Claire Armitage – Costume Designer

Claire has been the costume designer for Motionhouse since 2004, having designed and made the costumes for Perfect, Driven, Chaser, Run! and most recently Scattered. As a freelance costume designer Claire has worked on a wide range of projects; from large-scale sculptural flower costumes for the Lord Mayors Parade in London to intricate contemporary circus costumes for shows touring nationally and internationally. Claire is also a Lecturer at University College Falmouth.

For further information contact: pamclaire@hotmail.com

Natasha Chivers – Lighting Designer

Natasha has been working as a lighting designer since 1994 and met Kevin through Greenwich and Docklands International Festival whilst working on Renaissance several years ago and Run! in 2008.

Natasha works frequently with Frantic Assembly (most recently on Othello) and with John Tiffany from National Theatre of Scotland (most recently on The House Of Bernarda Alba). Other recent work includes Electric Counterpoint at The Royal Opera House, That Face at The Duke of York’s/ Royal Court and Statement of Regret at The National Theatre.

In 2007 she won an Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Sunday In The Park With George at The Wyndhams Theatre.

For further information contact: design@natashachivers.co.uk

Simon Dormon – Set Designer

Simon was a founder member, and set and lighting designer, for visual theatre company Trickster. Since 1989 he has been a partner in London based furniture designer/makers Oblique Furniture, who undertake a wide range of bespoke commercial, domestic and exhibition projects.

As well as the new project Scattered, Simon has designed and Oblique have realised the sets for previous Motionhouse shows including Driven, Perfect, Volatile, Fearless, Atomic, Twisted, Faking it, Delicate, Geisha, House of Bones and The Ticking Man.

For further information contact: simon@obliquefurniture.co.uk

Peter Herbert – Production Manager

This is Peter's 8th year and 5th touring production with Motionhouse. Peter is the Director of PH Production Services Ltd supplying technical support to the theatre, leisure and presentation industries.

For more information about his work please visit www.withalittlehelp.co.uk

Logela Multimedia – Film Makers

Logela Multimedia was set up in 2000 and is based in Elorrio in the Basque region of Spain. Logela  are a collective of artists – designers, graffiti artists, musicians, digital artists – whose aim is to bring multimedia projections to the stage, creating an interaction between film and live performance. They are innovators in the field and have collaborated on several successful projects that have toured the Basque region.

Logela also set up and continues to organise an annual indoor breakdance competition where they have experimented with interactive stage projections and live breakdance performance. Break On Stage has quickly become one of the most prestigious performance events of its kind in Europe.

Other projects include Link Konzert in which a live performance of classical music was relayed to a stage where both the music and the images were mixed by a Dj and Vj with contemporary electronic music and 3D graphics and Belarritakora sartu when they worked with an established rock band from Elorrio to create live concerts that blend theatre, rock music and images.

Karlos Gomez is a musician, sound technician and a video and web editor. He directed and edited I’ll be there which was awarded Best Original Film by the Scottish Further Education Unit in 2002.  Imanol Garaizabal is well known as a pioneer of graffiti art in the Basque region and is the main graphic and web designer for Logela and Breakonstage; he has also worked on a wide range of advertising campaigns, most recently for Basque television station ETB3.

For more information about Logela's work go to www.logela.org

Sophy Smith and Tim Dickinson - Musical Collaborators

Sophy and Tim have been composing together since 1997. They have collaborated on a wide range of projects from touring dance and theatre performances to TV and radio commercials, short films, TV documentaries and solo music projects. In between all this they have managed to release a number of their own tracks commercially.

Sophy is a founder member and Artistic Director of the collaborative live art company Assault Events as well as Research Fellow at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, where her current research explores inter/multi/transdisciplinary collaboration. As Programme Leader for the IOCT’s innovative transdisciplinary Masters in Creative Technologies (MA/MSc), Sophy works with students at the convergence of the e-sciences, digital arts and humanities.

Tim Dickinson is a professional composer, producer and sound engineer. He cut his musical teeth in some of the top recording studios of London during the 1990s where he worked with major artists including Bryan Ferry, Spice Girls, Björk and Blur amongst others, collaborating on no less than three number one albums. After 12 years in the music business Tim now manages his own audio production company A.A.P.