THE SANITISE TEAM
Melanie Jordan - Performer
Melanie trained at Queen Margaret University and is a performer and director specialising in devised physical theatre and clown. She has created work with and for Organic Theatre, Clownstepping, Strange Theatre and Faux Theatre and is an associate artist with Plutot La Vie Theatre Company where she is currently assistant director on La Tragedie Comique, touring Scotland in 2014. Melanie is co-founder of collaborative theatre project Scrapyard and is also a teacher and workshop facilitator for theatre schools, youth groups and charities.
Melanie trained at Queen Margaret University and is a performer and director specialising in devised physical theatre and clown. She has created work with and for Organic Theatre, Clownstepping, Strange Theatre and Faux Theatre and is an associate artist with Plutot La Vie Theatre Company where she is currently assistant director on La Tragedie Comique, touring Scotland in 2014. Melanie is co-founder of collaborative theatre project Scrapyard and is also a teacher and workshop facilitator for theatre schools, youth groups and charities.
Caitlin Skinner - Director
Caitlin Skinner is a theatre director based in Edinburgh. She is Artistic Director of The Village Pub Theatre, Associate Artist with Strange Theatre and Co-Founder of collaborative theatre project Scrapyard. Here recent directing work includes Best of the Village Pub Theatre, Village Pub Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Goddess, Strange Theatre and Mother a la Carte, Strange Theatre. Her work as Assistant Director includes In My Father's Words, Dundee Rep, Un Petit Moliere, Lung Ha's Theatre Company and Cinderella, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.
Caitlin Skinner is a theatre director based in Edinburgh. She is Artistic Director of The Village Pub Theatre, Associate Artist with Strange Theatre and Co-Founder of collaborative theatre project Scrapyard. Here recent directing work includes Best of the Village Pub Theatre, Village Pub Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Goddess, Strange Theatre and Mother a la Carte, Strange Theatre. Her work as Assistant Director includes In My Father's Words, Dundee Rep, Un Petit Moliere, Lung Ha's Theatre Company and Cinderella, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.
Alice Wilson - Set and Costume Designer
Alice is a Set and Costume Designer and Craft-Maker. She has worked with several Scottish theatre companies including; Magnetic North, Plutôt la Vie, Grid Iron, LicketySpit and Ankur Productions. Her production design credits include; Jabuti Theatre’s My City, Plutôt la Vie and Strange Theatre’s Couldn’t Care Less, Cora Bissett’s Whatever Gets You Through The Night and working as Design Associate to David Shrigley on Magnetic North’s Pass the Spoon.
Alice has been working professionally as a Theatre Designer since graduating with a BA Honors in Theatre Design from Queen Margaret University in 2011.
Alice is a Set and Costume Designer and Craft-Maker. She has worked with several Scottish theatre companies including; Magnetic North, Plutôt la Vie, Grid Iron, LicketySpit and Ankur Productions. Her production design credits include; Jabuti Theatre’s My City, Plutôt la Vie and Strange Theatre’s Couldn’t Care Less, Cora Bissett’s Whatever Gets You Through The Night and working as Design Associate to David Shrigley on Magnetic North’s Pass the Spoon.
Alice has been working professionally as a Theatre Designer since graduating with a BA Honors in Theatre Design from Queen Margaret University in 2011.
Lubin Lone - Illustration
Lubin graduated in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008, and has since been working part time as a freelance illustrator for musicians, theatre groups and events throughout the UK, including: Scrapyard Theatre, RSF Project, Komachi Gallery and Scottish Story Telling Centre. She is a keen writer, and continues to work on her own collections of short stories, poems and prints, which she hand-binds into small books. She is currently working on an exhibition of mono-prints: 'You Will Find Nothing Here' to be exhibited in Edinburgh in 2015.
Lubin graduated in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008, and has since been working part time as a freelance illustrator for musicians, theatre groups and events throughout the UK, including: Scrapyard Theatre, RSF Project, Komachi Gallery and Scottish Story Telling Centre. She is a keen writer, and continues to work on her own collections of short stories, poems and prints, which she hand-binds into small books. She is currently working on an exhibition of mono-prints: 'You Will Find Nothing Here' to be exhibited in Edinburgh in 2015.
Calum MacAskill - AV Designer
A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and the Adam Smith College Physical theatre Diploma Course, Calum has been creating Interactive Animation Projection and Puppetry for Theatre for the last 5 years.
As well as creating his own performances through Puppet Animation Scotland, he has been commissioned by Aerial team Paper Doll Militia, The Manipulate Festival and continues to perform and tour with Edinburgh based Clown Theatre company Plutôt La Vie.
Calum is excited to be working on this production and with the Illustrations of Lubin Lone.
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A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and the Adam Smith College Physical theatre Diploma Course, Calum has been creating Interactive Animation Projection and Puppetry for Theatre for the last 5 years.
As well as creating his own performances through Puppet Animation Scotland, he has been commissioned by Aerial team Paper Doll Militia, The Manipulate Festival and continues to perform and tour with Edinburgh based Clown Theatre company Plutôt La Vie.
