Our People
Olly Langdon
Artistic Director
Olly co-founded Kilter and has produced, directed, written and devised for all the major site-specific productions. He is also a core performer. He lives with Caroline near Larkhall, in Bath.
For Bath Spa University, Olly mentors dance/theatre graduates and runs various workshops for third year performing arts students. He has also delivered talks on establishing your own theatre company, creating your own work and running a Low Carbon Arts Practise (University of Bath). He is an active member of Transition Town Bath having been part of the original steering group.
Olly has a BA Hons in English from Birmingham University and trained in physical theatre at Jacque Lecoq in Paris. As a freelance performer and director he has toured nationwide and across Europe and Africa. He has worked extensively in London, creating site-specific and devised theatre for Bold & Saucy, Ladder To The Moon, StrangeFace, Glue, Fuse and BAC. He also co-created a Climate Change educational tour for Save Our World, and co-directed 60 community cast for The Southwark Mysteries in Southwark Cathedral in 2010. In the South West he has worked with Award Winning Dance Theatre company, Precarious, Angel Exit, the Ustinov, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre West and Idiot Child. He was Movement Director for the egg’s annual show at Prior Park.
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When he isn’t creating theatre, Olly is usually found tilling the soil on his and Caroline’s allotment in Bath.
olly {at} kiltertheatre {dot} org07980 882010
Claire Wyatt
Director
Claire trained as an actress at Guildford School of Acting. As well as being a founder of Kilter, she also works as a sustainability advisor for environmental charity Forum for the Future.
As well as Kilter, Claire has worked as an actress and deviser for Bold & Saucy, The Fat Doreen Collective and Fuse. She’s also performed in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s Bard Birthday Trails as a ‘Guerilla Sonneteer’ to unsuspecting Londoners. She has produced in the West End with her first theatre company, True Red, and can often be heard playing all kinds of different aliens and weird creatures in the Dr Who audio series. Claire lives in London with her husband and guinea pigs and is never happier than when she is in the garden.
Caroline Garland
Director
Caroline is a co-Founder and Joint Director of Kilter, directing, writing and devising for all eight of Kilter’s productions. She is also a core performer.
Caroline trained at Bretton Hall College Of Arts (1998-2001) in Theatre Acting and Devised performance, specialising in Site Specific Devising and Performance in her final year.
Caroline has also mentored dance theatre graduates from Bath Spa University and has run various workshops and devised shows over the years in London, Luton and the South West for performing arts students, adults, community casts, young offenders and secondary school drama students. She is an active member of The Transition Town movement and has devised street theatre performances for Friends of the Earth and a Boal Forum Theatre event for Mother Courage.
Before moving to Bath in 2008 Caroline lived and worked in London as a freelance performer, touring nationwide and around Europe. She was a Total Theatre Award Nominee in Storytelling in 2008. Caroline has been hired extensively as a core devisor, performer and improvisor for Tall Stories, Bold and Saucy, Ladder To The Moon, Glue and Coup De Theatre. She has worked on a number pieces of contemporary writing for The National Theatre Studio and Theatre 503. Since moving to the South West she has performed with The Tobacco Factory, Bristol Old Vic, The Ustinov, Theatre West, Picture This art film company, Suited & Booted, The Natural Theatre Company and filmed TV Pilot BLOCK, as well as worked for ‘the egg’ End Games seasons.
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Caroline lives in Bath with Olly, enjoying their outdoor lifestyle, and she’s an avid letter writer.
caroline {at} kiltertheatre {dot} org
07866 790057
Jonathon Porritt
Patron
Jonathon became a patron of Kilter in 2009.
He first made his name as a prominent member of the Green Party before becoming the Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain. He co-founded the groundbreaking sustainable development charity Forum for the Future in 1996 and is also a patron of the Optimum Population Trust. For the last nine years he has been chair of the Sustainable Development Commission. He wanted to become Kilter’s patron because he believes:
“Theatre has a vital role to play in engaging people on the most pressing issues of our times – and what could be more pressing than climate change and the need to find more sustainable ways of living?”
A substantial re-write of his bestselling book ‘Capitalism: As if the World Matters’ was published by Earthscan in September 2007.