HORIZON

Abigail Sol is a director of film and theatre. Her work champions untold narratives from systemically excluded voices, centring coming-of-age stories about Black women and girls. She is interested in exploring resilience, passion and the turbulent beauty of our human condition.

Abigail is the Founder and CEO of Uproot, a Black-led arts production company that formed with the aim of offering responsive and transformative solutions. She is motivated by a core belief in art’s potential for collective healing and works as a trainee Dramatherapist, with years of experience facilitating drama groups with young people.

Director credits include: Crown by Thara Popoola (BBC Two, London Short Film Festival), Les Be Anne by babirye bukilwa (Young Vic), This Is Black 2.0 the Online Experience (Uproot), Put Me On by Lauren Marshall (Music Video), I AM [NOT] KANYE WEST by Natasha Brown (Bunker), PYNEAPPLE by Chantelle Alle and Melissa Saint (Bunker), The Lost Ones by Amina Koroma (Ovalhouse).

Associate/Assistant Director Credits include: J’Ouvert (SFP, BBC Four), Mother’s Cry (Bridge Media), Merchant of Venice (RSC), Pah-La (Royal Court), Things of Dry Hours (Young Vic).

Ariane Nixon loves all things lights! Ariane graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2018 and has since worked with a wide range of companies and organisations such as Artichoke, Sadler’s Wells, RashDash and, of course, Bush Theatre. Ariane’s lighting design credits include creating a high octane light show for riot grrrl gig-theatre piece Sugar Coat and live watery visuals for xvelastín’s sound play [whalesong]. Ariane has been with the Bush since last August and is returning to freelance life at the end of this summer’s Young Company season.

DK Fashola is a multidisciplinary performing artist and maker who specialises in multi-form storytelling; fusing movement, poetic multi-layered text and theatre in unexpected ways.

Movement Direction credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Manchester Royal Exchange), Lava (Bush Theatre), Othello (NYTRep 21), Birds & Bees (Theatre Centre), 846Live (Stratford East), and Movement Consultant on Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree).

Elliot ‘Eli.P’ Popeau-George is a music producer, composer and sound designer based in East London. He is co-founder of Meta-Sama Sound Co, an electronic music production collective and label.

Elliot’s score work has been showcased in theatre and film, most recently working with Bush Theatre’s Young Company and again in dance short The Noise My Leaves Makes, which debuted at The Unit. As a music producer, Elliot has released music throughout his career, his sophomoric EP ‘Opals’ receiving critical acclaim and played on Reprezent Radio and BBC 1Xtra.

Kwame Owusu is a writer and director based in London. He is passionate about bold stories that amplify unheard voices and explore what it means to survive and be alive in the world today. His first play, Resist, is about political radicalism, and his second, Dreaming and Drowning, is about a young man navigating racism and searching for belonging. Kwame recently finished the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group 2020/2021. He is also the Resident Assistant Director at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and a Young Associate at the Gate Theatre.

Directing credits include: Pomona (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Wolf From The Door (John Thaw Studio Theatre); Whiskey Wednesdays (Kickitdown Productions).

As Resident Assistant Director at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, he has worked on Sian Carter’s Running With Lions, directed by Michael Buffong, on Mike Bartlett’s Scandaltown, directed by Rachel O’Riordan, on Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation of Jean Racine’s Britannicus, directed by Atri Banerjee, and Patrick Marber’s Closer, directed by Clare Lizzimore. Other associate/assistant directing credits include: Bee (Old Vic); The Big Knife (ArtsEd); Utopolis (Manchester International Festival).

Training includes: MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London (2020 – 2022), BA (1st Class Hons) Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester (2017 – 2020).

Maja Lach is a freelance stage manager and migrant based in London. Originally from Poland, she had never lived this close to the sea before and has been consistently cold since 2018. She is interested in accessible theatre, focusing on disability, neurodiversity and immigrant issues.

Her recent credits include How Disabled Are You? (Park Theatre), Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse), Transit (Cockpit) produced as part of Voila! Europe. She wants to amplify queer, migrant and minority voices in theatre, starting with her own.

And PS – it’s pronounced “My-ah.”

Peter Butler is a winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2021.

Credits include: The Beat of Our Hearts (Exeter Northcott), Patient Light (UK tour); Paper Cut (Theatre 503); Since U Been Gone (VAULT Festival); Prague Quadrennial Emergence Festival (V&A).

As Associate Designer: Cabaret Prologue (Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre). As Assistant Designer: Arrangement/Decommission (Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio).

Ruth Burgon is a graduate of LAMDA and primarily works in new writing. Credits as Production Manager include Never Not Once (Park); BACK UP! (Bush Theatre); Nora, Let the Right One In (LAMDA). As Props Supervisor: Old Bridge (Bush Theatre). Stage Management credits include: Black is the Colour of My Voice (Seabright Productions); Coming Clean (King’s Head); Six (Bunker Theatre).