Rose Cory
Rose Cory is a multidisciplinary artist primarily known for her stage persona Rose Wood. For the last 18 years, Rose has been a featured performer at The Box, a nightclub theatre based in both NYC and London, dividing her time between the two venues. Rose’s short theatre pieces embrace the dark side of human nature- using queerness, otherness, perversity, obscenity, addiction, violence, depraved indifference, and criminal insanity to skewer false idols and restore the humanity that modern life erodes.
Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson is an academic, artist and producer. Their research expertise is on international theatre festivals, rooted in the Sociology of Theatre and Performance. This work frequently intersects with their further research interests in live art, contemporary British theatre, and queer theory. Phoebe’s Doctoral thesis examined the history and practice of international theatre festivals in Britain, with particular focus on the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and its social, political and economic context.
Phoebe is a practising live artist and frequently works as a dramaturg for contemporary performance makers. They have worked as a producer with LIFT, In Between Time (IBT), and VFD delivering international festivals of theatre and live art. Phoebe frequently collaborates with organisations to create public talks programmes and symposiums, this has recently included Buzzcut Festival, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and Scottee & Friends.
Tamm Reynolds
Tamm Reynolds is a solo-artist also known as Midgitte Bardot (who is the most glamourous coping mechanism in the world). They have been performing across the UK cabaret, live art, drag, theatre and club spaces since 2016. Reynolds is currently working on 'Shooting from Below', a solo show, having recently starred in Royal Court’s Sound of the Underground (written by Travis Alabanza and directed by Debbie Hannan) in a winter run in 2023.
