Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale

Tom, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer based in Bristol, has cultivated a professional career spanning over a decade. His expertise encompasses songwriting and production, honed across various platforms, including screen, stage, and studio.

Since 2014, Tom has collaborated with The Wardrobe Ensemble as an associate artist, receiving support from the PRS Foundation and Help Musicians UK. His composer/sound design credits for theatre include Robin Hood: Legend of the Forgotten Forest (Bristol Old Vic), 1972: The Future of Sex (Wardrobe Ensemble), SouthWestern (Wardrobe Ensemble), The Unmarried (Lauren Gauge), The Great Gatsby (Wardrobe Theatre/Wardrobe Ensemble), The Wind in the Willows (Wardrobe Ensemble), STOMA The Musical (BBC Calling the Shots), The Rocky Shock (Wardrobe Theatre) and Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze (Mouths of Lions).

Laïla Diallo
Movement Consultant

Laïla is a Canadian-born performer, movement director and choreographer based in Bristol. 

Movement direction/choreography credits include: The Man Who Planted Trees (Company Six-0), The Snowy Day (Can’t Sit Still/Polka Theatre), Arch (Kaleider), The Winter’s Tale, Oliver Twist (Tobacco Factory Theatres), ABBA Voyage live band movement direction; The Pearl Fishers, Rigoletto, Otello, Un Ballo in Maschera (Opera North); War and Peace, Aïda (Canadian Opera Company); Emilia, Three Seagulls (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); Wonder Boy, Nutcracker (Bristol Old Vic); Cappricio (Garsington); Thérèse Raquin, All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre); The Prince of Homburg, Dance of Death (Donmar); Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Days of Significance (RSC, Tricycle).

Madeleine Girling
Designer

Frankenstein (Donmar Warehouse Schools Tour); A Streetcar Named Desire (Almeida, West End and BAM, New York), Amélie the Musical (West End/ The Other Palace/ Watermill Theatre/ UK tour, Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical); The Windsors: Endgame; The Importance of Being Earnest (Prince of Wales); The Winter’s Tale; Always Orange; Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; The Ant and the Cicada (RSC); Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston); Embrace (Birmingham Royal Ballet/ Sadler’s Wells); CinderELLA: A New Musical (Nuffield Southampton); The Taming of the Shrew (Sherman / Tron); Blue Door (Theatre Royal Bath); The Weir (ETT); Steel (Sheffield); Julie (Northern Stage); The Double Dealer; Little Light (Orange Tree); Kindertransport; A Skull in Connemara; Time and the Conways (Nottingham Playhouse); The Open House (Theatre Royal Bath/ Print Room); The Shape of the Pain (China Plate); Go Between (Young Vic); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Right Now (Theatre Royal Bath/ Bush / Traverse); The Harvest (Theatre Royal Bath/ Soho); The Chronicles of Kalki (Gate).

Awards include: Broadway World UK Award for Best Set Design of a New Production of a Play or Musical (Amélie the Musical).

Lydia Cook
Associate Director

Lydia Cook is a Bristol-based theatre director and maker, creating bold, playful, and imaginative work that often incorporates music and movement.

She is committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities, including the global majority, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse communities, and to sharing stories that are often overlooked. Lydia strives to make theatre accessible, engaging, and enjoyable for everyone.

Her recent credits include Ohio (Edinburgh Fringe; Young Vic, London), How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic, Norwich Theatre Royal, and Edinburgh Fringe), Holes (Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China; Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol), Arabella (Hampton Court and Kensington Palaces), Oliver Twist (Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol), Emilia (Circomedia, Bristol), Return to the Forbidden Planet and Little Shop of Horrors (The Egg, Bath), and The Future is Beige (Bristol Old Vic).

Hugo Dodsworth
Associate Lighting Designer & Programmer

Hugo is a Performance Designer working across disciplines of set, lighting, and video design. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School after reading Italian and History of Art at UCL. 

Theatre credits include DEAR ANNIE, I HATE YOU (Pleasance Courtyard, Riverside Studios), DEAR YOUNG MONSTER (Soho Theatre, Bristol Old Vic), NIGHT WAKING (An Tobar and Mull Theatre), HENRY V, CATASTROPHE BAY, BABYTALES, and LOAM (Bristol Old Vic), THE LAST ONE, and THIS LITTLE EARTH (Arcola), MARIUPOL (Pleasance Courtyard, Cockpit Theatre), SENSORY CINDERS (Soho Place), THE CRUCIBLE (the egg, Theatre Royal Bath), MACHINAL, THE WHITE DEVIL, MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, LYSISTRATA, THE VISIT, and BETWEEN THE ROOTS AND WINGS (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), BRAND NEW ANCIENTS, ANGELS IN AMERICA, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, BALM IN GILEAD, and DARKNET (Tobacco Factory Theatres), ANSWERING MACHINES (East Riding Theatre), ILLUSION and SAINT JOAN (Bloomsbury Theatre), THE TELEPHONE, and LA VOIX HUMAINE (Playground Theatre), FAME WHORE (Kings Head Theatre), NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (Cockpit Theatre), HOW YOU DIED (Old Red Lion), THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT (The Station), GIRL IN THE MACHINE (Wardrobe Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Redgrave Theatre), LITTLE LIGHT (Tower Theatre).