Howard Blake is a composer, conductor, lyricist and pianist. Howard wrote the musical score for both the original film and stage production of The Snowman at The Rep in 1993.

Will Tuckett is an award-winning Director and Choreographer. He danced as a member, then guest artist of The Royal Ballet for 30 years and has created more than 25 shows for the Royal Opera House, including the Olivier Award-winning The Wind in the Willows (the first Royal Opera House show to ever have a West End transfer), Elizabeth  (RBO / Barbican theatre) , ‘Diana and Actaeon’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012), The Seven Deadly Sins, The Soldier’s Tale, Pinocchio, Faeries, Timecode, The Thief of Baghdad and Pleasure’s Progress all for The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera House.

His recent choreographic work includes a new production of The Nutcracker and a Macbeth for the National Ballet of Japan and a revival of his Pinocchio for The National Ballet of Canada. The Death of Gesualdo for Concert Theatre Works (London / New York), Love Life for Opera North, Mirrored for BRB2.

His 2022 production Then or Now for Ballet Black was nominated for the 2022 Southbank Award and UK Theatre Awards Achievement in Dance and his Changing Light for Sarasota Ballet was this year revived for fifth time.

He has worked as Movement Director for various theatre, musical theatre and opera productions including work for The Royal Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, The Bregenz Festival, The St. Poelten Festival, Grange Park Opera, The RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Almeida Theatre, The Soho Theatre, Theatre Clwyd, The Stephen Joseph Theatre.

He has worked on several feature films as choreographer including the recent 87North action movie Pretty Lethal, the animated feature film Scrooge for Netflix, Streetdance 3D for Vertigo films and Muse with the Oscar nominated actor Geza Rohrig.  He was co-director and choreographer with The Quay Brothers on The Sandman for Channel 4 and Fur Alina for the BBC, and as choreographer on the multi award winning NELA directed by Andy Margetson.
Several of his stage works have been filmed for television in the UK, U.S.A. and Japan.

He has directed theatre, musical theatre and opera including the first new full staging of West Side Story in the UK (Royal Shakespeare Company / Sage Gateshead), Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Royal Opera House), Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Iford Opera) and Italiana in Algeri (Garsington Opera), the new play Lady Macbeth (Uri Otemachi Hall, Tokyo) Peter Handke’s KASPAR (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre), Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and Peter Shaffer’s Royal Hunt of The Sun (Parco Theatre, Tokyo) , The Crane Maiden (Kanegawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama), Moira Buffini’s Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre, London).

He has been commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern and The National Gallery to create and develop work in response to, and as part of, various exhibitions. 

He was the first ROH2 Creative Associate for The Royal Opera House (2006) and has just been made Creative Director of a new UK wide National Schools Digital Campaign by the RBO Schools department, focussing on Narrative and Dance for children aged 7-11 .
He was the Clore Leadership Dance Fellow where he chose a secondment with Climate Emergency charity Tipping Point (2008) and became an accredited Relational Dynamics coach (2010).

He is a guest lecturer for the Royal College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Art and Nottingham Trent University. He also works as a freelance arts consultant in the UK and internationally and is a governor of the Royal Ballet Companies and School.  

Anna Fleischle is an Olivier award–winning and Tony-nominated production set and costume designer.

She is the Creative Director and Production Designer for Lily Allen’s WEST END GIRL Arena World Concert Tour and was Creative Director and Production Designer for Lily Allen’s recent Saturday Night Live performance.

Theatre credits include: The Story (National Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (RSC), When We Are Married (Donmar), Punch (Nottingham Playhouse/Young Vic/West End/Broadway), The Constant Wife (RSC/UK Tour), Hedda (Theatre Royal Bath), A Face In The Crowd, Nachtland(Young Vic), The Collaboration (Young Vic/Broadway), Death Of A Salesman (Young Vic/Broadway/West End), What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank (Marylebone); Red Speedo (Orange Tree); A Child Of Science (Bristol Old Vic); The Pillowman (West End); Death Of A Salesman (Broadway/West End);  2:22 A Ghost Story (West End/LA/Tour/Melbourne); Hangmen (Royal Court/West End/Broadway – Tony Award Nominee 2022, Winner of Olivier Award For Best Set Design, Critic’s Circle Award ‘Best Designer’, Evening Standard Award ‘Best Design’); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End/ UK tour/ LA); House of Shades, The Writer, Before the Party (Almeida); The Kid Stays In The Picture (Royal Court/Complicité); A German Life; A Very Very Very Dark Matter, John Gabriel Borkman, Two Ladies (Bridge); Much Ado About Nothing, Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/West End/UK Tour – 2019 Olivier Award Nominee For Best Set Design And Best Costume Design); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Old Vic); Beware Of Pity (Schaubühne, Berlin/Complicité).

