Core Members
Bronia Evers
Bronia is a puppeteer, designer, maker and arts education practitioner. She has worked with companies including Little Angel Theatre, Unicorn Theatre for Children, The Discover Centre, Ripstop Productions, Quicksilver Theatre, Oxford Touring Theatre Company, and Snap Theatre. She has also designed and co-directed a short puppet film, ‘Dog Tail Soup’(2006)., with King Chain Productions. Bronia trained in puppet making at The Little Angel Theatre, in Art and Design at Middlesex University, and in Theatre and English the University of Warwick. Bronia is experienced in working with children and young people, has facilitated several arts education projects and has a full enhanced CRB check.
Gerry Spiller
Gerry has been working in theatre and arts education for many years. She has designed and made puppets, costumes and props for The Little Angel Theatre, The Royal Opera House, The Australian National Ballet and The Roundhouse in London. For film, she has created costumes for scenes in ‘Atonement’ and ‘Vanity Fair.’ As a freelance artist and arts education practitioner, Gerry has worked on a huge number of projects with children in schools, with elderly residents in sheltered housing and with whole village communities in Essex. She has a full enhanced CRB check and has been employed by NAPA to lead arts training workshops for carers of the elderly. She has also worked as an art therapist and artist in residence for Braintree District Council. Gerry trained in Theatre Design at the Wimbledon School of Art.
Caroline Thompson
Caroline has been working in theatre since 1995 as a performer, director, producer, designer and facilitator. She is part of the London based international collective of artists ‘poemstomyotherself’ and resident director for One Moment In Time Theatre. She trained at Tooba Centre for Physical Theatre Vancouver, Canada. Caroline was the Movement Director for ‘Holes’, a site-specific performance at the impressive Round Chapel, Hackney, created by ‘poemstomyotherself’ (2007). She also directed movement for ‘Forestory’ a Burmese fable about war and territory devised by Southeast Asian theatre company ‘?%liquid’ performed at Resolution!(2006). She was Artistic Director for ‘The Vagina Monologues’ for Camden Women’s Aid, (2004), and artistic co-director for ‘Wanted! Women Pirates’ physical theatre show at Chat’s Palace (2005). As a performer, and puppeteer, Caroline’s work has included touring for Little Angel Theatre, Horse & Bamboo Theatre, Norwich Puppet Theatre and Henson’s Creature shop. As an actor, she most recently appeared as Jocasta in Ted Hughes’ version of Oedipus at the Blue Elephant, Camberwell.(Feb 2008). An interest in creative processes lead Caroline to initiate a ‘World Café’ style forum on how to realize more empowering artistic collaborations, hosted by ‘poemstomyotherself’. This formed the basis for a conversation to be continued as long as artistic collaboration continues…