Meet the ‘Wild’ Creative Team!
‘Wild’ is our new theatre production celebrating what Wild means to us, in the natural world, in our cities and within ourselves. With an ensemble cast, community choir, rich soundscapes and live music it invites the audience to reflect on their own definitions of Wild, fostering a deeper appreciation of both nature and human nature.
'Wild' is touring in venues across the Black Country in October, so check out the tour dates and grab your "pay what you can" tickets now!
In the meantime, meet our creative team below!
Upper left to right: Vimal Korpal, Matt Lloyd, Katy Rose Bennett, Abigail King, Dean Whiskens, Steve Johnstone
Lower left to right: April Nerissa Hudson, Rochi Rampal, Holly Alanna Williams, Graeme Rose, Frances Land
Performers
Holly Alanna Williams
Holly Alanna is a Birmingham-based performer and visual artist. She specialises in acting, vocal performance, poetry, photography and other multi-disciplinary art forms. Having practiced from a young age, she has gained various performing arts accreditations including a Distinction in Individual Acting Skills from Trinity College London. She is also a freelance model.
April Nerissa Hudson
April Nerissa Hudson a performer. She has appeared in Graycon (2017), Man Like Mobeen (2017) and Doctors (2000).
Vimal Korpal
Vimal is a performer, theatre maker, radio producer and presenter. He has worked extensively in theatre and radio for over fifteen years, including at the Birmingham REP and for BBC Birmingham. Vimal has appeared in a number of short films, corporate pieces, and BBC One’s Doctors.
Graeme Rose
Graeme is a performer and theatre-maker from Birmingham. A co-founder of Stan’s Cafe and The Resurrectionists, he has collaborated with many companies across the West Midlands and beyond, touring original theatre to audiences around the world. Previous projects with BCT include ‘Webb Dives In’ (a canal-side, brass-band oratorio with The Resurrectionists, 2000), the War Caravan in EAT! (with Birmingham Rep, 2011), My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding (with Kali Theatre, 2014-16) and Fred Jeffs: The Sweetshop Murder (with Birmingham Rep, 2019) - a re-investigation of the unsolved, Sandwell murder of Graeme’s great uncle, also released as a podcast.
Choir Leader and performer
Katy Rose Bennett
Katy is a Birmingham-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and arranger. She has been creating her earthy, intimate folk music for over 20 years, telling stories of love, despair, connection and community. She has released 7 albums to critical acclaim with plays on BBC Radio 2, 3 & 6 and RTE 1, and she has toured the UK and beyond. In recent years, Katy has developed her work collaborating across art forms, creating music for dance, spoken-word and theatre.
Script Development and Research
Rochi Rampal
Rochi is a Birmingham-based theatremaker, writer and performer. She has worked and toured with regional, national and international theatre organisations as both an actor and a scriptwriter, such as Upstart Theatre, Pathos München, Highways Athens, The Other Way Works, Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company, Rasa Theatre, Oxfordshire Theatre Company, Women & Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and Creation Theatre. She has also performed for BBC Ragdoll and BBC Asian Network in their TV and Radio productions.
Directors
Frances Land, Steve Johnstone
Design and Production
Abigail King, Matt Lloyd
Sound Design
Dean Whiskens
