Tina Williams is the Artistic Director of Pied Piper Theatre Company, which she set up in 1984 having trained as both an actor and a teacher. Tina has written, adapted, directed and produced over twenty five plays for the company including a large scale national tour of Anne Fine’s ‘The Book of the Banshee’, a community tour of ‘A Little Princess’ involving eight actors and eight young people and her recent new play ‘The Big ENORMOUS Present’.

In 1994 Tina set up the Education Department at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, which ran until 2008. As well as directing several co-productions with the Yvonne Arnaud she wrote and directed ‘Flash! Bang! Rabbit! for the youth theatre as a creative and cultural exchange with the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.

Tina has been engaged as Artistic Director for several co-productions throughout the UK and internationally in Singapore. She also directed several seasons at The Fortune Theatre in London’s West End. She is currently writing two new plays for age four upwards.

Nicola Sangster is the freelance Associate Director for Pied Piper, where she has worked with Tina since 2005.  Nicola co-adapted ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ for which she was the principal director, and acted as assistant director on ‘The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse’.  She also produces our Education Packs.

Nicola trained as an actor at Birmingham School of Acting and her work as an actor includes national tours of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ for Watershed, and ‘Vincent in Brixton’ for Original Theatre.  For Pied Piper Nicola was part of the original UK and Singapore casts of ‘Laura’s Star’.  This autumn Nicola is touring with the National Theatre and Headlong’s co-production of ‘Earthquakes in London’.

Nicola has a BA in Drama and English Literature at Royal Holloway, where she first studied playwriting.  She became part of the young person’s writing programme at The Royal Court Theatre and went on to be one of the first members of Simon Stephen’s ‘invitation group’.  She has also taught playwriting workshops to junior and secondary school pupils.

Nicola lives in London and when she is not working for Pied Piper, acting, or writing, she also works as a proofreader of academic books for Oxford University Press.

Nicola loves music and singing, and plays the cello and the piano.

Rose graduated from University College Falmouth in 2005 with a First Class Honours Degree in Commercial Illustration. Since then she has been commissioned by a variety of clients including The Independent On Sunday, The Guardian, Waitrose, Woman's Weekly, Country Living and others.

Recently Rose has illustrated the children's picture book "Pirate Gran" published by the National Maritime Museum.

Rose's work is energetic, spontaneous, quirky and humorous. She mainly uses dip pen and ink, watercolour, oils, and Liquin on paper to create her illustration.

Originally from Manchester, Brendan trained as an actor and worked for ten years in schools, fringe, Rep and commercial theatre.  From 1982 to 1985 he was Head of Theatre-in-Education at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and later writer-in-residence at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.  Since 1990 he’s divided his time between writing, directing and teaching - principally at Drama Studio London. In 2002/3 he was the Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow in the Department of Palliative Care at King’s College Hospital and, from 2003 to 2008, Artistic Director of Oxfordshire Theatre Company. His plays are regularly produced throughout the UK and abroad and have won both Brian Way and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards. Like the good northerner he is, he lives in Brighton. For more details visit www.brendanmurray.co.uk

Jane enjoys designing a wide range of theatre and film. She has worked for companies throughout the UK and spent several years based in Wales as the Resident Designer at the Sherman Theatre.

She is an experienced interpreter of theatre for young people having designed many plays for leading companies in the field of young people’s theatre including the Unicorn Theatre, Theatre Centre, Nottingham Playhouse and the National Theatre.

Other recent work for adult audiences has included My Family and Other Animals for York Theatre Royal and Soul Exchange for the National Theatre of Wales.

Jane has designed a number of films and drama documentaries including Deep Water, and September which received the Bafta for Best Short Film in 2009.

Carole's collaborations with theatre companies as a composer / musical director have included Grimms and A Christmas Carol for Horla (Trafalgar Studios and New Wimbledon Studio), The Gingerbread Man (Tricolore Theatre Company, UK and Italian tour), The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch (FalconGrange Productions) and Measure for Measure (Barefaced Theatre). She also collaborates on film soundtracks, recent projects having included multi-award winning short The Furred Man, shown on Channel 4.

As a violinist and pianist Carole regularly plays with professional ensembles, recent shows having included The Boyfriend (Her Majesty’s Theatre), A Man of No Importance (Arts Theatre, Leicester Square), Spring Awakening (Bull Theatre, Barnet) and The Wiz (Palace Theatre, Southend). Carole also plays with up-and-coming acoustic rock band Cellarscape.

As an actor/musician, Carole's credits have included touring her one woman Jane Austen show The History of England (produced by the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford), and playing Mum / Violinist in last year’s Pied Piper tour Laura's Star. She is delighted to be continuing her association with Pied Piper as composer / musical director.

Lawrence works as a director, movement director and actor. Nominated for an Olivier Award for his work with Tony Harrison at the National Theatre he has worked with the poet on all his site-specific theatre pieces. He received a Best Actor Award from the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post Northwest Arts Awards and his work as an actor includes many of the regional Repertory Theatres throughout the UK as well as the National Theatre, NT studio, Cheek by Jowl, the Young Vic and Northern Broadsides. Directing work includes Associate Director at Theatre Centre 2001/2, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Irish Chamber Orchestra & Storytellers Theatre Co., The Soldier’s Tale with the internationally renowned violinist, Anthony Marwood and the Orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and The Big Enormous Present for Pied Piper. Other directing work; Polka Theatre, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company, London Bubble, the CDS New York Agents showcase, and several fringe companies. As a Movement Director his work includes the National Theatre, NT Studio, Northern Broadsides, Hampstead Theatre, Tamasha Theatre Co., and Bristol Old Vic and his co-written play Lives Worth Living is published by Heinemann Educational.