People
Gerry Flanagan - Artistic Director
Gerry Flanagan has worked with many companies including Theatre de Complicite, the David Glass Ensemble and Bubble Theatre. He worked in Italy for two years, teaching clowning and performing with Clown Selvaggio. In 1991 he co-founded Commotion. Joint Artistic Director of the company, he appeared in all their shows – Point of Departure, No Matter What, The Quest for Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Get Out of Here. Directors for the company included John Wright, Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermot. Gerry’s directing credits include Karton NachHawaii for Theatre Kurt in Frankfurt; Window to The Moon and Wolf at The Door for Phil Gunderson; Fools!Fools!Fools! and Don’t Let Go for Chung Ying Theatre Company in Hong Kong ; When in Rome and I am a Viking for Gonzo Moose; The Mask of Prospero for Glasshouse Productions. He has directed all the Shifting Sands shows. Gerry has taught Clown and related subjects for the last nineteen years in universities, colleges, schools plus the Circus Space and the City Literary Institute, London


Julian Hanby - Designer/Technician
As theatre designer and technician he has previously worked with Gerry Flanagan and Shifting Sands Theatre on a number of touring shows as well as many workshops and community theatre projects. He also designed set and sound for The Bitches Ball, Penny Dreadful Productions’ first major touring show, and regularly works as a technician and stage manager for Opera Della Luna. Since 1996 he has collaborated with writer Andy Barrett to produce and direct numerous community performances in the East Midlands . Hanby and Barrett have become well known for delivering exciting projects with a strong community involvement that leave the participants and audience alike with a real sense of occasion. All projects combine strong text and dynamic visual image, whether it be a brass band playing alongside a shower of sparks cascading from the top of a sixty foot high Napoleonic Blast Furnace, hundreds of balloons being released from a two ton pillar of sandstone, or thousands of napkins flying across the ceiling of the Nottingham Train Station concourse.