Biography
Maria is an international theatre maker (director, performer, writer and facilitator). She works as a freelancer, engaging communities with arts and social transformation. Maria trained at Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris, has an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from University of Warwick and a Masters in International Politics from SOAS University. She is an Associate Artist for Clod Ensemble, designing and delivering their Performing Medicine programme, which uses arts based practices to develop communication and conflict resolution skills with NHS healthcare professionals. Maria leads summer theatre courses in Italy in her role as co-director of School of Fish Theatre in Education company. Additionally, she has taught theatre to young people at the Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation in London and worked in Colombia as Public Health Academic Program Coordinator at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Maria has been a visiting Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Practice at London Metropolitan University. She is also a researcher on Latin America for Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post. Alongside this Maria also works as a freelance actor across theatre, film, radio and interdisciplinary performance art.

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Frode Gjerløw is a London based, multi-discipline artist. He began his acting career at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo in 2001. In Norway, he trained in classical theatre for 3 years and received The Arts Award for Outstanding New Talent (2009) and Stokke Council’s Young Artist of the Year Award (2014). He trained at Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris and co-founded Superbolt. He has performed and co-authored all their work. In 2012 he co-founded Crank Theatre, who develop their work at Battersea Arts Centre. He is a director for Freedom Theatre in Palestine, a published illustrator, and as an art director he exhibited Face of Satire at the BFI – a photographic exhibition featuring Gerald Scarfe, David Baddiel and Jonny Vegas. As a writer he is currently working on short films and a new musical for the National Theatre of Norway called Nextopia, to open in 2017.

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Simon Maeder is an actor, writer and director that specialises in devised physical theatre. He studied English at the University of York where he helped to launch Belt Up Theatre through his work as movement director on their first two productions. He trained at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris. After graduating in 2011 he co-founded Superbolt Theatre and their co-authored plays have been performed internationally. Beyond Superbolt, his work on YouTube with Will Tribble has been viewed by over 200k people. He is an associate artist at Camden People’s Theatre and regularly leads workshops in improvisation, mime and physical theatre across the UK. ‘As superb a mover as he is a comic character actor’ (PlaysToSee) he is also developing a stand-up show, and working on a new musical celebrating the history of HipHop.