ABOUT US
Award-Winning Mumblecrust Theatre create smart, innovative theatre for families and young people. Combining storytelling and live music; puppetry and object theatre; history and fiction, Mumblecrust invent and reinvent the weird and wonderful, drawing on well-known stories and legends.
Throughout 2018 we toured our flagship production, The Tale of the Cockatrice, across the UK with support from Arts Council England – reaching many new venues and communities along the way and visiting some old favourites. During 2019 we have been creating a brand new show – an adaptation of HG Wells’ The Time Machine.
CREATIVE TEAM
Co-Artistic Directors Katie Underhay and Anthony Burbridge work alongside a number of talented freelancers to create original, compelling theatre for all ages. After the success of The Tale of the Cockatrice, plans for a brand new production are underway, continuing the theme of storytelling, puppetry and music.
Katie is an actor, puppeteer and designer. Since graduating from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama she has toured the UK in children’s theatre, created bespoke puppets and taught puppetry to all ages. Her other work includes touring with Stuff and Nonsense in the Three Little Pigs, performing in Theatre in Education, and costuming puppets for Three Half Pints and Broken Puppet Theatre Company.
Anthony is a performer, composer and director. His work includes appearing as Davey in Civic Player’s acclaimed rural outreach production Jerusalem, performing as actor/musician in Kickline’s Merlin’s Apprentice, and composing soundtracks for Perceptive Creation’s short films Murder Plot and Walking Shadow.
The pair have collaborated on a number of other projects, including: satirical music video Tawdry Child, Pinecone Penguin’s King Kong the Musical, puppeteering the Mermaid in Luc Mollinger’s creature feature short Battered and co-directing (and creating puppets for) new musical Heartwood.
SUPPORT
Mumblecrust Theatre is proud to be supported by a number of businesses and organisations
