About us

Scarlet Oak Theatre is a Bristol based theatre company that creates exciting, original theatre for young people and their families.

We take inspiration from the natural world and draw on our years of working in a variety of educational settings. Our mission is to produce work that is rich, multi-layered and designed to be an experience for young people and their adults to enjoy together. We aim for our work to ignite conversations within families that last well beyond their time in the performance space.

Jasmine Orchard

Jasmine is a freelance director, actor, puppeteer and puppetry director. She studied Drama: Theatre and Media at University of Glamorgan; Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre at Circomedia; and Clowning at Ecole Phillipe Gaulier. Outside of formal training Jasmine has continued to develop her creative practice in residencies with companies such as Ockham’s Razor, Spy Monkey, Frantic Assembly and The Object Project. Her love of puppetry has presented her with lots of opportunities to create theatre specifically for younger audiences and has appeared in stage productions of The Gingerbread Man, Reindeer on the roof and The Homeless Panda before producing her own work with Scarlet Oak Theatre.

Lucia d’Inverno

Lucia trained with the Year Out Drama Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, studied Physical Theatre and Circus at Circomedia Bristol and Greek and Roman Theatre, Art and History at University of Bristol. As well as working as an actor Lucia co-produces Wonderhaus, a Dada inspired comedy cabaret where she regularly performs a game show style act, The GameZone.

 Lucia has loved working with young people in a variety of roles including as a playworker, childminder and a freelance theatre workshop facilitator. Lucia is proud to deliver interactive workshops at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, inviting young people to delve into the worlds of the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks, Stone Age Britons and War time Bristolians. Puppeteering and storytelling with Jasmine is both a joy and a privilege for Lucia as together they engage, educate and inspire young people and their grown ups alike.