About us
Fabula Collective was established in 2019 to be the catalyst for long-term, deep creative connections. Led by instinct and experience, we seek out new and established artists, across all disciplines, and we bring them together to create exceptional live and digital work for UK and international audiences.
We recognise the need for a supportive, nurturing environment for artists to take risks, dig deep, explore and reach their potential - we fill that gap, listening to practitioners and inviting them into a creative space without boundaries.
We are uniquely committed to artists at every step of the way - from providing bespoke training and mentorships to producing large-scale work for stage and film - guided by our belief that art connects all of us through emotion more deeply than any other form of communication.
Meet our team and Collaborators below, and find out more about our productions and education programme. We’d love to hear from you, get in touch!
Our team
Yukiko Tsukamoto - Creative Director
Born in Tokyo, Japan. Studied at Slade School, UCL for MFA and Central St. Martins for BA. Became the finalist of The Linbury Prize selected by Rupert Goold, working as a set and costume designer in UK and Japan.
Credits include JOE GUY by Roy Williams, and Depouillement by Will Tuckett, which was produced by the artistic director of Ballet Black Cassa Pancho.
Yukiko founded Fabula Collective in 2019. She has successfully directed and premiered works, such as Elevation in Cerulean Tower Noh Theatre, Tokyo, and Ley Line at Lilian Baylis Studio, London. In 2021, during the pandemic, she brought HUMAN. to New National Theatre, Tokyo. The latest production, MOMENTUM lost & found, had it’s world premiere at Sadler’s Wells on 17 September 2022 with 7 brand new pieces and music compositions.
She goes above and beyond to fulfil her vision and is dedicated to the success of Fabula Collective.
Gabriela Jorge
Company Manager
Sarah Walsh
Administrative Assistant
Sophie Cunningham
Communications
Zhixi Gu
Development Officer
Fabula Collaborators
James Pett - Collaborator
James Pett competed as a gymnast for ten years before graduating from the Laban Dance Centre with a first-class degree and was awarded The Marion North Award for outstanding achievement in performance. From 2011-2013 James danced for Richard Alston Dance Company and his performance of the central duet in Unfinished Business was awarded the New York Times number one duet in 2013. From there, James joined Company Wayne McGregor (2013 - 2019) where he performed in some of the most prestigious theatres worldwide including, Palais Garnier, Bolshoi Theatre and Sadler's Wells. James also collaborates with many artists in fashion and photography. He has brought to life the visions of Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh, Christoph Copin and Rick Guest, to name a few. James recently choreographed his first full company work for Bangkok City Ballet, entitled Unfolding.
James became an Associate Artist with Fabula Collective in 2019.
Travis Clausen-Knight - Collaborator
South African born, Travis has had a significant career in dance having worked for choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Michael Clark, Matthew Bourne, Bawren Tavaziva, Holly Noble, Tim Podesta and Alexander Whitley.
Travis has held a deep ambition to create and has choreographed works which have been performed internationally – including Salt To Water, SHIO to MIZU, Exposure, ProXimity, Stutter, Informal Between. In 2020 he received the Korean International Contemporary Dance Competition award for best choreography and was previously awarded several recognitions and awards for his work.
His curiosity towards creativity has also led several collaborations in fashion, appearing and starring for names such as Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh, Demo Fashion, Kawakey, COS and Cerruti 1881. This has been a catalyst to his directing and developing of multi-faceted performances and projects for the future with acclaimed international visual artists and companies.
Hannah Calascione - Collaborator
Hannah Calascione is a theatre director who makes interdisciplinary, intercultural, experimental shows that explore togetherness despite difference. Most often she makes new plays and devised shows. She has a BA in Social Anthropology and Politics from King’s College, Cambridge, and graduated from Birkbeck College with an MFA in Theatre Directing in 2019, with secondments at HOME Manchester, Bolton Octagon and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Upon graduation she won an OffWestEnd Award for her production of All the Little Lights, and was commissioned by HOME to produce an interdisciplinary performance piece The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires for ¡Viva! Festival using original and archival film and live musicians. As Associate Director, she has worked on PUSH Festival 2019 and the devised show the accident did not take place with YESYESNONO, which was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation/Experimentation. As Assistant Director she has worked on productions such as The Importance of Being Ernest (Octagon), Dreamcatcher (HOME), Sparkplug (UK Tour), Submission (HOME) and The Maids (HOME). She is also an Artist Mentor for Barbican Creative Learning, annually devising theatre shows with young people on their programme. Previously she worked in development for film company Potboiler Productions, and was the Producer/Director’s Assistant on their feature film The Little Stranger. She is a horticulture enthusiast and looks to find ways to connect the human and non-human worlds.
