Mick Slaven

Musician & Composer

A musician and composer whose experience includes numerous theatre composing credits

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mick@trickyhat.com

Fiona Miller

Artistic Director of Tricky Hat Productions

Aya Kobayashi

Dance Artist

Aya is a Glasgow-based dance artist originally from Japan, working in the field of performance and movement exploration. She teaches, performs and creates her own work with both professionals and communities. She practices improvisational performances and is a member of Collective Endeavours. Aya works extensively with inclusive and intergenerational groups, recently she joined Barrowland Ballet as an Associate Artist and leading their intergenerational company Wolf Pack. She directed a large scale community dance in Ofunato, one of the tsunami disaster area of North Japan as part of Sanriku International Arts Festival in 2015/16. Aya’s work has been presented in Tate Gallery, The Place, Royal Festival Hall, Northern Ballet, Paralympics 2012 torch relay ceremony, Cairo, Madrid, Tokyo and Queretaro in Mexico.

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aya@trickyhat.com

Dave Shea

Production Manager

Dave Shea is Tricky Hat Production Manager and Lighting Designer and has been involved with the company for 12 years.

Dave has worked in professional theatre for 30 years including 8 years as Head of Production at Glasgow's Tron Theatre and spells with established touring companies such as 7:84 Theatre Co, Suspect Culture, Communicado, Random Accomplice and National Theatre Scotland.

Dave has recently retrained to provide Learning Support for Primary schools but will continue to be involved with the company as it moves forward and play a part in its projects.

As a Lighting Designer the opportunity to create images with participants in an organic and reactive way is really exciting and is one of the reasons Dave enjoys working with the company so much.

Emer Morris

Assistant Director

Emer is an award winning participatory artist and theatre-maker with a background in community organising. For the past 8 years she's worked with people to think about collective and creative responses to social injustice. Emer's artistic practice is interdisciplinary: involving verbatim, applied performance, Theatre of the Oppressed, participation research, public space interventions, audio and legal rights work. Emer identifies as queer and neurodivergent which informs her practice.

Emer is co-writer, director & producer for the critically acclaimed 'Land of The Three Towers Vol1' (2016) and LOTTT VOL II (2018) as Co Artistic Director of You Should See The Other Guy Theatre Co. This verbatim musical and community workshop series toured London estates facing demolition, supported by Arts Council England, Network for Social Change and Edge Fund. Emer is co-creator for ‘WOMB WITH A VIEW’, Winners of Independent Association of Festivals 2017.

Ondine Oberlin

General Manager

Originally from France, Ondine worked on creative learning projects internationally. In deprived areas in the suburbs of Paris, she coordinated theatre projects in schools, hospitals and prisons. In Palestine, with Human Supporters Association, she was involved in The Human Right Theatre Project: a psycho-educational programme using theatre as a tool to teach Human Rights.

Ondine undertook a Post Graduate Diploma of Arts, Festival and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh). She worked for a number or Scottish-based organisations including Traverse Theatre, Festivals Edinburgh, Take One Action and Imaginate.

Ondine believes in the power of creative participation to provoke life-changing experiences and make the world a better place.

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ondine@trickyhat.com