Designer

Justin’s passion for the performing and visual arts led him to study theatre design at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Sydney, where he graduated in 2008. Theatre shows include: Gordon Frost Organisation: Legends! Duckdown and Heavy Weather Productions: Where Do Little Birds Go? (Camden Peoples Theatre, Vault Festival, UK Tour and Edinburgh Fringe), Opera in Space: Hansel and Gretel, Brisbane Festival: Tender Napalm and L’Orfeo. Ensemble Theatre: Cirlce Mirror Transformation. Sydney Theatre Company: Before and After. Downstairs Belvoir: Ladybird, Bliss and Whore. Darlinghurst Theatre Co. : Macbeth and GlaceChase Griffin Theatre Co. : Porn.Cake and Silent Disco. Disco. NORPA: Engine. Glent Street Theatre: Every Single Saturday the Musical. He is the Associate Set Designer on various productions of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. He was a site designer on Brisbane Festival for two years; highlights include the Festival Theatre - a temporary 500 seat outdoor amphitheatre and his design and direction of the 2011 program launch which involved 4 semi trailers. For film he was the production designer on Andy X for Jim Sharman and The Scares Could Be Bad music video. He has designed events for major brands including Audi, GHD and Aveda. He was the inaugural winner of the Australian BMW Young Artist of the Year Award.

Composer & Sound Designer

Benedict Taylor is an award winning composer & solo violist specialising in contemporary music and improvisation. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music & Goldsmiths College, and is a leading figure within the area of contemporary composition & string performance, at the forefront of the British & European new and improvised music scene. He composes, performs & records internationally, in many leading venues and festivals including: Royal Court Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, BBC Arts Online, Berlinale, Venice International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Cantiere D’Arte di Montepulciano, Edinburgh Festival, CRAM Festival, Cafe Oto, The Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre, The Vortex, Ronnie Scott’s, ICA, BBC Radio 3 & 2, Radio Libertaire Paris, Resonance FM London. Through his work he is involved with a number of higher education institutions, giving composition, improvisation & performance lectures at the Royal College of Music and Goldsmiths College, amongst others. He is the founder and artistic director of CRAM, a music collective and independent record label dedicated to new music.

Lighting Designer

Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and graduated with a first class Honours degree in lighting design. He was nominated for an Off-West End Award in 2015 and in 2013 was the recipient of the Association of Lighting Designers’ ETC Award and the Philip & Christine Carne Prize from RWCMD. Lighting designs include: Klippies (Southwark Playhouse), P’yongyang, We Know Where You Live, Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), Closer to Heaven (Union Theatre), And Now: The World! (Derby Theatre & UK Tour), Make/Believe (V&A Museum), Ring The Changes+ (Southbank Centre), The Marriage of Figaro (Kirklinton Hall, Carlisle & UK Tour), Mahmud íle Yezida, BOY, Misbehaving, The Intruder, Bald Prima Donna, The Red Helicopter (Arcola Theatre), One Thousand + 1, Fellini: Book of Dreams, AnneX, QuiXote, Due Saponette Rosse di Tritolo, BURN (Fucecchio, Italy), Romeo & Juliet (Pleasance Theatre), MICROmegas (Riverside Studios), Grimm Tales (John Lyon Theatre), Arthur’s Quest (V45, Edinburgh), The Children’s Hour, Earthquakes in London, Arabian Nights (Bute Theatre), Once a Catholic, The Merchant of Venice (Richard Burton Theatre), Merrily He Rolls Along, Honk!, Footloose (Epsom Playhouse). As Associate Lighting Designer: The Grit in the Oyster (Sadler’s Wells & World Tour), The Measures Taken, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House & World Tour), Our Big Land (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich & UK Tour), Don Giovanni (West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge).

Designer

Catherine graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2009. Her design credits include Twelfth Night (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio), Othello (Bussey Building), Rise and Fall, Ring of Envy and Verona Road (Intermission Youth Theatre), Eisteddfod (Latitude Festival for High Tide), Baba Shakespeare (RSC Courtyard Theatre and Arcola), London Let’s Get Visceral (Old Vic Tunnels), Gerbils in a Glass Cage (The Space), Fit for Purpose (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh), Story Project 2 (Southwark Playhouse) and Macbeth and Hobson’s Choice (Broadway Theatre, Catford). As associate designer her credits include I Puritani (Welsh National Opera) and Dido & Aeneas / La Voix Humaine (Opera North). She has acted as assistant to leading designers including Giles Cadle, Leslie Travers, Stewart Laing, Tom Cairns, Soutra Gilmour, Thaddeus Strassberger, Helen Goddard, Ben Stones and Tim Goodchild. Catherine has been working with the National Theatre learning department to develop and deliver workshops in theatre design aimed at secondary school students.