Kate Edwards (UK)
After leaving the Jacques Lecoq School, Kate performed with ‘CCC Clowns’ in Paris. In 2006, she moved to Devon and co-founded Jammy Voo, with fellow Lecoq graduates. She also writes and devises with the SHAC (South Hams Arts Collective) and delivers workshops for them and for TR2 at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.
Emily Kreider (USA)
Emily is a founding member and musical director of Jammy Voo. She has also performed in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with the acclaimed Friche Theatre Urbaine and toured internationally in ‘The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood’ with Companie Houppz. Other work includes performances with Far Flung Theatre, mentored by Jos Houben, at Prague Fringe Festival and Festival Alpes Mancelle en Scene, 4:48 directed by Phillip Zarrilli and most recently Pachamama Theatre's production of ‘My Dad is Jim’. Emily is currently a teaching fellow at the University of Exeter.
Eliza Wills Crisp (UK)
Eliza is a founding member of Jammy Voo. she also co-founded Blue Scream Theatre who had a successful run of ‘The Invisibles’ at the BAC and CPT. They were awarded a Fringe First for their puppet adaptation of ‘Tom Thumb’, a collaboration with classical pianist Elena Riu. Originally performed at The Pleasance, this went on to play at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Purcell room RFH, before touring internationally. She has also performed as part of the Moving Words collaboration at the Soho Theatre.
Yngvild Aspeli (Norway)
Yngvild is a graduate of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq and the Ecole Nationale Supereure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM) Charleville-Mezieres in France. Her puppet theatre piece ‘Signoux’ has toured France, Germany and Canada. Yngvild has tourd France with the Clown Caperet Caparhaum directed by Alain Gautre and is a puppeteer for the French company Chez Panses Vertes. She is also working as a puppeteer and mask-maker for seversl shows in France, Norway and UK. Yngvild is a founding member of Jammy Voo.