A Christmas Carol

Miiya trained at Arts Educational Schools London and The Royal College of Music.

Theatre credits Elsa/Sister Berthe in The Sound Of Music (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Jacob in Jingleclaw (The Birmingham Hippodrome), Ensemble/Understudied and played Anna Leonowens and Lady Thiang in The King and I (London Palladium Theatre, UK/International tour), Delphine in Amelie The Musical (Criterion Theatre), Diana/Lady in Waiting in All’s Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare in the Squares), Mother Gothel/Duchess in Rapunzel (The Watermill), Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland (Mercury Theatre), Maria/Futura in Metropolis (The Ye Olde Rose and Crown) where Miiya was nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best Female in a Musical.

Film credits Unbutton - NFTS Student film, The King and I - Live from the London Palladium and In the Flesh (Independent film).

Matt trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and the National Youth Theatre.

His theatre credits include the West End production of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for which he was also Resident Musical Director, having been involved with the show's development since its inception in 2019. The show won three Olivier Awards including Best New Musical in 2025.

Other theatre credits include working with Sir Trevor Nunn on The Score at Theatre Royal Bath, the original UK tour of West End musical Once, The House with Chicken Legs at Home Manchester with Les Enfants Terribles, Treasure Island and The Wind in the Willows at the New Vic Theatre, The Scarecrow's Wedding at Leicester Square Theatre, Twelfth Night at Kew Gardens Open Air Theatre.

TV work includes Hanna (Amazon Prime), The Capture (BBC), Into The Abyss (Indie Film prods) and Born on this Day (Channel 4).

A multi-instrumentalist and experienced musical director, Matt has also toured internationally with bands such as ‘The Bluejays’ and ‘Buddy Holly & The Cricketers’, playing drums, guitar, saxophone, double bass and piano. When not performing, Matt teaches at various drama and theatre schools in London and Brighton.

Zach Burns is an actor based in London. He trained at The Royal Academy of Music.

Recent credits include The Sandman (Netflix), Yesterday (Workshop with Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis), Reception (Leeds Playhouse), The Wigmaker (Workshop, with Douglass Hodge), The Little Mermaid (The Watermill Theatre), Birth The Musical (Workshop with Olivier Award Nominated Writer Haley McGee , Soho Theatre Walthamstow), Potty The Plant (Wilton's Music Hall).

Zach is vocalist featured on Idols, the latest album from international rock star YungBlud.
He is the writer and composer of the new musical For All about the founding of the NHS, winner of the 2025 Stiles and Drewe Vision Voice and Potential award.

Zach is very excited to be working at TBTL as his dad used to be a gravedigger nearby.

Neal Craig trained at The Manchester School of Theatre and has since built a varied career across theatre, television and film.

His extensive theatre credits include Mamma Mia (National /International Tour), Swallows & Amazons (Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre), Hamlet (The Watermill), Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse), The Snow Queen (Theatre by the Lake), Merry Elwin (Derby LIVE), First Touch (Nottingham Playhouse), Peter Pan (Storyhouse Theatre), Jekyll & Hyde, Peter Pan and Solace of The Road (Derby Theatre), Sherlock Holmes & The Crimson Cobbles (Chipping Norton Theatre/Salisbury Playhouse), Lost Lending Library (Punchdrunk), Calculating Kindness (Camden People’s Theatre/Undercurrent), Henry V and The Merchant Of Venice (Propeller), and Henry V and The Conspirators (The Orange Tree Theatre).

His screen credits include The Devil’s Advocate (SKY), Emmerdale and Coronation Street (ITV), and A Girl’s Guide To Depravity (HBO).

Alongside his acting career, Neal is an award-winning comedian, comedy writer and professional clown. He regularly writes and performs for radio sketch show Chat Stick and is an associate member of Company Chris Cresswell Clown Troupe. He recently appeared in Clownspotting at Brighton Theatre Royal.

Connor is a Scottish actor and musician of East Asian descent, delighted to be joining the cast of A Christmas Carol.

Theatre credits include Noises Off, The Wind in the Willows, Beautiful the Carole King Musical & Once - the Musical (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Sunshine on Leith (Edinburgh King’s Theatre), Robin Hood (Theatr Clwyd), Footloose! (New Wolsey Theatre), Sense and Sensibility (Roman Theatre St. Albans), A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre Cirencester), Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse), The Choir of Man (Original Cast, USA Tour & Australia Tour), Footloose! (West End, UK & International Tour), The Constant Wife (Royal Shakespeare Company), Jack and the Beanstalk the Moosical (Dundee Rep), Scots! (Scottish Tour - Raw Material), Elbow Deep (Birmingham Hippodrome).

