Ebony Roy-Palmer

She/Her

B Terry

They/them

Training: The Brighton Academy, The Royal Ballet, Redroofs Theatre School

Credits: Cabaret The Playhouse Theatre, RENT The Hope Mill, West Side Story The Royal Exchange, Bat Out of Hell Metronom Theater, Beauty & The Beast Watersmeet Theatre

Workshops: Sweet Charity (Miranda Cromwell)

Hannah McGlashon

Hannah started dancing at the age of 13 at Adagio school of dance and went onto continue her training at Rambert School where she graduated with a first class Ba/Hons in Ballet and Contemporary dance.

Whilst at Rambert she worked with a variety of Choreographers including Mark Baldwin, Robert Cohan, Jenna Lee and Mark Bruce to name a few. As well as having the opportunity to tour with Rambert Company, performing Itzik Galili’s ‘A Linha Curva’ as apart of their Autumn season and Mark Baldwin’s version of Haydn’s ‘Creation’.

Since graduating, Hannah joined Mark Bruce Company for their ‘Macbeth’ creation and tour and most recently danced as a swing/understudy for Mark’s triple Bill ‘Phantoms’. She has also worked with choreographers including Lynne Page, Shobana Jeyasingh and Christopher Thomas on various projects, including his commissions as part of the Sadlers Wells Young Associate programme.

Choreographically, Hannah has created her own work, which has been performed at national and international platforms. ‘In Light of Those You Love’ was accepted as part of Choreographie 31, and international choreography competition based in Hannover and was later turned into a full-length work and feature film. She has also created alongside a number of musicians for film and live performance projects.

Her teaching credits include Rambert School, Central School of Ballet, London Children’s Ballet and Company class/Rehearsal directing for Mark Bruce Company. She also works as a creative Movement Therapist with patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other neurological ailments helping them enjoy movement again.

Chloe Kibble

Chloe kibble has been dancing and modelling in the industry for Several years, she is versatile, hardworking and outgoing performer. Chloe says” I am a hard working dancer and singer that likes to achieve and please the people I work for and with. I am fearless in my performance and in life and like to push myself to new limits. I am very focused, learn quickly and set high standards for myself. I am an engaging, quick witted team player that thrives on interaction with others to achieve excellence in technique and performance.

Chloe studied and trained in Edinburgh graduating in performing arts in 2015 and since then some of her credits include:

Regent seven seas Voyager ( Norweigan Cruise ship )
Multiple Tv adverts.
Music videos such as: M.O “ Pon Me”, Pixie Lott “ wonʼt forget you”, Zack
Knight “Angel” and more
Costa Magica ( cruise ship )
Movies: “Housefuls 4”, “Sunshine on Leith “
Campaign adverts: ECFS Launch, North American
Society, County mall, Slaters mens wear

Jamie Shields

Graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Ballet, Glasgow born Jamie has worked extensively throughout the ballet, contemporary dance and musical theatre industry.

Credits include: Scottish Ballet/The London Ballet Company/We Will Rock You/Royal Caribbean Productions/Aladdin/P&O Cruises & Disneyland Paris. Most recently, Jamie has returned from his second run of CATS The Musical as Pouncival cover Mr Mistoffelees.

Ann Chircop Beck

Ann C Beck is a Professional Performer and Dance Teacher from Malta but based in London UK. After graduating with Trinity Level 6 Professional Diploma in Musical Theatre at Leicester College of Performing Arts, Ann has worked on various exciting projects spanning Music videos, Theatre Shows, TV and Film, Music live Performances as well as Commercials. She has trained is many styles from a young age including Jazz, Jazz Funk, Hip Hop, Ballet, Heels, Contemporary and Commercial. Since moving to London at the start of the year, Ann has continuously worked on her Versatility as an Artist yet most notably focusing on the creative aspect of her work. During her training Ann was selected to represent Dansez (UK designers of dancewear) exhibitions wearing their new FirmFit designs and later played Morticia Addams in her final year production of ‘The Addams Family’. She later started off her career performing in Germany with the Vegas Showgirls ‘Winter Variete Worms’. Some of Ann’s most recent credits include working on Foundation Series, Apple TV+, Greatest West End Brunch, XFactor Malta and also worked as a Showgirl/ Dancer in Rhone-Alpes Courchevel. Ann is very passionate about the element of story telling within the art of theatre as well as the mastery of movement. She is so excited to be a part of CTC and cannot wait for upcoming projects!

