Allison trained in acting at The Arts Educational Schools London.

Northern Ireland Opera: The Witch in Into The Woods: Hattie Walker in Follies at The Opera House (Cameron Menzies)

Theatre credits: Lyric Theatre Belfast: Lady Bracknell: The Importance of Being Earnest (Jimmy Fay), Skin Horse: The Velveteen Rabbit (Replay Theatre) (Janice Kernoghhan Reid), Duchess of York: Richard The Third (Oisin Kearney), Aunt March: Little Women (Emily Foran), Queen of Hearts: Alice The Musical, Captain Jess Hook: Peter Pan, Swallowfire: Pinocchio (Paul Boyd).

West End Theatre credits: Miranda in Return to The Forbidden Planet & Queenie in From Jack to a King (Bob Carlton), Sister Mary Teresa & cover Mary Lazurus in Sister Act, at The London Palladium (Whoopi Goldberg and Anthony Van Laast), Baruska in Once at The Phoenix Theatre (John Tiffany)

Touring Credits: Sister Act, Blonde Bombshells of 1945, The Girls (by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth), Forbidden Planet and From A Jack to A King.

Film Credits: Disney’s Beauty and The Beast directed by Bill Condon, music by Alan Menkin, Mama Mia Here we go Again directed by Ol Parker. Old Friends and Other Days for NI Opera (Cameron Menzies) There There ( Michael Polish), Oversear (Jordan Downey)

Television Credits: The Bill, Nova Jones, London’s Burning, Dalgliesh, Malpractice and ACC Leighton in Ellis for Acorn TV and Channel Five. Grandma in the recent Avonmore milk commercial. Security Officer: Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

Awards: Olivier Award for Best Musical: Return To The Forbidden Planet, Irish Times Award Best Production: Into The Woods: Broadway World Best & Supporting Actress: Aunt March: Little Women: Lyric Theatre

Australian born Stage Director, Cameron Menzies works consistently across Opera, Music Theatre, Theatre, Cabaret and with many International Festivals. His work has been seen throughout Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, USA, South Africa, Japan and China. He has worked at Carnegie Hall, Shakespeare’s Globe, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Short Black Opera Company, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He is CEO and Artistic Director of Northern Ireland Opera.

Jennifer is a choreographer and movement director with over 25 years experience. 

TV and Film: Derry Girls (series 2 and 3), How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (series 1), World on Fire (series 2), Old Friends and Other Days (Northern Ireland Opera), Flight (BBC & One Dance Uk), Lark (NI Screen)  

Musical Theatre: Follies (Northern Ireland Opera), Murder for Two (Bruiser Theatre Company), Fun Home & Piaf (The Gate Dublin), Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre Belfast & IAC New York), Into the Woods (West Australian Opera & Northern Ireland Opera)

Opera: Eugene Onegin, The Juniper Tree & La Boheme (Northern Ireland Opera), La Traviata, Rigoletto & L’elisir d’amore (Diva Opera)  

Associate movement Director: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre London), Once (Coex Theatre Seoul), Truth (Helen Chadwick Company, UK Tour), Once (The Olympia Theatre, Dublin & Charlotte Theatre, Seoul)  

Resident Movement Director: Once (Phoenix Theatre, London), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London)

Niall is an Irish scenographer and visual artist based in London. He recently made his West End debut as Associate Set Designer for Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Theatre credits includes: Follies (N.I. Opera, Belfast); Making History (Everyman Theatre, Cork); The Brightening Air, Oedipus (The Old Vic); Waiting for Godot (West End); The Tragedy of Richard III (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Eugene Onegin, Tosca, La Traviata and Into the Woods – winner of Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Production (N.I. Opera, Belfast/His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth); Translations(National Theatre); Peter Pan (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Yellowman (Orange Tree Theatre); The Dry House(Marylebone Theatre) and Under The Kundé Tree (Southwark Playhouse)

Television and film work includes Game of Thrones season V – VII (HBO); In The Earth, In Fabric (Rook Films).

Niall was awarded the Max Rayne Production Design residency at the National Theatre in 2018.

Jonathan is a writer and lighting designer based in Belfast.

Jonathan’s written work has been performed all over the UK and Ireland.

Recent writing credits include: Parboil, Then Sauté (Catalyst Arts), Sylvan (Tinderbox Theatre Company), The Revolution Will Be Streamed & Vection (Headrush, Ireland), Release & A Body, Twice (Ever Unique Productions).

Jonathan is currently working on a new play about the Belfast DeLorean factory, which started life as a Lyric Theatre Belfast seed commission.

Jonathan is also an accomplished lighting designer for theatre.

Recent lighting design credits include: My Right Foot (Oisín Kearney/Michael Patrick), The Arcadia (Steven Millar & Amadan Ensemble), ShedMan (Keith Singleton), Good With Faces (Oisín Kearney), Dressed For Space (Patrick J O’Reilly), The Velveteen Rabbit (Replay Theatre Company & Lyric Theatre, Belfast) The Adventures of Red Riding Hood (MAC, Belfast), The Gap Year (2025) & The Tragedy Of Richard III (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), All Growed Up (BYMT), I Always Liked The Name Marcus & Holding Ground (Tinderbox Theatre Company), Rose + Bud (Commedia of Errors), Touch Hear Feel (Helen Hall/Belfast International Arts Festival), Waiting For The Offo (Bosco Productions), No Citation (Bourke Productions), and Mirrorball & The Untold Truth of Captain Hook (Replay Theatre Company).

