Digital Programme: FuelFest

Associate movement director
Yemurai Zvaraya is a Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist and movement director, blending Hip Hop and commercial dance through a dramaturgical lens, creating pieces with a dynamic and often experimental influence. Yemurai was Offie-nominated for I Love Acting but F**k This Industry at Peckham Theatre. Work includes: Assistant Choreographer for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre; and Assistant Movement Director for All the Happy Things at Soho Theatre. As a performer, work includes: The Sun Rose, which premiered at Hope Street Suitcases for LEAP Dance Festival, Resolution Festival at The Place and For The Posh Club for Siobhan Davies Dance; Kissing Rebellion at the Ovalhouse Theatre; Shine Black at the Barbican (Pit) and the Bush; and Run It Back at Fairfield Halls. Choreography/Assistant work includes: Blitz and Stranger Things. 

Movement Direction: The Great Privation at Theatre503 and I Love Acting but F**k This Industry at Peckham Theatre.

AV designer
Heather Pasfield trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and The University of Exeter, and is a freelance digital producer for theatre and film who has worked for the Old Vic, the Bush Theatre, Newlyn Art Gallery and Donmar Warehouse. Credits include: Digital Producer for Grayson Perry: In Conversation and Black History in Cornwall & The Southwest for Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange; Assistant Director for Discovery for NHS Short Films, produced by Stone Crescent; Director for Summer of Birds by Laura Horton, Plymouth Laureate; Live Stream Producer for What’s Far Is Near at the Southbank Centre (Refugee Week 2019); Producer for Babylon beyond borders at the Bush; Digital Producer for Globalvision in London, Palestine and Dublin; Media Producer and Live Stream Producer for Germ Free Adolescent at Bunker Theatre; Video Designer for Ares at VAULT Festival; Mercury Musical Development for Beam 2018; Head of Production for Tedx RoyalCentralSchool (2017 - 2019); Digital Producer for Martin Freeman: Big Give Challenge for RCSSD's Big Give Campaign; Young Digital Creator at the Old Vic on productions of SYLVIA, The Divide, Fanny & Alexander, The Divide, Women of the Old Vic and March for Women; and Digital Marketing Assistant at Complicite. 

Lighting designer
Marty Langthorne is a London-based artist and lighting designer whose work encompasses live art, theatre, performance, dance and fine art. Recent work includes: Feral Monster for National Theatre of Wales; Zoetrope for National Dance Company of Wales / Lea Anderson; In Worlds Unknown for Candoco Dance Co.; It Begins in Darkness for Seke Chimutengwende; Showmanism, Remember Me and Blackouts for Dickie Beau; 40/40 for Kat Radeva; In Floods for Greg Wohead; Pleasure Seekers for Bourgeois and Maurice at Soho Theatre; Fat Blokes and Class for Scottee; Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for Bryony Kimmings; Watch It for Wendy Houstoun; Often Onstage for Figs in Wigs; Party Skills for the End of the World for Nigel and Louise at MIF; Athena, Lines and Made Visible at Yard Theatre and Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain. He is co-creator of First Light, an immersive installation of light and sound for babies and their families. As part of the Duckie collective, he has designed many of their theatrical club events. As a light artist he creates installations investigating human response to colour in the natural world. 

Camera operator
Moses Ssebandeke began film making in 2007 at the age of 15, with comedy sketches going viral and amassing over 100 million views. A graduate of the BAFTA-winning National Film and Television School’s Writing and Producing Comedy programme, sponsored by Channel 4 and Netflix, Moses has developed projects across TV, film and theatre. Joining ITV’s Comedy Writers Initiative in 2023, it led to a directorial debut with Alter Egos, an ITVX-first series based on Moses’ idea. Work spans BBC commissions, award-winning short films screened globally, and stage productions at Theatre503. As a co-founder of Lionstooth, Moses has produced innovative content, hosting screenings at BAFTA and Channel 4 Headquarters. As a camera operator, credits include work for the Bush Theatre and Talawa, including the 4-star reviewed Tales from the Front Line.

Design consultant
Shankho Chaudhuri is a multi-disciplinary designer, telling stories across stages, spaces and screens in theatre, dance, music, film, XR and a bit of everything else. Training/Education: Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London; joint MA/MSC from the Royal College of Art and Imperial in Global Innovation Design; and Resident Design Assistant at the National Theatre from 2019 – 2020. From 2021 to the summer of 2022, Shankho Chaudhuri was the Staff Associate Designer at the New Diorama Theatre, part of the team that created and operated NDT Broadgate and won Fringe Theatre of the Year 2022. Shankho’s professional theatre career began with Poltergeist, an award-winning devised theatre company, and their Untapped Award-winning show Art Heist, since becoming an Associate Designer of the company. Other work includes Michael Blackstock’s TRAPLORD (co-designer with Chloe Lamford), which won the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production 2023. Most recently, Shankho was Creative Director for the ARRIVALS stage at Glastonbury, the festival’s first stage dedicated to South Asian artists.

Post-show panellist
Becky Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her interests centre around on the gendered and racialised experiences of criminalisation and punishment; processes of ‘othering’ in research, policy and media; and the relationship between research and intervention or activism to challenge injustice. Her current work focuses on criminalisation of women and girls, through the critical examination of welfare intervention and punishment in their lives. She is co-author of Dangerous Associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism and Stories of Injustice. In the last decade she has worked with the campaign group JENGbA to understand and disrupt the use of Joint Enterprise.

Specialist consultant and Post-show panellist
Nisha Waller is an academic researcher and Racial Justice Lead at APPEAL, a legal charity dedicated to fighting wrongful convictions and advocating for change in the criminal legal system. She recently completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, which explored racialised processes of prosecution in Joint Enterprise homicide cases. Her current work at APPEAL similarly explores the intersection between race and the criminal legal system in England and Wales, aimed at informing justice campaigns and strategies for change.