Lullabub (13-30 months)

Anna has been making theatre adventures for people of all ages since 1989 – in theatres of all sizes, in a disused police station, in a shopping centre, on a barge, in a sonic lab, in a hydropool and in a secret apartment – in the UK, Ireland, the US, South Africa and Bosnia. Her Early Years shows have been seen on all 5 continents.

She introduced theatre for children with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties) into Ireland, helped start babytheatre in South Africa and created the world’s first BabyDay. Finalist, international Ellen Stewart Award for theatremakers whose work has had a major impact on children/young people. Received one of the inaugural Tonic Theatre Awards for ‘game-changing women who are transforming theatre and the performing arts in the UK’.

Previously – Artistic Director, Replay Theatre Co, Artistic Director CETL(NI): The Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts, Queens, and Associate Director, Dundee Rep.

Upcoming projects including a show for children with complex needs that takes place in a hydropool (with the audience and the performers all in the water!), a national tour of a babyshow that takes place in a tent and a show called STRETCHY created with Scotland’s professional inclusive dance company Indepen-Dance.

Miranda Thain is Artistic Producer of Theatre Hullabaloo, one of the UK’s leading theatre companies creating original work for children and young people.

Over the last 16 years, she has produced more than 40 shows for, by and with children and young people and worked for companies including tutti frutti productions, M6 Theatre Company and Konflux Theatre in Education. In 2003, she completed an MA in Applied Theatre.

She joined Theatre Hullabaloo (then CTC Theatre) in 2007 and has led the company’s rebrand to Theatre Hullabaloo and its artistic and learning programmes since 2008. In 2017, Theatre Hullabaloo opened The Hullabaloo, a new purpose designed venue for children and families in Darlington.

Miranda serves on the boards of Creative Darlington, North East Cultural Partnership (chairing the children and young people’s group) and chairs the Early Years thematic group for Tees Valley Cultural Education Partnership.

“Theatre for children and young people should strive to be sophisticated and playful. Theatre Hullabaloo aims to offer them a rich palette of creativity that at least equals, and often exceeds, the best adults have on offer.”

Alison Heffernan is a freelance theatre designer based in Manchester. She has a wide range of theatre experience of all sizes and scales from pantomime to promenading in a park and classrooms to cruise ships. This is her first project for Theatre Hullabaloo.

David Goodall began composing in the early eighties, writing for theatre, chamber ensembles and choirs. He worked as assistant engineer and session musician at Brick Lane’s Boundary Row Studios, and currently runs Soundsmove Studios, where he has scored award-winning films, mixed films, including New Zealand horror film The Devil’s Rock and produced the Nigerian World Cup single – One.

Composition work has taken David all over the world, and his music has been used in projects as diverse as Derek Walcott’s adaptation of The Odyssey; the Irn Bru Clan Can Guinness Record bid; and Anterores – a choral piece for the funeral of Domenico Chiocchetti, principal artist of the Orkney Italian Chapel. As well as theatre music and commissioned compositions, David has many television theme tunes and film scores to his credit, and has won a Silver Rose for Best Sound Design for a series of BBC idents.

For Hullabaloo Will lit the very first show in the new theatre, ‘Bear and Butterfly’ in 2017.

Other Theatre credits include:
‘Gabriel’ (Theatre Six, National Tour), ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ (Big Wooden Horse/Nick Brooke, International Tour and West End), ‘The Snow Dragon’ (Tall Stories), ‘Why The Whales Came’ (Watford Plalace Theatre/Wizard Presents), ‘I Believe In Unicorns’ (Vaudeville, London West End and Tour), ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (Guildford Shakespeare Company), ‘Honest’ and ‘The Water Engine’ (Theatre 6), ‘La Boheme’ (Head First Productions), ‘Mudlarks’ and ’66 Books’ (Bush Theatre, London), ‘Dream Space’ (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Will is also Associate Lighting Designer on the recent National tour and West End transfer of ‘An Inspector Calls’ (National Theatre/PW Productions)

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Originally from rural South West Scotland and trained in New York, Emma Jayne Park is a contemporary dancer who battles queer styles waacking and vogue internationally. Emma is Scotland’s leading waacking resource, collaborating with Dive Queer Party and events such as Queeriousity. Her 2015 work #Trans toured nationally and was programmed in Miriabilia (Italy) Festivals Scotland Focus. Emma was selected as an ASSITEJ Next Generation Artist (2016) and a PUSH Project Artist during their Gender and Sexual Identity in Lab (2017). Her immersive work for five year olds Experts In Short Trousers,has been performed nationally to critical acclaim with support from Creative Scotland and mentorship from Tony Reekie. Emma works under the creative handle Cultured Mongrel, representing her practice of exploring the intersection of multiple cultures underpinned by common value set.

Welsh Soprano Ellie Parsons graduated with first class honours from Birmingham Conservatoire and continued her studies at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama.

As a singer, Ellie has won numerous national and international competitions in Opera, Art song, and Oratorio. She has played various roles on the stage and has enjoyed creating her role in several new operas.  As a Choral singer and soloist, Ellie has recorded with several labels and choirs in the midlands and in London.

Ellie enjoys working in a variety of roles; she was appointed Musical Director of Billericay Choral Society in 2016 and recently directed The Beautiful Galatea performed by the Imperial Vienna Orchestra.

As a Music educator of over fifteen years, she is keenly interested in how music and theatre is introduced and taught to young children, in particularly to babies and toddlers, and finds working in close proximity to such an appreciative and exciting audience extremely rewarding.

Northern Irish born actor and theatre maker, Nicky Harley graduated from University of Ulster in 2007 with a 1st class (Hons) in Drama and is a former baby and toddler! She works extensively across the UK and Ireland and is a huge fan of new works and devising.

Works include collaborations with The Abbey Theatre, Glastonbury Festival, Replay Theatre Company, The lyric Theatre, Big Telly Theatre Company, Sole Purpose Theatre Company, Fahy Productions, Theatre Abandon, Tinderbox Theatre Company and Ridiculusmus.

Nicky has an incredible passion for theatre for young audiences and is delighted to be working with Theatre Hullabaloo under the direction of Anna Newell.

Recent theatre credits include: Mansion (The Abbey Theatre), Ulster Rot (The lyric theatre), The Faerie Thorn (Big Telly Theatre Co, UK and Ireland Tour), Wiggle Giggle (Replay Theatre Company, NI & Ireland Tour), What we are made of ( Tinderbox Theatre Company),Gulliver (Big Telly Theatre Co, UK tour)The House (Sole Purpose, NI Tour), King Arthur (Sestina, NI Tour), All there is (Fahy Productions, NI Tour), Little Red Riding Hood (GBL Productions,The Waterfront Hall and Marketplace), Teenage Kicks: The Musical (Millennium Forum), The Maiden City( Sole Purpose), The Pride (Blue Eagle Productions, NI Tour)

Nicky has trained under practitioners Philippe Gaulier, Joe Dieffenbacher, Mooky Cornish, Patsy Rodenburgh, Philipe D’Orleans, John Wright and Fiona Shaw to name a few.
Her ethos for life? “We don’t stop playing because we grow old: we grow old because we stop playing” George Bernard Shaw

Rebecca Daltry is a Bristol based actor and theatre maker from Leeds. She graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a BA (Hons) in Acting: Musical Theatre in 2016 and has since worked mainly theatre for young people. Rebecca has a passion for developing and devising new work and is delighted to be creating theatre for babies for the first time.

Theatre Credits Include: Peter Pan, Pyramid and Matt Burgiss (Tour) The Wall, Complicite and Simon McBerney (Workshop), Feather Boy The Musical, The National Theatre and Anthony Banks (Workshop), Through The Wire, Mike Bradwell (RCSSD), Pentecost, Anna Ledwich (RCSSD), Macbeth, Kelly Hunter (RCSSD)