Based in London, Guy designs lighting for Theatre, Dance, Opera
and Musicals. Over the last 10 years he has designed work for Mark Bruce, Rafael Bonachela, Henri Oguike, and Shobana Jeyasingh amongst many others.

His work has toured extensively in Europe with occasional tours
to the Middle East, China, Australia and the USA. Recent Opera includes The Cunning Little Vixen (Brno) and three seasons for ETO. Recent musicals include Aspects of Love (Johannesburg & UK),
My Fair Lady (Singapore), City of Angels (Frankfurt) and UK tours of The Witches of Eastwick and All The Fun Of The Fair. Recent theatre work includes Be Near Me (Donmar Warehouse & National Theatre
of Scotland), Waste (Almeida) and Othello (Northern Broadsides, transferring to West End in Autumn 2009).

About around will be his fifth collaboration with Ben Wright.

Alan is a composer, sound designer and lecturer. After study with Jonty Harrison and Vic Hoyland at Birmingham University, and Simon Waters at UEA, he went on to complete his PhD in composition with Sebastian Forbes at Surrey University in 2001.

His compositions, both instrumental and electroacoustic have been widely performed in the UK and abroad. He is particularly interested
in collaboration with other artists and art forms, having previously worked with architecture, theatre, lighting, film and animation. However it is contemporary dance, with which he has collaborated since 1989 and which has formed the focus of his compositional output since 2000 that he is especially interested, having worked with a range of choreographers in the UK, Europe and the US.

Recent work with dance include an ongoing series of collaborative dance and video pieces with American choreographer Allyson Green and artist Peter Terezakis:Inta’s Dream, premiered Riga Arts Space, Latvia, August 2008; Abandon and Nada Que Declarar, both premiered DanceSpace Project, New York City, June 2006; and Heart Beats Light, premiered at San Diego Art Museum in October 2005.

Other projects include Changing Spaces (September 06) a collaborative light and sound installation with Diana Henry, CIPD, Wimbledon; and sound design for Odyssey in 2005, a large-scale dance and film work with Ben Wright.

He is currently part-time senior lecturer at Roehampton University, London where he teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including composition and music technology.

www.alanstones.net

Theo is a designer + performer based in Brighton, England.

Alongside his ongoing career as a contemporary dancer, he has, over the last ten years, established himself as a costume designer working primarily in dance, but also designing for opera, film, theatre, photo shoots and performance art.

Theo recently designed the costumes for Stewart Laing’s production
of Pariserliv (La Vie Parisienne) for Malmo Opera. Theatre work includes the award-winning Edinburgh Fringe hit show Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters by Russell Barr. Film work includes Deborah Tiso’s Souvenir for Channel 4.

Costume design for dance includes collaborations with Bonachela Dance Co., New Art Club, bgroup, Laila Diallo, Arthur Pita, Fin Walker/Riccochet, Tanja Liedtke/ David Hughes Dance Co., Frauke Requhart and Dog Kennel Hill Project.

Theo first started collaborating with Adrian Howells in 2006 creating both costume and set for An Audience with Adrienne; A Lifetime of Servicing Others at London’s Drill Hall. He then developed both the Cosy-rosy Christmas Comedown and the Summertime Special versions of the show and recreated them for Tel Aviv (2008) and Singapore (2009). Other design collaborations with Adrian include
The 14 Stations of Adrian Howells and
the film Adrienne’s Guide to the East End.

Forthcoming work includes remounting the costumes for Stewart
Laing’s La Boheme at Scottish Opera, designing costumes for Laing’s production of Bluebeard/The Miraculous Mandarin for Malmo Opera and designing costumes for Theatre Cryptic’s Confined Human Condition and a new commission for Skanes Dance Company with
Ben Wright.