Simon Casson, Producer Simon is the full time Producer for Duckie. A very well traveled man, he is originally from Hackney but now lives in Stockwell. He learned his trade at Pontins Camber Sands, youth theatres in London in the 80’s and Rose Bruford College in Deptford.
Dicky Eton, Co-Producer Dicky runs Duckie with Simon. He sorts things. When he isn't with Duckie, he does stuff with Blast Theory and Pacitti Company.
Amy Lamé, Duckie Hostess & Co-Founder Amy Lamé is a writer, TV and radio presenter, performer, nightclub hostess, former model and all around chubby glamourpuss. Along with her pal Simon, she co-founded Duckie 14 years ago.
Reader's Wifes, Duckie DJs When Readers Wifes played their first record at Duckie in 1995 gay clubland was musically homogenised, with house music dominant. Their new Duckie project, The Readers Wifes Fan Club is a compilation CD in 3D – with multiple video, performance and sound work – being developed for late 2010. Readers Wifes are Chelsea Kelsey (the blonde English one) and Kim Phaggs (the dark Scottish one).
Jay Cloth, Duckie Doorwhore Part of the original gang of 6, this elusive masked-mensch has been working his looks on the door at Duckie weekly since 1995. After Laban, he cut his arty teeth with The Featherstonehaughs and The Divine David. In his non Duckie work, Jay Cloth produces monstrously beautiful collages and his first solo show was a big hit at studio 1.1 in London late last year.
Father Cloth Working the door at Duckie for 14 years since it’s inception, Father Cloth is by day a butch gardener and a shy singer in the band Breathless. He sometimes DJs at Duckie special events and soundtracked all the David Hoyle shows for us.
Daniel Martin, Graphic Designer Daniel does the graphics for Duckie. He is a pixels, scissors and glue merchant. In his spare time he indulges his passions for perfume.
Marty Langthorne, Production Manager Marty is a Production Manager, lighting designer and collaborator for live artists and performance makers in the UK and Australia. When away from Duckie he works with Paciiti Company, Spill Festival, Serpentine Gallery, Chelsea Theatre, Sheila Ghelani, Julia Bardsley, Helena Hunter, Andrew Poppy, Kira O'Rielly, Natasha Davies, Chloe Dechery & Mem Morrison. In Australia Marty has worked with Sydney Festival, William Yang, Kate Champion, Margaret Cameron, Jim Sharman, Jenny Kemp, Ros Horin, Linsey Pollak, and Andree Greenwell. For Spring Summer 2010 he is on a 3 month schelp around Australia with Force Majeure.
Marisa Carnesky, Associate Artist Marisa Carnesky is a showwoman who has been creating cross art form spectacular performances since 1993. Her work includes the acclaimed theatrical dark ride Carnesky’s Ghost Train and her solo shows Jewess Tattooess, The Girl from Nowhere and most recently Magic War. She has also collaborated extensively with Duckie, including C’est Barbican! Originally trained as a dancer and choreographer, she works on a project basis in theatre, live art, dance and circus.
Ursula Martinez, Associate Artist Ursula Martinez is an internationally renowned writer, performer and cabaret artist. She has created many critically acclaimed shows, has performed in numerous prestigious venues and around the world such as the Sydney Opera House and the Barbican, but because of the bloody internet, is probably best known for her cult magic striptease act Hanky Panky.
Christopher Green, Associate Artist Christopher Green is a writer and performer whose work covers comedy, cabaret, theatre and live art. He is Tina C., Ida Barr, Jedd O’Sullivan and a host of others. He is also himself. The Australian Newspaper called him ‘the most intelligent man to come out of the UK since Stephen Fry’, The Independent called him ‘Britain’s best drag queen’, and The Guardian ‘an entertainment maverick’. Chris can’t comment on any of these.
Kazuko Hohki, Associate Artist Kazuko Hohki is the founder member of Frank Chickens, who released five albums and toured worldwide. As a solo artist, she has produced several shows including Toothless, Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers and Kazuko Hohki’s Wuthering Heights (2007). Kazuko has published four books in Japan and recently started to direct theatre. She is Associate Artist at Battersea Arts Centre and Artistic Patron at Arts Depot (Finchley).
