Our TEAM

WORKING ARTIST

Aimée Sweet

Resident Director & Dramaturgy

Aimée Sweet is a London-based theatre director and playwright. She is currently Associate Director for Blood Wedding at the Courtyard Theatre (April 2026) and Director, Writer, and Producer of The Hideout, currently in development for further staging in 2026.

Aimée graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in Drama (First Class Honours with Dean’s Commendation) and later completed an MA in Performance, Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins with Distinction. Her work focuses on new writing, musicals, and gig theatre. Recent credits include Associate Director on Prepare to Fail (Soho Theatre) and Welcome to the World (The Water Rats), and directing work with Director’s Cut Theatre Company at Southwark Playhouse and Park Theatre.

Yui Yamamoto

Resident Performance Artist (Body, Sound & Installation)

Yui Yamamoto is a London-based artist working across performance, sound, installation, and sculpture. Her practice centres the body as a way to explore the subtle norms, gestures, and tensions embedded in society. Using everyday objects and performative actions, she transforms familiar social behaviours into uncanny experiences, giving presence to the passive, the overlooked, and the unheard.

Her sculptural practice expands beyond form to shape space, time, sound, atmosphere, and audience perception, often requiring the presence of bodies to activate the work. Yui has presented work internationally, including in Germany, Greece, Finland, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and is a Visiting Practitioner in the Performance programme at Central Saint Martins across Foundation, BA, and MA.

Céleste Langrée
Resident Set Designer

Céleste Langrée is a Franco-American performance designer whose work creates immersive environments where visuals, music, and movement converge. Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Central Saint Martins, her scenography explores how space shapes narrative and audience experience.

She has designed opera and theatre productions including The Marriage of Figaro in Cardiff, The Abduction from the Seraglio in Munich, and projects with the Aurora Orchestra at the Southbank Centre and Opéra d’Avignon. Her work also spans theatre, puppetry, and performance, including a contemporary touring Macbeth, the original musical The Hideout, collaborations with Welsh National Youth Opera, and visual contributions to Netflix’s Heartstopper.

Phoebe Liu

Resident Sound Designer & Composer

Phoebe Liu is a London-based musician, singer-songwriter, and music producer. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London (BA Musical Theatre) and the University of the Arts London (MA Music Production). She is a certified singer-songwriter with QQ Music under Tencent Alliance K95S, a NetEase Cloud Music artist, and the founder of the London-based Darktrain label.

Her work includes arranging Miracle, serving as arranger and sound designer for the musicals Swedish Furniture Store and Starmites, working as a sound assistant at the 2021 Aranya Theater Festival, and composing and designing sound for the drama A Journey to the West.

Alexandra Rizkallah

Actress

Alexandra Rizkallah is an international award-winning director and dramaturg whose work is driven by a passion for storytelling. She creates theatre that embraces diversity and highlights underrepresented voices, bringing communities together to share stories, spark curiosity, and foster empathy.

Her practice spans plays and musicals, with a focus on developing new work and reimagining classical texts.

Qi Chen

Actress

Qi Chen is an international performer with over 15 years of professional experience and more than 1,400 stage performances across drama, musical theatre, and physical theatre. She has also appeared in numerous film and television productions, receiving several awards for her work.

In addition to acting, she works as a director and scriptwriter for stage and screen, and has experience in variety shows, dubbing, commercials, and modelling. She has also contributed to stage productions as a choreographer and lyricist-composer. Qi Chen is a member of the Actors Committee of the China Federation of Radio and Television Associations.

Harry Daisley

Director

Harry Daisley is an award-winning writer-director and Artistic Director of All is Pink Productions, a multi–award-nominated fringe company whose work has toured nationally following acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe runs. His productions, including All is Pink in West Berkshire County, The Upward Journey of a Champagne Bubble, and Brazil (Theatre503), are known for their wit, political edge, and bold visual style.

He trained on the MA Directing course at LAMDA after studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Leeds. Alongside directing, he teaches and leads workshops in the UK and internationally, and currently teaches on the Contemporary Classics module at LAMDA.