Opera credits include: L’Orfeo (Vienna Staatsoper); Weimar Nightfall (LA Philharmonic/Complicité).

Dance credits include: A Christmas Carol (Finnish National Opera); Message In A Bottle (International Tour); John, Can We Talk About This? (DV8 Physical Theatre/International tour).

Fellowships include: Trustee Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Founding Member of Scene/Change.

With over 30 years of experience of working on live events, theatre, film and television, Tahra Zafar has created award winning costumes, puppets, creatures and extraordinary creations that have become part of our collective cultural memories.  

For Paddington the Musical, Original UK production, her bear and puppet designs won both an Olivier and WhatsOnStage award. 

Film creature and costume effects credits includes: Wild Horse 9,The Banshees of Inisherin, The Batman, The Last Duel, Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, Annihilation, X Men: First Class, Kick Ass, Antman III: Quantumania, Hell Boy 2, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Lost in Space and The Fifth Element. 

Children’s TV characters and puppets: In the Night Garden, Zingzillas, The Adventures of Abney and Teal and  Moon & Me.  

Pop promos and tours: The Monster for Lady Gaga’s Monster Tour, Eddie for Iron Maiden, Scissor Sisters for the Brit Awards and the dancing Milk Carton for Blur’s Coffee and TV.  

Commercials: Tahra created the original Monkey Sidekick for ITV Digital which later became the PG Tips Monkey.  

Theatre design and Live Experiences: 

Costume Design credits – Eugene Onegin (English National Opera), Gunpowder Plot at the Tower of London, Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2002. 

Set and Costume Design credits - La Boheme and Rigoletto (Mid Wales Opera) and The Rake’s Progress (Aldeburgh Festival).   

Costume and Character Design credits - In the Night Garden Live and Bing Live.  

Live televised event credits include: Tahra received a Royal Television Society Award for her role as Head of Costume Hair and Make-up for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, for which her team delivered 23,000 costumes for the four ceremonies.  

Training: Theatre Design BA Hons at Central School of Art and Design, now Central St Martins, London. 

Tahra was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2026. 

Nina Dunn is a multi-award-winning video and projection designer who has created work for a wide range of shows internationally. She is the Creative Director at PixelLux and an educator within the industry.

Theatre credits include:  A tale of Two Cities (Marlowe Theatre); Othello (West End); King Lear (West End/Broadway); The Shark is Broken (West End / Broadway / UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse / Alexandra Palace / Birmingham Rep); Spitting Image Live (Birmingham Rep, West End); No Man’s Land, (West End); Othello, Manor, Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Hamlet, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Venice Preserved, 7 Acts of Mercy, The Box of Delights, A Museum in Baghdad (RSC); Plenty, Copenhagen, 40 Years on (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); In The Night Garden Live (UK Tour)

Musical Theatre credits include:  Avenue Q (West End); Burlesque the Musical (UK Tour, West End); Ride the Cyclone (Southwark Playhouse); Bonnie and Clyde (UK Tour/West End);  9 to 5 the Musical (West End/UK/Australia/Korea); Miss Littlewood (RSC), City of Angels (West End); Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre); Phantom of the Opera (UK/US/Australia);

Ballet and Opera credits include: Enoch Arden (New National Theatre, Tokyo, also set design); Die Schöpfung (Oper Köln); Nutcracker in Havana (also set design), Carmen (Acosta Danza); L’Orfeo, Macbeth, Der Freischütz (Vienna State Opera); Dou Quixote (Birmingham Royal Ballet/National Ballet of Canada); Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Shanghai Ballet).

