Team


Laura Eades | Writer & Performer
Laura's theatre is characterised by formal experimentation and an intimacy with the audience through personal confession.She has worked with Shams (Black Stuff, Pleasance 2008, Edinburgh Fringe) and has directed Alison Goldie (Lady in Bed). She studied at Leeds University, Ecole Jacques Lecoq and LISPA. She is the artistic director of The Honourable Society of Faster Craftswomen.

Sara Kewley Hyde | Director for March 2011 performance
Sara is a performer and creator. She is a co-founder of interactive discussion forum The Argument Room, a member of Little Wonder, and recently performed in The Woods at Birmingham Mac.

Chris Thorpe | Outside eye for March 2011 performance
Chris Thorpe is a writer and performer from Manchester. He was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours nationally and internationally with the company, as well as Sheffield-based Third Angel. He studied at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds (1992-95). In addition to his own theatre work he translates contemporary European work and writes for BBC radio and film. 


Michael Levy | Producer
Michael has produced The Threepenny Opera and Look Back in Anger (Oxford Playhouse), The Turn of the Screw for Oxford Opera Company (North Wall Arts Centre and Hertford College), Magnyfycence (Hampton Court Palace).He has also dabbled in politics, is researching Romanticism for a book yet-to-be-written, and appeared on national quiz shows.
Roxanne Peak-Payne | Creative and Strategic Producer 
Roxanne brings skills acquired from several producing internships in the last year (BAC, Tobacco Factory, Bristol) as well as links to the science museums in Bristol and London and London's IMAX cinema (useful for 3D research) to bear on working with Patchwork. She currently works for the theatre at the Cock Tavern in Kilburn. She studied at Birmingham and is on the board of directors for Stan's Cafe. 


EDINBURGH PRODUCTION:
Mark Huhnen | Director
Mark Huhnen is German, and came to London in 2003 to study at LISPA. He works as a performer and director, with special interests in anarchic cabaret and theatre that moves. He has performed in Shams Reykjavik, The Honourable Society of Faster Craftswomen's Yeah, I am a dog at the BAC Freshly Scratched and Attempts on a missing chair at the Camden Fringe festival.

SOUNDTRACK: 
Chris Furness | Guitarist
Christopher is a musician and music teacher, who plays guitar and drums and studied music performance in Manchester.Christopher has performed with tePooka drummers at Glastonbury Festival, and as a guitarist he also forms one half of London-based folk-punk duo The Heart Murmurs.

Phil Brunner | Drummer
Phil Brunner studied theatre design at Central Saint Martins. From playing with Glaswegian glam rockers The Whores of Perception to touring Europe with avant garde folk minstrels Sacha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants, he has always been drawn to gratuitously monikered fusions of music and performance. 

Evert Taihuttu | Sound recording 
Evert is a sound engineer and producer who records at Victoria Wharf Studios. http://soundcloud.com/evert-taihuttu

GROUPS WE ARE WORKED WITH FOR PATCHWORK: 
Alex Black | Knitting Liason Officer 
Alex is one of the founder members of Hunga Munga and is both a keen knitter and a musician in a glam rock/punk rock band, Slapper. He is forging links with London's knitters through the many groups and workshops with young and elderly - by asking them to contribute squares of knitting to our new stage set, by collecting knitted pieces to sell for a fundraiser, and by inviting them to see Patchwork.

Patchwork has also been assisted by:
Mamoru Iriguchi | Designer and tecchnophilic creator
Mamoru is a theatre designer and live artist. Together we worked out how to make things 3-D. 
http://www.iriguchi.co.uk/
Rachel Payne | Designer
Rachel studied Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins and has designed in the West End and New York productions such as The Idiot (Riverside Studios), Little Women (The Duchess Theatre) and Tabloid Caligular (The Arcola Theatre and 59E59 Theatre). Rachel has also worked on many short films and some features, including the 2007 comedy, French Film, starring Anne Marie Duff, Hugh Bonneville and Eric Cantona, directed by Jackie Oudney. 

Rhoda Idonboye | Marketing  and digital communications assistant
Rhoda intends to pull arts marketing into the 21st century. So she has founded Good Egg Communications, a creative agency with digital very much at its heart. Rhoda is currently working closely with Theatre Royal Haymarket Youth Company to implement a social media campaign. Her previous credits include the City Lights site-specific piece, Dogging, plus Greenwich Theatre's co-production of Hamlet.

Gemma Bergomi | Blogging intern
Gemma is a recent English graduate from Royal Holloway with an interest in contemporary theatre, creative writing and sketching. She is currently engaged in a variety of script-writing projects and has previously worked as a theatre critic for Spoonfed Media.

Claudia Jefferies | Blogging intern and general manager
Claudia recently graduated from an MA in Physical Theatre at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham, where she co-founded Compagnie De Bofoo, whose work combines theatrical idiocy with classic adventure narrative. She is also a writer and visual artist. Her work for The Honourable Society of Faster Craftswomen includes creative writing and drawing based on and inspired by research into artists and events within the UK's theatrical and artistic communities.

We have also had help from: 
Belen Conesa | Exhibitions marketing and graphic designer
Susan Simmonds | Marketing assistant
Stephanie Fox | Drawing workshops co-ordinator


With thanks to Tim Crouch and a smith, whose writing workshop at The Hurst Arvon centre was inspirational; Alex Kelly, for showing me Third Angel's drawing technology; Alison Goldie, who was an amazing sounding-board for writing in its early stages
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