Meet the team
Interior Traces is jointly led, written and co-ordinated by Louise Whiteley and James Wilkes.
Find out about our original production team below, or click here for the cast of our May 2010 touring production.
Louise Whiteley – Script research, plotting and editing; image research and scripting
James Wilkes – Script research and writing
Prof Geraint Rees – Senior scientific consultant
Paul Hyland – Scriptwriting consultant
Dr Nick Lambert – Visual consultant
Neil Grunshaw – Art direction and motion graphics
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Score composition
Julian Mayers – Radio drama and live event production
Tom Chivers – Website production, press and marketing
Carla Rees – Musician for recording and live events
Oliver Coates – Musician for recording and live events
Louise Whiteley
Louise studied Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology at Oxford before completing a PhD in Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently studying for an MSc in Science Communication, and is deputy editor of The Liberal magazine and a freelance science/arts journalist.
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James Wilkes
James studied Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology at Oxford before taking an MA in creative writing. He is a poet, scriptwriter and freelance arts journalist, and is in his first year of a PhD at the London Consortium.
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Prof Geraint Rees
Geraint is the Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow in Biomedical Science at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. He leads a research group investigating the neural basis of human consciousness and has an active interest in public engagement with science.
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Paul Hyland
Paul is a poet, scriptwriter and travel writer whose plays, drama-documentaries and features have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and BBC 2.
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Dr Nick Lambert
Nick is Research Officer at Birkbeck’s School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media. His interests lie in computer-based art and the use of computer imagery.
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Neil Grunshaw
Neil is a freelance motion graphic designer and art director.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Cheryl has just been awarded a PhD (in Musical Composition) from Kings College London, studying with Dr. Silvina Milstein and George Benjamin. Her commissions include works for the BBC, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International ‘Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, the Bass Club, Bass Fest and the Almeida Festival, and her music has been featured on BBC2, ITV, Radio 3 and Classic FM.
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Julian Mayers
Julian has been making critically acclaimed and original radio programmes for twelve years. He has devised and produced programmes for all five domestic BBC networks and BBC World Service, including the science programmes Dear Professor Einstein (R4), Connect (R4), and The Big Byte (R5Live). He was editor of the Sony award winning Something Understood, BBC Radio 4’s spiritual series, in 2001.
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Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers is Director of Penned in the Margins, which produces live literature events, tours and publications, and provides consultancy services. He is Co-Director of London Word Festival and also a published poet.
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Carla Rees
Carla is an alto and bass flute specialist, and Artistic Director of the contemporary music ensemble rarescale. She performs regularly throughout the UK and USA and has given over 200 premiere performances. She is currently holds a DMus studentship in the Centre for Music and Multimedia at the Royal College of Music, where she is working on the creation of a multimedia resource for composers.
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Oliver Coates
Oliver Coates is an Artist in Residence at the South Bank Centre in London. He attained the highest degree result in the Royal Academy of Music’s history and went on to complete an MPhil with distinction at New College , Oxford. He has played as guest principal in the London Sinfonietta and in November will perform the Saariaho Cello Concerto with the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden , set to ballet by the resident choreographer Wayne Macgregor. He plays in a band called the House of Bedlam, an electronic, instrumental and spoken word ensemble, and a theatrical chamber sextet called the Ossian Ensemble, currently Junior Fellows in Chamber Music at the Royal College.
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