Mollie Stebbing

Mollie Stebbing is a versatile dance artist who trained at The BRIT School and London Studio Centre. She specialises in contemporary, hip hop and commercial styles and her credits include Kylie Minogue, The British Fashion Awards, Isle of Wight Festival and The Walk at Somerset House.

Gabrielle De Souza Jacquet

Gabrielle trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. She has most recently performed in The Car Man at the Royal Albert Hall with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and toured with Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! in the UK. She was involved in the R&D process and performances for No Time Like The Present by Tala Lee Turton Productions and danced in a music video for Client_03. Gabrielle also teaches ballet at The International College of Musical Theatre.

Cameron Everitt

Cameron graduated from Trinity Laban in 2017, and after working as a freelance dancer for a year, he joined the cast of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake which toured both nationally and internationally. Post Covid, he has been touring as a dancer/ puppeteer with Autin Dance Theatre’s ‘Out of the Deep Blue’, performed new work ‘In a Dark Wood’ created by ex-royal ballet soloist Susie Crow and also performed in Garsington Opera’s ‘Orfeo’. Most recently Cameron has been at The Royal Opera House dancing in their brand new production ‘Aida’. Alongside this, Cameron’s freelance work has also seen him dancing in music videos, upcoming feature films and TV series. 

Aaliyah Francis

Aaliyah began dancing at the age of 8, training in Latin American and ballroom styles. At 16 years old she began studying dance full time at the Brit School. She then went on to train with Russell Maliphant as part of the National Youth Dance Company, along with spending time dancing and teaching in Prague. She returned to the UK to train at Shockout Arts, where she received a Certificate of Higher Education in Professional and Commercial Dance. Aaliyah’s credits include BBC, ITV, Brit Awards and Sadler’s Wells.

Marina Climent Casas

Marina is an industry professional dancer originally from Barcelona, currently based in London. Her dance journey started at 11 years old, training in Jazz, Contemporary and Ballet, completing the different degrees of Royal Academy of Dance. Growing her art form, she knew she wanted to be more versatile and so began training in the styles of Hip Hop and commercial to increase her repertoire.

In addition to dance, she also studied and trained in Primary Education and Special Needs at the University of Barcelona. Whilst studying, she could perform and keep growing as a dancer. During that time, she won some individual and group prizes in different competitions in Jazz, Contemporary and Musical Theatre.

Six years ago, she moved to London where she kept training and learning other styles. She was part of the ‘BOP Jazz Theatre Company’ with Dollie Henry (2018) and she joined the the ‘CTC Dance Company’ in 2018. She was part of the ensemble in the company show ‘IDENTITY’ in the Edinburgh Fringe, which later on transferred to the ‘Off West End’ Venue the ‘Turbine Theatre’ (2020) and to ‘Theatre Peckham’ (2021), where she was part of the Ensemble and acted as Dance Captain. In this project she had the pleasure to work next to the founder and choreographer of the company Christopher Tendai and it’s director Denzel Westley-Sanderdson.

This last year she has been getting involved in different projects as a creative in different colleges, including ArtsEd London and Mountview, where she assisted the choreographer Tinovimbanashe Sibanda, and had the pleasure to work alongside other creatives on the Musical Theatre scene.

Her credits include ’The Greatest Dancer’ (London, 2019), ’The Magic of Animation 2’ (London, 2019), ‘Crime scene’ music video by Lisey Tigra (London, 2021), the film ‘Tara vs Vilal’ (London, 2021), the music video ‘Different Love’ and the show ‘Pumpkin Lab’ (Wales, 2022).

Katrina Lopes

Katrina grew up in Lake Country in British Columbia, Canada. She spent her youth training in multiple dance styles at Lake Country school of Dance. Upon secondary, graduation, Katrina moved to Vancouver to pursue her passion in dance. She began training with the Source Dance Company, and working in various parts of the dance industry performing, and teaching. Some of her Canadian credits include The Tunnel Contemporary Dance Theatre, Marianas Trench, Sweett Moves, and the Inner Ring circus company. 
Looking for a change in scenery, Katrina hopped over the pond to London in April 2021 to broaden her horizon and explore her love of dance and performing arts. She began working with Christie Lee Manning’s Jazz House Theatre & Christopher Tendai’s CTC company. This ultimately led her to making her West End Debut in Harry Potter: Cursed Child as a Dementor & Swing. 

Courteney Cruse

Courteney is a queer, contemporary dance artist and creative. She has recently finished her UK Tour with Emergence Dance Company, performing works by Artistic Director Joss Arnott, Kevin Finnan (Motionhouse), Gosia Mielech and Vidya Patel. Graduating from Italia Conti, Courteney is a versatile performer and also works on Film and TV; appearing on ITV, BBC and Netflix.

