Hullabaloo Winter Wonderland

Kim McDermottroe is most well-known locally for the fantastical creatures she brings to life for the flagship Northern Festivals. Kim’s formal education took her to Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool where she found her passion for creating and transforming the mundane into something wondrous. She went on to specialise in costume design and construction. This degree seeded the creation of Greener Lavelle, for which she won Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003 and has been going strong for the past 17 years. Greener Lavelle has provided historical and fantastical creations for museums, theatre, carnivals and short film.

She has worked for museums throughout the UK and her work can be found locally in The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Preston Park Museum and parading the streets during Stockton International Riverside Festival.

She was also commissioned to produce Captain Cook Costumes for the 1770 Festival in Australia.

Wayne has been creating music professionally for over twenty years. He has created music for, and performed in, contemporary dance works and theatre productions for adults and young audiences. This includes work for Nottingham Playhouse, Theatre Hullabaloo, WinterWalker, Dance United, Richard Alston Dance Company and Darren Ellis Dance.

Wayne’s influences reach from traditional and modern folk music to experimental contemporary music via indie pop, alternative punk and ambient electronica.

His work has been performed at The Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells; The Robin Howard Theatre; Nottingham Playhouse; Birmingham Rep; Salisbury Playhouse; St Paul’s Cathedral; Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto, Canada and Karlovac International Dance Festival in Croatia.

Alongside more traditional music composition, Wayne has always been drawn to creating soundscapes; audio work that emphasises or changes the space it occupies through multi-source playback and surround/immersive sound design. He has recently created several surround soundscapes that include localised ‘sound pools’ for creative play installations for Theatre Hullabaloo.

Wayne is also Co-Artistic Director of WinterWalker, a physical theatre company making work for children and families.