I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

Emma-Louise Howell

Belles

Emma-Louise Howell (she/her) studied at RADA where she performed in various productions including: Measure for Measure, The Astronaut and devised performances OFF. and POWER.

Other theatre credits include: Hide and Seek (Leicester Curve), The Secret Love Life of Ophelia (Greenwich Theatre) Twelfth Night (UK/US Tour), Screen 9 (Pleasance Theatre/Charlie Hartill Award/Assembly Rooms Theatre), After the End (Site Specific).

Emma is also an award-winning Writer from East Anglia. She studied at RADA and Birkbeck where she was awarded the Michael Ross prize for her full length play, PATTERNS. PATTERNS has since been developed with the Leicester Curve and The Space Theatre and was recently shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Prize.

As a writer, Emma has been awarded scholarships to train with the Arvon Foundation as well as joining development schemes with the Mercury Theatre, Boundless, NSDF, Young Vic and New Perspectives – where she is a Young Associate Artist.

Her work includes: YOU TOLD US TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER (Spoken Word), HOUSES OF SAND (Boundless Theatre) HIDE AND SEEK (Leicester Curve, National Student Drama Festival), THE LAST STRAW (Arcola Theatre), HOME BIRD (BBC Radio), OFF (RADA).

Alongside writing for stage, Emma also works across Film and Television. Her first TV Pilot ONLY THE GOOD was shortlisted for the BBC Writersroom and saw her named as one of Wildseed Studio’s Talents to Watch. She’s also recently been selected to develop her first short film with the BFI under the mentorship of their Film Development Lab.

Her work has been described as ‘darkly funny, unexpected and with an incredibly distinct point of view’ and she just kind of rolls with that as a tag line.

She also performs poetry with her work being played by BBC Radio.

Hetty Hodgson

Director

Hetty Hodgson (she/they) is a theatre director who works collaboratively to tell stories which are both political and playful. They are the Artistic Director of multi-award winning Pigfoot, an associate company of English Touring Theatre, who create stories about the climate crisis with the least carbon impact possible.

With Pigfoot, she’s directed HOT IN HERE (Gate Theatre & UK Tour), BOTHERED (a short film commissioned by The Space) and How To Save A Rock (English Touring Theatre Trailer Story & Battersea Arts Centre ‘Lets Do London’).  As Director, other theatre credits include: SHARP (LAMDA MishMash Festival), Pepi and Me (Camden People’s Theatre), Yes Chef (R&D: Roundhouse / Unity Theatre), A Pervert’s Guide to the Internet (R&D: Sheffield Theatres); Beats (NSDF), Yen (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). As Assistant Director, credits include: Megaverse’s GameChangers, Worklight Theatre’s Fanboy (Soho Theatre / National Tour), Elysium Theatre’s Miss Julie (North East Tour).

Alongside directing, Hetty has facilitated workshops for organisations across the country including National Theatre, National Youth Theatre, Southbank Centre, Guildhall School of Speech and Drama and HOME. They have worked as a Freelance Artist & part of the production team at National Youth Theatre, and has worked as a freelance producer for organisations such as Boundless.

Lulu Tam

Designer

Lulu (she/her) trained at the Royal Central of Speech and Drama, MA Scenography with distinction.

She is a teaching fellow at the University of Salford on TV, Film and Stage Design and a visiting lecturer at Royal Central of Speech and Drama.

Selected credits include: Woodhill (Edinburgh and UK tour); The Killing of Sister George (Told by An Idiot & New Vic Theatre); Wáltsáil Abhaile (An Taibhdhearc); A Pretty Shitty Love (Theatr Clwyd); The Prince (Southwark Playhouse); This is Paradise (Traverse Theatre); Lit (Nottingham Playhouse / High Tide Festival); Seeds (Pleasance Theatre); Red/Chaos (ArtsEd); Invincible (Stephen Joseph Theatre, UK tour, off-Broadway tour); A Winter’s Tale (Les Kurbas Theatre, Ukraine)

Awards include: Linbury Prize (finalist); Taking the Stage, British Council (winner); World Stage Design 2017; Naomi Wilkinson Award for Stage Design 2022 (winner).

Holly Khan

Sound Designer & Composer

Holly is a British/Guyanese composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist. Creating scores for theatre, film and installation.

Most recent theatre work includes the Olivier nominated Blackout Songs, This Much I Know, Biscuits for Breakfast (Hampstead Theatre); Dreaming and Drowning (Bush); I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life (Colchester Mercury); Duck (Arcola); Northanger Abbey, Red Speedo (Orange Tree Theatre); The Invincibles (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Unseen Unheard (Theatre Peckham); Jules and Jim (Jermyn Street Theatre); Mansfield Park (The Watermill); The Beach House (Park Theatre); For A Palestinian (Bristol Old Vic/Camden People’s Theatre) *OFFIE nominated for Best Sound Design*; Amal Meets Alice (Good Chance Theatre Company, The Story Museum); Kaleidoscope (Filskit Theatre Company, Southbank Centre/Oxford Playhouse); Ticker (Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle / Underbelly, Edinburgh/Theatre503).

Film and Installation work includes Becoming An Artist: Bhajan Hunjan (Tate Kids); One Day (Blind Summit Theatre, Anne Frank Trust); Sanctuary (Limbic Cinema, Stockton Arts Festival); Song for the Metro (The Sage Music Centre, Newcastle); It’s About Time (UN Women/Battersea Arts Centre/Mayor of London); Their Voices (RAA & Global Health Film Festival, Barbican).

Martha Godfrey

Lighting Designer

Martha Godfrey is a lighting and projection designer working across theatre, dance, musicals and live art.

Past work includes: The Invicibles (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Sugar Coat (Southwark Playhouse), Flies (Shoreditch Town Hall), Much Ado (The Remix) (NYT, Duke of York Theatre), The Prince (Southwark Playhouse), Mapping Gender (Tour & The Place), Bangers (Tour & Soho Theatre), But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre), Passion Fruit (New Diorama Theatre), Home, I’m Darling (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Oliver Twist! (Chester Storyhouse), What Do You See (Shoreditch Town Hall), Redemption (The Big House), Pink Lemonade (The Bush), Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance), Fever Pitch (The Hope), Around The World in Eighty Days (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Time and Tide (The Park), Before I Was A Bear (The Bunker), I Wanna Be Yours (UK Tour and Bush), Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Downstairs), We Dig (Ovalhouse),  Cabildo (Arcola Theatre), GREY (Ovalhouse), WHITE (Ovalhouse, Pleasance Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tour), Exceptional Promise (The Bush), Fuck You Pay Me (The Bunker/Rich Mix/ Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe/Vaults Festival).

Matt Powell

Video & Creative Captions Designer

Matt (they/she/he) is a non-binary video designer, musical theatre creative and queer practitioner. They are a part time PhD candidate exploring LGBTQ+ representation in musical theatre at the University of Wolverhampton.

Their work as a video designer has seen them create “artfully designed” (The Stage) digital worlds on the West End, Off-West End, Regionally & Internationally with recent projects including Accidental Death of An Anarchist, ANIMAL (OFFIE Nominated for Video Design), RIDE and Rebecca.

Tara Young

Movement Director

Tara has 13 years performance experience in the West End and Internationally.

Theatre credits include: As Movement Director: The Foreigners Panto (Bold Elephant theatre) Run (Stratford Royal East Theatre);
Love Letters (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch).

As choreographer: There’s No Place Like Home (Lyric Theatre) ;  As assistant / Associate choreographer & Director: The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible) Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre) Chess in Concert (Drury Lane)