BIOGRAPHIES

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PERFORMERS

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Remi Oriogun-Williams is an actor and theatre-maker. She trained for two years at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris. She has toured the UK acting in The Cause, an original production about suffragism with Dreadnought Southwest. She has also performed with other companies in the UK and France. This includes an immersive production with Angel Exit Theatre in Dorchester and interactive street theatre at the Philoscène Festival with Bête à bon dieu production in Paris. She acted in the first UK production of Ezra Pound’s Elektra at the Corpus Playrooms. Whilst studying for her Philosophy degree at Cambridge, she devised and acted in a play for the Miscellaneous Theatre festival and co-directed a production of Henry IV. She has devised and performed for a Sound-art project called OK Galexa. Remi grew up in London and Dorset and is inspired by creating theatre collaboratively.

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China Blue Fish is a queer artist, activist, singer and mother committed to shining a light on injustice and elevating imagination through music, comedy and theatre. You can find more about her work at www.chinabluefish.com

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Onioluwa Taiwo (she/her) is a freelance Actor, Model and Dancer. She has recently graduated from Plymouth Conservatoire with a First Class Honours in the BA(Hons) Acting degree. She is a Co-Founder and the Movement Director of Embers Ignite Theatre Company. She has performed at Milton Keynes International Festival in Gobbledegook Theatre’s ‘Ear Trumpet’, danced for Inner Motion Movement and modelled for PureGym, Aviela Skincare and Identity Fashion. Onioluwa strives to create thought provoking theatre that challenges the struggles faced by women and those of mixed ethnic descent in our society. Her artistic style includes combining movement with new writing and exploring ways to express emotion through the universal language of gesture and dance.

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Tamsin Fessey Tamsin trained for two years at Lecoq. She is Co-Artistic Director of Angel Exit Theatre (www.angelexit.co.uk) as well as being a freelance theatre maker. (www.tamsinfessey.com) She has worked across the South West region as well as working nationally, in the West End, and Internationally. She performs in Ear Trumpet with Gobbledegook Theatre. Tamsin lives on the Dorset/Somerset border and is a mother. 

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Adam Coshan trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has had a varied career as writer, director and educator. In 2007 he set up Gobbledegook Theatre with his partner Lorna Rees and together they have taken performance and installation work all over the UK. Adam is an education specialist and has a long history of socially engaged practice and participative work, particularly with young people. Recent new work has included writing the permanent voice exhibit in collaboration with English Heritage for Clifford's Tower, York. 

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Martin Bonger (Geophonic: original devising company) is artistic director of Move to Stand (The Collision of Things, Fat Man, Messenger, This Crossing). He is a core member of The Plasticine Men, where he co-created Keepers, There Shall be Fireworks & Engine Break. He regularly collaborates with NIE having created North North North, Around the World in 80 Days, Beauty and the Beast, Tales from the Edge of Town & The Snow Queen. He has worked with Complicité (The Magic Flute, Khovanschina R&D) , Concert Theatre, Wonderful Beast, Lost & Found, and has worked on numerous plays for Radio 4. He trained at the Workshop Theatre in Leeds (BA Hons in English & Theatre) and then at the physical theatre school LISPA. He's based in Bristol. 

Louise Wilcox (Geophonic: original devising company) is a multidisciplinary theatre maker and artist. She trained on the MA Theatre Lab at RADA and has since worked extensively as a performer in physical/devised theatre alongside developing her own artistic work.As a performer, Louise has worked with several companies and toured extensively nationally and internationally. This includes The Nature of Forgetting with Theatre Re and multiple projects with Flabbergast Theatre. Louise is an Associate Artist with Dirty Rascals, and her personal work increasingly includes a strong element of participation. Louise is currently developing The Mendfulness Clinic - a piece that challenges the culture of fast fashion by mending the relationship we have to our clothes.

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music and sounD

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Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is best known for work energetic folk trio Granny’s Attic, Cohen is a singer and instrumentalist with a love of English music. Cohen plays melodeons and anglo concertina and is a powerful singer with a string of awards and nominations under his belt, including a nomination for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Horizon Award in 2018. Expect traditional English folk songs and tunes along with a few original numbers. 

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Laura Reid is a composer and cellist whose music fuses instrumental, vocal and pre-recorded sounds. Commissions include a geolocated sound walk for Dynamic Dunescapes in Studland 2021, Icthyosaur for Tabla and String Quartet at CoMA Festival 2020, a Variation for Fenella Humphrey’s Caprice project (Rubicon Classics 2021) Song of Isis for Tete a tete Festival 2020 and Celestial Bodies for the Dorset Moon performed to over 1,500 members of the public in 2019. Laura has performed at festivals including New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Womad, Glastonbury and Celtic Connections. Sessions include Later with Jools Holland (Tom Mcrae), Mercury Music Prize (Kathryn Williams) and MTV. Collaborations include: Steven Legget – Bathhouse, album released on Firecracker Records 2018, featured on Andrew Weatherall’s NTS radio show in January 2020, and Optic Echo, X-ray FM in Portland USA and on Mercury nominated album Little Black Numbers (Caw1999). Works have also been performed by Kokkorro (BSO), London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Eleven. Co-writes have been published by Warner Bros. synched to TV and featured on international radio and TV. www.laurareid.co.uk

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Matthew Shaw is a composer, author and artist. Currently working with Shirley Collins & Brian Catling on Crowlink. An EP was released in July 2021 by Domino Recordings. The Crowlink audio installation premiered the Barbican followed by a week at Charleston house in Sussex. Atmosphere of Mona, a book of poetry and photography was published by Annwyn House in 2020

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design AND SCIENCE

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Adele Keeley is a costume designer, theatre collaborator and Senior Lecturer in Performance Design at the Arts University Bournemouth. Adele’s work is often informed by environmental issues, landscape and nature. She has worked on a wide range of landscape-inspired outdoor theatre projects often collaborating with Lorna Rees. Her work has been seen at various national and international performance festival. She describes her design work as visual gateway to which audience can connect with themes of nature, the environment and the world around us. See more of her work at www.site33.co.uk. Adele was a trustee for Activate Performing Arts for many years and is actively involved in the outdoor arts community in the region.

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Dr Anjana Khatwa is a multi-award-winning  Earth Scientist. She is a time traveller using clues locked away in rocks, fossils and landscapes to reveal the hidden mysteries and stories about ancient life on earth. She helps people to understand how our planet evolved, changed and survived over 4.6 billion years and how this knowledge can help us prepare for an uncertain future. Anjana weaves her identity as a South Asian woman proudly into her work, bringing an informed and intelligent richness to narratives about deep time, landscapes and natural history. https://www.anjanakhatwa.com

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