I'm an actor, musician and creative facilitator from Salford, Greater Manchester based in LondonI am a graduate of National Youth Theatre’s award-winning REP Company (2022/23 cohort). Recently, I designed sound for Replica by Titas Halder for NT Connections and Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. I'm currently developing my own gig-theatre show Terminal Sound with support from the Lowry, Salford.An Emerging Associate of the NYT and a member of the Association of Sound Design and Production, my work blurs lines between musician and actor and I've performed in many hybrid roles with companies including The Pappy Show, the National Youth Theatre, CONTACT and HighRise Theatre among others.Recent acting credits include: Doctors (BBC), Bakkhai (National Youth Theatre), Gone Too Far! (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Much Ado About Nothing (Duke of Yorks Theatre), Handel & Hendrix (Somerset House) and others.Recent sound design and/or composer credits include: Bright.Young.Things. (Storyhouse Chester) GASH Theatre Needs Some Space (Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe) and The Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance)Training includes: National Youth Theatre REP Company, CONTACT Young Company and ArtsLab (North Wall Arts Centre)Please direct all acting inquiries to Claire Hoath: office@clairehoathmanagement.com
Production | Role | Company | Venue | Project Details |
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IGNITE your creativity | facilitator | NETFLIX | var. Schools | - |
Hormonal Teenage Virgin s*x play | sound designer | what is, what is productions | the way theatre, Leigh | dir. Debbie Bandara |
Nyt backstage intake course | course coordinator | National youth Theatre | Rose Bruford College | - |
Angel Shed Music collective | Lead Facilitator | Angel Shed Theatre | Angel Shed Theatre | - |
nyt backstage community workshops | Facilitator | National Youth Theatre | Various schools and youth theatres | - |
replica | sound designer | Green shoe arts/National Theatre Connections | Queen's Theatre Hornchurch | dir. Maisie Newman |
Clash | Sound Designer | Highrise Theatre | JW3 | R&D |
Terminal Sound | Writer / Composer | The Lowry | The Lowry, Salford | Commissioned for Scratch Night x Musical Theatre @ The Lowry |
Bright. Young. Things. | composer | Storyhouse | Storyhouse Theatre, Chester | dir. Grainne Flynn |
NYT Backstage intake course | Course Assistant | National Youth Theatre | Rose Bruford, Sidcup | Course led by Ben Osborn |
scene through a lens | composition | Digital Theatre Plus/National Youth Theatre | Online | For 'Glass Menagerie' dir. Meghan Doyle |
The Loud Pack @ The V&A | DJ | HighRise Theatre | Victoria and Albert Museum | V&A Performance Festival 2023 |
The Bakkhai | additional composition | NYT REP Company | National youth theatre | dir. Maisie Newman, translation by Anne Carson |
COVID Song Cycle | Sound Artist | CONTACT | Documentary | - |
The Other Side | composer / music director | SwitchMCR | 53Two | dir. Gabriel Clark |
GASH Theatre needs some SPACE | Sound Designer / Composer | GASH Theatre | Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe | - |
The Concrete Jungle Book | Assistant Music Director / Additional Composition | HighRise Theatre | The Pleasance, London | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
On the Edge (MELT) | Soundtrack | National Youth Theatre | COP26, Glasgow | Dir. Adeola Yemitan |
Saturnalia | assistant director / sound designer | Contact & HighRise Theatre | ProjektsMCR | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
