Sweetmeats

Karim Khan

Writer

Karim Khan (he/him) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Oxford. His show Brown Boys Swim sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, transferred to Soho Theatre and toured nationally. It was optioned by A24. He is currently developing new work with the Royal Court, RSC, National Theatre, and Soho Theatre.

Past stage credits include Before the Millennium (Old Fire Station, 2025), Corrosive (Pegasus Theatre, 2019), Beyond Shame (Derby Theatre, 2018) and Orange Juice (The Pleasance, 2017). He has written episodes for All Creatures Great and Small, winning Best Debut at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2023.

He is preparing to direct his debut short film with Amazon Prime and NFTS. In 2022, he was awarded the inaugural Pillars Artist Fellowship, supported by Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films, and sponsored by Netflix and Amazon. Karim is an MA Screenwriting graduate (2019) from the National Film and Television School with a scholarship from Toledo Productions and Channel 4.

Natasha Kathi-Chandra

Director

Natasha Kathi-Chandra (she/her) is an international theatre director and writer based in London, UK and Hyderabad, India. She was appointed Artistic Director & Joint CEO of Tara Theatre in February 2024 after having worked as Associate Director there since 2022.

As Associate Director for Tara Theatre she was instrumental in the organisation’s Theatre of Sanctuary Award and Business Innovation Award in Wandsworth in 2023. She also conceptualised and launched Tara Theatre’s flagship Young Company program.

Natasha’s directing credits include:

For Tara Theatre: I Dream of Theresa May; DNA; Artists Make Space (Nominated for International Award at The Stage Awards 2023)

As Director: It kind of looks like a Doughnut (The Pleasance, Nottingham Playhouse, Wolverhampton Arena), 4 Stages (The Bread & Roses; Offie Nominated), Om Shanti F*ck (Arcola Theatre), Sad about the Cows (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Infinite Line between Dating & Dying (Etcetera Theatre).

As Associate Director: East is East (Birmingham Rep, National Theatre, Chichester Festival), AMMA (Tara Theatre).

As Assistant Director: The Woods (Royal Court), The House of In Between (Stratford East).

Other directing credits: The Lion King, Les Misérables, The Crucible, Checkmate (2008-2012, India).

Aldo Vázquez

Set & Costume Designer

Aldo is a Mexican set and costume designer based in the UK. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with an MA in Theatre Design, and a BA in Visual Arts from the UNAM/ENAP, México City. He has worked both in México and the UK collaborating with international directors and actors from Argentina, Canada, China, México, USA, UK, and Switzerland.

Recent credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Edinburgh); The Beautiful Future is Coming, Cheeky Little Brown (Bristol Old Vic); In Search of Goldoni (UK Tour); Falkland Sound, First Encounters: The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); Blood Wedding, Our House, Caresses, Pish!,The Suicide, Boy (Bristol School of Acting); Mephisto, Icarus, Robin & Marian, Fefu and Friends, Pericles (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); Until I Find You (Ad Infinitum); The Boys Are Kissing, Moreno (Theatre 503). As Associate Costume Designer: Why Am I So Single? (West End).

Simeon Miller

Lighting Designer

Simeon Miller (he/him) has worked as a Lighting Designer since he graduated from Mountview Academy in 2010. He works across theatre, dance, musicals, ‘gig theatre’ and devised work. He enjoys contributing to new writing, especially socially and politically conscious work which amplifies oppressed and radical voices.

Selected recent credits include: Alice In Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman / Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Sun Shines For Everyone (Lyric Hammersmith); The Book of Will (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch / Bolton Octagon / Shakespeare North Playhouse); Ruckus (Southwark Playhouse / Summerhall, Edinburgh); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre / Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn); Follow the Signs (Soho); The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street); Project Dictator (New Diorama); An Adventure (Bolton Octagon); Metamorphoses (Globe); The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith); Subject Mater (Edinburgh Fringe); Black Holes (International Tour); and High Rise eState of Mind (UK Tour).

Mateus Daniel

Movement Director

Mateus Daniel is a Movement director, Choreographer and facilitator from south London. He has built a love and curiosity for telling stories physically that express themes of culture, change and transitions, and has used his experiences within dance and theatre to influence his current gothic lyrical style. His work can be seen on various leading UK stages, magazines and films and his personal projects thematically take on a melodramatic, gothic perspective. In addition Mateus was a 2022 nominee for Best Choreographer or Movement Director for The Black British Theatre Awards. 

Movement Director credits include: Passion Fruit (New Diorama); Chicken Burger and Chips (Brixton House); The Boys Are Kissing (Theatre 503); Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Ambassador Theatre); Our eyes look to God (Festival d’Aix-en Provence); What I hear I keep (Talawa Theatre); As we face the sun (Bush Theatre); TERRA XYZ (Wonderland magazine); TRIBE (Young Vic); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre), No More Mr Nice Guy (Broadway theatre/Bristol Old Vic); Communion (Bush Theatre); Vitamin D (soho theatre); Purgatory (Donmar warehouse); B*tch Boxer (Watford Palace Theatre); a practical guide on how to save the world… (Tara Theatre); spectacle of the surreal (V&A Museum); How to win against History (Bristol Old Vic).

Hugh Sheehan

Sound Designer

Hugh Sheehan is a composer, sound designer, writer and audio producer from Birmingham. Now based in London after spending 10 years living in Helsinki, Hugh makes music, theatre, and audio programmes. Much of his practice explores questions of gender and sexuality, desire and shame, assimilation and radicalism.

