Aisha is part of the Woman! Know Your Place collective that aim to help people recognise the expectations placed on women that are now taken as normal, and creatively challenge them.
Click here for Aisha’s Facebook page.
Anne is a French composer, specialising in TV and film music. Anne turned the hit series ‘The Office’ into an opera to raise money for Comic Relief. Subsequently, Anne and the cast were featured in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s fundraising sketch on BBC1.
@Anne_C_Sky
www.annechmelewsky.com
Chloe trained as an actor at LAMDA. Soon after graduating in 2010, she set up Darkbloom Theatre, a company which has so far focused on new writing (with an emphasis on the work of emerging female artists). As a writer, her credits include Scented (Darkbloom Theatre, Frameless Gallery), Day Tripper (Made from Scratch Theatre Company, Cockpit Theatre), and External: A Performance (Darkbloom Theatre, The Gallery in Redchurch Street).
@DarkBloomT
www.facebook.com/darkbloomtheatre
Haseeb graduated as an Actor in 2010 and has since struggled to pay his rent. Most recently he appeared in London’s West End with The Madness of George III and will be putting his lyrical poetry skills to the test in Twelfth Night this summer with Chester Performs.
@thehaseebmalik
youtube.com/haseebmaliktv
Hollie McNish is a UK poet. She has released two poetry albums, Touch and Push Kick, both to critical acclaim with the latter prized for contributions to maternal research by the University of London. She has appeared in venues as diverse as Glastonbury festival, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Bar, London’s Southbank Centre and Cambridge University. She has been featured on Radio 4’s Poetry Diaries, Women’s Hour and BBC 2 and has recently completed a tour of Sydney in October 2011 with the Australian National Poetry Slam: Word Travels. Her first collection, Papers, is out this year, published by Greenwich Exchange, London.
www.pagetoperformance.org
@HollieMcNish
Following her first performance of ‘Round ‘ere’ in 2010, Katherine was awarded a writers bursary by Paul Abbott (Shameless, State of Play, Hit & Miss). She has since written pieces for the RWCMD graduate showcase at the Royal Court in 2011 and 2012; where she performed her own monologue. She is also an associate artist of Not Too Tame Theatre Co. A company forged from a core of working class creatives. She is currently in her final year at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama studying Acting.
Lesley Asare is a London based Interdisciplinary Visual Artist.In 2010, she was awarded with the Harold Tillman Scholarship to study MA Costume Design for Performance at the London College of Fashion. This amazing opportunity allowed her to explore the relationship between the body, costume and space through the development of performance installations. Within each installation the transformation of the costume on the body communicated narratives within space. Her work allows her to collaborate with artists, performers and choreographers while also allowing her to use her own body to explore identity & sociopolitical issues.
Following Bush Bounce, Lesley will be developing the ‘IShape Beauty’ performance through the LOST Theatre’s Solo Theatre Workshops which will culminate in performances on 9th & 10th July 2012 within the Face to Face Festival of Solo Theatre.
@LAYAXO3
Renee likes to experiment with different mediums of photography from Polaroid to Disposable Cameras to Medium Format. She is still developing her niche photographically but enjoys capturing and experimenting with landscape, protests, street and portrait photography.
Renee is currently studying Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster. Some of her photos have been used on the Photographers Gallery website, Photoworks and Create newspaper just to name a few. She has also lead talks from a young persons perspective to young people at the National Portrait Gallery discussing the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 11.
Renee has a great passion and fondness for the photographic medium which she hopes to interpret in future projects. Her ambition is not only to work photographically for as long as possible but to also create her very own organisation one day related to photography.
@reneedeneve
www.reneedeneve.blogspot.com
www.disposablecontainer.tumblr.com
www.flickr.com/renee_d
Sabrina Mahfouz was raised in London and Cairo. Her work as a writer includes the plays Chef, With a Little Bit of Luck, Clean, Battleface and the love i feel is red; the poetry collection How You Might Know Me; the literary anthology The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write and the BBC shows Breaking the Code, Railway Nation: A Journey In Verse and We Are Here. She received a Fringe First Award for Chef and won a Sky Arts Academy Poetry Award.
Tom Ross-Williams and Jessica Barker-Wren created their company Populace in response to the arrests of anti-cuts protestors on 26th March 2011.
Populace aims to re-invigorate political theatre with a sense of vibrancy, inclusivity and most importantly, optimism. Politics isn’t just for politicians and protest isn’t just for the streets. Populace provides a platform for silenced voices and casts our audience as the protagonist. On the 29th of February 2012 St Petersburg passed their gay propaganda law banning the “promotion” of homosexuality and as it looks increasingly likely to be implemented nationwide, it’s high time to speak out.
Tom recently did an article for the Guardian which you can read here
@populacetheatre
@tomrosswilliams
https://www.facebook.com/PopulaceTheatre