Yuhe Zhang

Set Designer

Yuhe Zhang is a theatre designer based between Beijing and London, graduating from Wimbledon College of Arts (BA Theatre Design, 2025). Her practice spans plays, musicals, and immersive environments, focusing on dramaturgy-led design and the relationship between performers, audience, and space.

Her work has been presented at Wimbledon College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, the Camden Fringe, the Edinburgh Fringe, and theatres across London. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Linbury Prize for Stage Design, one of the UK’s leading awards for emerging theatre designers.

Haonan Wang

Actor

Haonan Wang is a theatre maker, director, and facilitator working between the UK and China, and a graduate of LAMDA’s Directing programme. His directing explores contemporary social issues and centres marginalised voices. Credits include City Being Erased (Theatre503), A Journey to the West (The Playground Theatre), and Eurydice (Amphitheatre Theatre, Athens).

Alongside directing, he develops applied theatre projects focused on inclusion and accessibility. He is the founder of the Light Gathering Accessible Theatre Audiobook Project in Shanghai and has created community-based works and workshops across China and the UK.

Diana Hognogi

Playwright & Actress

Diana is a Romanian-born, London-based writer working across theatre, audio, film, and television. After running her own online marketing business for ten years, she moved to London to train as an actor before completing an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Her work blends surreal humour with emotional depth, exploring themes of identity, connection, belonging, grief, and moral ambiguity.

Alessandra Rigi-Luperti

Actress

Alessandra Rigi-Luperti is a German-Italian actress and dancer with an international background. She holds an MA in Acting (International) and professional training in contemporary dance, performing across theatre, dance productions, and short films.

Fluent in German, English, Italian, French, and Spanish, she brings a versatile range to her work, supported by training in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and tap. Drawing on her multicultural background, she creates dynamic performances across classical and contemporary work.

Zhijie Zhang

Chinese Opera Actor

Zhang Zhijie is a Chinese opera artist, intangible cultural heritage inheritor, and nationally certified master of arts and crafts. His work combines traditional Chinese opera culture with contemporary performance and cross-cultural artistic exchange.

He graduated from the University of Bristol and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His performance Face-Changing: The Legend of the White Snake was included in the 2022 China Opera Yearbook and has toured internationally. His opera mask artworks have also been exhibited in museums in the UK, Italy, and China.

Molly Spain

Actress

Molly Spain is a London-based actor, director, and interdisciplinary artist. She currently works as a dramaturg with The Spark in Boulder, Colorado, and is an Artistic Associate with Hoo Hah House.

Her performance credits include roles such as Masha in Four Sisters and Island Mary in Murdering Mary, as well as participating in a residency at Shakespeare’s Globe. Molly is also the founder of Little Foxes Theatre Company and leads the music project Molly in the Stairwell. Her work explores the intersection of theatre history, classical texts, and contemporary performance, combining physicality and text to create a distinctive artistic voice.

Rebecca Tozzoli

Actress

Rebecca Tozzoli Clozza is currently pursuing an MFA in Acting (International) at East 15 Acting School in London (2023–2025). In 2024, she participated in Shakespeare’s Globe Higher Education Residency, receiving professional training in acting, movement, voice, and singing.

Her performance experience includes stage work such as Murdering Mary, Paradise Lost, and Meaning, as well as a short film role in The Orange Keepers. Fluent in Italian, English, German, and Spanish, she also brings additional skills including singing, translating, subtitling, scuba diving, swimming, and CrossFit.

Verp April Zhou

Actress

Vero April Zhou is a London-based stage and screen actor. She trained in acting at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and completed an MLitt in Theatre and Performance Practices at the University of Glasgow in 2023.

Her theatre credits include The Mask Policy, Blacked-out Blocks, and Gatsby. On screen, she has appeared in short films including Eximo and Like Bubbles Like Shadows, as well as the independent feature G.O.D Tech. Her performance in a short film was nominated for Best Actress at the 2025 Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival.