Georgina trained at the Guildford School of Acting and has worked in theatre for the past 14 years. Her theatre credits include Simon Armitage's Mister Heracles for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Jungle Book, A Midsummer Night's Dream and 101 Dalmatians for the Northampton Royal, All's Well That Ends Well and The Waves for the Battersea Arts Centre and Hysteria for the Royal Court and Forecast Fog for the National Theatre.

In the show Georgina plays Lola. While she can't profess to be "born of the brain of Jupiter" as Madame Montez she will humbly attempt the task of telling the story of this remarkable woman.  

Fiona is an experienced physical theatre performer.  Her credits include Clover/Squeeler in a European tour of Animal Farm for Tour De Force Theatre Company; Viola in Twelfth Night for Changeling Theatre Company; Desdemona in Othello for Epsilon Productions; Mama in The Bull for Cartoon de Salvo; Dymphna in Dance Hall Days at Riverside Studios; Julie in Cosi for Ocean Theatre Company; Rachel in Snapshots and Bethsheba in The Ark, the Bride and the Coffin at the Old Red Lion Theatre (both with Fluff Productions). 

In the show Fiona plays the ghost of Eliza, Lola's younger self.

Ricardo is a renowned flamenco guitarist who tours the world creating and performing musical fusion with jazz, African music and Asian rhythms. For the past eight years he has brought a new show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which he has then toured to New York, London, San Francisco, Cape Town, Cambodia, Romania, London, Brighton, Montreal, Orlando, Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg. In 2007 his show Flamenco con Fusion was awarded the Audience Choice Award at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, 2007.

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Frederic studied dance at the Institute del Teatre conservatorie in Spain and flamenco with Compañia Somorrostro. In 2004 he danced in Torero directed by Antonio Canales (Compania Juan de Juan) and performed Tarantos in Barcelona Teatre Musical, Atenas and Teatro Albéniz of Madrid. He appeared in El Celoso with Ballet de Murcia in 2005, Inconnexus XXI with Compañia Somorrostro in 2006 and recently began working with the productions collaborators, Increpación Danza. 

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Emily is Artistic Director of Trestle. Previously she was Artistic Director of TAG Theatre Company in Glasgow and Associate Director at Unicorn in London, where her productions included Rumpelstiltskin and Great Expectations at The Cochrane, and Pinocchio and Alice at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.  Emily studied at Cambridge University and The Central School of Speech and Drama and has directed and choreographed for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, Roundabout, Tron, Opera Insideout and Graeae.  Lola is the fourth Trestle production that Emily has directed.

Esther is a freelance dramaturg and theatre director.  She also currently holds the position of Artistic Associate at Soho Theatre in London and is the founding Artistic Director of Theatre Writing Partnership - a new writing company based in Nottingham.  Her dramaturgy credits include: Bollywood Jane by Amanda Whittinghton and The Palace of Fear by Philip Osment for Leicester Haymarket,  and Mother Courage and Her Children adapated by Oladipo Agboulaje for an Eclipse national tour.  Her recent directing credits include: Breaking the Silence by Stephen Poliakoff for Nottingham Playhouse, Earl of Mo'bay by Leah Chillery for TWP (nominated for the Alfred Fagon Award) and Satin 'n' Steel by Amanda Whittington for TWP, Nottingham Playhouse and Bolton Octagon.

Barcelona-based dance company Increpación Danza have toured the world since 1993 with their stunning theatrical dance work which fuses contemporary dance with flamenco.

Ramón Baeza is the Co-artistic Director and Creator of the company and has choreographed all of their work.  He had a successful career as a contemporary dance performer (including Lindsay Kemp and Opera North) before turning his talent to choreography.  He was one of the first dancers in Spain to experiment with flamenco fusion.

Montse Sánchez is the Co-artistic Director and Creator of the company.  A highly experienced and respected flamenco dancer and teacher, she has both choreographed and performed in Increpación's work.

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Chloe is an award-winning theatre and dance designer who has recently designed productions for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre, National Youth Theatre and Mercury Colchester amongst others. Chloe has also created various designs for film, music video and fashion shoots, including production design for The Full Monteverdi, an opera film.  Current projects include This Wide Night by Chloe Moss for Clean Break at the Soho Theatre and The Cunning Little Vixen for the Royal College of Music.  Chloe was awarded the TMA best design award in 2007.

Katharine Williams is one of the UK's most innovative young lighting designers.  She works primarily in drama, dance and physical theatre, with some opera, musical and circus projects, and creates dynamic, strong, image-driven work.

Katharine has collaborated with some of the UK's most exciting emerging artists and companies, as well with well established companies including Northern Stage, The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Britol's Tobacco Factor, London's Gate Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland.  She has also designed work for productions in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Ireland, Holland, Spain, Germany, Armenia, Romania, Russia, Italy and the Czech Republic.

Katharine is currently working on Faeries for the Royal Ballet, I Am Falling at Sadler's Wells, Hedda Gabler at The Gate, Our Country's Good at the Watermill and The Rape of Lucrecia at the Aldeburgh Festival.