Emilie Largier is the artistic director of Ruckle Theatre, and a French, queer & neurodivergent theatre-maker, performer and practitioner / workshop facilitator as well as a support worker.

After several years working as a Costume Maker & Designer, she trained in acting, physical theatre and dance in London. She studied acting at The Salon Collective and graduated in 2020 from Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. Since then, she regularly keeps training with Ensemble based theatre companies such as Theatre Re, GymJam Theatre, Temper Theatre and recently Frantic Assembly, to name only but a few. She also works for screen. Credits include: Silk City ft Ellie Goulding, Heartstopper (Season 1), The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself.

In her own words : “I strongly believe in theatre as a transformative experience. I want to make radical theatre, challenging societal norms & (re)explore inclusive theatre practices empowering people, from artists to audiences.”

Risha Silvera trained with Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company.

Theatre

Includes Black Women Dating White Men at Drayton Arms; Jack Frost for Moon on a Stick; and Starcrazy for Miracle Theatre. As a puppetry performer, work includes The Hatchling for the Queen’s Jubilee; and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Athletes Welcome Ceremony.

TV

Includes This is Going to Hurt.

Film

Short films include Anthropocene: The Human Era.

Michael is Artistic Director of Project Lockout, a performer and Associate Filmmaker of Frantic Assembly.

Specialising in movement direction, he graduated BA Physical Theatre at East 15 Acting School (2019) and Frantic Assembly’s Ignition project back in 2015. Since founding Project Lockout, he has been both director and movement director for company shows and digital projects since establishing itself in 2017; he has also led workshops for Oxford University (2018) and headed movement direction at Theatre Royal Stratford East (2019) for their National Connections company.

Michael believes in empowering people through movement practice in conjunction with freewriting; supporting this belief through the creation of short art documentaries from company workshops.

As a performer he toured with Justice In Motion in On Edge, a parkour performance piece highlighting the issue of modern day slavery. This year he directed and filmed 30 dance-narrative videos and a short film for their Moving Together project.

Often seen wearing a hat.

Bar is a Choreographer and Movement Director based in Cambridge, UK. She first trained at DanceEast Centre for Advanced training and the National Youth Dance Company, before graduating from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2019 with first-class honours degree. During this time she worked as a performer with many established artists and organisations including Protein Dance, Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teac Damsa), Joss Arnott, Sharon Watson, Tim Casson (Casson & Friends) and Ruby Portus at the Sadler’s Wells Young Associate Programme.

Bar founded Sababa Co. in 2019 – a contemporary dance theatre company creating physical and theatrical dance works that push the boundaries between movement, text, music, and set. Through her work, she endeavours to share personal insights into everyday human struggles, creating a platform to tackle undervalued and under highlighted issues. Current production ‘Coiled Up’.

Her choreographic work includes: ‘Aize Balagan’ performed at the Resolution Festival at The Place, ‘Coiled Up’ funded R&D by Arts Council England and ‘Chameleon Life’ for the Sommarlund Arts Festival in Lund, Sweden.

She has Movement Directed for Award Winning Edinburgh Fringe show ‘This Is Not A Show About Hong Kong’, OFFIE nominated show ‘In This Smoking Chaos’, Junction Young Company’s production ‘Re-do’ and Vault festival running one woman show ‘SAD-VENTS’.

Bar is a placement trustee on the Sadler’s Wells Board of Trustees, sits on the National youth Dance Company’s Young Person’s Board and is an Associate Artist with award-winning company GymJam Theatre.