Cast and Creatives

Rianna Kellman

Rianna trained on The Global Majority Puppetry Intensive Course by Fuel Theatre. 

Theatre credits include: Shut Up, I’m Dreaming (National Theatre). Television credits include: Malice (Prime Video). 

Simon Jack Palmer

Simon was raised in rural Essex and trained in contemporary dance in Leeds. Having made his home in cities such as Bristol, UK, and Shanghai, China, he is now based in London where his passion for storytelling stretches across the realms of movement, acting and puppetry. He has appeared in several works for Theatre Rites, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, and Tilted Productions, as a dancer, actor and puppeteer.

Other work includes Sleep No More Shanghai and The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk),TheLittle Match Girl and Ten Sorry Tales (Ballo Arthur Pita), Betrayal: A Polyphonic Crime Drama (I Fagiolini), Mucky Pup (Theatre Alibi), Benvenuto Cellini (Terry Gilliam/ENO). He has worked with Secret Cinema, Tom Roden, Sweetshop Revolution, Hannah Buckley, Kim Brandstrup, and Shobana Jeyasingh.

Makay Walker

TRAINING: 

Bird College 

Theatre credits include:

The Paw Patrol Race To The Rescue International Tour. Love Stepz Theatre 503.

TV:

Casualty

Makay is very excited to be back on tour performing in some of her bucket list countries!

 

Aaron Douglas

Aaron trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the Postgraduate Acting Course. 

 

Performance Credits: The Jolly Christmas Postman (Northampton Royal and Derngate), Trueman and the Arsonists (Camden Roundhouse/Represent Theatre), Paddington Lo-Commotion (Bleneim Palace), Stick Man Live (Leicester Square Theatre), Cruise (Apollo Theatre, London), Twelfth Night (East London Shakespeare Festival), Interruptions (Jacksons Lane), Albatross (Playground Theatre), Money (Southwark Playhouse), Kensuke’s Kingdom (Pleasance Theatre), A Family Affair (Vienna’s English Theatre), Passing (Theatre Royal Haymarket & RADA Studios), Girlboss (Southwark Playhouse) and Wonder Boy (Arcola Theatre). 

 

Screen credits: The Proletarians (Bench productions), How To Die (Fluz Theatre and Mann Bros) and Primrose (Bench Productions).

Tom Watson

Training: Bird College Conservatoire of Dance and Musical Theatre

Theatre credits include: My Name Is Gef (The Golden Goose Theatre), Something Rotten (The English Theatre Frankfurt), 2020 The Musical (Cowbarn, EdFringe) The Wizard of Oz (Curve Theatre), Bird Brigade (The Other Palace)

 

Credits whilst training include: Follies, Move it 2022 (ExCel) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

 

Tom is very excited to be working in China and would like to thank his family, friends and his agent for their continued support.

 

Follow Tom on social media:

Instagram - @tom.watson2022

Eamonn O'Dwyer

Eamonn O’Dwyer is an award-winning composer-lyricist of Guyanese-Irish descent.  His work spans genres from live orchestral to electronica, contemporary musical theatre, film, video games & attractions.  He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and to date his works have been performed in the US, Russia, Australia and Japan.  

 

His most recent musical Fanny & Stella was featured in the NAMT 33rd Festival of New Musicals in New York in October 2021, and in September 2022 Eamonn made his own New York debut performing an evening of his works at the celebrated 54 Below club in Manhattan. 

 

Eamonn is currently writing an original score for a new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Hey! Christmas Tree for the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.

 

Other theatrical credits include: Frankenstein (UK Tour); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour);Twelfth Night & Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York);  Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar Re-imagined (RSC, Swan); Flesh & Bone (National Theatre Studio); Grimm Tales & Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster (Barn, Cirencester); Stones In His Pockets (Dukes, Lancaster); The Glass Menagerie (Theatre Chipping Norton); A Christmas Carol, Beauty & The Beast, The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Arabian Nights all for the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

 

For more info visit www.eamonnodwyer.com

Eamonn O'Dwyer

Eamonn O’Dwyer is an award-winning composer-lyricist of Guyanese-Irish descent.  His work spans genres from live orchestral to electronica, contemporary musical theatre, film, video games & attractions.  He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and to date his works have been performed in the US, Russia, Australia and Japan.  

 

His most recent musical Fanny & Stella was featured in the NAMT 33rd Festival of New Musicals in New York in October 2021, and in September 2022 Eamonn made his own New York debut performing an evening of his works at the celebrated 54 Below club in Manhattan. 

 

Eamonn is currently writing an original score for a new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Hey! Christmas Tree for the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.

 

Other theatrical credits include: Frankenstein (UK Tour); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour);Twelfth Night & Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York);  Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar Re-imagined (RSC, Swan); Flesh & Bone (National Theatre Studio); Grimm Tales & Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster (Barn, Cirencester); Stones In His Pockets (Dukes, Lancaster); The Glass Menagerie (Theatre Chipping Norton); A Christmas Carol, Beauty & The Beast, The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Arabian Nights all for the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

 

For more info visit www.eamonnodwyer.com

Emma Brunton

Emma trained at Tring and Central School of Ballet and throughout her diverse career has developed specializations in Physical Theatre, Aerial Dance and Puppetry.

She has worked with various puppet makers and designers including Samuel Wyer, Stitches and Glue, Max Humphries, Mervyn Millar, Nick Barnes Puppets, Toby Olié and Tahra Zafar. Her credits as a Puppet/Movement Director include The Wind in the Wiltons & Christmas Carol (Wilton’s Music Hall), L’Enfant et les Sortiléges (Royal Academy of Music), Madagascar the Musical (Selladoor), The Christmasaurus (Tom Fletcher), Dust (Elusive Circus), La Cenerentola (Opera Holland Park & Danish National Opera), Pages (Pacific Playhouse) and Boris and Sergey II (Pleasance Courtyard).

As a performer she has worked with Blind Summit, Scottish Ballet, The Royal Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, The Hanger Arts Trust, Decca Records and on several productions with Will Tuckett including The Wind in the Willows (West End), Faeries & Pinocchio (ROH) & Crane Maiden (Parco/Japan). Whilst performing Emma was Assistant Choreographer on The Secret Garden (Sarasota Ballet), Pinocchio (The National Ballet of Canada), Elizabeth (The Royal Ballet), Hansel & Gretel (Iford Arts Festival), Pleasure’s Progress (Royal Opera House), Streetdance 3D (Vertigo Films) and Associate Choreographer on West Side Story (Sage Gateshead) and The Soldier’s Tale (Parco, Japan). She is currently Associate Director with Nicoll Entertainment on Dinosaur World Live and Dragons and Mythical Beasts.

Emma is based in Southampton and works with the local community and young professionals for MAST Mayflower Studios and Zoielogic Dance Theatre.