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Kate trained in Drama at UCW Aberystwyth and Theatre Design with Motley at the National Theatre, London. She is a founding member of Cimera. She has worked for over 30 years as a Theatre Designer, Playwright and Creative Director/ Producer for professional and community arts projects all around these islands. 

She wrote ‘Drudwen’ and ‘Mi Glywais Gan Aderyn Bach’ for Cimera and has developed concepts, co-devised and designed performances, walkabout characters, and parades for the company including ‘Let them eat cake’, ‘Mari Llwyd’, ‘Commedia Masquerade’ and ‘Scylla, Charybdis and Poseidon’. 

Kate’s other recent work includes Theatre Designer for many productions at the RCSSD including ‘The Wonderful World of Dissocia’, ‘Blue Stockings’ and ‘Lear’. Co-Writer and Designer ‘Aphrodite in Flippers’, Bold and Saucy Theatre Company. She currently works with Anno’s Africa Malawi as a mentor in circus and theatre arts. 

Mae Kate yn hybrid genetig a diwylliannol gyda blas am hiwmor tywyll. Cafodd ei geni a’i magu yn Ne Llundain a chanddi wreiddiau yn Norfolk a Caerfyrddin. Mae hi wedi dysgu Cymraeg yn rhugl, ac mae hi bellach yn byw ym mynydd-dir Eryri.

Fel un o’r aelodau sefydlodd gwmni Cimera, mae Iago wedi perfformio; creu cymeriadau a pherfformiadau gyda’r cwmni ers 2013. Yn ddiweddar actiodd ran Ogi a Trystan yn nhaith genedlaethol ‘Drudwen’. Mae ganddo ystod eang o ddoniau perfformio a syrcas ac yn arbenigo fel acrobat; cydbwysedd-acrobatig; sgiliau awyrol a chomedi corfforol. 

Dechreuodd ymddiddori mewn syrcas yn 15 oed gan droi ei hyblygrwydd corfforol naturiol a’i hoffter o chwarae gyda tân i berfformiadau a gwaith creadigol. Cafodd hyfforddiant fel acrobat gyda chwmni Syrcas Polichinello yn Sheffield, teithiodd gyda ‘No Fit State’ gyda sioe ‘Bianco’, a pherfformiodd yn ‘Bodies inUrbanSpaces’ ym Mangor ac Abertawe. Mae ei brofiad actio a pherfformio syrcas hefyd yn cynnwys- ‘Y Crincod’, Llwyfan Gogledd Cymru; ‘Coppelia’; ‘Troi a Throsi’; Y Goeden Annwn’; a ‘Tri’, Syrcas Circus. 

Teithiodd Iago i Malawi gyda Anno’sAfrica yn 2017 i ddysgu sgiliau awyrol i blant Bae Nhkata. Cymraeg yw iaith gyntaf Iago ac mae’n caru garddio a magu hwyaid.

Lauren has been working with Cimera Since 2013 and loves being a part of our exciting and ever growing company. She is a trained Actor who has embraced some skills as a circus performer. Including stilts, fire, aerial. She teaches circus skills workshops and loves community engagement events. You may also see her direct projects in the near future.  

She loves working with children and families, and believes performing is about having fun and playing characters, trying out ideas through dance, acting, using physicality and you will always hear her promoting the arts!! She is also a stunt woman for film and Tv and work with animals in film! Some of you may have seen the lovely cats and owls on CBBC the Worst Witch, or stunt Work Gangs of London and the latest Bollywood films. The skills she has developed through her own personal practice all go hand in hand. Her passion is to provide entertainment and bring joy to those who get to be part of our shows and events.

She is a life long animal lover and a mother of two. She has played international Rugby and lived in some unusual places such as Borneo, Malaysia and The United Arab Emirates. She is looking forward to welcoming lots of new faces to our exciting outdoor events.

Mae Daisy’n teimlo’n angerddol am gelfyddyd awyrol. Ei phrif ddisgyblaeth yw crefft yr ‘hŵp’ awyrol ond mae hi hefyd wedi hyfforddi gyda’r ‘trapeze’; rhaffau sidan; strapiau a Gwe Spaeneg.  

