Sally Cookson trained at LAMDA, working as an actor for ten years and co-founding the Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre before embarking on a freelance directing career. She has been an associate artist at BOV, where productions include Wonder Boy, A Monster Calls, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Treasure Island and The Boy Who Cried Wolf to name a few. She has received four Olivier nominations for Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), Hetty Feather, (Kenny Wax Productions), Cinderella - a Fairytale (Tobacco Factory Theatre) and A Monster Calls (Old Vic), which won the Best Family and Entertainment Olivier Award in 2019. She is currently working on Birthmarked by Brook Tate which will perform at the Edinburgh Festival, and Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning for National Theatre of Scotland which opens in Aberdeen in September before touring.

Theatre includes: Dracula  (National Theatre of Scotland); I am Kevin (Wildworks); Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Arrival (imPOSSIBLE Producing); Tom by Wilkie Branson (Sadlers Wells); The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe (WYP & West End); A Monster Calls (Old Vic, Olivier Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Music (Nominee); Best Family Show (Winner)); Peter Pan, Jane Eyre (National Theatre); Hetty Feather, La Strada, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (all Kenny Wax Productions); Romeo & Juliet (Rose Theatre); Varmints (Sadlers Wells); A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Little Angel/Kneehigh); Outpost (Green Ginger Theatre); Sleeping Beauty, Jane Eyre, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Peter Pan, Treasure Island, Papa Please Get The Moon For Me, Strong Case, Aesop’s Fables (all Bristol Old Vic); 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves, Bob The Man on the Moon, Lost and Found, Ugly Duckling (all Travelling Light Theatre); Stickman, Pirate Gran, Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales (all Freckle Productions).

Benji has composed multiple scores for TV and Film. He has performed with many well-known artists and with his own band, Unforscene.

Recent designs include: Wonder Boy ( Bristol Old Vic); Jane Eyre, Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Globe Theatre); Hetty Feather, La Strada (both Kenny Wax Productions); If You Fall, Beautiful Evil Things (Theatre Ad Infinitum); A Monster Calls (Old Vic, winner Best Family Show Olivier Award); Same Storm Same Sky (Bristol Old Vic / Many Minds); Pippi Longstocking (Northampton Theatre Royal); The Great Gatsby (Wardrobe Ensemble); Kings, Vixen (both Travelling Light Theatre).

Tony trained at Middlesex University and has been a lighting designer for the last 31 years. His work has included productions from the National Theatre; The RSC; The Royal Court; Welsh National Opera; English National Opera; The Royal Opera House; West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Old Vic, London and numerous designs in the West End and various regional venues and national tours. For 15 years, Tony was the associate lighting designer on the touring West End production of The Woman in Black. He has designed several fashion shows including the 2015 L’Oreal Colour Trophy awards. In feature film, Tony was the Theatrical Lighting director for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and for the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Tony has also lectured at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. Tony also served as chairman on the Equity Theatre Designers

Committee and is a professional Designer member of the Association of Lighting Designers.

Jason has worked in theatre in the UK and internationally for the last 20 years and has created Sound Designs for a wide variety of productions across UK theatre. Jason was Head of Sound for Bristol Old Vic from 1999 – 2007. He went on to become Director of Production and Operations for Bristol Old Vic from 2010 – 2015.

Sound Designs include: The Nightingales (Bath Theatre Royal and UK Tour); Mr Popper’s Penguins (Kenny Wax Ltd); An Elephant in the Garden (Poonamallee Productions); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Comedy Theatre and UK tour); Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre and Music Box Theater, Broadway); Enjoy (Gielgud Theatre and UK tour); We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Duchess Theatre, UK and International Tours); Private Peaceful (UK and International Tours); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic and USA)

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Marc was part of the original cast of Sally Cookson’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which premiered at Bristol Old Vic in 2006. He also designed and built the baby and the bear puppets for the show! He trained in clown and physical theatre at Circomedia in Bristol and eventually ended up directing puppetry and making puppets for theatre companies all over the place. Past work includes: Snow Mouse, Squirrel & Midnight Mole (Egg Theatre, Bath); The Borrowers (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick) and The Snow Queen (Bristol Old Vic). Marc has also puppeteered real kiwi fruit, coconuts and strawberries for TV commercials made by Aardman Animations. Marc is currently the Artistic Director of theOBJECTproject, based in Leeds.

Alex Heane is composer, performer and sound designer from Newquay, Cornwall. He has toured and performed nationally and internationally with a range of theatre productions and musicians such as Jane Eyre (National Theatre) and Wise Children (Wise Children) and with artists such as Willy Mason, The Leisure Society, Rachael Dadd and Maja lena. Credits as a composer include: For the Love of Stuff (Earthbound Theatre); Blood Wedding (The Egg Theatre, Bath); Pagan Pandemonium (Seamas Carey); and Whale Town (Tobacco Factory Theatre). He trained in music performance and composition at Brunel University.

Meg Stephens is a multi-skilled stage manager and theatre technician originally from Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia. She completed her studies at the Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts - Technical Production, Mandarin). Meg has focused her career on touring, site specific work and festivals. Previous credits include Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Immersive Everywhere); the Australian national tours of 91-Storey Treehouse, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Billionaire Boy, Guess How Much I Love You (CDP Theatre Producers); Carmen (Opera Australia); Nearer the Gods (Ensemble Theatre Company), as well as many arts and fringe festivals.