ALT B: How I Grew a Moustache (Work In Progress)

Creatives

• Riwa Saab

  Writer & Performer

  
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  Riwa Saab

  Writer & Performer

  Riwa is a theatre-maker, sound designer, poet and puppeteer. With her hands in different writing/composing and performance disciplines, she works in both creative and backstage capacities. Her art puts people and our relationships at the centre of the political narratives we inhabit, with recent explorations including the unpacking of generational and familial baggage, and the politics of pop princesses.

  She has assistant directed on a number of noteworthy theatre productions, including You Bury Me (Orange Tree/Bristol Old Vic/Edinburgh Lyceum) and Nowhere (Battersea Arts Centre). Among others, her sound design has scored productions at the Bush, Regent’s Park Open Air, and Soho, as well as for podcasts and short films, including Sugar Shots. An alumnus of the Barbican Young Poets collective and a Roundhouse Slam Finalist, her poetry has been published in And Other Poems, Rusted Radishes, and Sukoon magazine.

  As a puppeteer, she has trained at the Curious School of Puppetry.

• Jemima Yong

  Puppetry Director

  
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  Jemima Yong

  Puppetry Director

  Jemima is an award-winning artist working in live performance, photography and publishing. Uninterested in creating anything she can imagine on her own, she works exclusively in collaboration with others. Some of her current interests include voice in performance, archiving as an act of alternative political story-making and non-human animal perception.

  Jemima is part of the team at Curious School of Puppetry and Creative Director of the Kneehigh Legacy Project. She is interested in artist leadership and collective models of organising, and has collaborated with artists including Alan Fielden, Karen Christopher and Tara Fatehi. Alongside Anahí Saravia Herrera and Anna Corfa, she stewards slow+dirty press at House of Annetta, a centre for learning about the ways ownership of land shapes our lives and the world around us.

  Recent works include Container; Skywater; Facewater; Underwater Waltz and the photographic series Field (2020), which will soon be on permanent display at London Museum.

   

• Mallika Joy

  Puppeteer

  
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  Mallika Joy

  Puppeteer

  Mallika is a South London-based puppeteer, artist and facilitator working across puppetry, performance, installation and participatory arts.

  A graduate of Central Saint Martins with First Class Honours in Performance: Design and Practice, they recently received an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice award to expand their interdisciplinary practice. Alongside their work as a freelance puppet maker, performer and workshop facilitator with Little Angel Theatre, Mallika has performed and exhibited work in theatres, galleries, festivals and public spaces across the UK. Their training includes Curious School of Puppetry, Ghost River Theatre, Kneehigh and TamTam.

  As Co-creative Director of Pure Imagination Collective, they produce experimental cabaret, puppetry and community-focused events that champion collaboration and collective imagination. Their facilitation work spans organisations including DreamArts, Les Enfants Terribles, Smoking Apples Theatre and Wild Rumpus.

  Mallika’s practice explores contemporary folklore, ecology, collective storytelling and the transformative potential of objects, materials and live performance.