Daisy started out her circus journey while training to be a journalist in university, attending static trapeze classes at Black & Blue Circus in Liverpool. After working as a journalist in London until the age of 25, Daisy decided she would rather write her own story than follow other people’s, so she joined a travelling circus and performed throughout the UK. 

Returning to North Wales in 2018, Daisy joined Syrcas Cimera and has been teaching and performing with them ever since, as well as working as solo performer. Daisy also works in community engagement, working on a literature for wellbeing project around North Wales.

Following a Drama degree at Aberystwyth University, Manon became a professional actress in TV, Film and theatre. She worked on several T.I.E projects with the Fran Wen, National Museums Wales and St Fagan, and Outreach, Theatre Clwyd, co-devising shows and workshops for primary and secondary schools. She has toured with theatre companies in Wales and Europe with companies such as Bara Caws and E.L.A.N Wales and worked on large scale theatre/circus community projects under the direction of Firenza Guidi and No Fit State Circus. Amongst her early acting experience she appeared in the Oscar nominated film, Hedd Wyn. Recent credits have seen her in Pobol y Cwm, Rownd a Rownd and Hidden for S4C and BBC Wales. 

Manon spent four years as a performing arts lecturer at Trinity College, Carmarthen on the B.A course, Theatre, Film and Music. Whilst raising a family she has integrated educational work to her acting career as a Welsh language tutor and Youth theatre Tutor; as a Creative Agent and Creative Practitioner for the Arts Council of Wales. Through partnership with CADW and Conway Archives, she also delivers story-telling and workshops based on local and national history implementing the Donaldson practice of Mantel of the expert and creative learning theories. 

Manon has collaborated with Cimera in the past as an outreach artist with the Welsh learning audience. She is now a fully- fledged member of the company contributing to the companies many projects as a co-director and creative practitioner. Birds of a feather flock together. 

Raine has over 35 years’ experience in business administration, project finance and internal audit. During her career she has worked for many local organisations including Plas Menai National Outdoor Centre, Natural Resources Wales and is currently working for Bangor University as a Finance Administrator on two projects. 

She has a long association with community arts and has been involved in several Cimera events. Over the years, she has taken time out of her career to travel abroad and work at various festivals in the UK including Glastonbury, Big Green Gathering and the Northern Green Gathering. More recently she has performed at Festival No 6 and many other local carnivals and festivals with Bloco Sŵn - a local samba band. 

Raine has recently become a grandmother and enjoys drumming, rowing and regularly sails locally. However, in 2017 she had her greatest sailing adventure yet crossing the Atlantic from Pwllheli to Bermuda (and back again) in a 54’ trimaran.

Mae Alex wedi ei fagu yng nghefn gwlad godidog Gogledd Cymru ac mae wedi bod yn ymwneud gyda Cimera ers yn blentyn. Mae gweithio gyda Cimera wedi ei alluogi i wneud llawer o bethau mae yn ei garu – teithio, perfformio a hyfforddi.  

He travelled to Malawi with Cimera and the charity, Annos Africa, on an enrichment program to educate local artists on creating a sustainable business for producing young talent, acts and opportunity for some of the most naturally talented people in the world. Working alongside the locals in Mzuzu was a great insight into different cultures and was a brilliant learning opportunity for him as a young man just out of A levels.  

He has also had the opportunity to be part of an array of performances, in front of hundreds of people all over the country, from fire juggling to stilt walking, from festivals to street carnivals. You name it, he’s done it!  

Mae’n troi ei law at sawl crefft ond jyglo yw ei ffefryn. Yn ddiweddar mae wedi meistroli y gamp ‘rhaeadr 5 pêl’, ac nid yw’n bwriadu rhoi’r gorau iddi ar hynny.

Claire is a mother of four originally from Nantlle. She has been involved with community circus and theatre arts since 2007 when she first volunteered on a project in Talysarn. Claire and her kids have been active participants in Cimera’s work since its beginning in 2013. Claire is a workshop leader, stilt and fire performer.      

Claire has many years’ experience of working with socially excluded and marginalized young people. Including as a support worker at Treborth, Brynllwyd and Porthmadog special units/ schools and is dedicated to supporting vulnerable members of the community through the Arts. She is a first language Welsh speaker and loves walking the mountains, photography and fire poi.