Anna-Helena McLean was a principal of the Gardzienice theatre company in Poland (2000-2007), and toured as the title role in Electra (Barbican BITE 06). She was also musical leader in Metamorfozy and Orkiestra Antyczna and personal assistant to the director Wlodzimierz Staniewski, running workshops worldwide. After 6 years as principal with The Awake Projects, Ensemble, Love Orchestra and Youth company in Sweden (2006-2012), she founded Moon Fool International Theatre & Music Exchange in the UK and works with Tract and Touch in both performance and educational intervention.
Yvon Bonenfant - Artistic Director
Yvon Bonenfant began experimenting with the voice on stage in his early 20s. At the time, he collaborated with Geraldine Morita (link to Mile Zero Dance) in a choreographically-led stage company. Since then, he studied experimental theatre and music, extended voice technique, bel canto singing and installation art, many somatics trainings including body psychotherapy training, and has had artworks, presentations and talks take place in 14 countries. Located in Europe since 2002, he has made touring shows, installations, published and spoken widely, often in collaboration. Increasingly, these teams include scientists and engineers. He holds academic appointments at University College Cork (Ireland) and the University of Winchester (link to UCC academic profile). He has been a Laureate of the Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Large Arts Awards. Two years ago, he gave long-form keynotes at both the British Voice Association Voice Clinics Forum (the key UK voice medicine conference) and at the Imaginate (Edinburgh) Children’s Festival to producing delegates. For his academic profile see this page.
Mary Paterson - Evaluator
Mary Paterson is a writer, producer and arts evaluator who works with interdisciplinary arts. She is the co-author, with Elizabeth Lynch and Rajni Shah, of Dear Stranger: I Love You (Live Art Development Agency and Lancaster University Press, 2013), on experimental forms of art evaluation. Mary has been Chair of the Board of the theatre company Extant since 2018. marypaterson.wordpress.com