Oladipo Agboluaje - Collaborator
Oladipo Agboluaje is the author of several plays, including Early Morning, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane, The Estate, Iyale - The First Wife, New Nigerians, Mother Courage and her Children (adaptation), Threshold, The Hounding of David Oluwale (adaptation), Immune, Here’s What She Said To Me, Hoxton Street (co-written with Lil Warren) and an adaptation of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Awards include the Alfred Fagon Award, the Peggy Ramsey Award, the Pearson Award and an International Research Centre Fellowship at Freie University. Oladipo is a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and treasurer of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). He is a member of The Fence, an international group of theatre practitioners, and a member of the Dramaturgs’ Network. Oladipo has taught African Theatre, Post-Colonial Dramas and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University of London, SOAS, City University, London Metropolitan University and the University of Greenwich. Oladipo was writer in residence at the New Wolsey Theatre and the National Theatre, London and is a board member of Brixton House. Currently Oladipo is visiting lecturer in creative writing at the University of Greenwich.
Ben Lewis - Collaborator
Ben is a writer for theatre, TV, film and radio. He was part of Channel 4’s screenwriting programme for emerging writers, developing a grounded supernatural show called The Sticks. He is currently developing work with Two Brothers and Eleven Film, and wrote a pilot in the US for Red Hour and eOne. His thriller series for BBC Radio, The System, aired to rave reviews and won the Prix Europa for Best Radio Series. Ben is the founding member of award-winning theatre company Inspector Sands, co-creating work which has toured extensively in the UK, to venues including the Southbank Centre, the National Theatre, the Traverse and the Lyric Hammersmith, and to countries including the USA, Korea, China, Armenia and Russia. He is currently adapting Wuthering Heights for Inspector Sands and Don Quixote for Dundee Rep/Perth Theatre. He co-created the music theatre show My Name Is Sue (Total Theatre Award) with Dafydd James, as well as its sequel Sue: The Second Coming (Soho Theatre/Bristol Old Vic). They are now working on the third installment. The pair have also written and toured a new musical, The Village Social (National Theatre of Wales).
Mara Galeazzi – Collaborator
Italian dancer Mara Galeazzi is a former Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet and returned to the Company as a Guest Principal in 2014/15. She joined The Royal Ballet in 1992 aged 18 and was promoted to Principal in 2003, retiring at the end of 2012/13 season with Mary Vetsera in “Mayerling”, one of her first principal roles at age 19. Born in Chiari (Brescia, Italy), she trained from age 10 at La Scala Milan school and graduated with one of the highest scores in History. She was awarded a Cavaliere del Merito (knighted) by the president of Italy in 2009, Positano Prize in 2008, Danza e danza prize in 2006, “She made a difference” Women of the year in 2018 and also received “Merenzino d’oro” from Italy. Mara has also choreographed her own work, most recently “Interrupted Cadence” created for the Carta Blanca Dance Company, which premiered at the Teatro Principal in Zaragoza in 2017. In 2020 she started collaborating with Fabula Collective (artistic director Yukiko Tsukamoto) and future projects.
Joseph W. Alford – Collaborator
Joseph W. Alford is a Director and Maker in theatre, opera, film and dance. After studying with Jacques Lecoq in Paris he founded ‘theatre O’ in London, and has since directed and performed all over the world. He also spent 9 years working as a Movement Director in both theatre and opera, working with the Royal National Theatre, the RSC, Covent Garden Opera House and the Aix en Provence Opera Festival, amongst others. He has made three films with artist Daria Martin, who went on to win the Derek Jarman film award in 2018.
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