Hila was born in Israel in 1971. She is a multidisciplinary artist, a puppeteer, stage designer and graphic artist. She is a graduate (1997) of the Vital School of Design, Tel Aviv and DasArts (2006), in Amsterdam. In 2007 she put on a performance art piece called “The Last Supper”, a sculpture-machine and marionettes. In 2010 the play “Flashkes” with dancers and 13 mechanical marionettes, in 2014 the performance art piece “Geneticus” a huge puppet machine and published her book: Flashkes -love story. She worked with andcompany&Co. as stage and graphic designer for „Little Red (play): Herstory“, „Mausoleum Buffo“, „Time Republic“ und „Pandämonium Germanicum: Lenz im Loop“. www.flashkes.com

is a theatre-maker and -scientist: performer, author & theoretician, co-founder of andcompany&Co. He writes about and for theatre, e.g. Brecht, Müller, Schlingensief, Pollesch, Rimini Protokoll et al.  Among the sins of his youth are the invention of the Frankfurt night.dance.demo and the take-over of Schlingensief’s political party CHANCE 2000. Part of his work on the edge of science and art are lecture performances or curating conferences such as ” As a Pass Time” or “NA(AR) HET THEATER – after theater?” for the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2006 (both led to publications). He has been living and working in Berlin since 2007.

Gregor was born in Frankfurt in 1972. He studied visual communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach before graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London in 2005. He now focuses on light installations (i.e. Luminale Frankfut) and light design for theatre and dance productions (since 2008 with andcompany&Co. amomg others). Gregor is also a musician and composer and has released several albums as well as presented many sound installations and live concerts (among others together with Jan Brokof as ‘Das K’).

Kathrin Krottenthaler is a Berlin based cinematographer and film editor. She was a constant member of Christoph Schlingensiefs team during numerous productions for example at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Burgtheater Wien, Haus der Kunst München, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Filmgalerie 451. Her film work has been shown in numerous venues and international film festivals (Berlinale, Int. Filmfestival Göteborg, Festival des Deutschen Films, Int. Hofer Filmtage, Max Ophüls Preis, Filmes de Femmes Paris, Clermont-Ferrand etc). She was nominated twice for the national Womens Director of Photography Award at IFFF Cologne with her camera work in the Max Ophüls Prize award winning movie TORPEDO by Helene Hegemann and HJÄLTAR / HEROES directed by Carolina Hellsgård. She also works as a live cinematographer and video artist for theatre plays by René Pollesch, Schorsch Kamerun, Helene Hegemann, the German-English performance group Gob Squad and the art collective Chicks on Speed. www.kathrinje.com

theatre-maker, performer and singer. After she studied theatre-, film- and media-science at the University in Frankfurt/Main, she received an artists’ grant for DasArts (The Amsterdam School for Performing Arts). little red (play): ‘herstory’ was her final project there. She is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and contributes to the collective’s work mainly as director, co-writer and performer. Lives in Berlin.

Claudia is an actress and singer. She studied Applied Theatre Science in Gießen and in 1994 founded her own band MadonnaHipHopMassaker. Apart from being a singer she has been part of many theatre projects with Jörg Laue/Lose Combo, Tim Staffel ("Hausarrest“), René Pollesch ("Heidi Hoh", "Insourcing des Zuhause – Menschen in Scheisshotels", „Telefavela“) and John Jesurun („Red House“). In 2006 she realized a solo-performance (Feedback’) at Volksbühne Berlin. 2013 she played Portia in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ directed by Claudia Meyer at Deutsches Natinaltheater Weimar, in 2014 she participated in the performance-project ‘Dissolved’ by Florian Feigl & Christopher Hewitt with Station House Opera London at Sophiensäle Berlin. Futher infos at www.loopmoss.de)

theatre-maker, music-producer, performer and and DJ from Frankfurt am Main, now living in Berlin, develops acoustic landscapes and music for theater and performance. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. where he works as a co-director, musician and performer.