We’re excited to share this beautiful showreel filmed edited by David Monteith-Hodge www.photographise.com
The DH Ensemble is a professional United Kingdom based Deaf and hearing led theatre company which formed in 2013.
Our showreel features footage from our live theatre productions People of the Eye, Nodus Tollens, Fair is Foul (in development) and Mathilda and the Orange Balloon.
These shows were created and performed across the UK between 2014 and 2019.
We create live performance using a mixture of movement, British Sign Language, Spoken English, creative captions, video projection and soundscapes. Our rehearsal and devising processes employs our unique style of long form improvisation inspired by Viewpoints and play theory and adapted to be accessible for Deaf and hearing artists.
The reel features the following actors (in order of appearance):
Hermon Berhane, Ace Mahbaz, Tessa Parr, David Sands, Sophie Stone, Stephen Collins, Erin Siobhan Hutching, Mia Ward, Adam Jay-Price, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Emily Howlett
All shows were directed by Jennifer K. Bates.
Other artists involved in the production of these shows:
People of the Eye:
Devised by Sophie Stone, Erin Siobhan Hutching and Emily Howlett.
Erin Siobhan Hutching & Jennifer K. Bates (Creative Producers), Jennifer Fletcher (Movement Direction), Samuel Dore (Videographer), Emma Houston (Soundscape), Myriddin Wannell (Set design), Rachel Sampley (Lighting Designer and Production Manager), David Monteith-Hodge (Photography & Film documentation), Nadia Nadarajah (BSL/Movement), Andrew Muir (Dramaturg).
Nodus Tollens:
Stephen Collins (dramaturg), Erin Siobhan Hutching (Creative Producer), Andrea Carr (designer), Rosemary Elliott-Dancs (design assistant/ costume maker), Becky Firth (set builder), Brian Duffy (Movement/VV)
Research and Development performers: Erin Siobhan Hutching, Stephen Collins, Brian Ferguson, David Sands, Charmaine Wombwell, Hermon Berhane.
Research & Development Movement - Mark Smith (Deaf Men Dancing)
Production photographs by David Monteith-Hodge, rehearsal photographs by Becky Bailey
Fair is Foul (in development):
Lighting Designer - Rachel Sampley (developed with Clancy Flynn)
British Sign Language / Visual Vernacular Consultant - Brian Duffy
Shakespeare Consultant / Dramaturg - Ben Spiller (1623 Theatre Company)
Creative Producer - Erin Siobhan Hutching
Photography and Videography - David Monteith-Hodge
Translation processes consultant - Dr Lindsay Snyder
Developed with performers Sandy Grierson, Nadeem Islam, William Grint, Vilma Jackson
Mathilda and the Orange Balloon:
Additional direction: Stephen Collins (Stephen will be Co-Director for the 2021 production)
Playwright Jess Kaufman (Devised with The DH Ensemble)
Book author: Randal de Seve
Creative Producers Erin Siobhan Hutching and Jess Kaufman
BSL Translation and Consultancy by Jean St Clair
Set Design and Illustrations by Jo Sargeant
Movement by Jennifer Fletcher
Lighting design and projection design by Rachel Sampley (with Phil Massingham)
Sound design by Oliver Vibrans. R&D sound design by Jess Kaufman and Aaron Barker
Outside eyes Peter Glanville, Rachel Barnett
Photography and Videography by David Monteith-Hodge
Clowning workshop Jon Davison
Audio Description Consultancy Chloe Phillips (integrated AD to be developed for the 2021 tour)
Special thanks to BSL interpreters Susan Booth, Clare Edwards, Kathy Yeoman, Naomi Bottrill, Tracey Tyer, Naomi Gray, Kate Furby, Beverley Wilson, Paul Michaels, Stephen Hudson, Chris Curran, Sophie Allen, Jo Ross, Laura Goulden, Caroline Richardson, Martin Fox-Roberts, Sandy Deo, Daniel Roberts, Sula Gleeson