Kneehigh

Kneehigh builds a team for each project. The isolation of the barns and the need to cook and keep warm provides a real and natural focus for their flights of imagination. It is a radical choice that informs all aspects of their work. Although much of Kneehigh work is now co-produced with larger theatres, they always try to start the creative process at these barns, to be inspired by the environment and where they work.

These elemental and charged spaces add a physical and vocal robustness to the performance style, which becomes further distilled when they work ‘indoors'.

Kneehigh is an ever-changing ensemble, a kind of strange family, many of whom come from or have chosen to live in, Cornwall: the extreme South West tip of the British Isles - outsiders, left-handers - engaging with the world with a sense of community and identity. The company changes for each project; there are those who have worked together for a long time and those who have just arrived. They look to surprise each other, to take leaps in the dark but there is no given formula for making the work.

Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies. For 30 years the company has created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre for audiences throughout the UK.

Kneehigh rehearsal base is a National Trust barn on the cliffs near Mevagissey, and their office is in Truro, the administrative centre of Cornwall.

THE TEAM

Paul Crews, Chief Executive & Executive Producer

Emma Rice, Joint Artistic Director & Assistant Chief Executive

Mike Shepherd, Joint Artistic Director

Charlotte Bond, General Manager

Simon Harvey, Asst. Director

Steph Curtis, Company Stage Manager

Anna Mansell, Communications Manager

Matt Armstrong, Development Officer

Elizabeth King, Project Co-Ordinator

Chloe Rickard, Administrator