Costume Designer
Susan Kulkarni, MA (Oxon), read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and undertook a postgraduate course in Costume Design at RADA. She has over 13 years’ experience designing for dance, film, TV and theatre. She recently designed costumes for Angus Balbernie and James Wilton’s choreography for Verve, Leeds School of Contemporary Dance and 'The Look-Out' at Royal Festival Hall, curated by Kerry Nicholls. Susan is currently Head of Costume for Secret Cinema and Future Cinema’s large live events, ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. TV credits include ‘Downton Abbey II’ and Polliakof’s ‘Dancing on the Edge’. She has designed numerous projects for the National Theatre including ‘Detroit’,  ‘Cesario’ and ‘The Prince of Denmark’.

Dramaturg & Associate Artist
Mary Ann is a writer and dance, performance dramaturg.  Originally from Canada, she came to the UK to do a PhD on the subject of political language.  Instead, she became immersed in performance art, worked with Augusto Boal, in particular his Image Theatre, and, later, trained as a screenwriter.  She combined the screen side with writing prose, her own short stories and text for artists making artist books.

It was freelance writing of treatments, and hence the ability to write proposals, that brought her back to performance, live art and dance.  Wanting an extra specificity of vocabulary for dance and movement, she did a range of choreology workshops with Rosemary Brandt. Now, fusing film, ‘story’, dramatic structure, artist books and installation art as well as a theatrical and dance vocabulary, she has a cross-media dance/performance dramaturgy practice.

With Lizzi Kew Ross & Co, she was the dramaturg for Without Warning, including curating the accompanying events. Currently, using the live performance as source material, she is taking the lead with Alpha-ville (digital developers and producers) to create Without Warning: the artist book as an app. Also currently, she is developing The Discussion Project with and for the company.

She is the Co-President of the dramaturgs’ network (d’n) and is a trustee for the theatre company Cardboard Citizens.  

Musicianand Dancer
David Leahy is a regular performer as both an improvising musician and dancer on the free improvised music and contact improvisation scenes. He is currently composing and performing regularly while also completing a Masters in Creative practice at TrinityLaban and Independent Dance.   

Significant collaborations and/or work in the past has included; composition work for Hagit Yakari, Theo Clinkard, Shane Shambhu (Altered Skin), Fevered Sleep Theatre Company, Trestle Theatre Company, and a composition commission from the Royal Maritime Museum. Performance work with Burning Wood (Sound and Music sponsored Mopomoso National tour), SichtLautTrio, London Improvisers Orchestra (conductor and performer), Wuppertal Improvisers Orchestra (Conductor and soloist), FOCA (Conductor, Madrid) and National and international rural touring with 'The Pioneers' (2007 to 2009).

Musician
Laura Moody is a cellist, vocalist and theatre performer from London. Since graduating from the University of York and Trinity College of Music she has forged a singular path, performing all over the world as an avant-singer songwriter and multi-skilled interdisciplinary performer. Fascinated not only with words and songwriting but also with sounds, noises and textures she eschews laptops and loop pedals to explore what is possible using only solo cello and voice to create unique, acoustic, avant-pop music. She looks to combine the two instruments in interesting and often physical, even theatrical ways composing what she believes to be essentially pop songs, although nobody else ever seems to agree with this definition. Her songs are influenced by the many genres of music she has been involved with in her professional career including beatboxing, electronica, contemporary and classical music and various kinds of pop music.  Having achieved much international acclaim as a long-standing member of innovative string quartet the Elysian Quartet, which is known for its pioneering performances and recordings of contemporary classical, experimental and improvised music, she has also toured world-wide as a member of physical theatre string ensemble The Gogmagogs and with the Meredith Mork Ensemble. All these elements are brought together in Laura’s solo work, as The Arts Desk noted of a recent performance, “it seemed almost as if she had taken every musical influence that had come her way and put them in a blender...certainly extraordinary and sometimes disturbing. But what surprised me most ...was just how often it became mesmerising.” Laura released an EP of her music on her own label in 2008 and is currently working on her debut album to be released later this year. www.lauramoodymusic.com