Moveable Feast Productions

Matthew Bellwood

Matthew is a freelance theatre-maker based in Leeds. He has written and produced three shows for Moveable Feast, City of Stories, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and Aesop’s Fables (a co-write with Pam Hilton). He also works as a workshop-leader, storyteller and puppet maker for the company.
Matthew is also the co-founder (with Harriet Plewis) of London-based theatre company, the awkwards. His recent work has taken him as far afield as Canada and New Zealand.
Matthew holds a bachelors degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University of Kent and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has also studied at the Institute of Dramaturgy in Aarhus, Denmark and is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writer's programme.
For more info about Matthew, please visit www.somestories.co.uk.

Amy Levene

Amy is a freelance set and costume designer and artist, based in Leeds. She studied for four years at Oxford University, and has been involved with over twenty productions at the Oxford Playhouse and Old Fire Station, as well as taking a production of The Taming Of The Shrew round Tokyo, Tsukuba and Kani, Japan. She has also worked on projects with Chapel Allerton Primary School, Allerton Grange High School and a Leeds City Council production that toured to the Millenium Dome and West Yorkshire Playhouse. As well as Moveable Feast, Amy regularly designs for the Abbey Shakespeare Players in St Dogmael's, Wales.

Pam Hilton

Pam brings varied experience of acting, directing, teaching and song writing to Moveable Feast. She recently played Queen Pumzela (along with a few other roles) in City of Stories and appeared as an assortment of characters (both human and animal) in Aesop's Fables.

Outside the company, she has toured Willy Russell's brilliant one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, performed as Sheila in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking and as Ratty in her own Musical adaptation of Wind in the Willows.

On TV, Pam has been seen in Heartbeat, Emmerdale and A Touch of Frost.

Pam doubles as the company's musical director and co-writer with Matthew Bellwood; she is also responsible for costumes and has recently added puppetry to her many skills.

Sarah Oldknow

Sarah is an experienced actor, director, workshop facilitator and now puppeteer. She has also worked as a freelance arts worker, having previously been contracted with the Yorkshire Dance Centre, Yorkshire Youth & Music, Phoenix Dance Company and fabric. She now mainly concentrates on her work as an actor as well as being General Manager for Moveable Feast Productions.

Sarah has directed City Of Stories for both autumn tours and has played Jo in A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing and various animals in Aesop's Fables.

In addition to her work with the company, she has toured extensively in various theatre productions - most recently as Alizon Devize in Yvonne Pinnington's critically acclaimed production about the Pendle Witches, Cold Light Singing. For a more extensive look at Sarah's acting and directing work, see www.actorsdirect.org.uk.