As Artistic Director of Les Enfants Terribles, Oliver Lansley founded the company in 2002 shaping it with his distinctive style of storytelling and highly original aesthetic. He is the writer behind the majority of the company’s productions, most recently ‘The Trench’, ‘The Terrible Infants’ and the Olivier award-nominated immersive show ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’ (London, Shanghai).

His experience extends beyond the theatre as a prolific writer for television, most recently ‘Flack’ which he created, wrote and executive produced, starring Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson and Sophie Okonedo and is available to watch on Amazon Prime. He has worked with all the major networks across the UK and US, including HBO, FX, Amazon and the BBC and is also an established actor appearing in projects such as Vigil, Dr Who, Sherlock and Flack.

James is a director and producer with over 20 years’ experience and is also Creative Director of Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company. In this role, he co-directed the world-renowned ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’, a production seen by over 400,000 people which transferred from London for a two-year run in Shanghai. He has also devised, acted in and directed a number of stage shows with the company including critically acclaimed ‘The Trench’ (UK Tour), ‘The Terrible Infants’ (UK Tour, Wilton’s Musical Hall, Adelaide Fringe) and ‘The Vaudevillains’ (Charing CrossTheatre, Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe).

His experience in creating high-impact immersive events traverses theatre and includes large scale brand activations such as ‘Road to the Final’ to celebrate Heineken’s Champions League Semi-Final in Barcelona; an event that took 10 global media influencers across land, sea and sky to arrive at the match, with coverage reaching 56 million unique users from around the globe.

James is well-known for his creativity and unique style of work. He is passionate about bringing the audience into the heart of the experience and continues to explore the potential through theatre, technology and beyond.

Jasmine Swan is a Set & Costume Designer working across theatre, opera, dance, live events and immersive experiences. She is a resident designer at New Diorama Broadgate design studio and a member of Scene Change. Jasmine was Laboratory Associate Designer at Nuffield Southampton Theatres in 2017/18, a Linbury Prize for Stage Design finalist, multiple Off West End awards and The Stage Debut Award nominee. She is interested in creating surreal, abstract and expressionistic spaces, with sustainability and a greener practice in mind. Recent designs for theatre include: The Jungle Book (Watermill); The Forest (Hampstead), We Are As Gods immersive dance piece (Battersea Arts Centre); The Wedding Singer (Royal Academy of Music); Lava (The Bush); Shook film and stage production (Papatango); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Shaftesbury Theatre); Animal Farm (National Youth Theatre at Royal & Derngate)

www.jasmineswan.com

Samuel Wyer is a theatre designer, puppet maker and illustrator. As costume and puppet designer his theatre includes Ocean at the End of the Lane with the National Theatre, currently on at the Duke of York Theatre She Described it to Death at the Royal Opera House; and The Wizard of Oz at the Birmingham Rep. As puppet designer his theatre includes The Boy in the Dress for the RSC; How to Hide a Lion at Polka; Raymond Briggs’ The Bear for Pins and Needles.

As a designer his work includes, Alice’s Adventures Underground, The Terrible Infants, The Trench, Dinner at the Twits, for Les Enfants Terribles;  Lazuli Sky at Sadlers Wells with Birmingham Royal Ballet; Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy at the Royal Opera House with Little Bulb theatre; Forest Fables with NAIADS; Marvin’s Binoculars and also WILD! at the Unicorn Theatre; The Elephantom at the National Theatre and for Gyre & Gimble;

Alexander Wolfe is a songwriter, composer and artist from London. He has, to date, released four solo albums and has worked extensively in theatre and film. Wolfe is a regular collaborator with Les Enfants Terribles, having composed and performed the soundtrack to The Trench, which has had two 5-star sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe plus two national tours of the UK as well as working on Alice’s Adventures Underground which was experienced in London by over 100,000 people and was nominated for an Olivier Award.

As a solo artist, he has shared stages with illustrious names such as Paul Weller, Feist, Vampire Weekend and Jamie Cullum.

“The most beautiful album I have heard in years. Period” – NEW YORK POST

Jane began her theatre career at the Leicester Haymarket. In the last few years, she has decided to give up touring to concentrate on lighting design after many years of stage and production managing.  Two years ago, she lit Dr Korczak’s Example at Leeds Playhouse and Giraffes Can’t Dance at Leicester Curve. Jane has just finished lighting Wind in the Willows at The Brewhouse in Taunton and Peter Pan at Bolton Octagon. She will be going back to the Octagon in May to light One Man, Two Guvnors which is a co-production with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick.  Other lighting designs include Antigone, Storyhouse; The Storm, M6 Theatre Company; Meet me at Dawn, HER Productions; Ghost Light which was a light and sound installation that Jane conceived during lockdown;  Cotton Fingers, National Theatre Wales and Last Five Years, Leeway Productions. 

On a personal note, Jane has a cat called Noodles and a dog called Biscuit!

Nina is an award-winning Video & Projection designer and has created work for a wide range of shows, working internationally and spanning Theatre, Opera, Dance, Musical Theatre, Immersive, Fashion, Opening Ceremonies and Live Events and Public Art. She is also an educator within her industry, helping to devise and deliver undergraduate courses and mentoring programs in leading UK institutions and runs PixelLux Studio in Brighton, UK.

Theatre includes: Saturday Night Fever (West End); 9 to 5 The Musical (West End / UK and Australia Tour); The Shark is Broken (West End / Sonia Friedman Productions); Don Quixote, Lazuli Sky (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Manor (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse, Alexandra Palace); Hamlet, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East); City of Angels (West End);  Cinderella (Imagine Theatre); A Museum in Baghdad, Venice Preserved, Miss Littlewood, The Seven Acts of Mercy, Volpone (RSC); Plenty, Copenhagen, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre), Cbeebies Hansel and Gretel (BBC);  Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket); No Man’s Land (Tour/West End); Alice’s Adventures Underground (London / China); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd), The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); Der Freischütz, Macbeth (Wiener Staatsoper); Spring Gala (Royal Opera House);The Life, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse);  Phantom of the Opera (Cameron Mackintosh, UK/US/Australia Tour);

Awards include Great British Pantomime Awards (Best Design with Mark Walters); Knight of Illumination Award (Video and Electronic Content); LIT Award; WhatsOnStage Award (nominations x 2); Lumen Prize (shortlist).