PETRA MASSEY (joint artistic director & performer) BA (Hons) in Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Trained with Philippe Gaulier and John Wright in London.

Joined Swiss action theatre, Karl’s Kuhne Gassenchau (KKG) in 1996 for Grand Paradis, S.T.E.I.N.B.R.U.C.H (1997), and Stau in 1998. In 1999 she headlined with KKG on tour with Circus Knie. She starred in Cirque Images’ series Solstrom (2003) for Bravo TV. Performed in Zumanity – Another Side of Cirque du Soleil at the New York New York Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, 2003-05, and at the Barbican in “Office Party Xmas 2007”, which transferred to the Pleasance London in 2011.

Starred in two seasons of the BBC comedy sci-fi Hyperdrive, 2006-07 as regular crew member “Sandstrom” the enhanced human (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/hyperdrive/), and 'Miranda'.

Alongside various directing and teaching projects she is an active board member of Empuaan, a charity that works amongst the Masai people of Tanzania.