SCROOGE
Meet our team
Director/Writer : Ewa Emini:
Ewa is a London-based Director/Movement director and teacher, who expertly integrates techniques from various art forms to craft authentic stage characters and immersive theatrical experiences. Certified as a Public Health specialist and Movement: Director and Teacher from RCSSD ,Ewa infuses her work with a unique holistic approach to body and movement. Her methodology seamlessly weaves acting methods, including Grotowski and Stanislavski's Techniques, dance styles such as Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance, an array of movement practices, BMC somatic techniques, and site-specific performance, which she enhances with a visual arts and an experimental approach to lighting and props. She engages in diverse projects and also creates her own work, which is aimed at expressing untold stories of human experience through deeply personal character journeys.
Actor/Writer: Joe Facer:
Joe is an actor and writer who trained at Drama Centre London, The National Youth Theatre and Boris Schutkin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Joe’s recent acting credits include the role of Patrick in the off – west end award winning play “Toxic” John in the short film 'It's A Beautiful View'. Joe also trained as a playwright at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As a native Sheffield lad, the steel city has formed a large part of his creative identity and is often integral in the narratives he creates.
Facilitators
VOICE
Ross Hardman
I am a classical, popular music and jazz singer based in Oxfordshire, UK. I graduated Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London with an Upper 2nd Class Honours in MA Voice Studies: Teaching & Coaching and currently work as a singer, performer, voice coach, accent coach, singing tutor and trumpet coach all across the UK. I've been part of many group and solo projects ranging from theatre companies in Kent and Oxfordshire to singing as part of National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
MOVEMENT
Deidi Lucas
Deidi is a movement actress, teacher and director. Her academic background includes a BA in Drama from the University of Kent and an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is specialized in physical theatre and has studied with direct disciples of Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau while combining these studies with a foundation of dance and martial arts. She has performed in diverse roles as an actress in theatre, TV, and movies.
In the last 6 years she has been teaching and coaching movement for actors, dancers and magicians. This opened a world of creativity for her as she went on to co-create and direct an original fusion of mime and flamenco (Mimenko) in which she also performs.
Lucia Duque
Lucía is a performer who works across the fields of performing arts education, movement teaching, dance, acting, and directing. They have performed as an actor in two national theater tours in Colombia and participated in several dance festivals in Bogotá. More recently, Lucía directed and performed in “Buscando a Marino,“ a dance theatre piece presented at the University of Edinburgh and at St Ethelburga’s centre for reconciliation and peace in London, with the support of the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV). Lucía teaches Acting for non-majors at CCM and has been an assistant teacher in Movement with the first year Acting students. Lucía studied a BA in dramatic arts and trained in classical ballet for more than a decade. They recently graduated from the MFA programme Movement: directing and teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
At present, Laura is instructing actors in movement at the University of Cincinnati.
Florian Emini
Florian, a skilled movement practitioner, has received training in various combat disciplines such as boxing, wrestling, cage fighting, and street fighting. Presently, he focuses on practicing Krav Maga and other Martial arts, including Filipino martial arts that utilize sticks to harness and manage our inner energy. Alongside his extensive life experience and wisdom, Florian contributes to the development of Scrooge's character by overseeing warm-ups and aspects related to Scrooge's physicality, and by staging fight scenes.
Voices:
Jacob Marley: Shaun Chambers
Kennedy: Marlow Stainfield
Penny: Tamara Hayes Elliott
Francesca/Sarah: Renee Eskildsen
Fred: Bradley Mell
Oswald: Zack Arlo
Fan: Nell Weik-Clark