Nadi dance performance

Aishwarya Raut

Aishwarya Raut, is a Rambert Dancer, from Mumbai, India. Aishwarya speaks Marathi, Hindi, and English. Aishwarya is very interested in visual and performing arts and in the future would love to set up a collective of like-minded artists and create. ai, India, Aishwarya speaks Marathi, Hindi, and English. Aishwarya is very interested in visual and performing arts and in the future would love to set up a collective of like-minded artists and create. Career highly include Kamuyot, E2 7SD, Aisha and Abhaya, Draw From Within, Rooms, Eye Candy, Rocketman (movie), Kaifiyat (movie), Interview in Dance magazine.

Seed Funders 2024 | Nadi | Photo: Milo Robinson
Here Lay Your Hearts
Seed Funders 2024 | Here Lay Your Hearts

Bee Taylor

Bee Taylor is a London-based theatre maker experienced in queer, community-led projects. Bee graduated from the University of Exeter in 2021 with a first-class degree in Drama, and has since completed an MSc in Gender & Sexuality studies at the London School of Economics. Alongside her studies, Bee works within mental health, and has written, produced and directed projects as a part of co-founded musical theatre company SCATTER. Projects include monthly cabaret events Songs For Scattered Times hosted at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham and Here Lay Your Hearts, an immersive audio journey hosted by Totally Thames Festival 2024. 

Serene Sounds

Elena Toponogova

Elena Toponogova (she/her) is a concert pianist and chamber musician based in London. Her repertoire is primarily comprised of Russian music, with a particular focus on the works of Nikolai Medtner. Teaming up with Norwegian violinist Elisabeth Turmo, Elena recently released a CD on Quartz dedicated to music inspired by myths and legends.

Her competition successes include the prize for the best performance of a Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach at the Nuova Coppa International Piano Competition in Italy, the 1st prize at the Nikolai Rubinstein International Competition in Paris, and she was a semi-finalist in the Gershwin International Piano Competition in New York, USA.

Seed Funders 2024 | Serene Sounds
Here Lay Your Hearts
Seed Funders 2024 | Here Lay Your Hearts

Finlay Carroll

Finlay Carroll is a producer and dramaturg. Since 2021 he has worked across the subsidised, fringe and commercial sectors - both for organisations and independently. He now coordinates the UK’s first in-house New Musical Theatre department at Birmingham Hippodrome. Finlay's department develops musical theatre talent, as well as commissioning, presenting and producing musicals on the stages at Birmingham and beyond. Since co-founding SCATTER in 2021, he has been invited to speak about artist development at events in the UK and Europe. In 2024, Finlay was selected as one of In Place of War’s 100 Creative Agents of Climate Change. 

Portrait of Rob Hao

Rob Hao

Rob Hao (he/him) is a pianist and composer originally from Australia. Recent performances have been at the Aldeburgh Festival, Manchester Festival of Song, BCMG, Dartington, the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, Vienna’s Schoenberg Centre, the Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne Recital Centre. Rob studied at the Royal College of Music in London where he won the top prizes for both performance and composition in contemporary music. He is a frequent commissioner and performer of new music in both solo and ensemble settings, having premiered over 30 works in recent seasons.'

Seed Funders 2024 | Rob Hao
Theatreship
Seed Funders 2024 | Theatreship

Theatreship

Theatreship is the worlds largest floating art centre, docked at Canary Wharf. This historic ship is typical of the trading vessels that once filled the docks of Canary Wharf. Returned to West India dock and converted into a new permanent theatre and performing arts space, it will contribute to the exciting new development of the area, while reflecting and preserving local history.

Projection art

William Lindley

William Lindley (he/him) is a visual artist whose work is rooted in drawing. His work encompasses intaglio printmaking, projection, painting, photography, animation, sound and installation, interweaving traditional techniques with contemporary processes. He has a background in architecture, regeneration, heritage and research and has collaborated with various artists.

As an artist he has been commissioned to create installations for a range of settings including Newark Park, The Wilson Gallery, St Botolph’s Boston, Spilsby Light Night, The Crypt Gallery, Milton Keynes Gallery, The Master Shipwrights House, Bolsover Castle, Horncastle Red Lion Theatre, Cogglesford Mill and Llanthony Secunda Priory. His work has been exhibited at the Mall Galleries, Hundred Years Gallery, Parallax Art Fair, Tent London, Tower Bridge and Kulturgatan, Sweden.

Seed Funders 2024 | William Lindley
GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW performance
Seed Funders 2024 | GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW | Photo: Linval Bartley

Willy Amott

Willy Amott (they/he) is a creative producer, writer and project manager whose work spans DIY drag cabaret, national artist development schemes, worldwide funding experiments, immersive experiential events, festival sets, club nights and community arts activities. Their diverse practice concerns itself with pleasure, leisure, care and accessibility. They love to find joy in the absurd. Having previously worked in Birmingham and Bristol, their Totally Thames Seed Funded event, the climate crisis cabaret gameshow Get Your Ducks In A Row, was their first show since moving to London.  

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