A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt

Polly Waldron (Deviser, Performer) - Polly is an actor, theatre maker and facilitator working in London. Her interest is in making new work and developing a practice of facilitation that centres on building community and creativity. Recent projects include Babyshow at Unicorn Theatre, dir. Sarah Argent. Polly worked in association with Complicité and Kirsty Housley to devise War and War at The Pleasance, Islington, and as assistant director to Joyce Henderson for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit at Theatre Peckham. She played Tess in Tess, Ondervinden’s 5* adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, which premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe before touring pubs and village halls in South-West England. Polly trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, on the Collaborative and Devised Theatre course.

Adrian Greensmith (Deviser, Performer) - Adrian studied acting and collaborative devising at RCSSD. His acting credits include Metal Lords (Netflix), Harlan Coben's Run Away (Netflix), Amadeus (Sky), 3 Body Problem (Netflix), Harlan Coben's Shelter (Prime), Judgement Day (The Old Red Lion), and Love + Science (New York City Center). He has devised and directed shows with companies such as Third Needle, Parrot Punch, Living Pictures, Ratbag, and Half Chewed, which he co-runs with Polly Waldron. He also helps host the Sharing and Caring Collective, which hosts weekly peer-lead sessions in which artists can lead each other through practice and share work, ideas, and community.

Luis Odriozola (Movement Director, Performer) - Luis’s work, from an embodied queer movement perspective, researches methodologies and practices that seek a balance between the rigor of classic traditions and via negativa and the need for perspectives rooted in Black feminism and via positiva for actor training . He is also interested in revisiting art forms as a tool for social and political change, as well as the exchange between cultures and popular styles. Luis joined the London-based company 'The Director Theatre Writer Theatre' in 2014. As a performer, Luis has collaborated with choreographers and directors such as Nathaniel Hussein Clark, Silva Real, Francisco Camacho, Miguel Pereira, Mariana Tengner Barros, Tiago Rosa Rosso, Silke Z., Nikos Lekakis and Ellen Wiltshire. As an actor movement and yoga teacher he has worked in schools such as LAMDA and CCSD in London, and with community and youth groups in Spain and Poland. As a Movement Director, he has worked with Lilly McMenamy in "A Hole is A Hole" (2024), and Than Hussein Clark in "Mother Has Arrived" (2025), and collaborated with Ayse Tashkiran, Nando Messias, and the company "Dante or Die", among others.

Lillian Cheever (Designer) - Lillian is an art teacher and practitioner with a focus on creating work meant to be touched, working with found objects, and teaching young people how to make art with a focus on how students are politically subjected. They graduated from SUNY Purchase with dual degrees in Painting and Art History, and have just finished the MA Art Education, Culture and Practice course at UCL.