Eclipsed

Chiara Trained in Theatre and Performance Design at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. She graduated in 2008 with First Class Honours. She assisted Christopher Oram between 2008-2010 and then for the last four years has been Associate Designer to Es Devlin.

As Design Associate, Work includes: America Psycho The Musical (Almeida) Chimerica (Almeida) Miley Cyrus Bangerz World Tour. London 2012 Olympic Closing ceremony. Kanye West and Jay Z Watch the Throne Tour. Beatrice and Benedict (Theatre an der Wien); Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Danish Opera); Les Troyens (ROH); Master & Margarita (Complicite); Batman Live (World Tour) Don Giovanni (MET, New York); Madame Butterfly; Houston Grand Opera; Street Car Named Desire; Hamlet; Madame De Sade (Donmar Warehouse Wyndams Season) Sister Act The Musical (Palladium) Hairspray (European Tour)
As Designer work includes:  All’s Well That Ends Well (Abigail Anderson, PMA Theatre, Liverpool); Arcadia (Unity Theatre, Liverpool); The Massacre (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds)

Chiara is currently working as associate Designer on the Rio Opening Ceremony for the Olympics for Es Devlin

Isabella is a Designer for Theatre, Dance, Opera and Screen and has worked extensively in theatre since graduating from Central St Martins in 2014. 

Recent credits include: 

As Designer- Blush of Dogs (Tabard Theatre), Low Level Panic (Etcetera Theatre), This is Living (Edinburgh Fringe), Then and Now (Camelot Films), Ghosts (UK Tour- Sell A Door), Orpheus and Eurydice (English Pocket Opera Company), Twelfth Night (RSC Dell), Cardenio (Rose Theatre Bankside) as well as designing for Resolution! Festival 2015 (Robin Howard Theatre, The Place), Tete-a-Tete 2014 (Platform Theatre), she has also designed events and developed performance pieces for Dance Umbrella 2014 (Central St Martins), White Mischief, The Royal Academy, Tate Modern and V&A Museum.

As Assistant Designer- Seussical the Musical (Arts Theatre), The Drowned Man- A Hollywood Fable (Punchdrunk), The Trench (Les Enfants Terribles) and has assisted a number of designers including Tom Scutt, Peter McKintosh, Holly Pigott and Samuel Wyer.

Danai Gurira is an award-winning playwright and actress. Her play Eclipsed received its UK première at the Gate Theatre in 2015, and later was produced on Broadway where it was nominated earlier this year for the Tony Award for Best Play.

Her other plays include Familiar which premièred at Yale Repertory Theatre in January 2015 directed by Rebecca Taichman and In The Continuum which she co-wrote with Nikkole Salter. As an actress, she plays Michonne in AMC’s critically-acclaimed original TV series The Walking Dead.

Her film credits include Mother of George, The Visitor, 3 Backyards, and Restless City and the upcoming All Eyez On Me and Black Panther. She was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and she is also the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Writers Award (2012).

She is co-founder and President of Almasi, a Zimbabwean American Dramatic Arts Collaborative Organization.

Steffany George lived and worked in NYC for sixteen years performing as a contemporary dancer and choreographer for various theatre artist. She taught for ten years at Stella Adler Studio for Actors where she was a founding member of M.A.D.A.I.R. (Movement and Dance Artist in Residence) and The Harold Clurman Theatre Lab. Currently she is the Head of Movement at East 15 Southend on four distinct undergraduate courses; Physical Theatre, Acting and Stage Combat, World Performance, and Community Theatre. Steffany also works with Shane Dempsey for Fragments Theatre. 

Rebecca is a director and writer. She is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Unbound Productions, was previously Director in Residence at the Almeida Theatre, and was an Ovalhouse Artist of 2014 as recipient of the Arts Manifesto: A Future for the Arts award. Her verbatim play Travesti won a Fringe First Award from The Scotsman and an Editor's Choice Award from ThreeWeeks Magazine at Edinburgh Festival 2014. As director, theatre includes: Our Kingdom (Vaults Festival, rehearsed reading); Lysistrata: The Sex Strike (Almeida Theatre, rehearsed reading); Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); The Night (RADA Studios, rehearsed reading); Waifu (Southwark Playhouse); Timebomb: 48 Hour Plays (White Bear Theatre); Two Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); One Time Thing (Park Theatre); Half-Way (Ovalhouse). As Associate Director: East is East (Jamie Lloyd Productions/ATG, UK Tour); Little Revolution; Our Town; The Fever (all for the Almeida). As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Cymbeline (Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe); Eclipsed (Gate Theatre); Tender Napalm (UK Tour/ Southwark Playhouse); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); King Lear; Dido, Queen of Carthage (in rep, Greenwich Theatre); Oedipus (Blue Elephant Theatre).

George Dennis is a freelance sound designer. His previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, The Edge of our Bodies (Gate Theatre). His theatre credits include: The Homecoming (The Jamie Lloyd Company/Trafalgar Studios in which he received a Olivier Award nomination), Babe (Polka Theatre/UK Tour), Harrogate (also HighTide Festival), Primetime ’16, Fireworks, Liberian Girl, Primetime ’15 (Royal Court), The Mountaintop, The Island (Young Vic), Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), In Fidelity (Traverse/HighTide Festival), Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage/Nuffield Southampton), German Skerries (Orange Tree), Brave New World, Regeneration (Royal and Derngate/Touring Consortium), Forget Me Not, Visitors (Bush Theatre), Eventide (Arcola Theatre/UK Tour), Chicken (Eastern Angles/Unity Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre/UK Tour), A Breakfast of Eels, The Last Yankee (Print Room), peddling (Arcola Theatre/59E59, New York/HighTide Festival), Mametz (National Theatre of Wales), Minotaur (Polka Theatre/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Spring Awakening (Headlong), Love Your Soldiers (Sheffield Crucible Studio), Thark (Park Theatre), Moth (Bush Theatre/HighTide Festival), Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre), Liar Liar (Unicorn Theatre), Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios 2), Debris, The Seagull, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), A Life, Foxfinder (Finborough Theatre).