Television, Film & Audio include The Dad Squad (BBC), Cinderella (Sony Films), Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (West End), The Choir of Man (Original Cast Recording & Christmas Album), U2 at the BBC (Abbey Road Studios), The Beatles Orchestrated (Abbey Road Studios), Donald & Benoit (SoundStage), Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC).

Leah is from Merseyside and graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2020 in Actor-Musicianship (BA Cons).

She plays a number of instruments including piano, all saxophones, flute, clarinet, accordion and guitar. Leah has composed music for and musically directed several productions.

Her first job after graduation was to understudy (and play many performances) in Pride and Prejudice (sort of...) that won an Olivier Award in the West End. She went on to co-star in two UK tours of the show and a season at the Mirvish Theatre, Toronto.

In 2025 Leah appeared in The Great Gatsby, Grease and Sunshine on Leith (all at Pitlochry Festival Theatre). She is delighted to be back in the Northwest!

Eleanor trained at the Guildford School of Acting (GSA).

Notable theatre credits include The Snowflake (Polka Theatre with Little Angel and Birmingham Rep), Northanger Abbey, Carrie's War, Tom's Midnight Garden, The Secret Garden (The Minack Theatre), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Around the World in 80 Days, A Dickensian Christmas, It’s Grimm (Ha Hum Ah Productions), an international tour of Jane Eyre (Blackeyed Theatre), Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island (New Vic Theatre), Honeypot (The Other Palace), The Lost Boy Peter Pan (Action to the Word), UK Tours of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Snow Queen, A Christmas Carol (This Is My Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof, A Little Night Music (Frinton Repertory Theatre).

Other work includes a recurring role in the web series The Long Day Killer, voiceover work on The Black Pigeon and leading roles in several short films.

She is thrilled to be working at Theatre by the Lake and performing with this fun adaptation and team!

Matt is a writer, director and creative producer. He founded theatre company Goblin in 2013. With Goblin, Matt has written, developed and directed various shows for young and intergenerational audiences that have been performed all around the UK, including at Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Exchange, Manchester, Polka Theatre & Little Angel Theatre. Outside of Goblin he works as a writer & director and in theatre programming and producing, specialising in work for young audiences. He is a Stage One bursary recipient and was part of the Stage One UK/US Producers Exchange with Columbia University. Matt has been Senior Producer at Polka Theatre in Wimbledon & is currently Youth and Families Producer at The Place. He is a member of the steering group of PYA England.

Goblin
Goblin are Mary Erskine, Matt Borgatti & Will Dollard. Goblin is an acclaimed theatre company known for their innovative use of original music. Goblin creates shows for audiences of all ages, from small-scale touring to a recent focus on larger-scale productions as well as bespoke events and education work. We have performed in lots of brilliant venues including Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Exchange, Manchester, as well as co-productions with Little Angel Theatre, Polka Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre & Theatre by the Lake. As a creative team we’re based in Scotland and England. Goblin created The Lost Spells, a new musical adapted from the book by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris which ran at Theatre by the Lake. We’re excited so be back in Keswick at one of our favourite theatres - Alongside The Lost Spells, we’ve also brought several festive studio shows to Theatre by the Lake, including The Ballad of Rudy, The Jazz Penguin and Hey Diddle Diddle.
www.goblintheatre.co.uk 

Mary Erskine and Will Dollard are long-time creative collaborators and began working with Goblin Theatre as resident composer-lyricists in 2013. They share a passion for creating high quality musical and artistic experiences for audiences of all ages.

After university (MA Mus, Glasgow) Will started working in music education alongside his theatre work. He is now the co-Director of Music at the Da Capo Music Foundation, where he has worked closely with Little Angel Theatre, Fantasia Orchestra and the Proms at St Judes. He is also the conductor of the London branch of the Dovetail Orchestra for asylum seekers and refugees. He releases music under the name Old Man Dan and his songs have been played on BBC6Music and BBC Scotland.

Mary is an associate member of the BML writing workshop for composer-lyricists. Recording and releasing under the name Me for Queen, she has toured the UK and Europe and enjoyed support from BBC6 Music, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Scotland.