1000 Days Project | Tech Assistant | SongBirds UK | Online | |
Forrest of Forgotten Discos | Soundtrack | Contact | Online | Dir. Nicola Miles-Wildin |
The Starter Kit | Sound Designer | Contact | Online | Dir. Keisha Thompson |
Project:ISOLATE | Sound Artist | WhatStick Theatre | Online | - |
We Won't Fall | Music Director | SwitchMCR | International Anthony Burgess Centre | Dir. Gabriel Clark & Andy Long |
Wait Til The End (R&D) | Music Director | The Pappy Show | North Wall Arts Centre | Dir. Kane Husbands |
(SOUND AND MUSIC CREDITS)
THEATRE//
TERMINAL SOUND, Book & Lyric, The Lowry, Meghan Doyle (2025)
HORMONAL TEENAGE VIRGIN S*X PLAY, Sound Designer, The Way Theatre, Debbie Bandara (2024)
REPLICA, Sound Designer, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch for NT Connections, Maisie Newman (2024)
CLASH (R&D), Sound Designer, JW3, Dominic Garfield (2023)
BRIGHT. YOUNG. THINGS, Composer, Storyhouse Chester, Gráinne Flynn (2023)
THE LOUD PACK, Sound Designer, V&A Museum, Dominic Garfield (2023)
BAKKHAI, Additional Sound and Music (for Ben Osborn), NYT REP, Maisie Newman (2023)
THE OTHER SIDE, Sound Designer / Composer, 53Two, Gabriel Clark (2022)
GASH THEATRE NEEDS SOME SPACE, Sound Designer & Composer, Assembly Festival Fringe, Maddie Flint and Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn (2022)
THE CONCRETE JUNGLE BOOK, Sound Designer & Additional Composition, The Pleasance, Dominic Garfield (2022)
SATURNALIA, Sound Designer, ProjektsMCR (site specific), Dominic Garfield (2021)
FORREST OF FORGOTTEN DISCOS, Soundtrack, Contact, Nicola Miles-Wildin (2021)
THE STARTER KIT, Sound Designer, Online, Keisha Thompson (2020)
WE WON'T FALL, Music Director & Sound Designer, International Anthony Burgess Centre, Gabriel Clark and Andy Long (2020)
WAIT TIL THE END (R&D), Music Director, North Wall Arts Centre, Kane Husbands for The Pappy Show (2019)FILM//
SQUEEZE, Composer, Housemate Productions (2025)
SCENE THROUGH A LENS, Composition, Digital Theatre Plus & National Youth Theatre, Meghan Doyle & Matt Harrison (2023)
COVID SONG CYCLE, Sound Artist, Contact (2023)
ON THE EDGE (MELT), Soundtrack, National Youth Theatre & COP26, Adeola Yemitan (2021)
PROJECT: ISOLATE, Sound Artist, Whatstick Theatre (2020)SOLO RELEASES//
WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY? Single Release, Mondegrin, The House That Jack Built (2024)
MONDEGRIN (SELF-TITLED), EP, Mondegrin, The House That Jack Built (2022)AWARDS
2024 Offie Award, OffComm for Independent Theatre in Greater Manchester, THE OTHER SIDE
2024 Teenage Engineering x Echo World x Purple Theory Records sample flip competition, Commendation, WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY?PRESS//
"Jack D'Arcy's sound and Elli Kypriadis' set facilitated an immersive experience and brought to life the creepy house"
★★★★ Fairy Powered Productions on THE OTHER SIDE"Bakkhai presents magnificent performances from the entire crew, immersive lighting and sound design, and a script and direction that is novel and relevant for our time"
★★★★ North West End UK on BAKKHAI"Where this production really wins is with the music. It was insanely good throughout the show, the grime tracks were especially good. The cast performed the music with high energy levels throughout and I would have purchased a cast recording immediately, had it been on offer."
★★★★ Lost in Theatreland on THE CONCRETE JUNGLE BOOK"The self-titled Mondegrin EP published early last month works as a kind of time machine, warping spaghetti string licks into laps of ambience, stapled between scatty breakbeats and a sympathy of synths whistling like spaceships."
