COMPANY
Claire Coaché
Co-Artistic Director
Claire Coaché is an actor/director trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Her production of 'Big Berta' was a finalist for the 2008 Samuel Beckett Award. She performed and co-created "Something Blue" a clown/cabaret show guest directed by Angela de Castro at Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe 2007. Other work includes choreographing a short 35mm film for Amnesty International, performing "The Story So Far" with Theatre Tonic at the Tate Modern, "The Lear" directed by Anna Helena McLean (Gardzienice), performances with Far Flung Theatre, mentored by Jos Houben, at Prague Fringe Festival & Festival Alpes Mancelle en Scene and "Underneath Thought" choreographed by Eva Schmale.
She is about to participate in research & development with Gavin Glover (Faulty Optic) and Vincent Dance on a movement/puppetry project.
Cassie Friend
Co-Artistic Director
Cassie Friend trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris and MummPuppett Theatre, Philadelphia. She is a member of Pig Iron Theatre Company and has toured internationally with them in six original productions including the award winning "Gentlemen Volunteers" (Edinburgh Festival) and "Shut Eye" (Traverse Theatre/Edinburgh Festival) directed by the late Joseph Chaikin. Cassie also performed at Edinburgh Festival, Soho Theatre London and New York with the Riot Group in Fringe First Winner "Switch Triptych". Other companies she has worked with include Theatre O, Hoipolloi and Blind Summit.
She has appeared at Lyric Hammersmith in Melly Still's production of 'Watership Down' and most recently in angels in the architecture's sell out production of 'Dido, Queen Of Carthage' at Kensington Palace.
Rebecca Loukes
Co-Artistic Director
Dr Rebecca Loukes is Lecturer in Performance Practice at the University of Exeter where she specialises in body awareness practices for training and performance. Her work is underpinned by the legacy of German body awareness pioneer Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and she also practices and teaches Asian martial/meditation arts (Chinese taiquiquan, Indian yoga and related martial art kalaripayattu).
Recent projects include Hidden Forest choreographed by Elaine Summers (founder of Judson Dance Theatre) at Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York City, Underneath Thought with performance artist Eva Schmale and Traces, Fine Prints for Dance Umbrella South Africa in Johannesburg. She's currently co-authoring From Stanislavsky to Physical Theatre: Contemporary Psychophysical Approaches to Acting and Performance with Phillip Zarrilli and Jerri Daboo for Palgrave Macmillan (2009)
Lisle Turner
Artistic Associate
Lisle Turner is a writer, director and producer working in film, TV and theatre. Recent highlights include: a British Animation award for political animated short 'Measles' starring Brian Cox, BAFTA and Rose D'Or nominations for his work on The Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International and Channel 4, a series of animated shorts starring Patrick Stewart, Joanna Lumley, Jo Brand and Jimmy Carr and a short documentary co-produced with Nick Broomfield and Lafayette Films. Lisle is currently working on a new commission of animated shorts about the Olympics in Bejing, a 35mm widescreen short film for Amnesty International and is in pre-production for a documentary film on human rights in Peru, India and Kenya.
In September 2008 he is directing the fiction short Tall Boy and in January 2009 the black and white short Cold. The Idiot Colony is his first play.
GUEST ARTISTS
Andrew Dawson
Director: The Idiot Colony
Andrew Dawson studied dance with Merce Cunningham in New York, theatre with Desmond Jones in London, and Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In 1984 with Gavin Robertson he co-founded Mime Theatre Project (Thunderbirds FAB). In 2005 he created and performed his award winning solo show 'Absence and Presence'. In 1998 he created/performed 'Quatre Mains' with Jos Houben. Currently the piece is being revived with Sven Till for performances at Fabrik Potsdam in July and for a season at UCLA, Los Angeles in December 2008. He has worked with Fabrik directing Wolfgang Hoffman and Sven Till in 'Pandora 88' and 'Do you want to Die With Me', for Rainpan 43 in the US he has collaborated and directed 'Amnesia Curiosa'. His interest in movement led him to study the Feldenkrais method.
2008 will see him as the choreographer on 'Dr Atomic', an opera by John Adams at the MET, New York. Andrew also works as a hand model appearing in numerous commercials.
Sabina Netherclift
Performer
Sabina Netherclift trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. As a performer shows include, Feast During the Plague, Musical Scenes, Metamorphoses, The Overcoat, The Silver Swan, and The Red Ladies (all with The Clod Ensemble) The Ballad of Wolves, Silverface and The Suppliants, (Gate Theatre) One Last Surviving (Lyric Hammersmith) and Senses of Place and The Nativity (Young Vic Theatre). As a movement director, shows include The Dong With the Luminous Nose and Spangleguts (London Bubble) Re:Love, The Happiness of Fish and Blood Drive (Bridewell Theatre). As a director, she is currently collaborating with composer Osnat Schmool on Drive Ride Walk. A festival length version of DRW ran at the Riverside Studios and Shunt Lounge in August 2007 and will be touring in Autumn this year.
Ben Samuels
Assistant Director: The Idiot Colony
Ben Samuels trained at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) and Circus Center San Francisco. He is the Artistic Director of Limbik, a new physical, visual theatre company, conceiving and directing 'The Harbour', a contemporary adaptation of a traditional Selkie story, and the forthcoming 'Saint Virus, Dance', exploring one family's experience of Huntingdon's Disease. Other devising work includes 'The Gravity Project' (Counterweight), 'Sheltered' (Hats & Glasses), and 'Asleep in Houses' (Company 333). Recently, Ben acted in a short film for Amnesty International, and featured as an actor-musician in Paul Boyd's adaptation of 'Beauty and the Beast', directed by Karl Wallace. An accomplished mandolinist, Ben plays regularly with London's hardest working klezmer-balkan-gypsy band, Shekoyokh.
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