Actor

Becca Bindang is an Actor-Musician and Singer-Songwriter based in Brighton. She made her professional theatre debut in Told by an Idiot's Get Happy in 2021 and is delighted to be part of Funnelwick Limb team for The Chronicles of Atom and Luna. In 2020, she was an actor in an adaptation of 'Divine Words' by Valle-Inclán directed by Stephen Harper, in which she also took on the role of composer/songwriter for the project with her writing partner Jessica Debenham. In 2021, both Becca and Jessica were commissioned again to write and compose the music for ICTheatre's 3rd year production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' directed by Stephen Harper. Alongside commissioned songwriting, Becca and Jess are currently working on an original musical that is set to enter its research and development stage in spring 2023.

Actor

Fran Burgoyne Fran Burgoyne is an actor and voice artist. Recent stage work includes Baba Yaga (Theatre Hullabaloo & Action Transport Theatre) and Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Stonecrabs Theatre Co / Southwark Playhouse). Other theatre includes Three Sisters (Union Theatre), Heartbreak House (Union Theatre), the youngest of the Railway Children and the oldest wife in Communicating Doors (Leatherhead and Swanage Rep), and the world’s worst tour guide in the ground-breaking immersive show Madhouse Re:Exit (Access All Area’s). An award-winning audiobook narrator, she can often be found talking to herself in a soundproof box.

Actor

Farrell Cox is a physical actor, aerialist and theatre maker Farrell trained at Dell Arte International, East15 Acting School and under renowned clown Philippe Gaulier. Farrell has performed nationally and internationally in her career working with companies including: The gramophones, Blumhouse, Tangled Feet, Glyndebourne Opera, The RSC, Hot Brown Honey, Mimbre Acrobats, HBO, Samsung, Les Enfants Terribles and London Olympic 2012 Ceremonies to name a few. As a theatre maker Farrell has a circus theatre show ‘ Ambivalence’ which tells the story of a woman’s journey of her unsaid thoughts through pages of her diary experiencing psychosis and navigating through the world. questioning: what is worth living for? As a multiskilled and disciplined artist, Farrell always brings energy and enthusiasm to their performance work.

Actor

Alex lives in the Highlands of Scotland, with his husband, two whippets, and ten rescue chickens, and is a keen naturalist, walker, and Munro-bagger. As an actor he has appeared - amongst others - as Iago/Colin in Nothello (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Hugh Paddick in Round the Horne (National Tour), a dozen characters, including the Frau General, the Italian Girl, and the CIA agent in Travels With My Aunt (Vienna’s English Theatre), Bobby in Peril at Sea (Up The Road), Mary Sunshine in Chicago, James Joyce in Travesties, and Sidney in Absurd Person Singular (all Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Big Bad Wolf in Stiles and Drewe’s The Three Little Pigs (National Tour), and everybody at one point or another in The Gruffalo (Tall Stories, UK and US National Tours)!

Writer

Murray Lachlan Young is a British poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and children’s author. He came to prominence during the Brit Pop era of the mid 1990’s, when he became the only poet to sign a contract worth £1m. His work echoes the great rhymers Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert and Sullivan, along with more alternative influences such as Grandmaster Flash, Tom Waits and Ian Drury. His satirical commentaries can read like RD Laing in their philosophical intensity, whilst their subjects range from the vanities of celebrity and middle-class angst, to highlighting the absurdities of modern life. A regular contributor to the BBC he is also often found touring the UK with his solo stand-up shows and the collection of his work ‘How Freakin’ Zeitgeist are you?’, published by Unbound books.

Director

Nina is the Creative Director for Funnelwick Limb and previously directed The Mystery of Raddlesham Mumps, written by Murray and produced by Matthew. For The Chronicles of Atom and Luna Nina will continue her strong creative relationship with Murray as both director and dramaturg (having led on the previous R&D and digiral development). Nina is one of the UK's leading theatre directors for families and young people, and is Artistic Director of Theatre Porto (previously Action Transport Theatre). based in Ellesmere Port. For Theatre Porto, she has recently been leading a multi million capital reinvention of their building, now transformed into it a state of the art theatre and cultural centre for children and young people, In fact, Atom and Luna will be the first live public performances in the new venue Nina has also recently directed Baba Yaga by Laura Lindow, for Theatre Porto and Theatre Hullabaloo - touring autumn 2023. Other work for Theatre Porto includes Adrift, Statik and the ground breaking Happily Ever After, a primary school show in which two princes fall in love and marry. She has directed 7 seasonal shows for ATT and Unity Theatre, including the acclaimed Little Red and the Big Bad Wolf (2016) which was revived as the Christmas show for Z arts (Manchester) and The Brewery (Kendall) in 2017 before touring nationally in 2018. The show will be remounted again for audiences in Ipswich and Peterborough in 2022/3. Nina regularly supports theatre makers and artists in creating new work for young audiences, she is a former chair of TYAUK (2011-17) and

Designer

Music

Chris creates immersive audio experiences for schools with the award-winning company Now Press Play, and recently wrote and presented a 4-part documentary on music education in the UK which is now available on Spotify. Recent theatre production include: From Rushmere With Love, Booming Voices, Streets Alive (Eastern Angles); Blue Stockings, Sadie (Lyric Belfast, BBC4). As sound designer, arranger, orchestrator and producer, recent Film and Television work includes Blackwater Mermaids (BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Sounds), The Ipcress File (ITV), and The Mauritanian (BBC Films). Recent albums include Immersive Stories, co-composed and produced with Sue Verran and Dame Evelyn Glennie, and Wonders of The Cosmos, recorded on location at Ely Cathedral and Abbey Road Studios, both of which are available on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

Producer

Matthew Linley is a creative producer and freelance arts manager. Recent work includes The Ballad of Maria Marten (with Eastern Angles), The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps (for Funnelwick Limb) and the UK tour of Nina a story about me and Nina Simone (with Unity Theatre / Riksteatern). He was Interim Administration Director and Capital Projects Manager for New Wolsey Theatre through lockdown. He is the former Artistic Director and CEO of Unity Theatre, Liverpool and a former General Manager for Eastern Angles. He has also led venues in Leicester (Phoenix Arts), Reading (21 South Street) and Bath (Michael Tippett Centre). Alongside The Chronicles of Atom and Luna current work includes Little Red (for Eastern Angles and Theatre Porto) and a new work from Anders Lustgarten in co production with Riksteatern (Sweden).