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International Theatre Festival in Cuba) and the UK premiere of It’s Raining in Barcelona by leading Catalan playwright Pau Miró. He also produced the critically acclaimed Edward Bond Season (including a world premiere, two first revivals and two UK premieres) which was funded by Arts Council England; the musical Pins and Needles by Harold Rome (5 stars, Time Out Hit of the Year) and the UK premiere of Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson, all at The Cock Tavern Theatre. As Executive Producer for London’s Little Opera House at the King’s Head Theatre, he produced: Cinderella and Pagliacci . Other London credits include: the UK Premiere of Jon Fosse’s Visits (Theatre Delicatessen) and Hedda (Riverside Studios, 2010). Credits abroad include: J.L. Lagarce’s Just the End of the World (Croatia, France); B.M. Koltès’ Tabataba (Croatia, France); Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Croatia, France, S.Korea, Japan); El-Harrag , contemporary dance and circus project (Algeria, Croatia, Palestine, Jordan). He was also Artistic Director of FFRIK! International Theatre Festival in Zagreb, Croatia 2003-2008. During his tenure he invited the Belgian National Theatre, introduced African theatre and performance art to Croatian audiences and was awarded a prize by the National Commission for UNESCO for promoting intercultural dialogue.
    Karen Jürs-Munby (Dramaturg)
Karen gained her PhD at the University of Minnesota and is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Lancaster University. She has a longstanding research interest in the plays and theatre essays of Elfriede Jelinek and has published several articles and chapters on the subject. She is currently writing a book on Jelinek’s theatre texts and their postdramatic stagings by major German directors. More generally, her work is concerned with dramaturgies in contemporary theatre, especially the relationship between text and performance, the employment of new forms of acting and performing and the use of intermediality in live performance. She is interested in postdramatic theatre in all its forms and its relationship to politics, gender and memory. She translated and wrote a critical introduction to Hans-Thies Lehmann’s seminal Postdramatic Theatre (Routledge, 2006). She co-edited (with David Barnett and Moray McGowan) the volume Das Analoge sträubt sich gegen das Digitale: Materialitäten des deutschen Theaters in einer Welt des Virtuellen (The Analogue resists the Digital: Materialities of German Theatre in a Virtual World , Theater der Zeit, 2007) and is currently co-editing a volume on Postdramatic Theatre as/or Political Theatre (forthcoming 2013). As a practitioner she has directed productions such as Peter Handke’s The hour we knew nothing of each other (2004), Opheliamachine (devised, 2005), Peter Handke’s Kaspar (2006) and LACluedo (devised, 2009, with Louise Ann Wilson).
    Meni Kourmpeti (Costume Designer)
Meni was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her Bachelor and Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Thessaly. After her graduation, she worked as an architect for two years in Thessaloniki. As an architect, she participated in various competitions related to recycling design, urban installations, photography and producing work out of recycled materials. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Greece. She continues her art work in London, where most recently she participated in a group exhibition at the V&A museum and took part in the Clerkenwell design week. She is currently working on her MA thesis project on “body transformation”.
    Jari Laakso (Assistant Director)
Jari trains at Central School of Speech and Drama, and he was born in Finland. Theatre credits include: director/creator/singer: London – París (Roundhouse), director Anything Goes (Helsinki), director/Billy Flynn Chicago (Helsinki); production manager: Accidental Festival 2012