Sean Leclaire is a writer, actor and facilitator whose new solo show, LEELA, has been acclaimed by audiences in Europe and North America, including a week at Theatre Lab in New York City. His stage work ranges from leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac and Chekhov’s The Bear to Don Nigro’s Grotesque Lovesongs, though solo performance remains his central passion. His one-man play Small Town Boy premiered at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.

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A dual citizen of Canada and the USA, Sean is the author of three books – Hug an Angry Man and You Will See He Is Crying, Mud-Wrestling with My Mind and Stumbling into Joy – charting a gritty, compassionate journey into conscious living.

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As founding partner of Sean Leclaire & Associates, he applies emotional intelligence and Michael Chekhov techniques to help C-suite leaders, professional athletes and creatives deepen their presence and impact. He lives west of Boston, is a father and travels widely.

​Sean would venture anywhere to play Prospero in The Tempest.

Padraic has spent the past twenty years developing new plays, artists and companies. Projects he has guided from inception to production include Lindsay Joy’s Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyber Queen (NY IT Awards for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production), Lee Kaplan’s solo show BULLY (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Directing), Scott Hudson’s Sweet Storm, and Adina Taubman’s A Line in the Sand, a docudrama on the Columbine school shootings.

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As a playwright, he has been produced nationally. His play Two Thirds Home is published by Dramatists Play Service, and his award-winning solo piece Hope You Get to Eleven, or What are we going to do about Sally? has toured across the United States.

Padraic has taught his play development workshop since 2009 and serves as an adjunct professor in NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing. He helped design and led the education programme for Labyrinth Theater Company. He has held visiting artist posts at Centre College and Carleton College, is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz, and is a lifelong Yankees fan.

Katy Atwell is a Brooklyn based lighting designer whose work spans Broadway, ballet and new writing. She has served as Associate Lighting Designer on All Out, A Wonderful World, All In and Brooklyn Laundry, and as Assistant Lighting Designer on The Outsiders and Moulin Rouge. From 2016 to 2022 she was Assistant Lighting Director at New York City Ballet; she is currently Lighting Director for New Jersey Ballet, shaping repertory from new commissions to much loved classics.

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As a designer, Katy’s work includes productions for Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, Hope Repertory Theater, Brooklyn Art Haus, SMPL MCHN and Titan Theater Company, alongside projects in regional theatre, devised performance and contemporary dance. She brings a collaborative, story driven approach that draws on experience with leading designers across opera, theatre and live performance, balancing bold visual gesture with clear narrative focus and musical timing.

 

In her spare time she enjoys cycling, gardening, good food and dialogue around social and environmental change.

Rhymes with Purple (RwP) is a Scottish producing company making work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and internationally since 2005. RwP specialises in adventurous, emotionally honest performance, with a particular affection for the strange, the bold and the hard to categorise.

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RwP has collaborated with more than sixty companies and presented work across all of the major Edinburgh venues. Past shows include; Delusions and Grandeur, La Merda, Brave Space, A Shark Ate My Penis, A Terrible Show for Terrible People, Broken Planet Show, Atomic Tales) and Failsafe. Our work spans theatre, circus, cabaret and comedy, often happily blurring the edges between them.

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Led by producer, playwright and director Frodo Allan, Rhymes with Purple offers long-term, hands-on support, from dramaturgy and creative development to practical producing. RwP places accessibility, wellbeing and sustainable working practices at the centre of what they do, and actively champions LGBTQIA+ artists and those facing barriers to participation in the Arts.