About us

Scarlet Oak Theatre is a Bristol based theatre company that creates conversation sparking theatre for young people and their grownups.

We take inspiration from the natural world and draw on our years of working in a variety of educational settings. Our aim is to excite, engage and ignite questions from our audience members.

Jasmine Orchard

Jasmine studied Drama: Theatre and Media at University of Glamorgan and Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre at Circomedia, then later Clowning at Ecole Phillipe Gaulier. Her love of puppetry has presented her with lots of opportunities to create theatre specifically for younger audiences and appeared in stage productions of The Gingerbread Man, Reindeer on the roof and The Homeless Panda before producing her own work as Scarlet Oak Theatre. She draws on many years experience of working in youth theatres, baby sensory classes, nurseries and schools to create relevant, engaging work for young people. Jasmine currently splits her time between performing, overseeing the administration of Scarlet Oak and playing with scraps of fabric on her days off. Jasmine has been developing her making skills with guidance from the wonderful Marc Parrett for Scarlet Oak’s upcoming production of Along Came a Magpie.

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.