Becs studied Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing (Oxford University), specialising in video and installation art, before training in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art.

She was the overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design and represented the UK in the Prague Quadrennial.

Recent designs include UNDERNEATH THE FLOORBOARDS for BalletLORENT, ON THE RIM OF THE WORLD for the Royal Opera House (main stage), THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK and UNTITLED for Hofesh Shechter Company, THE HOTEL (awarded a fringe first), a site-specific comedy show directed by Mark Watson and SESSION for Introdans (Netherlands). Other work includes LA SERVA PADRONA at The Royal Opera House (Linbury Stage), THE QUIET LITTLE ENGLISHMAN a site-specific musical for Liverpool 08, TWELFTH NIGHT for ETT, CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Basingstoke Haymarket, THE ELECTRIC HILLS at Liverpool Everyman, JEFF KOONS for ATC at the ICA, TWOS a site-specific dance piece in St Pancras Crypt, SLAPPERS AND SLAPHEADS and DIRTY DUSTING at Royal Court Liverpool, TRUCKSTOP for Metal, FIESQUE for UCOpera, SET AND RESET for EDge and London Contemporary Dance School, BEAU JEST at Hackney Empire, THE MAGIC TREE for Cork Midsummer Festival, ALBERT HERRING for BYO, EUGENE ONEGIN for Scottish Opera / RSAMD, ORESTES 2.0 and THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, APERTURE (which Becs also directed) at BAC, CLEPSYDRA for Solas Dance, LOUNGE at The Place, THE TINDER BOX at Unity Theatre, OUR KIND OF FUN at Live Theatre, HAMLET for Al Bustan Festival (Beirut) and Cockpit Theatre, CORNER OF THE WORLD at Parts, Rosas (Brussels), WEST SIDE STORY at Oxford Playhouse, PERPETUA at Latchmere Theatre and THE MAGIC FLUTE at Oxford Apollo.

She is currently working on MOMO, a ballet in Bern.

Scott is currently studying at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and will graduate in July. He has just recorded BOOM BOOM for BBC Radio 4.

Naomi is currently studying at RADA and will graduate in July, after which she will start rehearsing ANNE BOLEYN for Shakespeare's Globe, directed by John Dove.

Simon has recently graduated from Mountview. Roles whilst training included Tony in WEST SIDE STORY and Al Deluca in A CHORUS LINE.

Maxine trained at the Laban Centre and is a recipient of the Bonnie Bird choreography award. She was Artistic Director of First Person Dance Company 1996 – 2003 touring works such as Deja Deux, In the Face of a Stranger, Plastic Chill and It’s Only a Gameshow. In 2006 she was a place Prize semi-finalist with Forest. Currently she is the Associate Director and choreographer with Punchdrunk co-directing Sleep No More (London), Firebird’s Ball, Faust, Masque of the Red Death, Tunnel 228 , Sleep No More (Boston) and most recently the Duchess of Malfi – an operatic collaboration with composer Tosten Rasch and English National Opera. Maxine’s choreography for theatre includes Timon of Athens (Globe, Lucy Bailey) and Every Good Boy Deserves a Favor (National Theatre, Felix Barrett and Tom Morris).

Recent design credits include ALEX - LIVE ON STAGE with Robert Bathurst at the Arts Theatre and on a world tour, CHASING FATE, a contemporary musical at the Birmingham Hippodrome, THICK by Rick Bland, THE COVENTRY MYSTERIES for Imagineer, GILGAMESH for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, ANGELMOTH for Ballet Lorent at Sadler's Wells.

He has also worked extensively with Improbable Theatre with collaborations in various guises on productions including SHOCKHEADED PETER, STICKY, OOMF, THE HANGING MAN (TMA award Best Design with Julian Crouch) and SATYAGRAHA (ENO and The Met, New York).

Technical design work includes CARNIVAL MESSIAH (Harewood House) and LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (Royal Opera House). He is currently part of the team designing Improbable's new show PANIC and the Metropolitan Opera's 125th Anniversary Gala in New York.

Cathal is soon to graduate from the RSAMD and is currently appearing in PETER PAN for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Jemima is Associate Director of Dundee Rep where her most recent productions include Equus, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Elephant Man which won the 2009/10 CATS Award for Best Director (and Best Design and Best Male Performance) and Beauty and the Beast which was nominated at the 2008/9 CATS Awards for Best Production, Best Director and Best Show for Children & Young People, and won the award for Best Design.

She has also directed Peter Pan at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, The Ducky for Borderline Theatre Company, co-directed Transform: Fife for the National Theatre of Scotland, Baby Baby for Stellar Quines, Shetland Arts and Perissology Theatre Productions, and Moonwalking and Killing Brando for the Oran Mor. Prior to this she spent some time working for the National Theatre of Scotland as Workshop Director (maternity cover).

