The Human Voice

Jean Cocteau, (1889 - 1963) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem L’Ange Heurtebise; the play Orphée; the novels Les Enfants terribles and La Machine infernale and his surrealistic motion pictures Le Sang d’un poète and La Belle et la bête.

Daniel Raggett’s work in theatre includes, as director, A Marked Man for HighTide; Old Vic New Voices: 24 Hour Playsat the Old Vic; The Seagull at Bloomsbury Theatre; and Mr Kolpert at the Edinburgh Fringe. As associate director his work includes Network and The Red Barn at the National Theatre; Hamlet at the Almeida and in the West End; 1984on UK tour, international tour, at the Almeida, in the West End and on Broadway; Mary Stuart, Iliad and Odyssey at the Almeida; and Bad Jews in the West End. He was previously resident director on The Nether in the West End; and staff director on Three Days in the Country and A Small Family Business at the National Theatre.

Sarah is an award-winning performance designer.

She studied Design for Stage at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, graduating in 2011 with First Class Honours. Later that year she was awarded The Linbury Prize for Stage Design.

From 2015-2016, she was the Designer On Attachment at The Old Vic Theatre. Her work has been exhibited at The National Theatre, World Stage Design (Cardiff), the Victoria and Albert Museum and World Stage Design 2017 (Taiwan).
 
Sarah has designed for venues in the UK and internationally including Sadler's Wells, Manchester Royal Exchange, Trafalgar Studios, Hampstead Theatre, The Oxford Playhouse, The Lowry, Altes Schauspielhaus (Germany), Theatre Rigiblik (Switzerland), Freedom Theatre (Palestine) & Lit Live Festival (India).
 
She is an Associate Artist of Engineer Theatre Collective and a visiting lecturer at the RCSSD. She works from her studio in Shoreditch, London.

Recent sound designs include: Youth Without God (Coronet); #HonestAmy (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Sonny (ArtsEd); Anatomy of a Suicide (Central School of Speech & Drama); Anna X (Vault Festival); The Jumper Factory (Young Vic); The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre & Schools Tour); The Mysteries (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Human Voice (Gate); Zoo (Theatre 503); Shadows (Eurydice Speaks) (Schaubühne, Berlin). As Associate Sound Designer: Macbeth; Hedda Gabler (National Theatre UK & Ireland Tours); The Girl on the Train (West End/UK & Ireland Tour); The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory, New York) Other sound work includes: Sound design for Bastille’s Doom Days Amazon Music album launch campaign; Binaural sound recordist for Opera North’s Aeons sound walk, as part of the Great Exhibition of the North 2018; Assistant sound designer on Land Rover’s binaural Discovery Adventures podcast.

Kirsten is a London-based Stage Manager, who moved to the UK from Singapore in 2011. She recently spent a year in Cardiff studying an MA in Stage and Event Management, at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Deputy Stage Manager – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UK Tour / Lyric Hammersmith), Dido and Aeneas (Blackheath Halls Opera), Peter Pan (Harlow Playhouse), The Last Ambulance (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill), Street Scene (Sherman Theatre), MOLLY (Pleasance Theatre / Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Assistant Stage Manager - Twelfth Night (The Watermill, Newbury), My Mother Said I Never Should (The Other Palace), Land of Our Fathers (UK tour), The Separation (Theatre503), The Dinner (Vault Festival 2015).

Stage Manager Intern - Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse). 

Gareth has been working as a Production Manager for over 10 years in London and internationally. He has worked on small and large scale tours, site specific, immersive and new and experimental theatre.

Gareth is also the Director of Groundswell Arts, an arts organisation that creates bespoke projects with schools, community and children’s centres.

Kiera Coward-Deyell is a musician and community worker keen to explore collaborative approaches to sound design. Her recent projects have included building a sound system with young people, facilitating free dj workshops for women and non-binary people and creating a sound archive of Scottish waterfalls. She djs & produces music under various aliases.