METAL Magazine on MONDEGRIN (SELF-TITLED)
With a background in acting & sound design, I have a variety of experience in creative facilitation.I have led workshops for young people aged 12-25 & adults in both acting and music contexts and frequently work with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as one of 30 emerging associates.Currently, I am lead music facilitator for Angel Shed Theatre in Islington. In this role, I lead a team of 4 volunteers, 2 access support workers and 1 assistant in running weekly sessions to a diverse group of young people.I have been trained in work with SEND persons and am accredited in safeguarding via NUCO. I also possess an enhanced DBS certificate.Organisations I have worked and facilitated workshops for have included:The National Youth Theatre (Coordinated Backstage Intake Courses & Facilitating Auditions)
NETFLIX (NYT Ignite Programme Facilitator)
Contact Theatre Manchester (Lead Drama Facilitator)
Greenshoe Arts (As part of National Theatre Connections)
Battersea Arts Centre
Lewisham Youth Theatre (Outreach workshops)
and moreSome select facilitation work includes:
Role | Company | Project | Venue |
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Facilitator | Netflix / NYt | IGNITE | var. |
Lead Music facilitator | Angel Shed | Music Collective | Angel Shed Theatre, Islington |
Course Coordinator | National Youth Theatre | NYT Epic & Backstage Intake Course 2024 | Rose Bruford College |
Workshop Leader | Keisha Thompson / CONTACT | Anti-Racism workshops | var. inc Battersea Arts Centre |
Lead Facilitator | CONTACT | Drama Drop | CONTACT Theatre Manchester |
Facilitator | National youth Theatre | NYT backstage community workshops | var. schools and youth theatres |
Sound Designer / Music Facilitator | Greenshoe Arts / National Theatre Connections | replica | Queen's Theatre Hornchurch |
Course Assistant | National Youth Theatre | NYT Backstage intake course 2023 | Rose Bruford, Sidcup |
tech facilitator | - | Songbird Project | Online |
TERMINAL SOUND (WIP) || (2023-Present) dir. Meghan Doyle
Supported by The Lowry, Salford
Writer/Composer/PerformerTerminal Sound is a work in progress gig-theatre piece written and composed by Jack D’Arcy‘The Engineer’ has been brought into the home recording studio of a legendary artist, tasked with finishing his final album. All that has been left behind are copious, incomprehensible notes and cassette tapes. It’s his job to work through and complete this swan song—an album doused in morbidity, religiosity and sardonicism. As ‘The Engineer’ moves from mixing to recording, from tweaking to writing the songs, he begins to question whose final album this really is.
Hormonal Teenage Virgin S*x Play || (2024) dir. Debbie Bandara
The Way Theatre, Leigh
Sound DesignerA coming-of-age comedy drama following two teenagers exploring the world of sex, consent and intimacy for the very first time.
Lola is a bright 16 year old music lover who decides she wants to lose her virginity with her longest school friend Jensen.The good news is: Jensen is still a virgin. The bad news is: Jensen is too awkward to say any of the words that go into actually losing your virginity. When the pairs' reasons for wanting to have sex float to the surface, we are plunged into the depths of intimacy, connection and teenage hormones.
REPLICA || (2024) dir. Maisie Newman
The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
National Theatre Connections Festival & Greenshoe Arts
Sound DesignerSomething happened on the school trip. One of the class has been replaced by an exact replica of themselves. At least that’s what everyone’s saying. Once a rumour starts, it can be difficult to remember what is real – or who. Convinced that there is an impostor walking among them, a group of teenagers is determined to root out the intruder. A mystery about friendship, the nature of truth, and humanity. When it comes to it, how do you prove that you are a human?
"Whose Dream is it, Anyway?" || (2024) Mondegrin
Single ReleaseRunner-up entry for Teenage Engineering x Echo World x Purple Theory Records sample flip competition.Video employs generative graphic response using MaxMSP
Bright. Young. Things. || (2023) dir. Gráinne Flynn
Storehouse Theatre, Chester
Sound DesignerA funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are.On the set of a reality television show, six remarkable, young geniuses compete for the title ‘Britain’s Brainiest Child’. As the contestants battle it out round by round, the pressure mounts, and the spotlight gets harsher. Who will win and lose- and what exactly does winning mean anyway?
