In the early hours of Saturday 11 August 2007, 21-year-old Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were attacked. As a result of her severe head injuries Sophie never regained consciousness.

Claire is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and Master of Fine Art, Queen Margaret University.

Her more recent design credits include: Polar Bears Go, Go, Go! (Polar Bears), South Bend (Grid Iron), Tetradecathlon (Showroom), Jack and the Beanstalk (Ten Feet Tall), and Whirly Bird (Eco Drama).

Designs for other companies include: National Theatre of Scotland, Wee Stories, Stellar Quines/Edinburgh International Book Festival, Macrobert Arts Centre, Heroica Theatre Company, Borderline/Hirtle, Ros Sydney, A Moment’s Peace, Grinagog, Cultured Mongrel Dance Theatre, Visible Fictions, Active Inquiry, Magnetic North and Birds of Paradise.

Claire has also designed several film festivals for Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins and created many interactive events and workshops for the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

She is co-founder of The Envelope Room.  A network created in 2013 to support, promote and engage stage designers in Scotland.

Mark has worked in theatres from Aberdeen to Arnhem doing every job from general manager to ice cream seller for the last forty years.

He trained as an actor at The Drama Studio, London, after a degree in English and Theatre from Lancaster University. After ten years as an actor he joined commercial manager Charles Vance as production manager and later general manager of Harlow Playhouse.

Mark has directed, designed lights and occasionally sets for many shows including Me & My Girl, Gaslight, Daisy Pulls it Off and The Lavender Hill Mob and is an enthusiastic veteran of over fifty pantomimes both on the stage and off.

During eight years as production manager at Oldham Colloseum, Mark toured shows to The Traverse and The Bush, built a working ski slope onstage, and also a floating tomb on a lake in a park for Romeo and Juliet. 

Mark was general manager of the Lowther Pavilion in Lytham St.Annes, and since 2015 has been delighted to be back home in Scotland as Director of the Theatre Royal Dumfries – Scotland’s oldest theatre.

Rachel is a founding member of Gracefool Collective. Their work is known for its “humour, cheekiness and fun, with intellectual rigour and political content” (Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance.) Gracefool have been commissioned to make work for Arrivals/Departures 2014, Furnace 2015 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Reveal Festival 2017 (Bolton Octagon), Northern Connections 2015 & 2017 and Choreodrome 2017 & 2018 (The Place). They were also the 2014/15 recipients of Catapult – awarded to the most exceptional emerging dance-makers in the North. Recent achievements include a 22-date, 4- & 5-star run of This Really Is Too Much at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Underbelly Untapped Award for New Writing and the Stockholm Fringe Grand Prix Award for Excellence in Performance Art. Their latest work, This Is Not A Wedding, was chosen as one of the top highlights of the BBC’s Dance Passion 2019 and chosen to open Surf the Wave, the UK’s national dance showcase. It is touring nationwide in autumn 2019.