“Mary Erskine… at the top of her game” Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music

"Erskine is blessed with a profound skill in the art of songwriting (not to mention a compelling voice) but also with a deft sense of storytelling..." Edinburgh Metro

Previous shows:
Co-composer/Lyricists: A Christmas Carol, with Theatre by The Lake
Co-composer/Lyricist and co-MD : Song of The Far Isles R and D : Full show developed over 2 years with Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Capital Theatres Edinburgh
Composer/Lyricists: The Lost Spells - Watford Palace, Polka Theatre and Theatre By The Lake
Composer/Lyricists: A Christmas Carol, The Painted Hall, Greenwich
Composer/Lyricists- Father Christmas- Royal Albert Hall
Composer’Lyricists - The Night Before Christmas - Little Angel Online
Composer/Lyricists - The Legend of The Jazz Penguin- Theatre by the Lake/Royal Albert Hall
Composer/Lyricists – Let’s Fly – Little Angel Theatre
Composer/Lyricists – Kika’s Birthday - Little Angel/Orange Tree Theatre
Composer/Lyricists – Finding Santa – Little Angel Theatre
Composer/Lyricists – The Ballad of Rudy – The Royal Exchange, Manchester/The New Wolsey, Ipswich
Composer/Lyricists – Pinocchio, The Cornerstone Theatre, Didcot
Composer/Lyricists – The Nutcracker, The Cornerstone Theatre, Didcot
Composer/Lyricists – The Pied Piper, The Cornerstone Theatre, Didcot
Composer/Lyricists - Penguin! Elephant!, Goblin Theatre
Composer/Lyricists - Mr Tiger Goes Wild, Goblin Theatre
Composer/Lyricists - The Ballad of Rudy - Chelsea Worlds’ End Theatre

Andy Barry is a freelance theatre director based in Greater Manchester.

As well as directing, Andy led the internationally recognised and award-winning Elders Company at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre for ten years. Most recently Andy was the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Associate Director and is also an Associate of Goblin Theatre.

Andy is currently undertaking a research project with the University of Warwick exploring theatre’s role in tackling ageism.

Recent directing credits include The IT (Arden School of Theatre), Acts of Love (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Man Who Planted Trees (Hebden Bridge Arts), Nothing (Salford University), The Lost Spells (UK tour) and as Associate director: Road and Escaped Alone & What If If Only (Royal Exchange Theatre).

Carla trained in Nottingham, London and New York. Design credits include Rapunzel (Storyhouse), Make Good The Post Office Scandal, Wolves Are Coming For You, As the Crow Flies (Pentabus/UK Tour), The Book of Will (Octagon Theatre Bolton, Shakespeare North Playhouse), Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal), Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens), Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Lunatic 19s (Finborough Theatre), Lose Yourself (Sherman Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre), Joy (Stratford East), Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal), Looking At Lucian (Theatre Royal Bath), Gabriel (Richmond Theatre and UK Tour), Saturday Night Sunday Morning, When the Rain Stops Falling, The Lovely Bones (LAMDA), Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty, Greenwich), Miss Nightingale (The Vaults), How to Date a Feminist, Kitchen to Measure (Arcola Theatre),Rise (Old Vic New Voices), Jack and the Beanstalk (Cast Theatre Doncaster), Miss Julie (Etcetera Theatre), Pig Farm, Exposure (St James’ Theatre), Truce (New Wimbledon Theatre), Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Listen, We’re Family (Wiltons Music Hall), Mush and Me (Bush Theatre), A New Face for Fast Times (Soho Theatre), The Love Project (Arts Depot & UK Tour), Nola, Bud Take the Wheel (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Step Live! (Royal Academy of Dance/Southwark Centre), Mr Happiness (Old Vic Tunnels).

Jane is an associate artist at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.

Recent projects include Larkrise to Candleford (Watermill/TBTL), Murder for two (SJT/Bolton Octagon), Cal-endar Girls The Musical (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Theatre by the Lake/New Wolsey, Ipswich/Bolton Octagon), The Hidden Dangers of Camping (Theatre Royal, Windsor).

Upcoming projects include Cinderella (Central Theatre, Chatham), As You Like It (more or less) (SJT/SNP).

