JEREMY GOLDSTEIN - CREATOR
Jeremy is a producer, writer/performer and HIV+ activist with ACT UP London. For three decades he has championed underrepresented voices, and new forms of artistic and political expression. His work has been described as "an evocative theatrical wonderland" (Guardian). In 2002, he founded London Artists Projects, commissioning and producing shows with many celebrated artists winning awards including Evening Standard, Fringe First, h.Club, London Cabaret and BBC Audio Drama. In 2012, he won an h.Club Award and in recognition of his political theatre work was named in Time Out as among the 100 most influential people in UK culture.
HENRY WOOLF - VERSE
Henry (1930-2021) was an actor, poet, and theatre director. Described by Sir Richard Eyre as "a living icon of the theatrical avant-garde" he is a life-long friend and collaborator of Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, and the sole surviving member of his Hackney Gang. Henry directed Harold’s first play ‘The Room’ at Bristol University in 1957. He has worked alongside Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Ralph Richardson and Peter Brook. From 1991-2001 he was artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in Canada and Head of Drama at University of Saskatoon where he now lives. In celebration of Henry’s 90th birthday Univeristy of Saskatoon named their theatre The Henry Woolf Theatre.
JEN HEYES - director
Jen is an award-winning theatre director and associate director of London Artists Projects. Her directing credits include Epstein the Main Who Made the Beatles (West End), Treasured (Liverpool Anglican Cathedral), and Blood Wedding (Liverpool Playhouse). Jen has recently reimagined Iben’s Hedda Gabler as cinematic theatre with queer avant-gardist David Hoyle and composer Tom Parkinson for Soho Theatre On-Demand, London.
SARAH HICKSON - ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Sarah is an arts and documentary photographer exploring the relationship between people, place and context. Recent projects include 'The Calais Sessions' in the ‘Jungle’ in France, 'Clowns without Borders' in Greece and Serbia, 'Writing Places' for the India-UK Year of Culture, 'Taragalte Festival' in the Moroccan Sahara, 'Circus Hub' in Edinburgh, and 'Theyyam' sacred performance rituals in South India. Her solo exhibition 'Sounds Unseen – a photographic memoir of the Calais Sessions' was recently presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse New York
ED HALL - BANNER MAKER
Ed is the UK’s leading banner maker for the Trade Union Movement, and a long-time collaborator with Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller creating works for Venice Biennale, and Manchester International Festival. Recently Ed designed the banner for Caryl Churchill’s ‘Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’ in the Olivier at the National Theatre, and showed the 'Truth to Power Cafe' banner as part of the British Council exhibition ‘The Art of Dissonance’ at Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea. He has worked with Stop the War, Anti Nazi League, Unite Against Fascism and many others.
DAVID BOWIE AND SVEN RATZKE - MUSIC
In life as in death, David Bowie is an iconic artist and musician whose music continues to provide the soundtrack for generations young and old. Sven Ratzke is an internationally recognised Dutch singer and performer whose acclaimed show ‘Starman’ combines many of Bowie’s most famous songs. Sven was the original Hedwig in the Berlin production of 'Hedwig en de Angry Inch' and has since worked with Nina Hagen and The Tiger Lillies. His latest show 'Homme Fatale' is now on tour.