Multi-instrumentalist • Producer • Co-owner of Half Bap Studios

George Sloan is a multi-instrumentalist and producer, who has toured the world with No Oil Paintings, The Rapparees, and Dani Larkin, appearing at iconic venues including the London Palladium and Lisbon’s Altice Arena.

George’s production and engineering work spans theatre, film, and studio projects, earning NI Music Prize nominations, contributing to the Turner Prize–winning The Druithaib’s Ball, and leading to collaborations with Grammy Award–winner Joss Stone. He has also crafted shows for BBC, The Waterfront Hall, and Bounce Festival.

He also served as the youngest member of the team that secured Belfast’s UNESCO City of Music status.

Darren is a Belfast-based Production Manager with a broad background in technical production and live events. Over the past 15 years, he has worked across sound, lighting, and staging for a wide range of performances and venues, developing a strong understanding of both the practical and creative demands of live production.

Excited to be working with the MAC for the first time, Darren continues to build on his diverse experience in theatre and live events. He has worked extensively with Replay Theatre Company for the past 8 years, progressing through technical and management roles before taking on Production Manager responsibilities for Mirrorball and The Velveteen Rabbit, the latter a co-production between Replay and the Lyric Theatre. His work spans all stages of production, from early planning and design integration to technical delivery, touring, and performance support.

Gavin Peden is a multidisciplinary creative from Belfast, working as an VR filmmaker, AV designer, Actor and experience designer for over 14 years. His practice explores the intersections of live performance, technology, and immersive storytelling, creating work that engages audiences emotionally and experientially. Gavin has recently been appointed the Managing Director of Ionoverse, a technology company based in Belfast exploring the evolving way that audience experience and technology meet.

Gavin’s roots span theatre, VR, film, and site-specific performance. He has presented work across Ireland, Canada, France, Sweden, New York and Philadelphia.

Recent projects include, Upside Down House by Tinderbox Theatre Company, Granny Jackson’s Dead with Big Telly Theatre Company, a site-specific theatre experience staged at an Irish wake that explored modern grief and memory using technology. He also co-created, The Afters with Lucy Baxter, an immersive VR experience exploring consent. Too Many Doors is another an immersive VR experience Gavin co-created, examining the experiences of women seeking housing while experiencing domestic violence, in collaboration with ESC Films and Housing Rights NI.

Gavin has also adapted site-specific theatre into VR through The House VR, exploring trans-generational trauma in Northern Ireland, showcased at SXSW, Austin.

Gavin’s performance work includes the one-man show And You Will Stand on Windswept Beaches, co-developed with Zoe Seaton, investigating masculinity, and his performances in Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre, Belfast; IAC, New York).

He was also recently selected for the creative residency SPACE in Paris and another at Creative Lab, Northern Sweden, to develop VR films for touring portable galleries.

In addition to performance, Gavin has extensive AV and design experience for theatre and opera with recent credits, The Upside Down House, Red, Riot Symphony, The Headless Soldier, and Ten Plagues for the Belfast Ensemble. Film credits including; Mr Penny, Two Fingers Up, Heave, & Beautiful.

His practice combines dramaturgy, technology, and immersive media, consistently exploring how storytelling can extend beyond traditional theatre, engage audiences in embodied experience, and interrogate social and emotional landscapes, always from artist led practice.

Gavin’s work reflects a commitment to experimentation, collaboration, and interdisciplinary approaches, using emerging technologies and narrative forms to challenge perceptions, foster empathy, and create dynamic, participatory experiences.

Arlene studied Textile Art, Design and Fashion at Ulster University from 2012 to 2015. She began her career by gaining costume experience in amateur theatre and later worked as a costume trainee on Game of Thrones Season 8. She was selected for the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder for High-End TV in 2019–2020, through which she joined the costume teams on Boys from County Hell in Northern Ireland, Tin Star Season 3 in Liverpool, and the comedy series Frank of Ireland.

She was also part of the costume team for the internationally acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film An Cailín Ciúin and worked in London on Gangs of London Season 2. In recent years, Arlene has focused primarily on theatre, contributing to productions with NI Opera, the Lyric Theatre Belfast, and now, Jack Frost at the MAC.

Sophie graduated in 2015 from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, in Theatre and Performance Technology.

Throughout her Stage Management career she has worked with various Theatre companies and Theatres throughout Northern Ireland such as Lyric Theatre, MAC (Belfast), Theatre at The Mill, Cahoots NI, c21 Theatre Company, Commedia of Errors, David Hull Promotions, Kabosh Theatre Company, Maiden Voyage Dance, NI Opera, Replay Theatre Company, Terra Nova Productions and Tinderbox Theatre Company.

She has also worked in TV as the Stage Manager for ‘Give My Head Peace’ for the BBC.