Previous Projects include Circle Of Fifths (Edinburgh Festival), Mother Goose (Mercury Theatre), Dweeb-a-Mania (Polka Theatre), Production Supervisor (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Tidy (Theatr Iolo Welsh tour), Noises Off (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost (SJT/Shakespeare North Theatre), Nutcracker (The Alternative Cabaret) (Wales Millennium Centre), Pinocchio (Taunton Brewhouse), Aladdin (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Little Women (York Theatre Royal), Dracula, The Blood Truth (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Bolton Octagon), Parti Priodas (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Welsh tour); Tidy (Polka Theatre/Theatr Iolo), Beauty and the Beast (Torch Theatre), The House with Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles National Tour), Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Salisbury Playhouse/Bolton Octagon), Circle of Fifths (National Theatre Wales tour), Around the World in 80 Days (Bolton Octagon), Beau-ty and the Beast (Torch Theatre), Now and Then (English Theatre, Frankfurt), The Card (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme), Rose (Ambassador’s Theatre, WEST END), Song From Far Away starring Will Young (HOME, Manchester), Aladdin (Har-rogate Theatre), Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Right Where we Left Us (Chapter Arts Centre), One Man, Two Guvnors (Bolton Octogon/Liverpool Every-man/TBTL), I Wanna be Yours (Leeds Playhouse), Peter Pan (Bolton Octagon), Antig-one (Storyhouse), Dr Korczak’s Example (Leeds Playhouse), Giraffes Can’t Dance (Leicester Curve).

Joe is a London-based Sound Designer and Composer for theatre and media, recently working on the Olivier award winning creative team for 'Boy at the back of the Class' as well as winning 'Best Sound Design' for Our Charlie at the Greenwich Film Awards, and additionally nominated at both 'Ignite', and Wolverhampton Film Festivals. Joe has a background in writing, recording, and performing music and graduated in Theatre Sound from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018. This year he is releasing his debut EP of original music titled Lovers to Strangers on independent label Wedmore Records.

Theatre Sound Designer credits include What the Animals Say (Finborough), Our Eyes Looking for God (Barbican), Ukraine Unbroken (Arcola), Gwenda’s Garage (Southwark Playhouse), Swallow the Lake (Mercury), Trois (Barn), With Courage (Other Palace), Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven (London Performance Studios), Rumble in The Jungle Rematch [immersive] (Dock X), Five Shorts (Young Vic), Sex Ed Musical (UK Schools Tour), Climate Cabaret (National Youth Theatre), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité R&D), The Dark is Rising (Complicité R&D), Tom Fool (Orange Tree), SAD (Omnibus), Ivanov (Schauspiel, Stuttgart), Chasing Bono (Soho Theatre), Scenes from the End of the World (Yard Theatre), Swallows & Amazons (Creation Theatre).

Theatre Associate Sound Designer credits include Charlotte Colbert’s Supernatural Tendencies (Fitzrovia Chapel), feat. live and recorded spacial music by music artist Birdy, Boy at the Back of the Class (UK Tour), Streetcar Named Desire (West End + NYC), Grapes of Wrath (National), KEIN WELTUNTERGANG + Michael Kohlhaas (Schaubühne, Berlin), All about Eve (Nöel Coward), Kan Yama Kan (Riyadh, Saudi), Best of Enemies (Young Vic/Broadcast), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hackney Empire), Macbeth (Garrick).

Composition credits include Snow Queen (Reading Rep), The Maids (Jermyn St/Reading Rep), A Christmas Carol (Reading Rep).

Media and Film credits include For the Moment, May Day, The Dog and the Sailor.

Siân Campbell is a Musical Director and Composer from Greenock, who has been working in theatre since 2018, and graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with an MA in Musical Directing in 2023.

Now based in London, she has enjoyed working on large scale commercial productions such as &Juliet, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Treason, and other New Work such as Saving Mozart and Babies.

Siân has a particular interest in working on actor-muso performances, and is thrilled to be supporting musically on “A Christmas Carol”, having also recently worked at Northern Stage and Derby Theatre on their recent actor-muso production of Little Shop of Horrors.
She will be returning to Scotland to Cumbernauld Theatre this December as Musical Director for Raw Materials Pantomime “Aladdie”.

Assistant Musical Director credits include Bliss the Musical (Assistant Musical Director - ATG), Saving Mozart (Assistant Musical Director - MCG Productions), &Juliet (Assistant Musical Director/Paternity Cover MD - UK Tour), Babies the Musical (Assistant Musical Director - The Other Palace), Treason (Assistant Musical Director - Fiery Fable Productions).