Her other directing credits include; The Glass Menagerie for the Royal Lyceum, a workshop production for Grid Iron Theatre Company of an adaptation of Roald Dahl's short story Lamb to the Slaughter; was project director for Paines Plough's critically acclaimed Ravenhill for Breakfast; Elf Analysis and The Date for Oran Mor; Talking to Terrorists at the RSAMD and Three Sisters at Queen Margaret University.

In 2005 she directed A Christmas Carol for the Royal Lyceum for which she was nominated for a CATS Award for Best Director and by the Critics Circle for Best Newcomer. Prior to that she had co-directed an interactive play website Sweet Fanny Adams in Hyperspace Eden for Fifty Nine Productions and children's show Hambledog and the Hopping Clogs for Perissology, which played at the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour to the English Theatre in Warsaw.

NEIL

Matt is about to graduate from Oxford University where he has been a prominent member of OUDS and where he appeared in SERVING IT UP, A FEW GOOD MEN and SPRING AWAKENING at the Oxford Playhouse. He trained with The National Youth Theatre and has appeared in TO REWIND for Azure Films and DOUCHE for Kontrast Productions.

Sadie is probably best known for her regular roles as Flick Mellor in WATERLOO ROAD and Louise in MATERIAL GIRL. Other credits include THE FIXER, DOCTORS for the BBC, WHATEVER IT TAKES and DALZIEL AND PASCOE. Her film credits include ACTS OF GODFREY and SPLINTERED. She is a graduate of the Drama Centre.

Jamie has recently graduated from Drama Centre and will soon be appearing in TAGGART (ITV) before starring in the UK and International tour of the National Theatre of Scotland's award winning show, BLACK WATCH. His previous credits include ANY GIVEN DAY directed by Dominic Hill at the Traverse Theatre, TAGGART (SMG), STILL GAME (BBC) and RIVER CITY (BBC).

Matthew has recently graduated from Mountview. He's recently appeared in THE LARAMIE PROJECT at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and is soon to appear in the West End production of LES MISERABLES.

Matthew has been nominated for the 2010 annual Spotlight Prize for graduating drama students.

Leon has just graduated from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is a native Londoner. He is currently filming LAID OFF directed by Zam Salim, and GARROW'S LAW for BBC Scotland. Leon's credits include BEING VICTOR for Shed Media Scotland, RASPBERRY at the Oran Mor, SUB OPERA for Proud Exposure, THE FAMILY at The Arches, BLOOD MARKED for the New Works Festival and WHAT WE KNOW for The Traverse. He has also completed a one year film program at The New York Film Academy.

Leon has been nominated for the 2010 annual Spotlight Prize for graduating drama students.

Tommy is a recent graduate of the Arts Educational School. He is currently touring in the award winning production TERRITORY, directed by Reuben Johnson, which can be seen at The Pleasance during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Ben is an independent choreographer and performer working in contemporary dance, Opera and Theatre. In 2008 he launched his own company bgroup (www.bgroup.org.uk) creating The Diminishing Present, This moment is your life (A Bloomberg Place Prize commission) and most recently about around for the ensemble.

Other Recent choreographic work includes The Ghost Spot and A summoning for Skanes Dance Theatre Sweden; Knight Crew Glyndbourne Opera which is the subject of a new BBC2 documentary ‘Gareth goes to Glyndbourne’; Cunning Little Vixen and Rigoletto Grange Park Opera; a rustle of kindling MAP dance Company; Twelfth Night Donmar West End; Tobias and the Angel and The red and brown water The Young Vic; ID for Arts Alliance; The Aventures of Mr Brouchek.A Midsummer Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliette Opera North; Donna del Largo Garsington Opera; La Vie Parisienne, La Fanciulla del West, Macbeth, Dead Man Walking and Faust Malmo Opera; Don Giovanni Scottish Opera; As You Like It Wyndhams Theatre; Odyssey collaborating with Rachel Krische and Interim with US artist Allyson Green for Danspace NYC.

Ben recently directed An audience with Adrienne; A night at the Opera for the 2009 Bayerische Staatsoper Festival and was co-director and film maker for An evening with Adrienne at Drill Hall and 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival;

As a performer Ben toured the US in Sinner for Stan Wont Dance and has worked for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Ricochet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Richard Alston and Amanda Miller’s Company: Pretty Ugly. In 1995 he created the role of the Prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake performing throughout the UK, London’s West End, Los Angeles, Broadway, Japan and Korea. Ben also created the part of the Golden Monkey in the original production of ‘His Dark Material’s’ at The National Theatre.

Future work includes a new work for bgroup: Cadences and new dance commissions for Skanes Dance Theatre Sweden, Ludus Dance company and Verve. Also Don Giovanni for The Metropolitan Opera; Betrothal in a Monastery for Toulouse Opera and The Marriage of Figaro for Glyndbourne Opera.