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Arnim Friess
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Lighting & Projection Design
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Arnim Friess has a formidable international reputation for award-winning projection work for organisations as diverse as Birmingham Royal Ballet, St Paul’s Cathedral and Legolands as well as a wide range of theatre companies on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Firegirl, Mazemaker
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SV 'Balu' Balakrishna
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Musician and Composer
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Balu is an international standard percussion artist whose considerable reputation in India has been earned working alongside some of the greatest musicians in the country. He has composed and played for Chitraleka Dance Company for a number of years, and has also collaborated with Chitra and Guy on five previous Moby Duck projects.
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Chitraleka Bolar
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Dancer
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Chitraleka Bolar is artistic director of Chitraleka Dance Company, Britain’s foremost Bharatanatyam ensemble. Her reputation as a dancer and choreographer is formidable in India and the USA as well as in the UK; and she has been creating and touring major national and international dance productions for the last sixteen years.
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Bop, Bopoluchi, Firegirl, Story, Beans, Ice
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Craig Denston
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Set & Puppet & Mask- Design
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Craig Denston is one of Britain’s leading mask and puppet makers. He has worked non-stop in theatre, television and film for the last sixteen years; and he has designed the last six of Moby Duck’s previous shows.
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Iaggi Boddari, Firegirl, Bop, Bopoluchi, Maxemaker, Story, Beans, Ice
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Guy Hutchins
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Writer, Performer & Artistic Director of Moby Duck
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Guy Hutchins is an award-winning writer and storyteller whose work has been broadcast in over fifty countries and heard by several million people. His stage plays include work for Birmingham Rep, Pentabus Theatre and The Little Angel Marionette Theatre; and his live performance has taken him regularly to four continents.
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Shows:
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Firegirl, Bop, Bopoluchi, Maxemaker, Story, Beans, Ice
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Lorna Laidlaw
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Actor, writer
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Lorna has written for Birmingham Rep, Pentabus and the Midlands Arts Centre among others, and has performed in most of the country’s leading theatres. She is also the face of Tikkabilla, the BBC’s hit show for young children. |
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Martyn Briggs
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actor/musician, writer and arts/education consultant
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Martyn is a freelance storymaker, actor/musician, writer and arts/education consultant. He has experience of acting and directing, musical performance and recording, film and video work, and uses music and cartooning in performance. He has worked with adults and in all educational sectors: early years, all Key Stages, FE and HE, and with adults, including work with people with special needs.
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Mira Yugai
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Musician
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Mira Yugai comes from the Korean community in Kazakhstan. She has researched and written widely on Korean folk music in Middle Asia; and her music is influenced by work with a wide range of refugee organizations as well as writing and performance in the folk and classical mainstream. |
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Peter Wynne-Willson
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Writer, performer
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Peter Wynne-Willson’s twenty-odd plays include work for Greenwich Young People’s Theatre, the Half Moon, Merseyside Young People’s Theatre, Women and Theatre, London Bubble and Birmingham Rep. He has been Visiting Professor in Children’s Theatre to South Korea’s National University of the Arts for the last five years.
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Praveen D Rao
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Musician and Composer
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Praveen is a versatile multi-instrumentalist with an international reputation based in Bangalore. Trained by tabla master Pandit Ravindra Yavagal, he is equally at home on a range of percussion, santoor, keyboards and electronic media. Over the last fifteen years he has composed scores for theatre, ballet, film and television, and has toured regularly on three continents with his live performance. |
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Bop, Bopoluchi, Firegirl, Mazemaker
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Yang Hye Jung
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Puppetry, performance
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Yang Hye Jung’s performance and puppetry includes work with the National University of the Arts Professional company in Seoul, Sadari (Korea’s leading Children’s Theatre) and Dolgoji Theatre. She has worked with Peter Wynne-Willson on two previous young people’s shows, one in Britain and one in South Korea.
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