The Team
Hero Douglas - Artistic Director
Hero is a writer, director, composer and performer, whose music and writing are underscored by a commitment to environmentalism and living sustainably.
She has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Wembley Arena, as well as at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, on S4C, BBC, Sky and Channel 4. As a harpist, she has been a finalist at the International Harp Festival. In 2023, she was commissioned to compose a song for the Yr Wyddfa plastic-free campaign and her music has previously reached number five in the iTunes Charts.
As an actor, Hero played one of the young women of Salem in The Crucible at The National Theatre in 2022. Previously she played Cecilia in the European premiere of The Last Tycoon at the Art’s Theatre and Sibyl in The Picture of Dorian Gray for Ruby in the Dust Theatre Company.
Hero is currently completing a PhD in composition at Bangor University. She has an MA in music from Oxford, where she was a Crankstart scholar, and studied at Chetham’s School of Music.
She wrote the musical Mad Cow and has co-written the musical Poorly Planet with Dixe Wills. Both shows will be performed at the Garlinge Theatre in 2024. She has also written a full-length screenplay.
Jonny Hibbs - Choreographer
Jonny trained as a young musician and chorister at Chetham’s School of Music before switching his training to dance at London Studio Centre where he worked with contemporary choreographers such as Jack Philp and Faye Stoeser (ELKEIDO). He graduated with first-class honours and an accompanying achievement in contemporary dance award in 2023. Jonny has since choreographed for the Centre of Advanced Training Scheme (Exeter), movement directed for his short film projects and is currently working on his first solo commission for Villages In Action.
As a performer and writer, Jonny appeared as Tristan in The Waringham Chronicles for Audible (2019) and wrote a radio play for the BBC’s New Creative Scheme (2018).
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Jonny is choreographing Mad Cow and playing Rebel his first Musical Theatre role.
Tegan O’Hara - Prop artist
Tegan is a multidisciplinary artist who makes work with and about natural systems. She is often found foraging for natural ink, creating creaturely performances and writing fiction from the perspective of compost piles.
Tegan studied at The Ruskin School of Art and spent her university years exploring themes of fecundity, entropy and land art. During her degree, she completed a residency with Hebridean land artist Julie Brooks, won the ‘Egerton Coghil Landscape Prize’ 2020, and participated in numerous projects and exhibitions that explored interwoven relationships with the natural world.
She has produced sets, props and costumes for orchestras, production companies and carnival dancers. As a performer, she featured in ‘Mourning’ as part of The Ashmolean Musem’s ‘Spellbound: Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft’ exhibition.
Recently, she has been exploring art that communicates climate science, since graduating she has worked with art and ecology work group ‘The Flute & The Bowl’, with whom she has co-produced exhibitions, lab visits and workshops communicating climate science at Le 6B, Paris, Oxford Museum of Natural History, COP26 and Latitude Festival.