Courteney uses movement as a personal escapism. She uses her life experience to inform movement language, thus being able to embody and project complex emotional states. She has an inherent passion for celebrating diversity, inclusion and building connections between people, movement and narrative.

Alongside her creative work, Courteney has a degree in BSc Geography from Kings College London. She now uses this critical thinking and academic understanding to inform and develop her choreographic projects, developing work involving environmental change, LGBTQIA+ discrimination, women’s rights and trauma.

Courteney is excited to join CTC and work with other artists on exciting upcoming projects.

Olivia Ferrari

My name is Olivia Ferrari, I am originally from South Wales and am a recent graduate of Bird College where I obtained my BA in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre. I am absolutely delighted be joining such an artistic company, and am very much looking forward to having the opportunity to develop exciting new work. I’d like to thank my wonderful family and agent (Adrian) at Bancroft Talent for all their constant support and Christopher for this fantastic opportunity.

Carina Howard

Carina trained at Rambert School where she graduated with a First Class (hons) degree. Following this, she completed a masters at Northern School of Contemporary Dance with Distinction and the award for most outstanding achievement.

Carina has been a company dancer with Mark Bruce Company since 2017, touring in their productions of ‘Macbeth’, ‘Return to Heaven’ and ‘Phantoms’. Carina was a company dancer with Rosie Kay Dance Company from 2018-2020, having toured in their productions of ‘MK Ultra’ and ‘Rosie Kay’s Fantasia’. In 2020, Carina was commissioned to create a piece for ‘The Dancers’ Project’ where she also performed in works by Shanelle Clemenson and Harriet Ellis. As well as stage and choreographic work, Carina enjoys working as a dancer in Film and TV with credits including Aquaman 2 and The Witcher.

Other performances include Mark Baldwin’s ‘The Creation’, at Sadler’s Wells Theatre alongside Rambert Company, Payne Productions’ ‘Bluebeard: The Chamber’s Scent’, Arielle Smith’s ‘Cradle’ at the Barbican and the BBC Young Dancer Contemporary Category Semi-Finals.

In her spare time Carina enjoys working at Ascot Rehab as a Creative Movement Therapist for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Kira Nichols

Kira Nichols (she/they) @_kiranichols_
Kira began their professional training at The Hammond in Chester where they trained for 3 years in a variety of dance styles before obtaining a place at DART Studios in Berlin. During Kira’s year at Dart they worked with a variety of choreographers including Diego de la Rosa, premiering in his piece ‘Denial’. Kira has had a love for the arts from a young age and is a passionate musician playing violin and piano as well as singing and acting.

Tonye Scott-Obene

Tonye Scott-Obene, is a first generation Jamaican and Nigerian multi-disciplined artist, born in London.
Tonye’s an artist who attained a Classical ballet scholarship at the age of 10 in affiliation with English National Ballet.
His multi-disciplined training began at the wonderful Miami Health Club-London, with additional formal training including; Musical theatre, Tap, Commercial dance, Ariel (Silks/ Rope) work and much more. Outside of Tonye’s personal career, he enjoys lecturing, working towards his private pilot’s licence, choreographing, motorsports, Mixed Martial Arts (Taekwondo) and walks with his mother.
Tonye would like to give a special thanks to his mother and all his family.

Awards: Black British Theatre Awards Winner – Best Recent Graduate; The Royal Philharmonic Society Award for ‘Brown Bomber’ won Concert Series and Festivals 

Television credits includes: The Alienist (Netflix and TNT); NSPCC campaign; Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway for George Ezra (ITV), Britain’s Got Talent (ITV) and Let’s Sing and Dance for Comic Relief for Gloria Estefan (BBC), Loose Women (ITV) for Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing (BBC – Week 1, Series 20) to name a few. 

Commercial credits include: dancer for Emma Bunton ‘You’re All I Need To Get By’ (feat. Jade Jones), choreographer/dancer for Phebe Edwards ‘Get It Right’ (feat. Mark Asari), Rudeboy ‘Together’ (feat. Patoranking) and Donel ‘Bang Like A Drum’ (feat. Swarmz) music videos; Burberry Autumn/Winter show for London Fashion Week 2019, Virgin Media 2020 and Sky Arts 2020.

Associate credits include: Spring Awakening 2021 (The Factory Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilding, 2022 – English Touring Theatre (Associate Movement Director)

Tour credits include: OTI MABUSE – I Am Here Tour 2022 (Cast/Assistant Dance Captain).

