NEST
Tuesday, September 05 - Saturday, September 09, 2023 St Aidan's, Leeds
It’s 2050 and climate change is shaking the natural world. Now that the bird watchers can no longer watch, Maya’s home will never be the same again…
LEEDS 2023 and the award-winning National Youth Theatre are staging a series of breathtaking events against the stunning backdrop of RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park, in a once-in-a-generation experience for performers and audience alike.
Follow a cast of 160 performers on a quest through the site, exploring it across several beautiful locations as it is spectacularly animated with music, movement and projection like never before. Join us this September for a timely, urgent and hopeful piece that will showcase world class creative talent and acts as an epic call to action about the future of our planet.
Creative Team
Writer - Emma Nuttall
Director - Paul Roseby
Deputy Director - Hamish MacDougall
Set & Costume Designer - Amy Pitt
Lighting Designer - Prema Mehta
Sound Designer - Dan Steele
Movement Director - Matteo Marfoglia
Composer - Nicola T. Chang
Video Designer - Nina Dunn for PixelLux
Dramaturg - Josie Daxter
Associate Director - Kash Arshad
Associate Director - Eleanor Manners
Associate Director - Alex Palmer
Associate Director & Co-director of Compass Collective - Patrick Riley
Associate Director - Tess Seddon
Assistant Director - Anna Phillips
Lead Video Engineer - Harrison Cooke
Disguise Programmer - Luigi Sardi
Video Engineer - Marc Lavallee
2D Animators - Nina Dunn, Libby Ward, Christopher Harrisson
3D Animator - Matt Brown
Design Assistant - David Ahern
Design Assistant - Alice Helps
Design Assistant - Jenna Jardine
Design Assistant - Lydia Reed
Design Assistant - Nick Sellek
Dance Assistant - Maria Vittoria Bortolotti
Dance Assistant - Jorden Brooks
Lighting Operation - Wingnut
Sound Operation - 3D Production
Sound Crew - Glen Massa
Sound Crew - Yoanna Krastitelska
Sound Crew - Connor Duckworth
Sound Crew - Alex Chapman
Creative Draughtsperson - Anna Wright
Stage Management
Production Manager - Matt Noddinngs
Site Manager - Helen Tytherleigh
Production Stage Manager - Amy Wildgoose
Company Stage Manager - Sarah Longson
Company Stage Manager - Lorna Adamson
Company Stage Manager - Catherine Harmer
Company Stage Manager & Wellbeing Practitioner - Alistair Wilkinson
Company Stage Manager - Alexa Penny
Deputy Stage Manager - Danielle Harris
Deputy Stage Manager - Richard Herrick
Deputy Stage Manager - Ellie Leaver
Deputy Stage Manager - Loren Rayner
Deputy Stage Manager - Molly Tackaberry
Assistant Stage Manager - Eve Buckner
Assistant Stage Manager - Amari Creak
Assistant Stage Manager - Immy Glover
Assistant Stage Manager - Peter Kilner
Assistant Stage Manager - Ailsa Philbin
Assistant Stage Manager - Ben Thompson
Assistant Stage Manager - Maddy Whitby
Cast
Skylars
Muna Abdulahi
Laila Latifa
Megan Keaveny
Saskia Kraftowitz
Rosie Walker
Tellers
Roseby Franklin
Evie Kaisi
Aekam Kaur
LeeAnn Sule
Oliver Taylor
Eve Tinsley
Joe Zanzarotta
Nest Fest
Patrick Gregan
Tash Hudson
Tahir Shah
Melina Shillito
Seeders
Meiraf Abaz
Alnazir Adam
Mohammed Adam
Holly Amos
Samuel Antwi
Gracie Avery
Russell Balaam
Daisy Budianta
Bella Davies
Daniel Ferrier
Ela Fisher
Millie Germain
Katie Griffiths
Mustafa Husseini
Issie Jones
Jose Matias
Mortadha Mustafa
Jessica Nolan
Natasha Norris
Edie Powell
Amelia Richardson
Morgadam Salah
Daniel Seorici
Elsa Sesay Asmara
Amy Shaw
Ruby simm papoui
Youyang Song
Issa Tahir
Chloe Walker
Ash Walshaw
Ashia Walwyn
William Whelan
Petrified Forest & Nest Fest
Emma Brown
Leah Chambers-Sims
Anna Forshaw
Verity Fullerton-Smith
Georgia Hair
Aisha Kacie
Mamie Keegan
Sarah Jane Messenger
Shona McArthur
Michael Sookhan
Sally Pickering
Sellers
Ayana Beatrice Poblete
Sarah Bowes
Olivia Churchill
Storm Coulson-Johnson
Hamish Dunn
Rushali Lakhani
Evie Murphy-King
Jude Pollitt
Isabelle Quigley
Simmi Ryatt
Melina Shillito
Phoenix Stanbury
Dwellers
Hester Cox
Hoi Yan Chan
Natasha Lunt
Oscar Miles
Jack Moorby
Max Parkhouse
Marco Quille
Nanna
Michelle Wood
Nanna (Understudy)
Sheila Masterton
Paul Roseby
Emma Nuttall
