Eve has recently graduated from the Actor Musician BA Hons course at Rose Bruford drama school in 2021.
Notable credits: Doctor Who (BBC) and Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse).
Marinka dreams of a normal life, where she can stay somewhere long enough to make friends; but there’s one problem – her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning. Her grandmother is Baba Yaga who guides spirits from this world to the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and break free from her grandmother’s footsteps, but her house has other ideas…
Based on the best-selling novel by Sophie Anderson, Marinka and her unusual house are brought to life in this brand new co-production with leading Manchester Theatre, HOME.
Experience the story through a blend of live music, puppetry and a sprinkle of magic to immerse you in this Yaga world of spirits and secrets. A beautiful, engaging, and thought-provoking story that deftly navigates the complexities of grief and loss against the backdrop of growing up and fitting in.
"a piece packed with fun, exuberant musical numbers, amusingly irreverent performances and inventive theatricality"
"Magically inventive and involving"
"a show that has legs and deserves to run"
"envelops you in a great story and looks and sounds stunning.
Highly recommended"
"entrancing moments of delicate, intricate storytelling"
"It is difficult to explain exactly how lively and fun this production is"
"a dazzling show that you never wanted to end!"
"everything was thrown at this production and it all landed perfectly"
Eve has recently graduated from the Actor Musician BA Hons course at Rose Bruford drama school in 2021.
Notable credits: Doctor Who (BBC) and Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse).
Training: East 15
Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Leeds Playhouse); Hidden Histories (Mind The Gap); Every Time A Bell Rings (Engine House Theatre); Ladies That Bus (The Dukes Lancaster, The Brewery Kendal, Theatre by the Lake Keswick); Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Borrowers (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre Company); They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, When We Are Married, Romeo and Juliet (Northern Broadsides); George’s Marvellous Medicine (Curve Theatre); Flood (Slung Low and Hull City of Culture 2017); The Duchess of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse); Blood and Chocolate (Slung Low, Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal); Emergency Story Penguin (Slung Low); Road to Nab End (Oldham Coliseum); The Morecambe Mermaid (Captain Mermaid); Sex and Docks and Rock and Roll, Big Society (Red Ladder); Grimm Tales, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Jason and the Argonauts, Robin Hood (The Dukes, Lancaster); Ring Around the Humber (Hull Truck); Alfie (Blackeyed Theatre); Macbeth, The Little Mermaid (York Theatre Royal); Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Flat Stanley (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Torch Theatre).
TV and Film includes: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is and The Royal (ITV), ‘Red Riding 1983’ (Channel 4).
Radio/Voice work includes: 15 Minutes Live! (Slung Low); Plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4. The Sea Cannot Be Depleted (Future Ventures Foundation).
Directing credits: Grandma Remember Me? and What Do You See? (Az2B Theatre Company).
When not acting, Lisa is lead singer with Lula and the BeBops.
Trained: Rose Bruford College
Theatre credits: The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Cheer Up Slug (Live Theatre), Scouts! The Musical (BEAM Festival/Hackney Empire), Baba Yaga (Theatre Hullabaloo), The Prince and The Pauper (Watermill Theatre), Hedda Tesman (Workshop, Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre), Pardoned (The Other Palace Studio), Manifesto For a New City (Northern Stage), Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet (Cranked Anvil)
Training: BRIT School of Performing Arts, Stageworks Studios and Arts Educational Schools London.
Theatre credits include: The Long Song (Chichester Festival Hall), The Color Purple At Home (Curve Theatre), Our Lady of Kibeho (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Color Purple (Curve Theatre), Original Cast of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre), The Addams Family (UK Tour/Mediacorp Singapore), Pinocchio (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Moby Dick (Union Theatre), Oliver! (Grange Park Opera).
Television includes: Britain’s Got Talent Final 2018 (ITV), Tonight at the London Palladium (ITV), Olivier Awards 2015 and 2016 (ITV)
Concerts/workshops include: Gypsy (Alexander Palace), Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall), Hamlet (National Theatre Studio- Workshop), Rocky ‘The Musical’ (Workshop), Hey, Old Friends! 85th Birthday Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Concert: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).
Radio includes: Friday Night is Music Night: We Can Be Heroes (BBC Radio 2), D-Day 70 Years On (BBC Radio 2 at the Royal Albert Hall).
Training: ALRA
Theatre: Once the Musical (UK Tour); The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency (Belgrade Coventry, Cardboard Citizens); The Scarecrow’s Wedding (Leicester Square Theatre); Treasure Island, The Wind In The Willows (New Vic Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (Oddsocks UK tour); A Christmas Carol, The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin Theatre); Faction (Damn Cheek); Aladdin (Stafford Gatehouse); The Jungle Book (Sixteenfeet Productions); Buddy Holly and The Cricketers (Simon Fielder Prods UK tour); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (Leeds City Varieties); Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet (Pendley Shakespeare Festival)
TV/Film: Hanna 2 (Amazon Prime Studios); Born On This Day (Channel 4); Money (Loaded Productions); Absent (dreamthinkspeak); Equal Measure (Front Row Centre Productions)
Trained: Rose Bruford on the Actor Musician course.
Theatre Credits include: Oliver Twist (Chester Storyhouse), Trojan Horse (Lung Theatre), The Country Girls (Chichester Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (Derby Theatre), The Canterbury Tales (Watford Palace Theatre), Around the World in 80 days (Tobacco Factory), Yellow Moon (National Theatre of Scotland), 1001 Nights (The Unicorn Theatre)
TV Credits include: This Sceptred Isle (Sky Atlantic), The Baby (HBO/Sky Atlantic)
Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards’ Children’s Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie’s books have been translated into over twenty languages.
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)
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).
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