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EMILIA BRODIE is an actor/musician who has experience in devising, collaborating, composing and performing in theatre productions.  She is particularly interested in using music in creative and imaginative ways to express theatrical narratives.

Her theatre credits include Forever In Your Debt (Foursight Theatre/Talking Birds/Warwick Arts Centre); Pirates of Penzance (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Hansel and Gretel and What A Wonderful World (Lyngo/Lyric Hammersmith); A Christmas Carol and King Lear (TNT); Slippery Mountain (Site-specific piece, China Town); A Boy Who Grew Flowers (Kazzum); Trojan Trilogies (British Museum/Tristan Bates Theatre); Twelfth Night (Oddsocks Productions); Mrs Brunel, Carrying On (Mikron Theatre); Hippolytus and Trojan Women (Actors of Dionysus) and Spoonface Steinberg (Edintburgh and Prague Festival).  
Strike a Chord Theatre is a London based theatre company who create devised music theatre inspired by social and political issues.  It was formed in 2009 by Rachel Warr and Emilia Brodie.
RACHEL WARR is a theatre director with experience of developing devised performance and new writing.  She has directed small and large scale theatre productions, as well as work for site specific and outdoor spaces.  Rachel also works as a puppeteer, choreographer and dramaturge.  Music plays an important role in her work, as a point of inspiration and as a tool for creative work in rehearsal.  

Her most recent work includes Antoine & The Paper Aeroplane (Blak Wulf Theatre), shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award at Edinburgh fringe festival 2009 and Hidden Lives and Unvisited Tombs a poetry and sound performance in St Pancras Crypt.  Previous work includes productions at The Wolsey Theatre, Chester Gateway Theatre, Eastern Angles, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Windsor Arts Centre, the New Wimbledon Theatre and the Kings Head Theatre.  Her work has twice represented the UK at European festivals of theatre.