The UK’s Baddest Kids: The TV Show

Gail Babb

Writer/Director

Gail Babb is a theatre practitioner, producer and lecturer who specialises in participatory arts work. An experienced deviser, she has worked with professional artists, young people and mental health service-users to create shows for a range of settings including theatres, a tour to South Africa’s National Arts Festival and site-specific pieces in museums and a derelict school.

As Producer for Participation & Learning at Talawa Theatre Company from 2007-2018, she brought work with emerging theatre makers to the centre of the company and developed an innovative programme that placed an emphasis on bespoke, participant-led projects in schools, workplaces and other community settings.

Lucy Sierra

Designer

Theatre design work includes Wilderness, Every Day I Make Greatness Happen and Giving (all Hampstead Downstairs); The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Another World (all National Theatre); Icarus (Unicorn Theatre); Shift (London Mime Festival); Hansel & Gretel (Uchenna Dance);  Education, Education, Education (Wardrobe Ensemble, Shoreditch Town Hall); Ramona Tells Jim (Bush); If You Don’t Let Us Dream (Royal Court); Young Vic 5 (Young Vic); Snow White & Rose Red (Rash Dash); Cathy (Soho Theatre/Tour); The Grand Journey (Bombay Sapphire Immersive Experience); A Ducky Summer Tea Party (Hull City Centre); Ode to Leeds (Leeds Playhouse); This Tuesday and A Kid, Abyss( all Arcola); The Tempest (Royal & Derngate); Calculating Kindness (Camden People’s Theatre); Benefit  (Cardboard Citizens/Pleasance/tour); We Have Fallen (Underbelly); Royal Court Gala (Trafalgar Pub); We Are All Misfits (48-29 Tanner St); We Have Fallen (Underbelly); The Bear (Improbable tour); Sign of the Times (Bury St Edmunds); Sweeney Todd and David Copperfield (both Octagon Bolton)

Jai Morjaria

Lighting Designer

Previous lighting designs include: Mary’s Babies (Jermyn Street Theatre); Glory (Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster/Red Ladder); Cuzco, Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves (Theatre503); The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); Losing Venice (Orange Tree Theatre); King Lear, Lorna Doone (Exmoor National Park); Sufi:Zen (Akademi Dance); No Sound Ever Dies (Surrey Arts); Superhero: The Musical (NYMT); Engine Break (The Plasticine Men); Kanye The First (HighTide); Robin Hood (Greenwich Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Birmingham Old Rep); Bitched (Kali Theatre); A Lie of the Mind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse); The Cunning Little Vixen (Arcola Theatre/The Opera Company); My Name is Rachel Corrie (The Other Room, Cardiff); 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios with Rick Fisher); Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (White Bear Theatre/Trafalgar Studios 2); Acorn (Courtyard Theatre.  Off-West End Award nomination for Best Lighting); Red Riding Hood Versus The Wolf (Stantonbury Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Capitol Theatre, Horsham); The Man Will Kill Us All, The Crucible (ALRA); The Legend of Charlie Peace (Central); The Beggar’s Opera, Pains of Youth, Obama-ology (RADA).