We work with some very sound, brilliant minds from costume and design to music and movement. Below are some of the artists we like to work with on an ongoing basis with links to who they are what they’re about.
Anna Mullarkey
Composer, Performer, Musical Director.
Composed music for Brú Theatre’s Selvage, Gol and Ar Ais Arís which she also performed in.
Anna Mullarkey is an award-winning composer and performer from Galway, whose music weaves electronics with piano and voice. Having grown up in the West of Ireland, Anna draws inspiration from the sea for her compositions.
The Irish Times called her “phenomenal” and Irish TheatreMagazine described her music as “if a sultry ménage of Björk/BillieHoliday/Philip Glass got together at the Wickerman Festival.” Her original score for the film The Passion (2021) has won awards in Ireland and Europe.
Anna’s debut album, Falling, which will be released this year, is all about falling in and out of love. It is a shapeshifting soundscape, with sometimes comforting and sometimes haunting melodies that evoke summer afternoons and winter evenings, that speak to a haunted past and a radiant present. Blending acoustic instruments and electronica, this album captivates the body and soul.
Philippa Hambly
Deviser, Teacher, Performer
Philippa and James met at LISPA (now Arthaus.berlin ) where she continues to study and teach physical theatre and movement. Their first project together was through the Canada Water Culture Space’s emerging artists programme in London, 2014, when it was clear that any world of theirs would be a wonderful wonky one. Alongside independent work, Philippa has toured internationally with renowned company 1927 (Golem, filmed for BBC iplayer, Roots). Having originally trained and worked as a nurse, she regularly collaborates with Chimera network developing resources and facilitating workshops for student nurses using drama and dance. For more info see…
www.piphambly.com , www.performanceforcare.com, www.19-27.co.uk
Julianna Bloodgood
Vocalist, actress, movement artist and teacher
James and Julianna met during Creative Europe’s Make a Move a year- long initiative designed to strengthen the skills of artists in the Independent Theatre sector. Her work includes anthropological performance research and she has travelled the globe extensively in search of different cultural perspectives on the body, voice and the ritual of performance. The core of her work is a detailed practice in the relationship between body and voice and how this can be brought to performance and composition. Julianna was a leading actress in the award winning and critically acclaimed Polish theatre company Song of the Goat Theatre from 2009-2019. Julianna is also a resident artist with Theatre MITU based in New York City and regularly collaborates with Slovakian company Honey and Dust.
Julianna teaches her methodology called Embodied Voice Practices, which is an in-depth research of the connection of the body and voice and its inherent healing capacities. Julianna has a particular interest and research in the vocal practice of lamentation, which has become a through line in all of her work. She continues to research the technical, historical and contemporary aspects of lamentation.