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The Stage
Creatives & Production
Finn Anderson
Co-creator, Book,
Music & Lyrics
Finn Anderson is an award-winning Scottish writer and singer-songwriter. He is on attachment at the National Theatre, is Associate Artist at Lowry, and was the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer 2020-21. Musicals include Islander (Off-Broadway/Off-West End/US Tour, with translations and productions across the world), Streets (Off West End nominated for Best New Musical). As a singer-songwriter, he has released two albums and toured internationally, including with Bogha Frois: Queer Voices in Folk.
Tania Azevedo
Co-Creator
& Director
Tania Azevedo is a Portuguese director and dramaturg working across new musicals, queer storytelling, and bold reimaginings. She is Creative Development Associate for Stage Entertainment International and trained at Mountview, the National Theatre Directors’ Course, and the Royal Opera House’s JPA Opera Directors Programme. Her work includes But I’m a Cheerleader (WhatsOnStage Best Off-West End Production), West End musical &Juliet (Resident/International Associate Director), and projects with ArtsEd, York Theatre Royal, and the King’s Head Theatre.
TK Hay
Designer
Award-winning theatre designer, TK received the Arts Foundation Future Awards Fellowship for Theatre, Best Designer at the Stage Debut Awards (2022) and the Linbury Prize for Stage Design (2019) for An Adventure at the Bolton Octagon. Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama he was the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council Scholarship in 2016. Recent credits include: Scenes from a Repatriation (Royal Court), Pea and the Princess (Polka Theatre), The Jungle Book(Theatre by the Lake) and My Father’s Fable (Bush Theatre)
Carly Brownbridge
Costume Designer
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Andrew Johnson
Sound Designer
Andrew has been working in Audio since 2001 and working in professional theatre since 2004 as Production Sound Engineer, Operator, Assistant Sound Designer, AssociateSound Designer and Sound Designer.Andrew won the Broadway World Fans Choice Award for Best Sound Design forThePlay That Goes Wrongon Broadway, and has also been shortlisted for Best SoundDesign forGrand Hotel, Mack & MabelandTitanicin the UK.
Simon Wilkinson
Lighting Designer
As an interational lighting designer for theatre, dance, and opera, Simon's recent highlights include: Sleep No More (Seoul) and Viola’s Room (London/ New York), the world premiere of Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK &  Ireland),  Islander (US Tour/New York/London), Vanishing Point’s  Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (Scotland/Japan) and Metamorphosis  (Scotland/Italy). Simon won a Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Lighting for Ragnarok (2024) and the Critics Award For Theatre in Scotland for Best Design four times.
Tinovimbanashe Sibanda
Choreographer
Tinovimbanashe is a creative artist, choreographer, and movement director whose work is shaped by collaboration, curiosity, and care.
Alongside her experience as an ensemble member, swing, and dance captain, she is committed to expanding the boundaries of theatre by making dance and movement accessible storytelling tools. Grounded in the belief that movement is a universal language, her practice focuses on creating opportunities for all storytellers to engage with movement as a powerful means of expression.
Jane Deitch
Casting Director
Films: Unhallowed Ground (Best Horror Film, LIFF / 2 Supporting Actor awards,BIFAwards), Locked In, New Year’s Day (Jury Prize: Raindance/Best Film: Sapporo FF),Welcome To Leathermill (short), BAFTA-winning Shoot the Messenger and Magnificent 7.
TV (includes):EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Waking The Dead (Emmyaward), Judge John Deed, In Deep, Dalziel and Pascoe, A Respectable Trade (BAFTAnominated), Drovers’ Gold, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Walter’s War.
Eliza Beth Stevens
Assistant Director
Eliza is a London based director. She is the Associate Director for Unfortunate; The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch. Her debut play; Fair Cop is currently in development. She is the Artistic Director of Out The Attic and hosts the Grafters Podcast. She is Assistant Director for: Mary and the Hyenas (Hull Truck /Wilton’s Music Hall), A Song for Ella Grey (UK Tour), Handbagged Workshop (National Theatre/Queen Theatre Hornchurch). As Director; Anna Hale; Control Freak (EdFringe), Curly; C U Later Simulator (EdFringe), Twelfth Night (Fleshment Theatre), ...that's what she said (Unity Theatre)
James Anderton
Production Manager
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