Artistic Directors: Al Smith & James Yeatman
Producer: Lauren Mooney
James Yeatman
James co-founded Kandinsky while at Edinburgh University.
For Kandinsky: Trap Street (Director/Writer), Still Ill (Director/Writer), Dog Show (Director) Limehouse Nights (Director/Writer), Enola (Performer/Director), Radio (Director), On Wonderland (Director), The Bird (Director/Performer), The Bee (Performer),
Other work includes: Persuasion – Royal Exchange (Dramaturg/co-adaptor with Jeff James), The Kid Stays In The Picture – Royal Court (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney), Beware of Pity – Schaubuhne (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney) Lionboy by Marcelo Dos Santos for Complicite – Tricycle and International Tour (Co-Director with Clive Mendus); Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood – Harold Pinter Theatre (Associate Director); The Master and Margarita by Complicite from Bulgakov – Barbican & International Tour (Associate Director).
Al Smith
Al co-founded Kandinsky while at Edinburgh University.
For Kandinsky he has written Enola, Radio and The Bird, and co-written Dog Show and Still Ill.
Other writing includes: The Astronaut Wives Club (Soho), Sport (Headlong), Harrogate (HighTide/Royal Court), and Diary of a Madman (Traverse/Gate). He writes extensively for radio and television, and was the winner of the inaugural Wellcome Trust BFI / Film4 Screenwriting Prize. He is currently under commission at the Royal Court Theatre.
Lauren Mooney
Lauren is the company producer. Her work with Kandinsky includes Dog Show (producer/dramaturg), Still Ill (producer/co-writer) and Trap Street (producer/co-writer).
Her freelance producing includes work with the London Horror Festival (2012-14), Eve Leigh and Jo Griffin, and she currently works as the Literary Producer at Clean Break Theatre Company. Lauren has also written extensively about arts and culture for Exeunt, The Guardian and The Stage, and as a solo writer/performer has had work supported by BAC and programmed by Summerhall.
Kandinsky is a registered charity no. 1134756
Trustees: Poppy Keeling (chair), Gordon Bennett, Judith Dimant, Elizabeth Humphreys, Lucy Williams.