Musical Director credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Northern Stage & Derby Theatre), The Colonel's Lady (LSMT), ‘Til Death Do Us Party (Musical Director - One Ninety-Four Piccadilly), Children of Eden (Bird College), Big Fish (RCS), Candid Cabarets, (RCS) Little Women - Actor Muso (RCS), Thread (OneRen, 2022), Resident Panto Musical Director (Largs Players 2018 - 2021), Godspell (KYT, 2022), Broadway at Barrfields (Largs Players, 2021), The Night the War Ended (BTMT, 2021) Nativity the Musical (GLOC, 2019)

Musical Supervisor credits include The Ferry, The Dog & The Fading Folk (Glass Moose Theatre), Christmas at the Conservatoire, (RCS, Associate Musical Supervisor)

Jenn is from Bolton and works across the country as a movement and intimacy director. She is an Acting and Movement Lecturer at University Centre Leeds.

Movement directing credits include My Night with Reg (Green Carnation Theatre Company, The Lowry), Full English (Bent Architect, Kala Sangam, Bradford), Olivier nominated 10 Nights (The Bush/Tamasha/Graeae), An Adventure (The Octagon, Bolton), Beryl (Oldham Coliseum), Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Children of the Night (Cast, Doncaster), Around the World in 80 Days (The Octagon, Bolton), The Jungle Book (Theatre by the Lake) and Private Lives (The Octagon, Bolton).

Oliver Hymans is an award-winning puppetry artist and director, and currently serves as Associate Director at Little Angel Theatre, the UK’s leading puppet theatre.

He has worked internationally across four continents, directing and designing puppetry for theatre, opera, film, dance, circus, and music video. His puppets have been featured at prestigious venues including Tate Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Arcola Theatre, The National Gallery, Camden Roundhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, the V&A, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Craft Week and the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the world’s principal international design fair.

Oliver’s productions have been widely acclaimed by critics, praised as “visually dazzling… funny and beautiful… poetic and precise” (The Guardian), with “rich, sophisticated and thrillingly designed…” (The Stage). His puppet designs have been described as having “brilliant, realistic movement and wonderful personality” (Broadway World) and “filled with life” (Total Theatre Magazine).

A leading figure in the puppetry sector, Oliver is also a specialist in the historic craft of marionette making and in 2023, he successfully championed the addition of marionette puppetry to the Red List of Endangered Crafts. His advocacy and artistry have earned him a QEST Scholarship (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust), inclusion in the prestigious Homo Faber Fellowship, and recognition as a finalist for Heritage Crafts’ Woodworker of the Year 2023. He recently lead the artistic direction of the Little Angel Theatre’s landmark Heritage Lottery project, 600 Years on Strings, which included a brand new marionette production of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an exhibition and new book called ‘Marionette’.

In 2025, Oliver received a Fringe Theatre Award for Exceptional Services to Puppetry. recognising Oliver’s outstanding contribution to the puppetry world as an advocate, artisan, designer and mentor. He won an OFFIE Award in 2023 for his curation of the outstanding annual puppet festival that spotlights top quality British and international shows for young people and additionally promotes access to puppetry for people of all ages, including industry creatives, by offering practical workshops. Oliver’s efforts also underpin a unique puppetry design training programme, generating opportunity for otherwise underrepresented rising talent to be supported and to present their work publicly, whilst more widely helping secure the future of the genre.

Alongside his professional practice, Oliver has taught widely as a visiting tutor and lecturer at leading UK arts institutions including Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Central Saint Martins, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, and Wimbledon College of Arts.

Instagram: @buddyollie
Website: www.oliverjameshymans.com

About Little Angel Theatre
Fueling the imagination through the magic and wonder of puppetry, we produce ground-breaking, innovative shows for children and their families at our venues and on tour. We also welcome puppetry companies from around the UK and overseas to our annual Children’s Puppetry Festival. Our intimate spaces offer the ideal first experience of live performance for the very young and a home for bold, thought-provoking work for older children, helping to nurture a lifelong love of theatre.

Alongside our productions, we deliver imaginative education and participatory activities in our venues, schools and community settings, as well as a programme of online shows and digital content available for those who can’t travel to our venues. We have used puppetry to create and share inspiring stories since opening our doors in 1961; igniting the imaginations of the youngest minds, and supporting puppetry artists at all stages of their careers. The theatre’s success has been built upon a spirit of artistic innovation and high quality production values. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of what puppetry can be, whilst preserving its heritage.

