ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
David Annen
David is an actor and teacher. For Lightwork he performed in Here's What I Did With My Body One Day and London/My Lover, and led the verbatim theatre research that became Utter. Other recent theatre includes A Disappearing Number (Complicite), Henry VIII (RSC Complete Works), Guantanamo (Tricycle and New Ambassadors), After Mrs. Rochester (Shared Experience at the Duke of York's), Andorra and Demons & Dybbuks (Young Vic). He trained and performed with the Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland and spent two years with Mike Alfred's company Method & Madness. David co-stars in the feature film The West Wittering Affair.
Alex Mermikides
Alex is a director, dramaturg and teacher. She is completing a PhD on devised theatre and has just taken up a lecturing post at Kingston University. Previous theatre projects include, as writer, Cuckoo (BAC), The Angel of Islington (BBC Radio 4) and One Last Surviving... (Lyric Studio, Hammersmith) and, as a deviser and occasional performer, several productions at Camden People's Theatre. Alex has been a member of Lightwork since assisting Andy in London/My Lover.
Douglas O'Connell
Douglas began his career in the US in Off Broadway and New York regional theatre. He was lead designer for Redmoon Theater, Chicago, and received awards for work at the Steppenwolf Studio Theater. He was video designer for Once I was Dead, [(re) actor, First International Conference on Digital Live Art], Here’s What I Did with My Body One Day (national tour), Twelfth Night (Fervant Theatre Company ) Art of Regeneration (Albany Theatre), The Art in You (Greenwich) and has exhibited work at the National Theatre's Festival of Lights and at the Bath International Puppetry Festival. He has led site specific projects with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Emergency Exit Arts and The Greenwich/ Dockland Festival. His company Woodenhead Works’ multimedia piece, InVertigo, was featured at the 2004 Visions Festival, Brighton. He is the MA Theatre course leader at Wimbledon College of Art and was recently awarded a fellowship for Promising New Research.
Ayse Tashkiran
Ayse is a movement director, performer and teacher. After completing a degree in drama at Bristol University she trained with Lecoq in Paris from 1990 to 1992.
Movement direction productions include: Silent Tide (2008) ICA, London International Mime Festival; Ma Vie En Rose Young Vic (2007) Macbeth at Regent's Park Theatre (2007), Stacy (2007) Trafalgar Studios La Songe du 21 Juin by Label Brut, French National Tour (2007); Brixton Stories (2006) Lyric Hammersmith Studio, The Beggar's Opera, Blackheath Concert Hall (2006); Orfeo, Greenwich Theatre; All's Well that Ends Well Young Vic Young Directors Scheme; Here's What I Did with My Body One Day, Lightwork, national tour and Pleasance Theatre; Forget Me Not, London International Mime Festival and Sarajevo Story for Lightwork at the Lyric Hammersmith studio.
Current performance work includes Chi Chi Bunichi, a nomadic performance event that blends Ladino song with dance (Notting Hill Arts Club, People's Show 2008, Oxford House, Siobhan Davies Studios, 291 Gallery). Selected work includes Voyageur Immobile, Compagnie Philippe Genty world tour; The Table Show, Traverse Theatre, BAC and West Yorkshire Playhouse, and site-specific projects with Project In situ in Damascus, Paris and Mahbogo.
Ayse has taught in a conservatoire setting since 1998 and is currently the co-course leader of the MA Movement Studies at Central School of Speech & Drama, the first programme of its kind that trains movement teachers and movement directors. She also works as a performance tutor for the ensemble based contemporary theatre practice course.
Gregg R. Fisher
Gregg is a sound designer, composer and teacher. He trained at Central School of speech and Drama and studied music composition with Nicholas D'Angelo, Alan Oldfield, Will Bottje and at the Bregman Electronic Music Center. Most recently, he has designed and/or composed for Terrorism (Embassy), Forget Me Not (Albany), Just a Bloke, The One With the Oven, Night Owls (Royal Court), The Stoning (BAC), Happy Natives (Edinburgh/Soho), Auntie and Me (Edinburgh), Wild Orchids (AD, Chichester), The Lucky Ones (Hampstead), The Promise (Tricycle), London/My Lover (ICA), Einstein's Eyes (CPT), Bus Stop (Quay), Peace for Our Time (Cockpit) and Summer (L&U). Gregg's score for the play The Cosmonaut's Last Message... was selected for exhibition at the 2003 Prague Quadrennial. He is a Lecturer in Theatre Sound Design at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Lucy Richardson
Lucy Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts, (Theatre) at London Metropolitan University. She has recently founded and launched The Facility, Performance as Research Centre there.
Lucy is one of the founding members of Project Phakama, an international arts and cultural exchange programme supported by LIFT. She has directed several large scale site specific projects in Southern Africa and London and will launch Phakama in South America in April 2006. Lucy has documented the work of Project Phakama in several papers/articles including: Phakama: a place of refuge, Follow the Bird and Landscapes of the Heart.
Lucy has also worked in India training actors. She has directed Measure for Measure and Macbeth for the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival in Poland.
Lucy has worked extensively as an actress and director most notably with Debbie Isitt and the Snarling Beasties Theatre Company, taking lead roles in many productions, and acting as associate director on The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (New Ambassadors, West End).
Other acting work includes work in various repertory theatres, international work with Cambridge Experimental Theatre Company and most recently London/My Lover (Lightwork) in The London Mime Festival at the ICA and Utter at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Lucy works as a script editor for the Snarling Beasties and Debbie Isitt, (most recently Story Workshop Editor on Confetti to be released by 20th Century Fox in 2007). She has also helped develop scripts for The Besht Tellers, Red Shift, Diane Samuels, Sean Garner, Philip Osment
Lucy was Artistic Director of Lewisham Youth Theatre for ten years and founded Camden Young People’s Theatre.