David Bellwood - Co-Artistic Director
David is a writer, choreographer and former World Champion Irish Dancer. He has danced worldwide with companies including Riverdance, Tap Dogs and Rambert, and is currently guest choreographer for the Stage Fire Dance Festival in Poland, 2009. His recent projects have explored the subversive potential of traditional dance in unexpected contexts; Horrordance was commissioned for KenCampbell’s School of Night Halloween Special at the Union Theatre in 2007, and Robodance (Battersea Arts Centre, 2006) spliced Irish dance with dystopian sci-fi. David’s writing projects include a children’s animation commission by Knifedge, and script-writing collaborations with Sarah Grange.
Sarah Grange - Co-Artistic Director
Sarah was a costume designer and supervisor for companies including the Donmar Warehouse, the Globe, Mitchell & Webb Live Tour (dir. Lee Simpson), The Arcola and Tete a Tete Opera, before turning to writing and directing. She has been an associate writer and director for Scary Little Girls Theatre Co., and assisted director Jacqui Somerville for the Oxford Stage Company. Her previous collaborations with David and Ellan as co-devisor, writer and director include Bellerophon (Carn Marth Quarry, Cornwall), and Horrordance (Union Theatre). Following a series of exploratory workshops, Gallathea will be her first full-length directorial project.
Ellan Parry - Co-Artistic Director
Ellan is a designer and devisor. She is a previous winner of the Jocelyn Herbert Award for Scenography and a Linbury Prize shortlisted artist. Companies, directors and artists for whom she’s designed include Lee Simpson (Improbable Theatre), Mick Barnfather (Complicite), David Sant (Peepolykus), Bill Bankes Jones (Tete a Tete Opera), Bette Bourne, Kazuko Hohki, Tamara Harvey, Gecko and Kneehigh. She was a founder member of the arts and performance collective, the Society of Wonders, and a former artist in residence at the Tou Scene Arts Centre in Norway.
Victoria Stevenson - Associate Producer
Victoria’s work as a designer encompasses theatre and television with work for companies including Red Bee Media and the Menier Chocolate Factory. As a producer, she has worked for Unspoken Productions (The Pink Bedroom, Courtyard Theatre), Knifedge (various, including remember-reflect-react for the Holocaust Memorial Trust), and UKTV. She founded her own theatre company, Gin in the Tea, producing The Space Between My Head & My Body at Theatre 503 and the Underbelly, Edinburgh, 2008.
