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Marion Duggan


Artistic Director


marion@murmurationarts.co.uk


Marion is the Artistic Director of Murmuration Arts. She believes that the communities we inhabit, the experiences we are exposed to and opportunities available to us shape and define who we are. Marion facilitates the creation of new  networks to help connect individuals as they transition through  stages of  life. She works with existing communities to widen opportunities for people to engage in the arts. Often her work will involve in-depth research, focusing on building and maintaining relationships.

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Matthew Black


Director


matthew@murmurationarts.co.uk


Matthew trained as an actor graduating from East 15 Acting School in 2002. Since then he has worked in television, film and theatre. He has held the position of director for The Ragroof Players, performed as part of a comedy dance duo ‘The Gentlemen Friends’ and run theatre and dance workshops in schools, community settings, residential care homes, yoga retreats, fitness expos and for corporate and private events.

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Martin Glover


Artist and Access Advisor


Martin, a deaf architect and art facilitator, has always had an appreciation of the Arts which has led to him facilitating guided tours and workshops of all sorts nationally for Deaf sign language users.

He currently manages Digitspace project, centring around ‘Visual Arts through British Sign Language’, a collaboration with Arts curators as well as a pilot training programme; to mentor deaf people to become BSL guides in the North East region.

Parveen Khan


Community Liaison – Nightlight Lullabies Crawley


info@murmurationarts.co.uk


Parveen Khan is a community activist in Crawley. Working across various organisations; Creative Crawley, Wordfest, Talk Broadfield, SWS Sudhan Welfare Society, Crawley Museum and previously Diverse Crawley. Parveen has undertaken various projects with local mosques including drugs awareness.

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Polly Barker


Producer for Nightlight Lullabies Crawley


polly@murmurationarts.co.uk


Polly has been producing live events in outdoor locations and unconventional spaces for over 15 years. She supports and facilitates creative thinking with robust and innovative solutions to production challenges. She produced the outdoor programme for Brighton Festival for 5 years, has a long background in music festival production including Glastonbury and End of the Road Festival, and other events such as Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland. Polly has worked with Murmuration Arts on several recent projects including NightLight Lullabies and The Owl and The Pussycat.

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Syeda Nudrat


Data Manager – Nightlight Lullabies Crawley


With experience in social and community activism and performing arts, Syeda believes keenly in the arts’ ability to bring social justice issues to life.
From her experience with Young and Talented Theatre Company, she went on to form performing arts group – Hull platform No.1. Bringing diverse, ethnic and wider communities together through performance, storytelling and interactive sessions.

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Marshall Mandiangu

Marshall currently plays The Pussycat in The Owl & The Pussycat. Marshall is a 2 x award-nominated music artist, actor, astrologer, and model. Former BIMM Brighton graduate, a member of AudioActive and collaborated with Windmill Young Actors playing the “Musical Narrator” in Romeo & Juliet (2019 & 2022) for The Brighton Festival.

Miranda Mufema

Miranda is an actor, singer and director trained professionally by Windmill Young Actors since 2017. Her credits include Romeo and Juliet, 2019 (Juliet), Macbeth, Pandora and has recently worked on a R&D alongside Kneehigh’s Mike Sheppard.

Faye Houston

Born into a musical family, Faye Houston has been a professional singer, writer and performer for over 20 years. She has travelled throughout the UK and abroad, collaborating with musicians and artists crossing various styles and genres to create expressive,  heartfelt and powerful music.

Kimberley Kotin

Kimberley currently plays The Owl in The Owl & The Pussycat. Kimberley began performing with the National Youth Theatre, which is where her interest in ensemble and devised work began. She then gained a Ba(hons) in Acting at The Court Theatre Training Company before studying at French physical theatre school Jacques Lecoq.  Productions include Cyrano de Bergerac, The Government Inspector and Electra. Kimberley continues to develop her own work and writing alongside her clowning and tap.

Cate Ferris

Cate Ferris: A one woman symphony of lush textures, electronic beats and soulful harmonies. Cate is a captivating singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Brighton in the UK. An acclaimed and accomplished singer/songwriter, composer and producer who has also performed and collaborated with a host of talented artists and bands.

China Fish

China Blue Fish is a queer artist, actor, activist, singer and mother committed to shining a light on injustice and elevating imagination through music, comedy and theatre.

Thor McIntyre-Burnie

Thor McIntyre-Burnie is an Artist, Sound Designer and director of transformative public arts company Aswarm. An early pioneer of sound as a medium for public art, Thor’s internationally award-winning work, is largely site-responsive and immersive and as a result most of it happens outside art galleries.

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Lee Payne

My name is Lee Payne and I make music with my feet. My passion for performing art motivates everything I do. I knew I wanted to be a tap dancer since the age of 4.
Today I am a professional performer and creative artist with a wide range of skills and talents. My repertoire includes dancing, choreography, acting, hosting and directing.
Tomorrow… the creative world is my oyster.

Mercedes Kemp

Mercedes Kemp is a writer and founding member of WildWorks Theatre Company. She has recently retired after thirty years as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Mercedes was born and grew up in Southern Spain.

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Lucy Bradridge

Lucy Bradridge studied English Literature at The University of Leeds and then Theatre Design at the Central School of Speech and Drama.  Since 1998 her work as a set props and costume designer has been mainly focused on devised comedy arising from a long and fruitful relationship with director Cal McCrystal and the physical clown company Spymonkey.

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Will Hood

Will Hood composed the original songs for The Owl and The Pussycat. Will usually spends his time writing music for film and TV or touring the world with his band @theswingninjas.

Will has performed at Glastonbury festival (UK) Moulin Rouge (Paris) Mandalay (Hamburg) Herräng (Sweden) and the Chill Out Festival (Istanbul). But he has never before performed as a Seafaring Cat…

Laura Wright

Laura performs as the Mother as part of the Nightlight Lullabies installation and at Murmuration’s regular Social dance events. Previously working for Murmuration as Producer, Laura now works with the company as a touring artist. Laura is also the Artistic Director of performance company Brass Bathtub, and was awarded a DYCP grant in 2021 to make experimental improvised music in nature.