Christian Payne

Christian Payne specialise in creative technology and communications. Working with multimedia creation, social media documenting and amplification. He also consults. Working with large and small businesses, news agencies, charities, NGO’s and the arts and corporate sector.

He likes to travel light and share stories and interactions in realtime and blogs as @Documentally and occasionally writes about technology for The Guardian.

Some of the workshops he delivers focus on documenting and sharing stories with networked devices. From getting to grips with Twitter to Mobile Video Production.

Ross Millership

Ross Millership has spent 10 years mixing a wide range of broadcast TV in stereo and 5.1 spending the last six years at the award winning post facility ENVY. He’s mixed series such as the BAFTA winning Grand Designs, The Undateables, Tattoo Fixers, Drunk History, Heston’s Great British Food and the multi award winning Wild Things. Ross has also mixed numerous documentaries such as the BAFTA winning Graffiti Wars, American Animal Hoarder, Extreme Brat Camp and Christian Louboutin: The World’s Most Expensive Shoes. He’s also had the pleasure of mixing a feature football mockumentary United We Fall which enjoyed a nationwide theatrical release.

He spends most of his time mixing but love’s getting his teeth into sound design, working most enjoyably on Strip The Cosmos and Rise of the Machines where he conceptualised, supervised and mixed the sound design into the 14 diverse episodes, each with roughly 25 minutes of complex 3D CGI needing sound design.

Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet is a field recordist, electronic musician and photographer in so much as that he can point a camera at something that catches his eye in the same way as he point’s a microphone at something that catches his ear.

Mark Wingfield

Mark is a multi-award winning musician and audio engineer.  He has played concerts across the globe and his albums have received critical acclaim in over 300 reviews in more than 20 countries.

As a mixing and mastering, engineer Mark has received many accolades from audiophile magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. Mark is the mixing and mastering engineer of choice for the NYC based MoonJune Records (Downbeat readers poll third favourite jazz label in the US) and the audiophile label Greydisc Records.

Mark has also worked with the museum sector, recording and editing audio guides and other multimedia audio for Arts Council London, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cambridge Museum of Zoology and Kettle’s Yard.

Holly Standbrook

Holly has been a professional voice actor for several years and works from her own studio in St Neots. Originally training with Gary Terza, she has since worked on a variety of projects ranging from corporate presentations and e-learning tutorials, to radio spots and TV ads. She has also voiced characters in computer games as well as working with some high profile Youtubers. Holly has a ‘neutral’ British accent with a smooth, engaging, trustworthy tone. A confident actress with a versatile voice ranging from strong and authoritative, to bright and exciting or relaxed and conversational.

Chris Clifton

Chris is a vocalist, actor, presenter, and project manager. As well as founding The St Neots Singers, the town’s first secular community choir, he has also broken a number of proverbial legs on stage with a number of theatre groups. He has spent far too much time in front of a camera and does his best to generally avoid them nowadays. He is currently the frontman and lead vocalist for the local band, The Roxton Press, turning his hand (or rather his vocal cords) to a wide and diverse range of music.

Will Rixon

Will has been playing, composing and performing music since childhood, first on the piano and later, on a variety of other instruments. Though a founding member and writer for folk-rock band Garden State, his first love is classical film soundtracks and he has composed for several short films including Flea, I am Thou, and Virgin Shorts finalist, The Big Idea.

Will was trained as a classical pianist, but considers himself formally untrained, as he composes entirely by ear and by instinct. With this organic background in composition, his music feels both familiar and unique.​

His debut classical album, Acinematic, is a selection of 10 pieces, intended for films that are yet to be made. Each song represents a sub-genre of film composition that Will feels passionate about as both a film-lover and film score enthusiast.

Julie Stark

Julie is currently appearing as Sister Mary Lazarus in the spectacularly fun UK and Ireland tour of Sister Act.  Tour dates can be found here!

Earlier this year, Julie rocked Manchester as Queen Gynecia in the European premiere of the brilliantly funny Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels and made her TV debut as DC Halliwell in Eastenders. She has performed in many musicals throughout her career, both in the West End and touring the UK and she got her break in We Will Rock You in London’s Dominion Theatre, returning there in 2018 to perform in Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell.  

Julie has been a huge fan of the iconic Les Miserables since it started, so it was a great day when she was cast in the 25th Anniversary tour, and subsequently, the feature film.  Other shows include Chess, City of Angels, The Witches of Eastwick, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Love Story and Shout plus stints in the pantomimes Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and also the Eugene Ionescu play, The Lesson. 

Julie has sung all over the world.  She started her singing career fronting many soul, disco and funk bands, which she still does today, alongside pop and rock bands.  She has performed as both Agnetha and Freda in many Abba tributes, rocked huge crowds whilst performing with The Music of Queen, and appeared as a solo artiste at functions, casinos, clubs, restaurants and on the occasional ship.  She performed at the 02 in the Les Miserables 25th Anniversary concert, and has backed names such as Kenny Thomas, Thelma Houston and Jaki Graham.

James Tortise-Crawford

James has experience of strategic planning and project management across arts and culture, higher education and community engagement. He managed projects at the Royal Opera House including the official London 2012 Olympics exhibition and BP Summer Big Screens relays and led on operational planning for Hull UK City of Culture 2017. He coordinated King’s College London’s local engagement with charities and community organisations, and currently heads up strategic projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Ben Pitt

Ben Pitt cut his creative teeth as a musician and concert promoter in London. Since moving to St Neots in 2012, he’s worked as a video producer, music teacher, community development officer, journalist and town and district councillor. He is the director of St Neots Festival.