Je l’aime

JE L’AIME was written by Tristan Bernays, an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been presented at Shakespeare’s Globe, Soho Theatre, Bush Theatre, the National Theatre Studio and Southwark Playhouse. His play Boudica was staged at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2017, with Gina McKee in the title role. Old Fools premiered at Southwark Playhouse in 2018 and received four Off West End Award nominations, including Best New Play. Tristan is fluent in Spanish and French.

Sophie Larsmon is a Creative Director of live, immersive experiences and the European Associate of experience design pioneers Odyssey Works.

Credits include: Where Does The Sea End (Co-Creative Director, Odyssey Works); STOREHOUSE (Creative Director, Sage & Jester); There Are Mountains Beneath Us (Co-Creative Director, Odyssey Works); The Road to Taz (Co-Creative Director, Odyssey Works); The Book of Separation (Dramaturg, Odyssey Works); Souvenir (Director, Any One Thing); Recollection (Director, Any One Thing); My Brilliant Friend (Associate Director, National Theatre & Rose Theatre Kingston); The Tell-Tale Heart (Staff Director, National Theatre); Mrs Henderson Presents (Associate Director, West End & Theatre Royal Bath); Oh! What A Lovely War (Associate Director, Theatre Royal Stratford East & UK Tour); The Bread & The Beer (Director, Soho Theatre & National Tour); Mummy (Director, National Tour); Inside Pussy Riot (CSM, Les Enfants Terribles); Romeo & Juliet (CSM, Secret Cinema); Beyond The Waterfall (Creative Director, Bompas & Parr); The Twits (CSM, Bompas & Parr and Les Enfants Terribles).

Her producing credits include programming the Old Vic's inaugural Voices Off season, and new writing for Paines Plough, curious directive and Metis Arts. She is a regular Guest Lecturer on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck College and the Experience Design Certificate Programme for Odyssey Works.

Georgina is a graduate of the Oxford School of Drama, and upon graduating was nominated for the prestigious Spotlight Prize.

She has been working solidly in theatre over the past few years and most recently celebrated her West End debut, starring as Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap. 

She enjoys supporting the development of new writing and has collaborated on numerous emerging works across multiple UK theatres.

Theatre credits include:
The Mousetrap - St Martin’s Theatre (West End)

Wilko: Love, Death & Rock 'n' Roll – Leicester Square Theatre / Southwark Playhouse

The Unicorn – The Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh

New Face for, Fast Times – Soho Theatre, Henry V – Rose Playhouse

Machinal – Pegasus Theatre

Screen credits include:

The Death of Bunny Munro – Sky, Suspicion – Discovery HD, Geek Island – UKTV

Sushant Shekhar trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and the Fontainebleau School of Acting.

His recent theatre credits include Nazrul in Indian Ink (Hampstead Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath), Sophia (Eastern Angles), and Sir Robert Dudley in Three Queens (Barons Court Theatre). He has also appeared in The Queen Is Dead (Marylebone Theatre), Made by God and A Punch in the Face (Theatre 503), and The Knowing (Brockley Jack Theatre).

Other credits include the short film Badger and the music video for Dogs. Sushant is excited to be returning to the role of Vic in Je L’Aime.

Parisian Movement Director Félicia Dotsé is a dancer, choreographer and movement coach with a passion for exploring connections between art, psychology, neuroscience and well-being. She is Visiting Professor at this year’s College of Extraordinary Experiences in Poland.

West End credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (15 casts between 2017-2026), The Mousetrap, Killer Joe, Adrian Mole and The Wider Earth. 

UK Tours include: War of the Worlds, Frankenstein, Macbeth (imitating the dog), The Shark is Broken (Kenny Wax Productions), Birdsong, The Mirror Crack’d, Murder at Midnight, The Croft, The Night Watch, Night Must Fall, Wait Until Dark (Original Theatre), (the) Woman, The Swearing Jar (New Perspectives), And Then There Were None (Fiery Angel), Handbagged, Dusty (Eleanor Lloyd Productions), Arcadia (ETT), As You Like It (Shared Experience), The Turn of the Screw (Dermot McLaughlin Prods).

Regional credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman), Buffoon, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Hypochondriac (Sheffield Crucible); The Penelopiad, Little Women, The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal), A Christmas Carol (Bolton Octagon), This is a Love Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); A Christmas Carol, Welfare, Alice in Wonderland (Derby Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Belfast); Playhouse Creatures, Blue Remembered Hills & Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre); Peter Pan & Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre Kingston); They Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Mercury Colchester); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield); William Wordsworth, Miss Julie, After the Dance (TBTL); Ladies Day (Wolverhampton Grand). 

Other London credits include: Heartsink (Riverside), (the) Woman, Antigone (on strike), 23.5hours, Madame Rubinstein & The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre); Ages of the Moon & The Permanent Way (Vaults); Fool for Love (Found111); The Girl Who Fell, A Guide for the Homesick, 3 Women (Trafalgar Studios); Children of the Night, Romeo and Juliet, A Lie of the Mind, Doubt (Southwark); Dirty Great Love Story (Arts); Sideways (St James). 

