Richard has had a broad and diverse career as a keyboard player in a jazz-funk band, a medical researcher, bio-engineer at Brunel Uni with Heinz Wolff, micro-gravity researcher with ESA, and as a creator of location-based educational games for children. An obsessive inventor, Richard still experiments with computer boards building everything from door entry systems, cat feeding devices and musical instruments.
Martin is an award-winning theatre director who originally trained as a graphic designer but has also extensively worked in stage, TV and film. He helped to found The Co-Active Theatre Factory, the Brighton-based collective staging critically acclaimed plays in London. Martin has also produced, written, directed and edited many TV and film projects with his company Moth Media.
John has been an actor, writer and director for thirty-five years. He has performed in film, television and in theatres worldwide, performed in repertory theatre, the West End and Broadway, and been a member of The National Theatre and The RSC. He has written and performed for many years with The National Theatre of Brent: a comedy double act with shows on television, radio and theatre.
Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals around the world.
Neil is well-known as a TV writer/presenter on BBC4 with his hugely successful series’ Sound of Cinema, The Music that Made the Movies (2013), Sound of Song (2015), Sound of Musicals (2017) and Sound of Movie Musicals (2018). He is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Film Programme, a Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Visiting Professor of the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded the BASCA Gold Badge in 2016.
