Theatre DaCapo is a new international devising company of experienced, professional theatre artists.
Based in London, Theatre DaCapo is interested in bringing about new collaborations between science and theatre, and in finding fresh and interesting ways to utilise music on stage.
The company’s actors are all accomplished musicians who play live music throughout performance and have worked in close collaboration with neuro-specialists and other members of the scientific community to create Reminiscence.

MICHAEL CALLAHAN
Director/Producer
Michael Callahan has worked as an actor, director and producer throughout the central US and internationally, before recently migrating to the UK. In addition to his work at a number of major regional theatres in the US, Michael is the co-founder of Shadowape Theatre, a critically-acclaimed experimental theatre company, for whom he has produced and performed in Gorey Stories, Rope, Turn of the Screw, and Life is a Dream. In London, Michael has appeared at the Riverside Studios in National Alien Office, and in the dance theatre project Chimaera. Upcoming projects as director and/or producer include Up the Cafe de Paris (which has successfully showcased at the Old Vic Studio and Pulse Festival), and an adaptation of Vladimir Nabakov's Invitation to an Execution. In addition to his theatre work, Michael has produced and directed a series of award-winning documentary films, exploring the lives and work of Nobel-prize winning intellectuals from the last century. He lives in southwest London with his wife, Shannon, and his dog, Monkey, and teaches at the London International School of Performing Arts, one of the UK's leading centres for training in physical theatre.

EFFY EFTHMYIOU
Composer/producer
Effy Efthymiou trained at the University of Reading under Paul Rhys and has since written music for a diverse range of ensembles and has collaborated with many different artists from theatre directors and choreographers to dancers and mime artists. Effy has also worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra, touring the country with the UK’s leading composers and performers to conduct composing workshops and performances.
Composing credits for dance and theatre include:
Wherever I Hang: A Hip Hop Ballet (Arcola Theatre)
Shuti (Theatre 503)
Salonika (National Theatre Studio)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Royal Festival Hall, Ballroom Floor)
Composing credits for composition workshops with the Philharmonia Orchestra include:
Sound Ideas (Bedford Corn Exchange)
Stepping Stones ((Royal Festival Hall, Ballroom Floor)
Music For Life (Hospices in South London)
Composing credits for concert hall include:
‘Remembering’ - a piece for violin a guitar (premiered at St Mary le Strand, London)
‘Celebrity’ - a piece for Euphonium, soprano and electronics (premiered at The Space)

LITHA EFTHYMIOU
Composer /producer
Composer, Litha Efthymiou graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002 with a BA (hons) degree in Music. Since then, Litha has gone on to work as a composer, sound designer, musician (classical guitar and Jazz saxophone) and music teacher.
Theatre collaborations include: composer and sound designer for ‘Hip hop Ballet’ (Arcola Theatre), ‘The Call’ (in association with ‘Foresite’ for the new writing festival ‘Doing Lines’ - Pleasance Theatre, London), 'Fates' (in association with 'Tickle Theatre'– Theatre 503), 'A Different Kind of Truth' (in conjunction with 'Question Mark Theatre' - Jane Holloway Hall, Surrey). Litha has also composed music for several short films and animation. Concerts include St Mary Le Strand Church (Oct 2005) in which Litha premiered a new work for string quartet. Litha has also written music for the renowned ensemble, The Delta Sax Quartet (Jan 2006) and the Myriad Ensemble (Jan 2006). Awards and prices:
Litha’s work for wind sextet won a place in the 10th London New wind Festival in November 2007.

AMY RUSSELL
Dramaturge

Amy has collaborated as dramaturge on devising projects since 1994. Professional credits as a dramatist include "Killing Lincoln," "Je t'embrasse, Elvis," "Bloody Mary," "Alice," "Out of the Net," and an original adaptation of the Oresteia, "The Millenium: Oresteia". Dramaturgical credits with the Touchstone Ensemble in the U.S. have included "Don't Drop Grandma," "Christmas City Follies" and "fish".  Amy teaches devising at the London International School of the Performing Arts.

ARNIM FRIESS
Scenography - Lighting - Projection design

Arnim trained and worked as a photographer and audio-visual media designer in his native Germany, before moving to the UK to study Scenography, receiving an MA at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He is the founding member of digital content creator pixelbox ltd, which specialises in designing dynamic performance environments and blending visual media such as lighting, slide and video projection, animation, film-making and graphic design. His work has been seen in the UK, Canada, the USA, Ireland, India, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Denmark, spanning diverse performing arts from theater to opera and ballet via puppetry, Indian dance, experimental music and children’s shows.  Recent designs include ‘Joe Guy’ for Theatre Fahodzi at Soho Theatre, ‘Looking for JJ’ for Pilot Theatre at the Unicorn, ‘One Night in November’, ‘Monged’ and the ‘Mysteries’ for the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, 'An Inspector calls' at Theatr Clwyd, Kaos Theatre 'Mine' (Tour) and 'The White Album' at the Nottingham Playhouse. Past designs have been science-fiction opera ‘The Pitchshifter’ for leading Dutch contemporary music ensemble Insomnia, award winning ‘Rumblefish’, ’Road’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Pilot Theatre, bricks-in-space spectacle ‘Life on Mars’ at Legolands worldwide, the appearance of hundreds of angels inside St Pauls Cathedral for the City of London Festival, ‘Amour’ for Oval Theatre London and the Dance-Centre Toronto,  'Moll Flanders', ‘Metropolis’ and ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ for Kaos Theatre, ‘Paradise’ for Birmingham Rep, ‘Angels in America’ at the Sheffield Crucible, ‘Oliver’ at the Liverpool Playhouse, Mozart’s ‘Mass in C-minor’ for the Birmingham Royal Ballett, Hanif Kureishi’s ‘My beautiful laundrette’ for Snap Theatre, ‘The Wall’, ‘King’ and Philipp Glass ‘Satyagraha’ for Midlands Arts Centre, Bryony Lavery’s ‘Shot through the heart’ amongst others for Pentabus Theatre, and ‘Hard Day’s Night’ for Hull Truck Theatre Company.  Arnim also works as a photographer and graphic designer. He lives in Warwickshire with his wife Susanne, daughters Ella and Amelie, and an overly dramatic cat. He enjoys playing drums and experimental cooking for fearless friends.
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