Children’s casting: The King and I, Wind in the Willows (London Palladium); Macbeth (UK Tour - Wessex Grove).

Oliwia Kossakowska is a London-based animator, motion and graphic designer working internationally across theatre, film and immersive experiences. She holds a BA in Photography and an MA in Graphics from Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her credits include the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre in Vilnius, Kaunas National Drama Theatre, and leading Polish contemporary theatres such as TR Warszawa and Teatr Studio, alongside UK theatre and immersive productions including Lost Origin, Wishmas and Storehouse. She founded London-based Mobipictures, which co-produced the international India–Poland–UK animated feature Quo Vadis, on which she served as art director and co-producer. She represents the seventh generation of artists in a family with a long tradition of photography, architecture and painting.

Rebecca is a London based movement director, actor and director. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with English National Ballet, before training as an actor in 2015.

Rebecca has an MA (Distinction) in Movement Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2023 and was named as “One to watch” by Broadway World for movement on Ravenscourt at Hampstead Theatre in 2022.

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

A Christmas Carol (Reading Rep); The Urmetazoan, Fatherland, Biscuits for Breakfast, Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre); Ruth, Musik (Wilton’s Music Hall); Guys and Dolls, Duet for One (Frinton Summer Season); Persona -Lumen prize nominated 2024 (Saatchi Gallery); Roberto Zucco, 2nd year BA Actors (Fourth Monkey); Hamlet, BA (Hons) CDT 2nd year Bridge Project (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Painting (The White Bear).

CHOREOGRAPHER

Pickled (National Film & Television School); I’m King, Drag Performance (RVT, Ivan - If - A – Boy)
Assistant Choreographer - Addams Family, 2nd year BA Musical Theatre (London College of Music)
Choreographer, director, writer, performer - Lockdown Palladium, live-streamed, producer Jeremy Stockwell

INTIMACY COORDINATOR/ DIRECTOR

The Urmetazoan (Hampstead Theatre); Ruth (Wilton’s Music Hall); Me to You (National Film & Television School)

DIRECTOR

Playing the Feeld (Riverside Studios); Fuck Me, I’m Grieving (Hope Theatre, Islington)

Maisie has a commitment to safety, storytelling and empowering actors. She has recently worked on Gavin and Stacey: The Finale, Rob and Romesh and The Hunger Games on Stage. She opened her own company, MC_Combat, it is dedicated to advocating for female fight performers and offering specialised training in stage and screen combat. Maisie hopes to continue pushing the boundaries and bringing stories to life through action. 

Fight/Intimacy Director Credits: Hunger Games (Troubadour Canary Wharf); Lear (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Land of the Living (National Theatre); Sweeney Todd, The Battle (Birmingham Rep); Mousetrap (UK Tour), Unfortunate (The Other Place) 

Fight Director Credits: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Commitments, The Boy at the Back of the Class, Bluebeard (UK tours); The Leftbehinds (National Theatre); Dark of the Moon (Charing Cross); The Psychic (York Theatre Royal); Art (Repertory Philippines); Clueless (West End); Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Crucible, The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Da Vinci Code (Salisbury Playhouse); Backstroke (Donmar); Reykjavik, The Divine Mrs S, Animal Kingdom, Malindadzimu (Hampstead Theatre); Gone Too Far (National Youth Theatre); The Clinic (Almeida); Favour; Fair Play (Bush Theatre); The Virgins, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Lava (Soho Theatre); Grimes, Figaro, Candide, Tosca, Il trittico (Welsh National Opera); Rigoletto (Royal Opera House); Romeo and Juliet (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Tosca (Grange Festival); Summer 1954 (English Touring Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Antic Disposition); Mother Goose, Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire); The Mountaintop (The Theatre, Chipping Norton); Sad (Omnibus Theatre); Animal Farm, Robin Hood, The Sweet Science of Bruising (The Egg Theatre); Firebird (King’s Head Theatre); Bag Girls (Albany Theatre).

Associate Fight Director Credits: Kiss Me, Kate (Barbican); An Officer and a Gentleman, Bugsy Malone (UK tours); The Drifters Girl (West End); Les Misérables (West End).

Fight Coordinator Credits: Gavin & Stacey: The Finale; The Wasp; Rob and Romesh; The Forge; Weapon; Prologue.

Founder Ilma Tiki - Nausedaite is an entrepreneur and experience designer who co-founded MailerLite, helping to grow it into a global business serving more than one million customers before its successful sale. Alongside her business career, she has supported contemporary art through international exhibitions and cultural projects in Lithuania, New York and across Europe. These include contributing to the production of Sun & Sea (Marina), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. In recognition of her contribution to the arts, she received the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture’s highest honour for cultural patronage.