Creative Team Bios

Scott Bramley

I’ve been playing the piano since the age of 7. We’d inherited a piano from my late grandmother, herself quite a pianist, so I’m told; and my mother was tired of hearing me plinking and plonking tunelessly. So, I was sent for lessons and I found that I quite liked it. I took up the trumpet a few years later, which gave me more experience playing with wind bands and jazz bands. And I found my singing voice while I was in sixth form, when I auditioned for the school musical and landed the lead role. After a brief detour into psychology at university, I decided to pursue music as a career. I've worked as a singer, pianist, teacher, and performer in a band. I'm also a composer and arranger, working on anything from songs to instrumental music for media.

Words & Music

Sam Williams

Words & Music

Creativity and music have always been a passion for me, having been locked in the home piano room from the age of 7 by my mum, to make sure I did my practice.  The clarinet and guitar followed, the latter being taken up at university, when I realised that lugging a keyboard around practice rooms and venues when in a band was a bum deal (plus, guitar is sexy).  Writing music, rather than performing, is what I love; and I tend to get inspired by feelings, or stories, rather than real life events.  My professional career couldn’t be more different.  I’m an economist and co-founder of an economics consultancy, based in London. I’m still running and expanding it today.  I guess I’m a geek.

Lucy Sneddon

Theatre Design & Costume

Lucy is a freelance theatre designer and maker based in Liverpool, working across the North West and London.

Recent credits include The Band's Visit, Identities UK Tour, Choose Your Fighter, Our Last First, and Too Much World At Once. She is currently working on multiple projects in London.

Graduating in 2022 with a first class BA (Hons) in Theatre and Performance Design from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Lucy received the Ede & Ravenscroft Prize for Creative and Technical Excellence.

Sam Rayner

Director

Sam is a director, movement director and dramaturg. He creates accessible and diverse work that uses physicality to inspire the imagination.

His recent directing credits include an acrobatic staging of SERSE for Opera Holland Park (‘fantastically detailed’, The Guardian); MAN OF ONE HUNDRED FACES - exploring espionage in Revolutionary Russia - listed in The Guardian’s ‘Readers’ Favourite Stage Shows of 2022’; and THE MAN WHO THOUGHT HE KNEW TOO MUCH (UK and international tour) - described as ‘physical theatre at its most immaculate’ (The Scotsman).

Sam’s work in comedy includes collaborations with Jack Whitehall, Charlotte Ritchie, Leo Reich, Liam Williams and Jordan Brookes. His movement direction credits include: JACK WHITEHALL: AT LARGE (Hammersmith Apollo/UK Tour/NETFLIX); LEO REICH: LITERALLY WHO CARES?! - listed as The Guardian’s ‘Best Comedy Show of 2022’ and The New York Times’ ‘Critic’s Pick 2023’; SHEEPS: LIVE & LOUD (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Courtyard) - where The Guardian described the show’s ‘razzle-dazzle song-and-dance opener’ as ‘intensely funny’; and JORDAN BROOKES: BLEED (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Courtyard), described as ‘a fearless display of physicality that shape shifts from ludicrous tomfoolery to raw menace.’ (The List)

Sam is a co-Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning international physical theatre company Voloz Collective and new-writing comedy company Unleash the Llama. He directs for Figure Ensemble, staging highly-physical opera apatations.

Sam regularly associate directs for Helen Eastman and Olivier-nominee Bronagh Lagan. His credits as Associate Director include Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Dubai Opera/Katara Opera); Umm Kulthum and the Golden Era (London Palladium/Dubai Opera) and The Adventures of Pinocchio (Ambassador’s Theatre).

He has delivered workshops for the Royal Northern College of Music and Associated Studios. He teaches movement at Actors Door Studio.

Sam trained at Cambridge University and l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Jodie Underwood

Lighting Design

Jodie Underwood is a freelance lighting designer with credits across theatre, opera and dance. She has experience in design of all scale, from tiny fringe venues up to large main house productions. Jo is a member of the Association of Lighting Production and Design.

She is an experienced EOS programmer and associate designer.

Jo is particularly interested in non-standard theatre, and queer work is very important in their life.

Chris Lincé

Graphic Design, Videography & Projection

STAGEFRIGHT FILMS creates beautiful bespoke filmed and animated content to complement live productions. Credits include projection design for 'Iolanthe' for the English National Opera, ATG's 'Mother Goose' with Ian McKellen, 'John Finnemore's Flying Visit' tour, 'Albion In Flames' and 'Ghosts on a Wire' at the Union Theatre, 'Sam and Mark's On The Road Show', and Basil Brush.

Stagefright has created promotional videos and trailers for The Frolicks, Hermetic Arts, Tall Tails Theatre Company, The Rimbaud & Verlaine Foundation, GoodDog Theatre Company, London's Free Open Air Theatre, Wassail Theatre, Signal Theatre Company, VOILA European Theatre Festival, The Godot Company, and The Cockpit.
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