Jump Spark
About Jump Spark
A jump spark is produced when electricity leaps across a gap.
We make theatre that jumps across centuries, sometimes across countries, and always between stage and audience.
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At Jump Spark, we tell stories that have something to say about how we live now – whether they were written yesterday or centuries ago. Our work spans from reimaginings of classics to new writing and adaptations.
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Our aims:
We are a theatre company which puts creating conversation and connections at the heart of everything we do.
In the art we make, we want:
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To create work that is in active conversation with what’s going on in our world today
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To create a dialogue that is international, not only local, in scope, by programming plays from abroad as well as from the UK
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To discover new voices or stories – from new writers today, or from writers from the past that have been forgotten, or from writers who have been remembered but have had works forgotten
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To create a conversation between content and form in our work
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Who's involved
Fay Lomas
Artistic Director and Producer
For the company, Fay has directed her own new translations of Racine’s Berenice (The Space) and Lorca’s Blood Wedding (The Bread and Roses). In her freelance capacity, she has directed new plays at Camden Fringe (Left Behind by Mimi Bashir and Richard Kinnaird), Southwark Playhouse (Lunch Hour by Sebastian Rex for Little Pieces of Gold), Theatre 503 (Three Way by Miztli Rose Neville for RWR) and the Vault Festival (Balloon by Nathan Wood). She has directed readings at the Oxford Playhouse and the French Institute.
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In 2017, Fay was the Resident Assistant Director at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton, where she was assistant director on the national tour of Death of a Salesman (dir. Abigail Graham) and the young cast director for Grapes of Wrath.
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Fay was also assistant director on Annie Get Your Gun (Sheffield Crucible, dir. Paul Foster), Half Life (dir. Nancy Meckler), Klippies (Southwark Playhouse, dir. Chelsea Walker), and Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Fort Lovrijenac, Dubrovnik, dir. Helen Tennison). She is currently the assistant director on Trouble in Mind (Print Room at the Coronet, dir. Laurence Boswell).
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Fay trained at Oxford University and Birkbeck College (MFA Theatre Directing)
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Photo credit: Johan Persson
Anna Kezia Williams
Associate Artist: Designer
Anna trained at Wimbledon College of Art. Her theatre work includes: set design forThe Buskers Opera (The Buskers Opera Ltd., The Park Theatre), Chalet Lines (The Tower Theatre Company, The Bridewell Theatre), Blood Wedding (The Bread and Roses Theatre), Great Expectations (Merton Arts Space), JELLY- Mica Mono (The Cockpit Theatre). Film includes costume assistant and assistant art director for The First Man, (The First Man Ltd). Television includes set assistant for BBC Sports Relief (BBC), and prop maker for SickNote (King Bert Productions, SKY).
Rajiv Pattani
Associate Artist: Lighting Designer
Rajiv graduated from LAMDA in 2014 with qualifications in Stage Management and Technical Theatre, specialising in Lighting, Sound and AV. Recent design work includes Nassim and Black Lives Black Words, both at the Bush Theatre, where he is also a technician. Freelance lighting design projects include Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle and Nina Raine’s Rabbit (Pleasance Theatre for LAMDA productions); Blood Wedding (Bread & Roses Theatre); Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre Company); Primadonna (VAULT Festival); as well as various projects at the Arcola, Hampstead and the Unicorn. Rajiv was also Production Electrician on 4 Minutes 12 Seconds at Trafalgar Studios (Studio 2).
Robyn Lowe
Associate Artist: Composer
Robyn is a singer, songwriter and composer. With classical training until she was 18, she started recording and performing at venues around the North West. Since moving to London, Robyn has performed her original music at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Spice of Life, and the Finsbury. She has also performed in Cambridge, Manchester and Leicester. Her debut EP Sleep Talking was released in March 2017. She has composed and performed music for Berenice (The Space) and Blood Wedding (Bread and Roses).