Calum is excited to be working on this production and with the Illustrations of Lubin Lone.
www.cjmacaskill.wordpress.com
Danny Krass - Sound Designer
Danny has been living and working as a composer and sound designer in the UK since 2007. Theatrical credits include: The Artist Man and the Mother Woman. Quiz Show (Traverse Theatre); Up To Speed (Imaginate/Ros Sydney); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Visible Fictions/Kennedy Centre); Stuck, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, White, Kes (Catherine Wheels); My House, A Small Story (Starcatchers); Peter Pan (Sherman Cymru); Skewered Snails, He-La (Iron Oxide); Mikey and Addie, Littlest Christmas Tree, Rudolf & Mr Snow, The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot (Macrobert); The Infamous Brothers Davenport (Vox Motus/Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); One Thousand Paper Cranes (Lu Kemp); The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, Huff (Shona Reppe Puppets) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (NTS Learn). Couldn’t Care Less (Plutôt la Vie/Strange Theatre)
This Festival Fringe Danny has also contributed to Huff by Andy Manley has Shona Reppe and Spoiling by john McCann in the Traverse and Made in Scotland programs.
Danny has been living and working as a composer and sound designer in the UK since 2007. Theatrical credits include: The Artist Man and the Mother Woman. Quiz Show (Traverse Theatre); Up To Speed (Imaginate/Ros Sydney); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Visible Fictions/Kennedy Centre); Stuck, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, White, Kes (Catherine Wheels); My House, A Small Story (Starcatchers); Peter Pan (Sherman Cymru); Skewered Snails, He-La (Iron Oxide); Mikey and Addie, Littlest Christmas Tree, Rudolf & Mr Snow, The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot (Macrobert); The Infamous Brothers Davenport (Vox Motus/Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); One Thousand Paper Cranes (Lu Kemp); The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, Huff (Shona Reppe Puppets) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (NTS Learn). Couldn’t Care Less (Plutôt la Vie/Strange Theatre)
This Festival Fringe Danny has also contributed to Huff by Andy Manley has Shona Reppe and Spoiling by john McCann in the Traverse and Made in Scotland programs.
Simon Hayes - Lighting Designer
Simon trained at Queen Margaret University College specialising in theatrical production. Recent design credits include Calender Girls (Alhambra Theatre), Brigadoon (SLO, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh), Bullet Catch (the Arches), The Tin Forest - Springburn Light Up Event (NTS), The Enchanted Forest (Faskally Woods, Pitlochry). Theatrical production roles include technical manager for Grid Iron's Leaving Planet Earth. Upcoming lighting designs include The Tin Forest - South West (NTS), The Enchanted Firest - Elemental (Faskally Woods, Pitlochry) and Cardinal (Gala Scotland).
Simon trained at Queen Margaret University College specialising in theatrical production. Recent design credits include Calender Girls (Alhambra Theatre), Brigadoon (SLO, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh), Bullet Catch (the Arches), The Tin Forest - Springburn Light Up Event (NTS), The Enchanted Forest (Faskally Woods, Pitlochry). Theatrical production roles include technical manager for Grid Iron's Leaving Planet Earth. Upcoming lighting designs include The Tin Forest - South West (NTS), The Enchanted Firest - Elemental (Faskally Woods, Pitlochry) and Cardinal (Gala Scotland).
Ammie Johnstone - Production Manager
Ammie Jay Johnstone has been working as a stage and production manager since 2012, during which time she has facilitated productions across genres of performance. Based in Glasgow she finds herself working more in Edinburgh. Recent productions include Cured for Glasgay at The Arches and CONFLUX’s Perch at SURGE Festival. Ammie is currently managing Loop Theatre’s tour of Glasgow museums with Look Beyond and looking forward to touring with Sanitise.
Ammie Jay Johnstone has been working as a stage and production manager since 2012, during which time she has facilitated productions across genres of performance. Based in Glasgow she finds herself working more in Edinburgh. Recent productions include Cured for Glasgay at The Arches and CONFLUX’s Perch at SURGE Festival. Ammie is currently managing Loop Theatre’s tour of Glasgow museums with Look Beyond and looking forward to touring with Sanitise.
Lianne Whitelaw - Producer
Lianne graduated from Queen Margaret University with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management in 2010, specialising in theatre. Lianne has worked with the Traverse Theatre, £5 Fringe, Iron Oxide, Burnt Out Bulbs, The Edinburgh International Festival and with Poorboy as Production Assistant on Lynda Radley's Birds and Other Things I am afraid of.
Lianne is currently producer at Scrapyard Theatre and works full time as Administrator at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.
Lianne graduated from Queen Margaret University with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management in 2010, specialising in theatre. Lianne has worked with the Traverse Theatre, £5 Fringe, Iron Oxide, Burnt Out Bulbs, The Edinburgh International Festival and with Poorboy as Production Assistant on Lynda Radley's Birds and Other Things I am afraid of.
Lianne is currently producer at Scrapyard Theatre and works full time as Administrator at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.