THE ARTISTS
Laura Spark applies mixed media animation across theatre, installation and film, veering from the symbolic and elated, the haunting and visceral, to the playful and inclusive. She happily flits from making short films informed by folk practice and mythology to eclectic collaborations with other artists and local communities to help bring their stories to life.
Since Graduating from The Royal College of Art with a Masters in Animation Laura has created content for numerous art and theatre projects, directed music videos and worked with local community projects. Her short films have played in international festivals including Frightfest and London Short Film Festival in the UK, to Stoptrik, Slovenia; and Women in Horror, USA.
As an artist Laura has won commissions from York Mediale, participated in Flatpack Film Festival's artist development programme Waveform, funded by Jerwood Arts and is currently making a film with Metal and LJMU University.
Liverpool-based screenwriter and playwright Jeff Young is one of the BBC’s most experienced radio dramatists (with over 25 radio plays broadcast in the last 20 years). In recent years he has also begun writing for film and television, having completed the BBC Writers Academy, and his credits include CASUALTY, DOCTORS, EASTENDERS, HOLBY CITY and STEPPING UP (CBBC). Jeff’s stage work includes plays for Liverpool Everyman, Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic, and he wrote a major stage adaptation of The Who’s QUADROPHENIA which toured the UK in 2009.