Music credits include: Lily Allen Performs: West End Girl (London Palladium / UK Tour); Wolf Alice: The Clearing world tour; Wretch 32: Home at The National Theatre; Lorde: Glastonbury 25; Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman tour; Pet Shop Boys: Dreamland world tour; FKA Twigs: Eusexua world tour; Andrea Bocelli: 30 The Celebration; Future Islands: People Who Aren’t There Anymore world tour; Alicia Keys: Keys to The Summer US tour; Christine and the Queens: Paranoia Angels True Love world tour; Arcade Fire: ‘We’ world tour; 5 Seconds of Summer: Live at The Royal Albert Hall; Lorde: Solar Power world tour.

Other artists include: The XX, Damian Rice, Sigur Rós and Björk.

Theatre credits include: Teeth n Smiles (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End); Lord of The Flies and Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Rumble in the Jungle (Rematch); Linck & Mulhahn (Hampstead); Bring It On (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London); The Snow Queen (Royal Danish Theatre); Our Mighty Groove (Sadlers Wells); Memoirs of a Sailor, Black and White (National Theatre of Kuwait); St Nicholas (Donmar Warehouse/ Goodman Theatre Chicago); The Last Ship (UK/North American tour); The Shadow Factory (Nuffield, Southampton); Rules for Living (English Touring Theatre); City of Glass (HOME/Lyric Hammersmith); The Elephantom (National Theatre).

Film credits include: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Astroid City, The French Dispatch (directed by Wes Anderson) and Pride (directed by Matthew Warchus).

Other credits include: Alexander McQueen SS 2026 & AW 2025 (Paris Fashion Week); 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Milan, Italy); Kira Freije’s Turner shortlisted Unspeak the Chorus exhibition (Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield)

Kelsh Buckman-Drage is an accomplished Sound Designer. He has collaborated with leading producers and companies including The Jamie Lloyd Company, Really Useful Group, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, National Theatre Productions and Stage Entertainment. 

Theatre credits as Sound Designer include: Sweeney Todd (Birmingham Rep); Flyby (Southwark Playhouse). 

Theatre credits as associate includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (West End); Evita (West End); Sunset Boulevard (West End); Hadestown (West End); Mamma Mia (West End); Hamilton (West End, UK Tour and Hamburg); Anything Goes (London and UK Tour); The Bodyguard (UK Tour and Europe). 

Kelsh worked for Autograph Sound Recording for two years, whilst supervising and maintaining UK tours and multiple West End shows. 

Chris Fisher received a Special Tony Award in 2025 for his work as Illusions and Visual Effects Designer on “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”. Chris is also a member of The Magic Circle and works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

Theatre credits as Illusion Designer and Director include: The BFG (RSC),The Hunger Games On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Broadway and Phoenix), Dr Strangelove (Nöel Coward), The Illusionist (Tokyo), Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse), Ballet Shoes (NT), Back to the Future: The Musical (Broadway, Tokyo, US Tour and Adelphi Theatre), The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo), The Witches (NT), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour), The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne and UK tour), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward, Melbourne and LA), Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (also Broadway) (NT), Big the Musical (Dominion), Wicked Das Musical (Hamburg), Company (Gielgud Theatre and Broadway), Merlin (Northern Ballet).

Daisy’s work in puppetry spans across designing, making, supervising and puppeteering.

Work as a designer and maker includes: The BFG (Royal Shakespeare Company); Spirited Away (Toho co.); The Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl Story Company); Zarafa Giraffa (Sebastian Mayer UK/France); Hey Duggee (Kenny Wax & BBC UK tour); Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep); The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre)

Work as a puppet supervisor and maker includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre & West End); 101 Dalmatians (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Pinocchio, Peter Pan (National Theatre); Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Other work as a puppet maker includes: The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Don Quixote (RSC); Circus 1903 (International tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic & West End); Luzia (Cirque du Soleil); Dead Dog in a Suitcase and Other Love Songs (Kneehigh); Warhorse (UK tour) Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre & Regent’s Park); A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Little Angel Theatre & Kneehigh); Avenue Q (Q Puppets, UK tour); Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles); The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom (Tall Stories).

Work as a puppeteer in film and television includes: Knuckles (Paramount); Tiny (HSBC advert); Racoon (Nickelodeon advert); Otter (Thames Water Advert); Jurassic World: Dominion (Amblin Entertainment); Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm); Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm); Muppets Most Wanted (Walt Disney Pictures); The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Jim Henson Company & Netflix); Aleksandr the meerkat for Compare the Market.