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Website: www.littleangeltheatre.com

Anna Berentzen is Associate Director at Theatre by the Lake. Prior to joining the organisation, she worked as a freelance theatre director and this year she directed Idyll for Storyhouse and was Project Manager on Outdoor Opera House, an arts and wellbeing festival run by Buxton Opera House and Buxton Civic Association. In 2025 she was selected to be ThickSkin’s Jerwood Associate Artist, where she was Associate Director on It Walks Around the House at Night UK tour, as well as a lead creative workshopping new work and making Generator alongside Neil Bettles.

Other directing credits include: Leave No Trace (Buxton Opera House in Association with Buxton Civic Association), A Very Odd Birthday Party (Hawkseed Theatre UK Tour), Astronauts, The Survivors’ Guide to Living, All I Want for Christmas (Royal Exchange Theatre). As Associate or Assistant Director: Life Out There (Ransack), Hamlet Hail to the Thief (RSC and Factory International), Rumpelstiltskin, Hare & Tortoise (Buxton Opera House), Utopia, The Tempest, We Were Told There Was Dancing, Bruntwood Prize Ceremony (Royal Exchange Theatre).

Anna is Co-Founder of Hawkseed Theatre where she regularly runs community events and workshops including the popular Scribbles Social! and Songs and Stories. She was part of the Royal Exchange Theatre Young Directors’ Programme and was later selected to be part of Headlong Origins scheme for regional directors. Anna regularly creates work with access at its heart and is currently studying towards British Sign Language Level 4.

Gisela is a theatre designer and puppet maker based in London. Her background is in Animation, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021. Having worked at Theatre Peckham and Little Angel Theatre her passion for Theatre and puppetry grew. She is interested in creating designs that challenge expectations, using experimental practices and collaboration to explore themes around identity and social change.

Credits include Design Assistant - Sting The Young Vic, Company Three Festival 2026, Intern Studio Assistant – Es Devlin Studio; Puppet Trainee – Little Angel Theatre, The Tortoise and the Firefly (Children’s Summer Festival); Dark Matter (VAULT).

Valeriya Voronkina is a scenographer and theatre maker based in London. Five years ago, Valeriya was introduced to the theatre industry as the design assistant to Oliver Hymans on Goblin’s A Christmas Carol at the Painted Hall. Since then, she has had the pleasure of working as a freelance maker at Little Angel Theatre, as Associate Designer for Goblin’s The Ballad of Rudy, and with other prominent theatre companies such as Polka Theatre and Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Five years later, she is excited to see this production return to the stage and for audiences to see the new puppets, for which she has crafted the costumes.

Theatre credits include Martin Guere (Old Vic); When We Are Married (Donmar); Doubt (Bath Theatre Royal); Hangmen (Golden Theatre Broadway), Singing In The Rain, Road, Private Lives, Spend, Spend, Spend; A Taste of Honey; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie, Nora, Wuthering Heights; Light Falls; Gypsy, West Side Story, Glee and Me; (Royal Exchange), The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Brassed Off; Toms Midnight Garden; Steel (Theatre By The Lake), Scoring A Century (British Youth Opera), Imaam Imraan (NYT), The Beggars Opera; Little Women; Little Shop of horrors (Storyhouse); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Sheffield); Lancastrians (Junction 8 Theatre); The Last Yankee (Bolton Libray/Octagon Theatre); The Last Testament of Lilian Billoca, A Short History of Tractors In Ukranian (Hull Truck), Chicken Soup (Sheffield Crucible), Bread And Roses, Jumpers For Goalposts, Brassed Off (Oldham Colliseum), Beryl, Seeing The Lights, The Hoard Festival (New Vic), Company, Street Scene, La Vie Parisienne (RNCM) Two, Two 2, Kes (Bolton Octagon).

TV credits include Legends, One Day, Fool Me Once, Run Away, Red Rose, The Woods, You Are Here, (NETFLIX); Berlin Noir, The Buccaneers (AppleTV), A Tale Of Two Cities (MGM), Anne (ITV); Shy and Lola, Mavis, The Portrait Of A lady, Virdee, Riot Women, Film Club, Mix Tape, TIME S1 and 2; BoatStory, Better, Happy Valley series 3, The Reckoning, The Gallows Pole, Rules of the Game, (BBC); A Woman Of Substance, The Hardacres, Murder Before Evensong S1 and 2, All Creatures Great and Small S1 and 2 (C5); The Cure, Somewhere, Ackley Bridge (C4); The Lazarus Project series 2 (SKY).

Film credits include Please!, I Swear, 7 Miles Out, Extra Geography, Midas Man, Your Christmas Or Mine 1 and 2, Jingle Bell Christmas, Gwen.