Jamie Harper is a UK-based theatre director, play designer and performance researcher. He studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield and trained on the Directors’ Course at LAMDA. He is a previous winner of the JMK Directors’ Award and the National Theatre Cohen Bursary for which he was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio. In addition to several Hobo productions, his theatre credits include The Return of Colmcille for Derry’s UK City of Culture Festival; Invasion for Tooting Arts Club (Time Out Critics' Choice); Our Town at the Rose Theatre, Kingston; Beyond the Pale at Southwark Playhouse; A Real Humane Person Who Cares and All That at the Arcola; Invisible Storms at the Cock Tavern (Time Out Critics' Choice); The Six-Days World at The Finborough; The Things Good Men Do at the Lyric Hammersmith and A Lie of the Mind at BAC.
In 2013, he received a Winston Churchill Trust Travelling Fellowship to research the intersection of game design and drama at University of Miami. Following this project, he has focused on creating participatory performance works that incorporate play. Most recently he has focused on play projects related to ecological themes, including The Food Telescope (with Aslaug Ullerud) for the Oslo Architecture Triennale and Green Gold, a board-game commissioned by Fern, a Brussels-based pressure group advocating for forest restoration.
He is an active member of the Nordic Larp (live action role-play) community and has presented larp works at festivals including Grenselandet in Oslo, Blackbox CPH in Copenhagen and Minsk Larp Festival in Belarus. He has recently completed a practice-led PhD in participatory performance at Newcastle University.
Hugo Thurston co-founded HOBO and produced Roundabout (Bush Theatre); La Turista: Cafe Duende (Morito Tapas); Heaven in Berlin (Testbed1) and Hunger (E5 Bakehouse).
Tiffany Wood co-founded HOBO and has written Roundabout, the company's debut show at the Bush Theatre in 2012.
Elien Hanselaer has been collaborating with HOBO since 2012. She works as an actor and theatre-maker in United Kingdom and Belgium. In September 2018, Elien started an artistic, practise-based research that questions what kind of different theatre can be made from a radically changing methodology based on connection and empathy. Since this time, Elien has directed The Tale of the Last Thought and Maria Novella with HOBO.
In 2013, he received a Winston Churchill Trust Travelling Fellowship to research the intersection of game design and drama at University of Miami. Following this project, he has focused on creating participatory performance works that incorporate play. Most recently he has focused on play projects related to ecological themes, including The Food Telescope (with Aslaug Ullerud) for the Oslo Architecture Triennale and Green Gold, a board-game commissioned by Fern, a Brussels-based pressure group advocating for forest restoration.
He is an active member of the Nordic Larp (live action role-play) community and has presented larp works at festivals including Grenselandet in Oslo, Blackbox CPH in Copenhagen and Minsk Larp Festival in Belarus. He has recently completed a practice-led PhD in participatory performance at Newcastle University.
Hugo Thurston co-founded HOBO and produced Roundabout (Bush Theatre); La Turista: Cafe Duende (Morito Tapas); Heaven in Berlin (Testbed1) and Hunger (E5 Bakehouse).
Tiffany Wood co-founded HOBO and has written Roundabout, the company's debut show at the Bush Theatre in 2012.
Elien Hanselaer has been collaborating with HOBO since 2012. She works as an actor and theatre-maker in United Kingdom and Belgium. In September 2018, Elien started an artistic, practise-based research that questions what kind of different theatre can be made from a radically changing methodology based on connection and empathy. Since this time, Elien has directed The Tale of the Last Thought and Maria Novella with HOBO.
We've also been fortunate to work with lots of other talented folk including designers Florence McHugh, Moi Tran, Alice Hodge, Emma Robinson and Bern Roche Farrelly. Lighting Designers Fridjthjofur Thorsteinsson and Josh Pharo Sound Designers Josh Richardson and Marianna Roe. Musicians Andrei Ionescu and Ollie Pash. Production Managers Ria Samartzi and Sam Gosling. Movement Director Alexandra Baybutt and Fight Director Rebecca Perret. Actors: Katherine Manners, Karen Archer, Sally-Anne Badger, Jack Blackburn, Eleonora Cuciarelli, Meredith Bartmon, Harriet Layhe, Amelie Edwards, Rob Taylor-Hastings, Hayley Adams, Barry McStay, Harriet Green, Brendan Jones, Mariam Haque, Hilda Peter, Bogdan Silaghi, Marco Petrucco, Laura O'Keefe, Sophie Brittain, James Barbour, Alin Balascan, Catherine Rowney, Emma Connell, Ida Bonnast, Simon Yadoo, Violet Ryder, Richard Atwill, Rhian Marston-Jones, Alina Serban, James Meunier, Ian Bailey, Annabel Capper, Boris Mitkov, Heather Nimmo, Luke Shepherd, Amelia Sweetland, Adam Bellamy, Natasha Vieira, Laurie Harrington, Chloe Todd, Rosie Abraham, Helen Liggat.
