Claire Coaché (UK)

Gave up a career in marketing West End shows in search of her red nose. She is now an actor/director and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Her production of ‘Big Berta’ was a finalist for the 2008 Samuel Beckett Award at The Pit, Barbican.

Co-artistic director of RedCape Theatre, she co-created and performs in ‘The Idiot Colony’ - selected for ‘Caravan’ at Brighton Festival 2008. Other work includes ‘The Story So Far’ with Theatre Tonic at the Tate Modern, Cordelia in ‘The Lear’ directed by Anna Helena McLean (Gardzienice), performances with Far Flung Theatre at Prague Fringe Festival and Festival Alpes Mancelle en Scene in France, ‘Underneath Thought’ choreographed by Eva Schmale and the short film ‘You Can Go Now.’ Claire studied clowning with Jos Houben and Angela de Castro.

Kate Edwards (UK)

Kate currently lives and works in South Devon.  In 2005, after leaving the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School, she founded Jammy Voo and secured funding from the Arts Council to create their debut show ‘Something Blue.’  She has studied clowning with Jos Houben, Angela De Castro and Laura Herts and performed with CCC Clowns in Paris.  In 2007, she took part in the Andorra International Women's Clown festival.  As a freelance drama practitioner, she develops workshops and teaches drama and movement to adults with learning difficulties and delivers a range of drama workshops in the South West for TR2 at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and The SHAC (South Hams Arts Collective).

Emily Kreider (USA)

Before attending École Jacques Lecoq, Emily trained in clowning with Francine Roussell in America. She has worked with Friche Theatre Urbaine in Paris, toured Europe with a street theatre piece for Companie Houppz and performed at the Prague Fringe Festival and Festival Alpes Mancelle en Scene in France with Far Flung Theatre.

She is trained in classical singing, plays the violin and is musical director for Jammy Voo. Emily is finishing an MFA in Theatre Practice at Exeter University with Dr. Phillip Zarrilli specialising in psychophysical process through Asian martial/meditation arts.

Eliza Wills (UK)

Trained at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She co-founded Blue Scream Theatre who enjoyed a successful run of ‘The Invisibles’ at the BAC and CPT. They were awarded a Fringe First for their adaptation of Tom Thumb, originally performed at the Pleasance. This went on to play at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Purcell Room RFH, before touring internationally.

She performed as part of the ‘Moving Words’ collaboration at the Soho Theatre and has worked as a voice over artist for the BBC. She has just returned from working as assistant director to Angela De Castro on a stage production for Eurodisney.

Yngvild Aspeli (Norway)

Currently in her final year of studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM), Charleville-Mézières in France. She attended the Ecole Jacques Lecoq from 2003 – 2005 and trained in theatre, music, and costume in her home country of Norway.

Yngvild has previously been commissioned to make masks and puppets for Cie Narcisse (France) Ahuri Theatre (Japan), Purple Fish Productions (UK) and most recently for ‘Big Berta’ (UK Samuel Beckett award finalist 2008).