Miss High Leg Kick, Associate Artist Comic visionary superstar and leggy lovely Miss High Leg Kick subverts burlesque style glamour with her eponymous move reinvented in spectacular celebrations of dance, costume, extreme physical risk and messy foodstuffs. Her big project is Fashion Bus.
H. Plewis, Associate Artist Originally trained as a dancer in New York and Chichester, H is now a performance artiste combining singing, dancing and much fannying about. She has had the pleasure of collaborating working for various luminaries of the experimental performance scene such as Marisa Carnesky, The Invisible Circus, David Hoyle and Shunt. She tries to make things that are brutally beautiful and not really what you’d expect from a well brought up middle class girl from Crouch End.
Mark Whitelaw, Associate Artist Mark directed & co-devised both of Duckie’s big shows at the Barbican – ‘C’est Barbican!’ and ‘The Class Club’. He is to direct two new shows for Duckie at BITE in 2011, Lullaby, a sleepover show and a Christmas market promenade piece for the main theatre. He directs, writes and collaborates with a myriad of artists and companies including Ursula Martinez, Peter Zegveld (Holland), Mem Morrison, The People Show, Norddans (Sweden), Insomniac Productions, Bedlam Dance Company, H2 Dance, Penny Collinson & Company and Shamshad Khan.
Robin Whitmore, Associate Artist Since 2004, Robin has devised, designed and directed all of the legendary annual Gay Shame events bar one. Over the years he has specialized in creating interactive installations in a nightclub environment for Duckie. He is currently developing a LGBT history magazine project as part of Gross Indecency for summer 2010. Robin also runs the creative arts group 19+ in Camberwell working with autistic adults.
Tim Spooner, Associate Artist Tim Spooner demonstrates his collections of altered objects hoping to open windows onto how we perceive the world. Current experiments are cartoon characters depicted at melting point and nuanced eggshell membrane implosions. He has made many installations for Duckie including The Magic Bird Garden Room, a two person telescope pointing at the beginning of the world.
Matthew Robins, Associate Artist Matthew Robins is an artist and musician from the West Country. He has performed his work all over the U.K. - at the V&A, the De La Warr Pavilian, the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the National Theatre, the Roundhouse, the Theatre Royal Bath and the Barbican, as well as many festivals in Europe, and has made new shows for Duckie, Stranger than Paradise and the House of Fairytales.
David Falkner, Board Member David Falkner is the Director of the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, where he delivers an interdisciplinary programme of contemporary art and design, recently including major projects with David Austen, El Ultimo Grito, Sara Fanelli, Juneau Projects and Elizabeth Price.
Michael Atavar, Board Member Michael Atavar is an artist and a coach with a practice that mixes creativity, business, art and psychology. His output includes over thirty public works, in a variety of forms - live, installation, digital media, publishing. His book 'How To Be An Artist' is out now.
Tim Whitehead, Board Member Tim Whitehead manages acts such as The Tiger Lillies, Bourgeois & Maurice, Jonny Woo, Meow Meow and Justin Bond. He also programmes for festivals and venues like Queer Up North and The Reindeer; before going solo he was at Soho Theatre for a long time booking the comedy and cabaret.
Alan Miller, Board Member Alan likes the arts. But he likes music even more. Alan is a freelance press agent based in Glasgow. By day he works with events including Glasgay!, Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art, the Edinburgh Arts Festival and is press agent for the Optimo artists. By night he is a dj and events promoter, running the 7 year established RPZ event at the Glasgow Art School, as well as being a monthly resident at Glasgow’s Death Disco, one if the largest electronic dance clubs in the UK.
Leif Harmsen, Duckie Webmeister since 1996 Leif Harmsen is an interdisciplinary artist working mostly with large canvases, short movies, computer code and dabbles on stage as The Great Leifaroni Harmsini. He's variously studied, worked, exhibited, performed and lived in London, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Hong Kong, Berlin and Sydney.
