Tom Morris
Director
Tom, former Artistic Director of BAC, is now based at the Royal National Theatre as Associate Director. Tom is a writer, director, producer and broadcaster. His writing includes Ben Hur and Jason and the Argonauts and World Cup Final all with Carl Heap, and The Wooden Frock with Emma Rice. His directing work includes Disembodied Music (1999) Unsung with Guy Dartnell, Passions (2001), Macbeth, with Corin Redgrave (2000), Othello Music (1999) and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos (1998). Tom produced and developed Jerry Springer The Opera at BAC and is a regular contributor and occasional presenter on Radio 4's Saturday Review. He has recently adapted Nights at the Circus for the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. For the National Theatre, Tom has worked on Coram Boy, A Matter of Life of Death in association with Kneehigh and co directed War Horse. Tom’s production company Schtanhaus now produce Oogly Boogly.
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk || www.schtanhaus.co.uk

Guy Dartnell
Performer
Guy Dartnell is an award winning director and performance artist whose work spans the realms of theatre, music, dance, circus and film. Apart from Oogly Boogly he has collaborated on and instigated a number of inter-disciplinary projects – Slick & Sloppy, Extase and Physically Sound. He has made four solo shows, Unsung, Bottle, Travels With My Virginity, which he is currently developing for film, and the Time Out Live Award winning Would Say Something. A long time associate artist with IMPROBABLE THEATRE his work with them includes Lifegame, Coma, Animo, Spirit (ROYAL COURT co-production), and 70 Hill Lane, which won, among other international awards, a New York OBIE Outstanding Achievement Award. He is an internationally acclaimed teacher, a BAC and Merlin Theatre affiliated artist, and his diverse work as a performer includes improvising with THE COMEDY STORE PLAYERS and singing in The Sound House for composer/director Meredith Monk.
www.guydartnell.org.uk

Emma Gladstone
Producer
Emma is currently Special Projects Consultant at Sadlers Wells, working on a range of research, site specific and film work. She is an independent producer and programmer. In 2005 she produced the international festival & conference Dance Screen Brighton (IMZ/South East Dance), preceded by Dance Film Academy (BBC/Arts Council England), programmed with Belgian film maker and composer Thierry de Mey. For three years Emma ran production company Crying Out Loud with colleague Rachel Clare, with whom Oogly Boogly was first presented in 2003. While Associate Director, The Place Theatre 1997 – 2002 Emma launched OffSpring, a dance programme for young audiences, part of a continuing fascination in presenting work that can be read and appreciated by people of differing ages. Emma danced for 20 years, including with Arlene Phillips, as a co-founder and Director of Adventures in Motion Pictures with Matthew Bourne, and The Cholmondeleys with choreographer Lea Anderson.
www.sadlerswells.com

Architects of Air
Set Design
Architects of Air build and tour 'luminaria' - monumental installations designed to immerse the visitor in the beauty of colour and light. Since 1992 the luminaria have enchanted more than a million visitors in 34 countries around the world. In 2006 the spectrum of locations range from a tour of centres for people with special needs in the Netherlands to the inauguration of the National Museum of Singapore.
www.architects-of-air.com

Performers associated with Oogly Boogly include Sinead Rushe, Carly Annable, Frank Bock, Martin Gent, Wendy Houstoun, Hannah Ringham, Sheron Wray, Marie Fitzpatrick, Ansuman Biswas, Rachel Henson, Rosemary Lee, Alexis Carne, Eeva Maria Mutka and Barnaby Stone. A minimum of four artists take part in each show.

Credits

Directed by Tom Morris
Created and developed by Tom Morris and Guy Dartnell

Supported and developed by Your Imagination, BAC and Crying Out Loud
Commissioned by Crying Out Loud