Night Out In Nature: Creative Team
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Amber Onat Gregory and Lucy Garland
CO ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
ucy and Amber founded Frozen Light in 2013. Since that time they have devised, produced and toured five multi-sensory productions for audiences with PMLD: Tunnels; The Forest; HOME; The Isle of Brimsker and 2065. Night Out In Nature was their first opportunity to create work for the outdoors and this has been an incredibly exciting experience. They also worked with more actors than ever before and it was a joy to bring so many creative voices into the production.
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Kate O'Connor
DIRECTOR
Kate is a Director with a background in new writing, devised and international theatre. She has worked with Frozen Light since the tour of their first show, Tunnels and is an Associate Director at Frozen Light. She regularly works on plays in translation, directing Spanish play Cuzco at Theatre503 in 2019. Previous directing includes work at CPT, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, Hoxton Hall, GLYPT and the Edinburgh Fringe. Kate has been a Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, Associate with Company of Angels, Associate Director with METIS (World Factory, Young Vic) and in the West End. She trained with Philippe Gaulier and was a finalist in the JMK Award 2012 and 2014.
https://www.kateoconnor.co.uk/
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Kat Heath
SET DESIGN
Kat Heath trained in Design for Performance at Wimbledon School of Art and Central Saint Martins. She designs set and costume for theatre, music, opera and dance, and is drawn to unconventional and innovative forms of storytelling. Collaboration, play and experimentation are at the heart of Kat’s work, entwining design with narrative from the start of the process. She is drawn to immersive and site-responsive projects, working regularly with Punchdrunk, Theatre Delicatessen, Geraldine Pilgrim, dreamthinkspeak, Differencengine, Rift and Silent Opera. She is excited about exploring how sensory design can make theatre more accessible to audiences with different needs and disabilities.
http://katheath.com/
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Sam Halmarack
COMPOSER
As sound designer and musician, Sam has worked with Still House, One Step At a Time Like This (AUS), JOF (AUS), Bryony Kimmings, Emma Williams, She Goat, Action Hero, Tom Marshman, Sylvia Rimat, Liz Clarke, and Jennifer Bell Company amongst many others. He is a sound design mentor and consultant with community outreach schemes across the country. His show with JOF ‘WE ARE LIGHTNING!’ won Judges Choice at the Dublin Fringe Festival was nominated for the Melbourne Green Room awards in the category of Community Collaboration. Sam’s solo show ‘Sam Halmarack and The Miserablites’ was nominated for the Arches Brick Award and the John Chattaway award for innovation.
http://halmarack.com/
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David Sherman
LIGHTING DESIGN
David studied theatre design at the Royal School of Speech and Drama. Since then he has been lighting designer, production manager, re-lighter, technical stage manager in drama, dance, opera, musicals and events. Although now once again freelance, he has most recently held the post of Technical Manager at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. David works with Frozen Light to discover new and exciting ways of lighting their sets and props to create real multi-sensory magic!
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Maira Vazeou
COSTUME DESIGN
Maira trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has freelanced across theatre, film and events. She has designed numerous productions in the UK and abroad from large-scale open-air amphitheaters to studio spaces. Her design work covers a genre of plays from drama and opera to children’s and sensory theatre. She was nominated for the cultural award for her work on Macbeth and she was selected to represent Greece at the international exhibition of Prague Quadrennial in 2019. Maira has worked on the set decorating department on various movies in Pinewood, Shepperton and Elstree studios as well as at the opening and closing ceremony of Athens 04 Olympic Games. She is a lecturer on Theatre, Screen & Performance at Camberwell College of Arts Foundation Centre.
https://www.mairavazeou.com/
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Thomas Blake
PRODUCTION MANAGER
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Lidia Watts
STAGE MANAGER