Theatre credits include: Starred as ‘Chistery’ in Wicked UK (Apollo Victoria Theatre), other theatre credits include; The Brown Bomber (National Theatre and Sadler’s Wells) and ‘Arabian Prince’, ‘Russian Lead’ and ‘Lead Rat’ in The Nutcracker (Bloomsbury Theatre), Spring Awakening 2021- Associate Choreographer (The Factory Playhouse), OTI MABUSE- I Am Here Tour 2022 (Cast/Assistant Dance Captain), Royal Opera House,  Royal Ballet Upper School, Clueless The Musical 2022 – (Workshop directed by Sarna Lapine) to name a few.

Natalie Mowat

Since graduating DNA Studios I’ve performed in many Bollywood music videos and films, I perform with tribute acts – Born Gaga, Forever Jackson, Just Jessie. Performed at CoCos in the greatshowman show and the burlesque show.
I’ve performed for the Saracen’s half time show and at M+M festival

Marco Venturini

Training: HSPVA, Houston and Bird College, London

Theatre includes: featured dancer in The Merry Widow (Opera North, UK tour); featured dancer in Come What May (UK tour); swing in The Prince of Egypt (West End); dance captain in Wuthering Heights (Off West End); featured dancer in Aida (Royal Opera House).

Film includes: featured dancer in Snow White (Disney)
Marco is so delighted to continue his journey with CTC and discover what exciting things lie ahead.

Caitlin Taylor

Fuelled with a fascination for people and storytelling, Caitlin has immersed themselves across the arts. Their unique background and holistic approach to life has led them to working a wide variety of jobs over the last 6 years including session singer, lead actress, acting coach, stunt double, choreographer, musician, writer, puppeteer, dancer, and artistic development coach. Caitlin believes there is hope for humanity and that it is through people, education, arts, and stories that change is possible.

Luke Cartwright

Luke graduated from Liverpool Institute for performing arts in May 2019 gaining a BA(Hons) in Dance. He teaches at The International college for musical theatre where he teaches ballet, jazz, contemporary and body conditioning as well as delivering workshops at other performing arts and dance colleges. He is currently part of the 2022/23 overture cohort with Mathew bourne’s New Adventures. He was recently a guest choreographer for Ballet  Forte NJ  in America  as well as performing and choreographing in the BBC proms at the Royal Albert Hall .

Credits include: BBC Proms royal albert Hall, Identity Off Westend (CTC Dance Company – Dancer), Cromer Pier Christmas Show (Dancer), Identity at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (CTC Dance Company – Dancer), Opening Ceremony of the Cricket World Cup 2019 (Sky One – Dancer), Fame Reunion UK Tour (M&S Echo Arena – Dancer)

Niamh Gaia

Niamh Gaia trained at Millennium Performing Arts. Credits include Ensemble – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Bathway Theatre), Ensemble – Compagnie Pernettre.

Niamh is also a professional synchronised swimmer and has performed internationally with Aquabatix since 2018.

Priscilla Osegie

Priscilla is very excited to be a part of Ctc. She recently worked with Bree Runway and was previously appearing as Rocky 3 in Starlight express. Priscilla studied At Bird college. She wants to thank her Mom, for always supporting her passions.

Jay Allen

Urdang graduate ‘21

Noah Prempeh

Noah Prempeh was born and raised in Nantes, France but then moved to London at the age of 12. At the age of 19, Noah began training professionally in Sidcup Kent, on a scholarship at the door Bird Performing Arts Vocational. He trained to become a well rounded dancer and musical theatre performer. Studying Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Commercial and Musical theatre. Prior to studying at Doreen Bird, Noah trained in his foundations styles: Loocking, Hip hop, House and Krump with Unity Uk Company. 

His Credits whilst training include Brit Awards, Cinderella Pantomime, Assistant Choreographer for Simeon Qsyea and Rina Sawayama “Ordinary Superstar” Tour. His Music video credits include in “Cherry” for Rina Sawayama, Dancer and Actor in “Propeller” for JAE5 ft Dave & BNX and “I Wish I was Sober” for Frightened Rabbit. 

Noah’s Theatre\ Arena’s  credits include ‘In nocentes’ with National Youth Dance Company (Inc UK Tour), Breaking Convention (Sadler’s Wells Theatre), Emerging Choreographer Platform ( Broadway Theatre), Gorillaz (O2 arena), Jonaskians (Wembley arena). 

He appeared on The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Noah has a huge passion for creating storytelling art and choreography, He inspires to become Creative Director/ Choreographer in the future.