commission (Composer / Film-Maker / Lighting Designer), The Glass Hotel in 2009, a BAC commission (Composer / Lighting Designer) and most recently Room Of Worlds in 2014 (Composer / Video Designer).
Cindy Derby (poster designer) - www.cindyderby.com
Cindy Derby is an illustrator and author based out of San Francisco. How to Walk an Ant is her first picture book (Roaring Brook Press, March 2019). Other picture book titles (as illustrator) include: Climbing Shadows by Shannon Bramer (Groundwood Books, 2019); Outside by New York Times best selling author Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020); The Boy and the 800-Pound Gorilla by Jackie Azua Kramer (Candlewick Press, 2020). Cindy's background is in puppetry and she has performed all over the world. She received her Master of Arts from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was awarded grants from organizations such as The Jim Henson Foundation and Puppet Animation Scotland to assist in the creation of her shows. In 2014 Cindy won the grand prize for her illustration portfolio at the international SCBWI conference in Los Angeles.