Meet the Team

Kerrin Tatwood is an award-winning creative producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and theatre maker based in Newcastle. They are passionate about bringing artists, participants and audiences together to create meaningful and impactful creative experiences that transform spaces and diversify regional arts delivery.

As a musician, Kerrin plays and writes for a varied range of projects scaling circus, dance, theatre and concert hall, with previous clients, commissioners & residencies including The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Hull Philharmonic Orchestra, The Tallis Scholars, and McNicol Ballet Collective. Kerrin is also one half of Tatwood Puppets alongside their husband Matthew Tatwood, a touring company specialising in visual theatre, puppetry and original soundtracks.

Kerrin runs the day-to-day activities and oversees the directional progression of Moving Parts Arts, which includes programming, project development and strategic planning.

Izaak Gledhill is an LGBTQIA+ North West artist based in the North East, whose theatre work seeks to find the extraordinary in the ordinary of every day life. From conversations in taxi's to arguments with sheep, his working class gaze on the stories heard and shared highlight the current state of the world we live in. \

Izaak works as a Producer and Facilitator with various orgnanisations - including The NewBridge Project, Curious Arts and Moving Parts - with a focus on engaging young people from diverse backgrounds in the arts. Here at Moving Parts he is excited to shout out about the work we do and the ways in which puppetry brings people together.

When not working, Izaak loves reading, walking and eating with friends. 

Molly is a Suffolk born, Newcastle based, designer/ maker and arts facilitator. Since graduating with a BA hons in Theatre design in 2007, where she specialised in small scale touring and puppetry. More recently, she completed a  Primary General PGCE in to further embed her educational skills. Over the years, Molly has worked as an artist across many visual art forms and mediums, including puppetry, theatre, installation art and sculpture. Molly has made puppets for companies such as Northern Stage, Live Theatre, Alphabetti Theatre, Nutmeg Puppets, and created her own shows though Kinaesthetic Theatre and Club Adelphi.

She is passionate about sharing her skills as a maker and giving people of all ages the opportunity to learn more about their world, how it is made and the stories it holds, through creative workshops. She has previously worked as Lead Maker at Life Science Centre, Schools Facilitator and Creative Associate at Seven Stories National Centre for Children's Books, as well as through freelance facilitation. Molly is very excited to continue to develop fun and interesting engagement opportunities as part of the Moving Parts Arts team.

My name is JonJoe Clennell. I have previous festival experience in my position as a "Young Evaluator" with "Juice". I am excited to be back in the Arts & Culture sector having previously worked as an Intern for Strong Voices at Sage Gateshead. One of my life goals is to have a career in events management. My main hobbies and interests are WWE, Newcastle Eagles, Newcastle United and travelling. 

Chloe Rodham is a freelance animator and educator. She graduated from UCA Farnham in 2010 and has been working freelance on projects ever since, from indents and social ads to short films and explainer videos. She works in a variety of techniques and loves to create using stop motion animation and model making.

Chloe was the 2019 Stop Motion Commission creator for Moving Parts and has since created animations for the festival, such as the Tyne Rising poster animation in 2021. Chloe has also designed and delivered bespoke workshops and puppet making activities for Moving Parts.

Louise Gregory works internationally as a Production & Stage Manager, specialising in productions in unusual and community venues. She has worked on outdoor performances and the North East of England, at GDIF, Imagine Luton and Latitude Festival. Production Management credits include The Believers are But Brothers (Javaad Alipoor); salt., Race Cards and The Missy Elliott Project (Selina Thompson); The Department of Distractions and Partus (Third Angel); Buzzcut Festival 2021; and Newcastle Fringe Festival 2021 (Alphabetti Theatre). She also works as a Lighting Designer, and is Lead Artist on NAVIGATE, a programme for early-career Scottish artists from a disadvantaged or marginalised background to develop Covid-safe performances, including across new digital formats.

Louise was the Production and Health & Safety Director for the 2019 festival and for Tyne Rising in 2021.

Lesley-anne Rose is an award winning animator and artist who lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. Lesley-anne has made animations for broadcast TV as well as online content commissions for the BBC, shorts for museums and art galleries, including the Tate, BALTIC, Laing and Woodhorn Museum. 

As well as commissioned work, Lesley-anne produces participatory projects with marginalised groups in the region, work with organisations like GemArts, Equal Arts, the NHS, Newcastle University, Helix Arts and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, facilitating the production of unique, award winning animated shorts.

Rachael Horner is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, originally from Beverley but now based in Brighton. Rachael was awarded a BA (Hons) in illustration from Falmouth University and then went on to pursue her love of colour and texture to create bold and colourful large-scale collages. Other clients include Puppets in Beverley, the RHS, Scilly Flowers, DCUK, Taste of London and Survive. 

Rachael designed all Moving Parts Arts graphic content 2017-2023, including the shadow puppet characters, bespoke font, Tyne Rising poster, Puppet School pop up theatre and this website.