Bakkhai || (2023) dir. Maisie Newman
NYT Workshop Theatre
Additional Sound and MusicA Queer reimagining of the ancient Greek classic. Underscored with original electronic dance music and filled with raucous dance. Devised with some of Britain’s most exciting new talent from the NYT REP and adapted and directed by Maisie Newman*Tracks here developed for the R&D process in December 2022 separate to full design by Ben Osborn
COVID Song Cycle || (2023) dir. Luca Rudlin
Documentary
Additional MusicA short documentary film, charting the pilot phase of a new choral co-creation project Covid Song Cycle; which is a collaboration between Manchester-based artists – composer Michael Betteridge and poets SAF, Ella Otomewo, mandla and Princess Arinola – in co-creation workshops with four distinct community groups- Sheffield Community Choir; N-Choir; Wild Voices and York Chapter House Youth Choir.Featuring original music and poetry, written collaboratively by over 100 participants, the documentary is a meditation on the transformational power of music and words to connect, unite and empathise, highlighting both the experience and value of the collective, as well as individual, experiences in creative communities.CO-PRODUCED BY HOLLY HUNTER, MICHAEL BETTERIDGE AND CONTACT. SUPPORTED USING PUBLIC FUNDING BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, AND WITH SUPPORT FROM SUBMERGE
GASH Theatre Need Some Space || (2022) dir. Maddie Flint and Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn
Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe
Sound DesignerCome aboard the Starship Gash for a voyage of interstellar sex-ploits…
Do aliens have body image issues too?
Is there a galaxy far-far-away enough from your ex?
What’s really at the centre of a blackhole?
(Spoiler alert: it’s Demi Lovato).Gash Theatre tackles inter-dimensional bodies and sexualities,
speeding between astronaut striptease,
himbo space-drag worthy of Flash Gordon himself,
and waaaaay too many Rick and Morty references (one).
Houston, let's get NASAty.
Mondegrin || (2022)
Solo EP
ProducerA sample-based electronic project by Salford artist and producer Jack D’Arcy blending sounds of Krautrock, nursery rhymes and the
Radiophonic Workshop.Produced by Jack D'Arcy
Art Design by Elli Kypriadis
Mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound
Executive Produced by Sam Malik
Part of the the Level Up project at Contact, Manchester
Funded by Youth Music
Special thanks to Sam Malik, Tom Burford and Fiona HowardVideo for 'Morning Star' designed by Ruth Pickering | ruthpickering.com
The Other Side || (2022) dir. Gabriel Clark
53Two
Composer"From the moment we stepped inside... I knew something was off. There was a coldness, and a deep feeling that something dreadful was going to happen..."What are ghosts? When Claire’s Mother dies unexpectedly, she finds herself moving back into her childhood home with her fiancé Benjamin. As the past comes back to haunt them, she and her husband-to-be must confront their future together.
‘The Other Side’ follows a newly engaged couple as they navigate grief, loss, fear and their future while dealing with a house they didn’t want, the secrets they hold and the ghosts of their past...
Saturnalia || (2021) dir. Dominic Garfield
Contact Manchester, ProjektsMCR (site specific)
Music Director and Assistant Director/ˌsatəˈneɪlɪə/ noun:
Saturnalia: An occasion of wild revelry or indulgence.
CYC, Level Up and HighRise Theatre took over skate park ProjektsMCR to create a colosseum of celebration, imagination and revolution with an Avengers-like company of multi-talented performers including DJs, MCs, poets, dancers, musicians and storytellers.
Directed by Dominic Garfield, ‘Saturnalia’ is an immersive rave-concept performed LIVE in a skate park offering audiences the chance to transport into an underground wold of bass, politics and belonging- rising from the ashes of our brand new world.
The Starter Kit || (2021) dir. Keisha Thompson
Online
Sound DesignerWant to join ‘the movement’ but not sure where to start? Join Contact Young Company to investigate the ins and outs of social movements, and the tools you need to re-imagine the future.
We Won't Fall || (2020) dir. Gabriel Clark & Andrew Long
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Music DirectorManchester, 2020. 80s music, homosexuality, unregistered pregnancies and artistic expression is illegal. A group of young activists return to their bar after a protest against the government. Their lives are about to change forever.
Switch_MCR Presents We Won't Fall A dystopian play exploring community, rebellion and the lives of a group of young activists living in a country policed by a far right government.
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