Olivia Zerphy is a director, actor, and producer who specializes in devised physical and object theater. As a director, recent works include The Crawl (Spiegeltent, Brighton Fringe), feature film The Crack with Goldfish productions (premiering Summer 2025), La Poussière, a bi-lingual, female-lead adaption of The Grapes of Wrath (La Factorie, Normandy) and Handel’s Serse (Associate Director, Opera Holland Park, London). Olivia was part of the devising team and is currently a member of the European and American touring casts of Wakka Wakka’s The Immortal Jellyfish Girl (NY Times Critics Pick). In 2021 Olivia was directed by Peter Brook in a workshop performance of The Tempest Project and The Man Who at Paris's Bouffes du Nord theater. Olivia is a recipient of the Maguire Fellowship and the Thatcher Kazan Memorial Prize for excellence in directing. She has studied at Vassar College, Moscow Art Theatre School, and L’école Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Paul is an actor based in Paris, France. In September of 2018, he played a leading role in Theatre de La Feuille’s Madman in several cities throughout China. In 2022, he joined a research group led by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne around the show The Man Who at Les Bouffes du Nord. He also played Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Irina Brook, and Polixenes in A Winter’s Tale alonside Alex Lawther, directed by Sylvain Levitte.

As director, Sam’s work includes Serse and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Holland Park); Man of One Hundred Faces (Gilded Balloon/King’s Head Theatre); and a play inspired by the life of Sierra Leonean satirist ABC Merriman-Labor: Five Years with the White Man (King’s Head Theatre). Sam’s movement direction credits include Jack Whitehall: At Large (Hammersmith Apollo/NETFLIX); Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (Greenwich House/Soho Theatre/HBO); and Jordan Brookes: BLEED (Soho Theatre).

Emily is a Paris and London-based actor. Emily’s previous work includes working with Manic Chord Theatre and performing in their 5* show Don’t Let Go, performing in La Poussière at La Factorie in Normandy and writing and performing with the Leeds Tealights in their award-winning Edinburgh sketch-comedy show in 2015. Her comedy work has been described as ‘Energetic and clever humour’ (EdFringe Review) and she received a special mention in the 2020 Mandy Comedy Competition: 'clever humour’.

Frederick is a London based composer and musician. In 2021, he founded Figure in order to pursue his passion for historically-informed performance. Frederick has led Figure in performances of Requiems by Fauré and Charpentier at Union Chapel, an immersive performance of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri at the Swiss Church in London ★★★★ The Times), and in June 2022 he first brought Figure to Opera Holland Park with Handel's Serse, prompting The Guardian to label the group as one to watch.