The Artistic Team

Jonothan Campbell

Jonothan studied at Fool Time, the National Centre for Circus Skills and the Performing Arts and trained at L'ecole de Trapeze Volant Jean Palacy. He is the Artistic Director of Aye! Productions which premiered it's first show 'The Ballad' in the spring of 2005. He was a founder member of Shiftwork Physical Theatre Company and Scaramouch New Circus. He was Aerial Designer for V.amp Production's 'Burning Bright' at The Tramway Glasgow and Communicado/Sounds in Progress's 'Brave' at the Fruit Market, where he also performed. He was stunt co-ordinator for Grid Iron's Edinburgh Fringe First winning 'Decky Does a Bronco' and directed Elbow Room Dance Company's 'Metchen'. He performed in The National Theatre's production of 'Jumpers' which transferred to The Piccadilly Theatre in the West End. While in London he found time to direct Leo Kay and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a homage to Charles Chaplin.

 

Gerry Mulgrew

Gerry was a French teacher for a short time before running off to work in the theatre in the mid seventies. He has worked variously as actor, director, writer, musician and teacher in children’s theatre, community based theatre, and the professional stage. In 1983 he formed Communicado Theatre Company, a touring theatre ensemble based in Edinburgh. He has directed over 30 original pieces for Communicado and the company has toured considerably all over Scotland and the UK, as well as continental Europe, Turkey, Egypt, the U.S.A. and Canada. In London, the company has appeared three times at the Donmar Warehouse (Pick of the Fringe Festival), and at the Almeida Theatre, The Place, The Drill Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Communicado has several awards from its appearances under Gerry’s direction at the Edinburgh Festival, including 6 Fringe Firsts for outstanding productions of new plays, and the Hamada Prize for the company’s production of Edwin Morgan’s version of Cyrano De Bergerac. In addition the company has been awarded a Herald Angel and the inaugural Prudential Award for British Theatre, a UK wide award, as well as being shortlisted twice for the TMA Children’s Theatre Awards. In 1990 the company opened the Glasgow Year of Culture programme with Jock Tamson's Bairns, which became the subject of a South Bank Show television special. He recently adapted and directed Zlata's Diary for a Scottish Tour, the production being revived specially for the St. Magnus Festival in Orkney.

Gerry has also directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Traverse Theatre, and the Clarence Brown Company at the University of Tennessee. Recently he has directed Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (translated into Spanish) for the Festival d’Otono in Madrid, and Mfalme Juha (in Swahili) for the Parapanda Company in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, as well as All In The Timing for the Peepolykus Company.

Over the past year he has returned to acting, appearing with the Dundee Repertory Ensemble in Durrenmatt’s The Visit, and, also at Dundee, playing the title role in a new version by David Greig of Jarry’s Ubu The King, which toured to the Barbican Theatre in London, and is scheduled to go to the Cervantino Festival in Mexico in October. At present, he is appearing on tour with Communicado in The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel.

Gerry has worked with Jonothan Campbell previously in Libera Me, an outdoor aerial spectacular which Gerry devised and directed and which was performed in George Street Edinburgh, on the stroke of the 2000 millenium., and also in Brave, performed at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow.

John McGeoch

John formed Clown Jewels in 1986 Theatre Company to tour Highlands and Islands. He began working with animation and video in 1990, formed Arts in Motion in 1996 and Cartoon Theatre in 1998. In 2004 he formed Arts in Motion Production Centre. He currently produces media for a wide range of art forms and clients. Recent projects include `The Comic` for Cartoon Theatre, `Helmet` The Traverse, `An Clo Mor` Theatre Highland, `Crosscurrents` Mr Macfalls Chamber, ` Elements` Rob Hall Band, `Dancing on the Moon` Laura Steckler, `Medsmama` Elbow Room, `The Other Side` Cartoon Theatre, `Hypothetically Murdered` Tartan Chameleon, `Off Kiltre` Dancebase, `The Cullen Ceiling Installation` Duff House and On the Edge Research, The `Nub` Balls and Film Festival, 2004 spring tour Mr McFalls Chamber, Islington Arts Fair, the BluScreen film project, VJing for Loopallu festival, `Crowhurst` with Benchtours theatre co, `Remember Her` with Fidget Feet company, currently working on `Sealskin Trousers` with Aye productions and `Jesters must be done` a show for small children. Check out: www.artsinmotion.co.uk

 

