Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Jess trained at Motley. 

Recent work includes: LA SCALA DE SETA ( Royal Northern College of Music)  THE CHESTER MYSTERY CYCLE 2023 (Chester Cathedral) TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN ( The Minack Theatre) THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ( Shakespeare North Playhouse) VINCENT RIVER (The Bridge Theatre, Brussels) A POSTCARD FROM MORROCCO ( Dutch National Opera Academy) JEKYLL AND HYDE ( Derby) BRIEF ENCOUNTER ( Stephen Joseph Theatre)  GENESIS INC. (Hampstead Theatre) LOOSING VENICE (The Orange Tree Theatre) UNCLE VANYA (The Almeida) VILLETTE, DANGEROUS CORNER (West Yorkshire Playhouse), POD, PROVOK’D (devised at Guildhall School),  KISS ME QUICKSTEP, HAUNTING JULIA, LOVE LETTERS (The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch)  ONE FOR THE ROAD, GLASS CAGE, FOLLIES (Royal and Derngate, Northampton), THE HOLY ROSENBERGS (National Theatre), HOTEL CERISE (Theatre Royal, Stratford East) ANOTHER DOOR CLOSED (Theatre Royal Bath), ENDGAME (Liverpool Everyman), DANGEROUS CORNER (West Yorkshire Playhouse and West End), FRANKENSTEIN (Frantic Assembly, Northampton), BURIAL AT THEBES (Nottingham Playhouse/Barbican/US Tour) and RHAPSODY, FANTASY (Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House). 

She has also designed the Grovesnor Park Open Air Season 2013- 2016/2021, the opening season at  Storyhouse and bar interiors for Underbelly at the South Bank, Hyde Park and Leicester Square.

She is part of the Society of British Theatre’s Sustainability working group.  

Romanian born sound artist and musician Ioana Mandrescu completed her studies in her home country, France and Belgium. She is graduate of the EPAS programme in Ghent.

She is the founding member of two contemporary music groups, Quivir Ensemble, together with flautist Diana Muela Mora and clarinetist and conductor Jose Fernandez Camacho, and Opia Ensemble, together with cellist Aleksandra Pykacz.

Strongly influenced by choreography and painting, she developed performances that brought together sound, film and dance. They were presented in Belgium – Bozar Opening Night, Festival Courants d'Airs, Poland – FAMA Festival, and Iran – First Edition of the Contemporary Music Festival in Tehran.

As a sound artist she was part of group exhibitions in Gouvernment and KASK in Ghent. She performed live sets at MixTree - Amsterdam, Atlantikwall Nocturne – Oostende, La Senne - Brussels, Onder Stroom - Antwerp. She was a resident of Q-O2 and iMAL in Brussels.

She was featured on The Word Radio series FAIR_PLAY as an emerging female composer and her pieces can be found on several international sound art compilations. 

She is a founding member of the COM(E)PULSIVE platform for sound art.

Apart from her individual work, she frequently collaborates with many Belgian and international artists.

In 2022 she was part of the The Counscious Effort Fort exhibition conceived by Belgian artist David Bergé – Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp.

Since 2020 she collaborates with Norwegian artists Kjersti G. Andvig. Their first work, The Two Seasons, conceived together with the Royal Burundian drummers Ikiyago Legacy, premiered in 2022 in CC Muze, Heuzden Zolder - Belgium. 

She worked in collaboration with Syrian director Eyas Al-Mokdad as a sound designer for the installation and theatre play Unfolding the Body (Women of Troy), presented in Brussels at ZSenne Art Lab in July 2023, and KVS Box in October 2023.

She is often asked to record performances of other artists, such as Raffaella Crispino and Stijn Demeulenaere. 

Mandrescu is also active as a teacher for sound art, music and sound for film. In 2021 and 2022 she was part of the UNESCO project Reviving the Spirit of Mosul which took part in Iraq.

At the core of her work are the human body and human produced sounds and their impact on the world. She is a collector of discarded objects, stories, medical data from various organs, with a particular focus on the heart.   

As a sound recordist she is constantly working on updating a personal database of man made sounds which become building blocks for her sound pieces and installations. 

Ioana lives and works in Brussels.

Jessie is a Hull based lighting designer. They are also associate lighting designer for The Roaring Girls and was an ALPD Lumiere (2020). 

Their credits include: Baby He Loves You (Middle Child), La Scala di Seta (RNCM), Kailey (Keithley Creative & Kala Sangam), Snowmen (The Herd), Pinocchio (Hull Truck), Virtual Horizons (Jack Chamberlain Creative), These Majestic Creatures (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Romeo and Juliet & As You Like It (Leeds Conservatoire), We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Theatres), MODEST (Middle Child & Milk Presents), Brief Encounter (The New Wolsey & Salisbury Playhouse), Children of the Night (CAST), Ladies Day (The New Vic & The Octagon Theatre), Jack, Mum and The Beanstalk (Hull Truck Theatre), Macbeth & Twelfth Night (Leeds Conservatoire), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck Theatre), The Whispering Jungle (Concrete Youth), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hull Truck Theatre), Teechers Leavers 22’ (Hull Truck Theatre), The Hound of The Baskervilles (ERT Theatre), we used to be closer than this (Middle Child), Hull and High Water (Hull Truck), Everything I Own (Hull Truck), Prince Charming’s Christmas Cracker (Hull Truck), Ducklings (The Herd), Beauty Queen of Leenane (Hull Truck Theatre & Queens Theatre), The Canary and The Crow (Middle Child), Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls), Paragon Dreams (Hull Truck), Us Against Whatever (Middle Child), The Ugly Duckling (The Herd in Association with Hull Truck), TEN (Hull Truck).

Associate Credits Include:Dogs (Liverpool Playhouse), 71 Coltman Street (Hull Truck Theatre), Megalith (Mechanimal), Shedding a Skin (SOHO Theatre).