The Letters Project – Summer 2021

Rebekah is a Sound Artist, Composer and Writer, Their work focuses on improvisation, extended techniques, voice and electronic music. Rebekah also brings elements of graphic scores and words into their writing practice bringing a more experimental approach to their use of words and sound.

Rebekah is currently developing a project ”The Dandelion Project” which will be a platform to showcase and archive experimental works from both themselves and other black/poc artists.

Lavinia Serban is a MA graduate of the Collaborative Theatre Production and Design Programme at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has been working in the industry since she graduated in 2016.

She believes theatre has the power to bring people together in a sharing experience that can be life changing. She enjoys seeing inspiring shows that rise questions whether is a piece of new writing or a contemporary staging of the clasics. She also likes eclectic shows that give the audience an amazing experience by combining different types of art (dance, physical theatre, circus) using innovative lighting, sound and stage technology.

Erin is a London-based set and costume designer and interactive installation designer from China. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary theatre and performance making and she works across installations, plays, musicals, dance, digital theatre, devised theatre. Erin’s digital artwork specialises in digital art Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality experiences. Her VR installations Chamber404 is exhibited in Ars Electronica 2020 x Interactive Architecture Lab, Bartlett School of Architecture. Her recent theatre projects include, The House Never Wins (Kill The Cat Theatre), Freedom Hi, Asian Pirate Musical (PaperGang Theatre), devising interactive performance Money Funny Sunny (Cheeky Chin TC), touring musical Tokyo Rose (Burnt Lemon Theatre). She has also worked as an assistant designer to on Faces In The Crowd (Gate Theatre) Does Her Bomb Look Big In This (Soho Theatre), Summer Roll (Park Theatre) and so on.

Moi Tran is an Artist/Performance maker/Researcher and Designer, her practice explores the intersections between Contemporary Art and Live Performance. Tran’s work includes as set & costume designer for Theatre, Film, Dance and Opera. She is founder of East Asian Ticket Club, an engagement platform for the BESEA community.

Recent Theatre include: Chiaroscuro(Bush);White Pearl(Royal Court);Dear Elizabeth(Gate); Summer Rolls (Park); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade/Tara Arts);Deluge (Hampstead).

Recent Art Performance include: The Bolero Effect – (VCCA Vietnam ,Hanoi);The Circuit- A Movement Scenario (Prague Quadrennial/OvalSpace/SPILL Festival);Three Women and a Duck (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand);The Other day you sat too far away from me( Henry Moore Courtyard);SLEEP( Live Art Development Agency, Royal Court).

Recent Awards/Commissions include: ArtHouse Artist in Residence;SPILL Festival; Curator Encounter Bow Chisenhale Dance; British Council Vietnam 2019;Arts and Culture Fellowship SEA 2019; OV12 Artist 2018.

Irfan was born in Zambia. He attended RADA and graduated in 2017.

Most recently, Irfan starred in Bijan Sheibani’s THE ARRIVAL at the Bush Theatre. Critics hailed his performance as ‘exceptional’ and ‘terrific’. Prior to that, he starred alongside Haydn Gwynne in HEDDA TESMAN at Chichester Festival Theatre. His other stage credits include: Guy Jones’ MAYFLY at The Orange Tree Theatre; ONE FOR SORROW at the Royal Court, directed by James Macdonald; DANCE NATION for the Almeida; and HAMLET, for which he was selected by Kenneth Branagh to play ‘Laertes’ to Tom Hiddleston’s HAMLET while he was still in his final year at RADA.

Last year Irfan was the recipient of the Clarence Darwent Award for his performances in MAYFLY, ONE FOR SORROW and DANCE NATION.

Irfan’s film credits include Trevor Nunn’s RED JOAN, which also stars Judi Dench; and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.

Irfan’s television credits include Sky Arts’ URBAN MYTHS, in an episode directed by Sean Foley and INFORMER for the BBC directed by Jonny Campbell. Most recently, Irfan completed voicing characters for Netflix’s DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE, produced with the Jim Henson Company. 

Devika is a Stage Manager in London and holds a BA in Theatre Practice: Stage Management from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Credits as SM on Book include: Blue Door (Ustinov at TRB), Kettle of Fish (The Yard), Ali and Dahlia (The Pleasance). As DSM: Can’t Wait for Christmas! (Orange Tree), Aladdin (Oxford Playhouse). As ASM: Wake (Birmingham Opera), Pity (Royal Court), Another World (NT), Les Miserables (Pimlico Opera), The Mother (Tricycle).

Elizabeth Chan trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris and at Drama Centre London. Theatre includes: Mephisto [A Rhapsody], Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Shakespeare Walks and Shakespeare in the Abbey (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); Celebration Florida (Soho Theatre); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Into the Numbers (Finborough); B!irth (Royal Exchange); The Suger-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (HighTide); Caught, Hamlet is Dead (Arcola); Don’t Shoot the Clowns (Fuel); An Argument About Sex (Traverse/Tramway); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith). TV includes Vera, Chimerica, No Offence, Motherland, The Last Dragonslayer, Last Tango in Halifax, Cucumber, Holby City, Black Mirror and Silent Witness.