Our Team
Moving Parts Theatre Company is led by Joanna Nevin, Martin South and Simona Hughes, who work together to develop the vision and script of each of their productions. Then, in collaboration with our brilliant creative team, the story is brought to life.
JOANNA NEVIN
Producer / Actor
Joanna is a London-based actor and producer. She co-produced last summer’s tour of Vanity Fair in which she played Rawdon Crawley and various other ensembler roles. Joanna trained at Drama Centre London on the MA Classical Acting course. Joanna has played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, Olivia in Twelfth Night (all UK tours), Ruth in About 500 (King’s Head/Union Theatre), Lily Byrne in A Man of No Importance (Arts Theatre, West End), Sandra in Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis), Emily Bronte in Bronte (Gatehouse), Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Ashcroft Theatre) and Susan in The Legend of Lola Montez (Northumberland Theatre Company). Joanna has been an Education Practitioner at the Globe for many years and has directed youth productions of Antigone, The Bacchae and Medea.
Joanna is represented by 21st Century Actor’s Management.
MARTIN SOUTH
PRODUCER/ACTOR
Martin South co-produced last summer’s tour of Vanity Fair in which he played Lord Steyne and various other ensembler roles. Martin directed our national tour of Macbeth (in which he also played King Duncan) and co-produced our tour of Much Ado About Nothing in which he played Benedick. Elsewhere as an actor he has appeared in The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre) in the West End and performed in 1133, Kit Green’s punchy and provocative reworking of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. Other roles include Keith in Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis) and Mr Rochester in Bronte (Gatehouse).
Film work includes Misanthropos, an adaptation of Timon of Athens (2022) and audio work, includes Remembrance, an immersive audio drama that Martin created that takes place in Abney Park cemetery, and is still available at https://echoes.xyz/
Martin is represented by 21st Century Actor’s Management.
SIMONA HUGHES
DIRECTOR
Simona directed our 2025 production of Vanity Fair and previously our 2024 production of Much Ado About Nothing. She graduated from her MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2019, (with Distinction) and was an Artistic Director of the Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington from 2021-2024. Simona wrote and directed the play About 500, (The King’s Head Theatre, The Union Theatre, The Omnibus theatre) which was nominated for 3 awards. Other directing credits include Helen Edmundson’s Coram Boy (Minack Theatre), James Graham’s Labour of Love (Tower Theatre), Martin Sherman’s A Passage To India, (Tower Theatre), Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love (Theatro Technis) and Polly Teale’s Brontë (Gatehouse). Simona has directed short plays at Theatre 503, The Bread and Roses, VAULT festival, Flourish Festival, the Arcola Outside and The Pit (Barbican). Simona also directs for The Primary Shakespeare Company.
Andy Canadine
Actor & Tour Manager
Andy moved into professional acting in 2022 following a successful career in primary school education as a Teacher and Headteacher.
He recently appeared in Macbeth (Nottingham Shakespeare Company). Previous theatre credits include touring productions of Vanity Fair, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth (Moving Parts Theatre Company) and The Taming of the Shrew (Drama Impact). He also appeared in Norman Balon- It’s All True (Shaftesbury Theatre).
Screen credits include 2024 European Independent Film Festival award-shortlisted short, The Eliminating, dir. Mengqing Xia, and Red Cross Campaign Advert (TV).
Creatives
Tamara Douglas-Morris
Composer/Musical Director
Tamara is a composer of theatre, film and concert music.
She earned her MFA in Film Composition in the US. Whilst living there she composed music for three Shakespearean productions for BAFTA/LA and the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble.
Theatre credits include Odd Shaped Balls (Edinburgh Fringe and Old Red Lion), The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Minack Theatre), A Passage to India & The Little Prince (Tower Theatre) and Jubilee Voices (Arcola Outside). Her concert works have been performed at The Hackney Proms, Islington Town Hall, Sutton House and The Old Church.
Tamara teaches cello in Stoke Newington, is a member of the LLM Orchestra and a founding member of Uccelli Strings.
Nevana Stojkov
Movement Director
Nevena is an Offie award nominated movement director, holding an MFA in Movement Direction and Teaching from RCSSD. Nevena also works as a choreographer and teacher of movement, theatre and dance. Nevena’s work is influenced by her training in theatre, Hip Hop and urban social dance styles plus Musical Theatre.
Theatre as movement director includes: The Lonely Londoners (Kiln Theatre/Jermyn Street Theatre); The Girl in the Machine (Young Vic); You’re So F***ing Croydon (Edinburgh Fringe/Croydonites Festival/Omnibus Theatre); Weeverfish, Waterlilies (RCSSD); She Kills Monsters, Our Town (GSA); Machinal (Orange Tree); Coram Boy (Tower Theatre/Minack Theatre); The Boy Who Fell in a Book, Lizard Evidilleh Marmarok, The Little Prince (Tower Theatre) and On the Line (Camden People’s Theatre).
Theatre as Choreographer includes: Much Ado About Nothing (Moving Parts Theatre), In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields (RCSSD) and Labour of Love (Tower Theatre).
Anna Pearshouse
Costume Design
Anna Pearshouse is a costume designer and maker, with a degree in Theatre Design from Central Saint Martins, and a diverse career spanning theatre, education, and fine art. She has designed costumes for over a dozen productions at Latimer Upper School, among them The Tempest, Dr Faustus, Sweet Charity & The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and currently works as a specialist textile technician at Camden School for Girls. Previously Anna worked at The Victoria & Albert museum with their Museum Handling Collection. Anna also collaborates regularly with fine artists Cathie Pilkington and Laura Ford in helping to bring their creative visions to life through expert craftsmanship
Freya Alexander
Set Design
Freya Alexander is a designer of theatre sets and exhibitions.
She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2023 and has since been involved with many creative projects in London, including theatre, festival and film.
Set design credits: The Passenger (Finborough Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (The Big House Theatre Company); The Dark Room, Out of Sorts (Tower Theatre), Heroes (theSpace Edinburgh festival), There’s No Place like Grove (The Tabernacle)
Film includes County Lines, dir Henry Blake
She is currently leading on the stage design for ‘Chasing Hares’ by Sonali Bhattacharyya at the Tower Theatre.
Her studies in sculpture, fine art and sustainable practice informs the work that she creates.
Lily Baik
Set Design
Lily is a London – based performance designer. She designs spaces and visuals including the set and costume for the theatre performances. She trained at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the arts London. (with distinction)
Theatre credit includes costume design in Desire Lines (Southbank Centre Winter Light Festival), set and costume design in Hypnagogic (The Place), projection design in Candida (Lyric Hammersmith), set design in Territory Marking (Platform Theatre), set design in Jerusalem (Capital City College King’s Cross) set and costume design associate in The Passenger (Finborough Theatre), set and costume design associate in Whole (the UK touring show), set design assistant in The Ice at The End of The World (Omnibus Theatre) and set and costume design assistant in Space Girl (Lewisham Youth Theatre) etc.
Music Video includes art department in Dua Lipa’s Dance the Night Away – Barbie Soundtrack (Warner Bros) etc.