Kally Lloyd-Jones 

Kally was born and raised in Scotland, trained at the Theatre Arts Ballet School and Central School of Ballet, London. She has worked extensively as a choreographer, dancer, teacher and choreologist in Scotland as well as London, Stockholm and Toronto with organisations which include the The Royal Ballet School, Benesh Institute, Royal Swedish Ballet, Scottish Opera, RSAMD, Ontario School of Ballet, Ontario Ballet Theatre, The Aleph Company, Spinal Chord Projects, Dance House, Right2Dance (Renfrewshire Dance Project), Artscool, Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust and various independant choreographers. Company Chordelia, her own dance company has been awarded Projects and Touring grants from the Scottish Arts Council since 2003, and has choreographed Blood, Sweat and Shopping, Saturday Night Divas, Play On! and Cinderella Pilot Error!. She also began training in aerial work in 2002, performing in Spinal Chord Projects’ Underground Culture, The Kinetic System and White Knuckle Ride. Kally performed in Steinvor Palsson’s Scots Wi’Hay for Off Kilter produced by Dance Base. She was commissioned to create and perform in a traditional dance fusion piece by the Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust and has choreographed  Scottish Opera On Tour’s La Boheme, The Sleeping Beauty for The King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for the RSAMD, directed by Cathie Boyd, FlyGlobespan TV commercial and Polkadots & Moonbeams for Elevate Youth Dance Company. Kally has recently been on tour with David Hughes Dance Company, performing works by David and Rafael Bonachela, and is performing with Tartan Chameleon and The Paragon Ensemble in the Rite of Spring. She has been published in Dance Magazine (New York) and also has an MA in English Literature and Film Studies.  

 

Andrew Murray

Andrew worked in the building trade for ten years before studying acting at Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh. His first professional acting job was with Grid Iron Theatre Company, in their award winning production of Decky Does a Bronco. He recently appeared in The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Passing Places with Borderline Theatre Company. Andrew has also worked with Visible Fictions, The Scottish Actors Initiative, Theatre Workshop and on various independent film projects.

 

Bethan Jennings

Bethan was going to be a PE teacher until she switched degree courses, to study dance & related arts at West Sussex and The school for new dance development in Amsterdam. Bethan then travelled around America for two years before running away with the circus and discovering her passion for hanging upside down. She has performed internationally as an aerialist since 1997. She has bungeed from the Royal Albert hall, somersaulted under a helium balloon, leaped around a 10m inflatable cone & dangled from a tower crane over the sea. Bethan loves cranes she has choreographed dockside, mobile and tower cranes. She received Arts council "Awards for Artists" 2003 to choreograph a double crane show suspending ten aerialists over the Bristol docks for the Harbourside Festival. She was recently commissioned by Greenwich and Docklands to produce a crane section for the London 2012 Olympic celebrations. Bethan is currently wingwalking for Utterly Butterly formation display team and Paraddax paramotor display team Madrid.

 

 

April Pressley B. A.

Studied Theatre Costume at Edinburgh College of Art and Fine Arts at Gray's School of Art. She has been a self-employed artist with Brogan Arts for last 14 years, during which time she has undertaken costume work alongside decorative arts projects, illuminations design, commercial installations, painting and sculpture.

Costume/ set work includes Build a Performance with City Moves a community performance with workshops to create set and costume with young adults in an integrated group. Eclipse-theatre/dance piece on stilts. Inroads- community site-specific performance piece with some costume workshops/adults. Metche'n by Elbow Room dance company- costumes for Ani Tchakmakdjian and Kit Watson.Medsmama by Elbow room dance company-costume design,costumes made by Donna Buyer with assistance from Julia Douglas . Devil Costume for Jonothan Campbell incorporating integral carved stilts.Other individual costumes for dancers including Claire Penczak.

Most recent projects
Prototype 6ft silk feathered wings built to house mechanism allowing movement with feathered dress for use with same, both for Chantal McCormick.
She was awarded a Arts council grant for profesional development whilst working on costumes for sixty children for Bluestacks Festival Parade in Donegal. Dragon aeriallist costumes for crane show with Fidgetfeet. Static wings for crane show with Fidgetfeet. Stilt Angel Costumes with fixed wings for Christmas processions around Ireland. Installation for Aberdeen Storytelling and Theatre Festival 2006 atAberdeen Art Gallery

She also uses images gathered from costume work in sculpture and painting and has an exhibition of works based on the costume project in Ballyshannon which will be in the Justart gallery and website from the 27th February 2006.

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