Luke Noyes
Luke graduated as a Creative Artist from Cumbria Institute of the Arts in 2003. Since then he has focussed on performance, living and working as an actor, director and teacher in Italy and the South of France. He is also an artist that works with installation, video and the body.

Kevin West
Kevin was born in London. Having worked at the outset of his career with the D'Oyly Carte, he then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1993 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing PONG/Turandot. He sang DAVID/The Mastersingers at the Coliseum and for the Almeida/ENO Festival, THE MAYOR in Stephen Oliver's Mario and the Magician, JUDGE 2/Broken Strings by Param Vir and RICHARD/What Price Confidence? by Ernst Krenek. He has made several visits to Belfast for Opera Northern Ireland where he has sung a number of roles including THE TEACHER in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and DON BASILIO/Le Nozze di Figaro.

In 1994 he created the role of SWAMI ZUMZUM in The Second Mrs Kong by Sir Harrison Birtwistle for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, returning there for the Festival; in between these two commitments he performed the title role in Lo Speziale by Haydn for the Antwerp Kammeroper, Transparant in Barcelona and Antwerp, where he also premiered a joint production of Judith Weir/Monteverdi's Missa e Combattimento for La Monnaie and de Singel. He has appeared several times at the Teatro Regio di Torino, where his roles have included SNOUT in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and MISSAIL/Boris Godounov. He sang Les Illuminations (for tenor and orchestra) in the Sala Verdi, Milan. Other performed roles by Britten include THE PROLOGUE and PETER QUINT in The Turn of the Screw.

Kevin has also been much involved with baroque music, from the tour and promenade performances of Orfeo under Roger Norrington to the EVANGELIST in the St Matthew Passion, the tenor arias of the St John Passion and the Easter Oratorio and numerous works by Handel, including Jephtha and Messiah. He has recorded the works of the Regency composer Charles Dibdin for Hyperion Records. Recent work includes THE GOVERNOR/Candide and PONG/Turandot both at the Teatro Regio di Torino in Italy. In summer 1999 he sang the role of TORQUEMADA/L’Heure Espagnol for Grange Park Opera.

Last season he sang GORO/Madama Butterfly for Opera Holland Park, CURZIO/The Marriage of Figaro for CBTO/BBC Television and Offenbach’s rare Dick Whittington and his Cat at the City of London Festival. Most recently he sang DON BASILIO/Figaro for Opera North.

Paul Need
Paul was trained at R.A.D.A. leaving in 1984. He has lit over 650 productions in theatre, opera, dance, music and corporate events since then. For the past ten years Paul has worked almost exclusively in Opera and Music Theatre, working throughout the UK and in France, Eire, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and Syria (where he lit Dido and Aeneas in various Roman Amphitheatres).

Neil McCarthy
Neil is a BBC Radio producer.

Harry Willis Fleming
Harry trained at Wimbledon School of Art in theatre design, and has worked on many theatre shows and live events. He founded HWF Creative, a design agency specialising in the multimedia presentation of educational information. He is currently writing a novel set on the Victorian railways.