Karin Andrews Jashapara - artistic director
Forest School Leader - The London Acorn School 2018 - present
Acorn Adventurers (formerly Little Acorns parent-child group) Leader, The London Acorn School 2018 - present
Storyteller, often with shadow projections or paper theatre for ambience, 2012 - present
Play of Light theatre - founder, 2007 - present. Latest commission: 'Where Are You Now?' for the Centre for the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre
QTS from 2001, Forest School Leadership qualification 2019
English National Opera ; puppeteer for Blond Eckbert by Judith Weir
Mme Souhami & Co ; puppeteer and workshop leader
Horse + Bamboo ; costume, puppet maker and workshop leader
Rhythm Tree Theatre - several commissioned works on environmental issues
Rhythm Tree Theatre adaptation of Margaret Mahy's The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate 1994
Adapted and Performed (glove, rod and shadow puppets, piano accordion, clarinet) with Sarha Moore (Saxophone, oboe, percussion )
Peppercorn Puppets touring nationally 1983 - 5
Tricorn Puppets; apprenticed to Kinny Gardner and Erika Cruttwell as glove and rod puppeteer
Elizabeth Andrews - Freelance cellist and director of music projects in areas of social deprivation, formerly CEO of The Scottish Ensemble
Will Embliss - musician, composer, instrument designer and maker
Zannie Fraser - director of 'Blue Like an Apple' 2007 also puppeteer and writer, director of Ripstop Theatre
Rachael Nicholson - director of 'Death in a Nut' 2014, also art therapist, puppeteer and writer
Awards, Commissions and Bursaries
2016 Cultural Award Legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic Forum 2012 , awarded by the London Borough of Sutton
2016 Commissioned by the Arts Council -funded Sutton Imagine Arts Festival to create a version of The Invisible Man, with students from two High Schools.
2015 University of York and Cardiff University - funded shadow theatre collaboration with Professor Jenny Kitzinger and Professor Celia Kitzinger, Co-Directors and Co-founders of the Coma and Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre
2014 Commissioned by the 2014 'Kicking the Bucket' Festival in Oxford to create a version with puppets of Death in a Nut
2013 Imagine Arts Festival - extracts from The Story of Lieutenant Cockatoo by Phyllis Tate and Ronald Eyre
2012 Big Dance funded project : Wandle Valley pupils making and dancing with masks in Sutton Ecology Centre
2011- 2012 Arts Council funded participatory arts project : The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar
2007 DfES - Commission to write, make and perform Blue Like an Apple, exploring the issues underlying climate change