Hugh has worked internationally as a composer and sound designer for theatre with directors including Roxy Cook, Natasha Kathi-Chandra, Josh Roche, Gabriella Bird, Ned Bennett and Christa Harris. As a musician he has performed and been commissioned by ensembles around Europe and North America.

Hugh’s work as an audio producer includes the award-winning 5-part narrative audio documentary series Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 (dubbed “mind-bending” and “a staggering tale” by The Guardian and a “sad, startling story skilfully unravelled” by The Sunday Times) as well as The Louis Theroux Podcast, BBC Radio 4’s Profile and Factory International’s Dream Space amongst others.

Amrit Kaur Lohia

Composer

Born and raised in Tottenham, Amrit Kaur is a singer-songwriter, Sarangi player and composer, described as ‘the place where Punjabi folk meets Aretha soul’ by OZY magazine.

Named a BBC Music Introducing artist and praised by Rick Rubin for her live performances, she has commanded the stages of Glastonbury Festival, The Jazz Cafe, The Barbican, Jaipur Literature Festival in India and the UN General Assembly with the Bob Marley family.

Having honed her craft from touring internationally since the age of 14 and inspired by her studies in History at SOAS, University of London and work with Off West End theatres in London, Amrit’s music brings the heart of North Indian musical and storytelling traditions together with the grit of modern jazz, blues and soul.

Supported by Arts Council England, she will be releasing an album dedicated to her late sister, a musical experience encompassing grief, compassion, self-redemption and joy.

Malena Arcucci

Costume Supervisor

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Malena Arcucci is a theatre designer and costume supervisor based in London. She is co-artistic director of Mariana Malena Theatre Company.

Design credits include: Strangers Like Me (NT Connect and Hackney Shed); The Bit Players (Southwark); Friday Night Love Poem (Zoo Venues Edinburgh); Point of No Return (Actor’s Centre); La Llorona (Dance City Newcastle); The Two of Us (Theatre Deli); Playing Latinx (Camden’s People’s Theatre) and various productions in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Associate Designer credits include: Dear Elizabeth (Gate); Chiaroscuro (Bush); Thebes Land and Tamburlaine (Arcola).

Costume Supervisor credits include: Sucker Punch (Queen’s Theatre); Bootycandy (Gate); Super High Resolution (Soho); The Boys are Kissing (Theatre503); Blues for an Alabama Sky (as Assistant, National); The Cherry Orchard (Yard / HOME); Chasing Hares (Young Vic); House of Ife (Bush); Lotus Beauty (Hampstead); Moreno and Milk and Gall (Theatre503); Raya (Hampstead).

Chloe Blake

Casting Director

As Casting Director, theatre credits include: Loot, Handbagged, The Turn of the Screw (all Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Toto Kerblammo!, Odd and the Frost Giants, Huddle, The Odyssey, The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse, The Three Billy Goats Gruff (all Unicorn); Warehouse (WiseCrack); I Dream of Teresa May (Tara); Jekyll and Hyde, Shut Up I’m Dreaming, Hamlet (school productions for the National).

As Casting Associate, theatre credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Till the Stars Come Down, The Other Place, Nye, The Effect, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National).

Chloe was Children’s Casting Associate for Standing at the Sky’s Edge (also West End), Till the Stars Come Down, and Small Island, and provided additional casting for Kerry Jackson, all at the National.

Screen Casting Director credits include: Divine Origins, The Algorithm of Loss, Mordik, and Satisfaction.

Chloe Stally-Gibson

Production Manager

Chloe is a freelance production manager and former associate artist of Zoo Co Theatre Company and ChewBoy Productions.

Her recent work includes: Shifters (Bush & Duke of York’s); Punch, A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic); Perfect Show For Rachel (Barbican); Tender, This Might Not Be It, Insane Asylum Seekers (Bush); Playhouse Creatures (JCTP); Silence (Tara Theatre).

Shuyin Stella Wang

Assistant Stage Manager

Shuyin is a stage manager and a writer who holds an MA Writing from the University of Warwick. Shuyin is passionate about shining the spotlight on the Global Majority, particularly ESEA communities in theatre.

Selected credits include: Private View, Ugly Sisters (both Soho); Woo Woolf (Cockpit); Brown Girl Noise revival (Riverside); Pop Off, Michelangelo! (Underbelly, George Square); Permission, DNA (both Tara); King James (Hampstead); Pins and Needles, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (both Kiln); The End, Communion, The Cord (all Bush); Bat Night Market (LIFT).

Ella Godbold-Holmes

Company Stage Manager

Ella is a freelance Company Stage Manager who has worked on a variety of productions ranging from West End to community-based projects.

Credits include: The Woman In Black, ASM Book Cover (West End); Dismissed, CSM (Soho); Bacon, CSM (Edinburgh Fringe); The Time Machine: A Comedy, CSM on Book (UK Tour); Vitamin D, CSM (Soho); Pirates Love Underpants, CSM on Book (Leicester Curve); Fatherland, CSM (Hampstead); Fireside Tales, CSM (Punchdrunk Enrichment).

Ella is incredibly excited to work with both the Bush Theatre and Tara Theatre for the first time in her career. Huge thanks and love, as always, to her partner and her family, for their unending support.

Rachel Wilkinson

RADA Stage Management Placement

Paul Grace

Set Builder

Kevin James

Production Electrician