Meet The Team
Each one of our seven company members brings a different strength to the group. From working on a Netflix stunt team, being an award winning animator, or even growing up in the circus!
Together we strive for an open collaborative process, in which our unique and diverse experiences come together to develop new and unique performances.
Lexie Baker
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Lexie is a triple threat, who started her professional carrier at the age of 10, dancing commercially for Disney. Before her time at Lecoq Lexie studied musical theatre at Lindenwood University and Classical theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). She has performed with companies such as Saint Louis Shakespeare in the U.S. and with several International theatre companies including; two national tours with Co. OZ , and with with; Lo’Co Théâtre, Cie Shift Shape, Co. KUMZITZ and Minikin Theatre.
Jonathan Ben-Shaul
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Before going to Lecoq with the rest of the AKIMBO team, Jonathan studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He completed two international theatre tours, one across the east coast of the U.S. and the other to the cellar of the National Theatre of Iceland. He is an award-winning filmmaker having made a dance-documentary film about Soviet modernist architecture in Kharkiv six months before the full-scale military invasion. Now he helps run annual lantern parades in France and the UK. When he was younger, he was a juggler and a magician with the National Youth Circus.
Flo Wiedenbach
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Born and raised in Mexico, with Swiss and Peruvian parents, Flo worked as an actor in Mexico City on The Wise Women by Molière, A Stroll in the Air by Eugene Ionesco and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They are fluent in four languages, a musician and a photographer. Before their two years at Lecoq, they also trained as an actor at Guildhall in London and Fontainebleau School of Acting in France. When they are not working with Akimbo, Flo likes to concentrate on and practice their photography.
Pierre Moullier
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Prior to studying at Jaques Lecoq, Pierre had been working as an actor from a young age in London, performing in Cries from the Heart (Royal Court Theatre 2007), The Jumper Factory (The Young Vic 2019) and The Grand Duke of Florence (The Globe 2017). He has trained in Taekwondo for 9 years, holding a black belt, and has had numerous TV roles including Oi Pussy BBC (2019) and Fate the winx saga (2021) as a stunt performer under Brendan Condren.
Rosanna Malinson
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Rosanna was a writer, actor and theatre maker with immersive theatre company ImmerCity in London before going to Jaques Lecoq. ImmerCity was set up in 2012 and made over 20 immersive shows for unique locations, from the clock tower in St Pancras to more traditional places like Opera Holland Park, Wilton’s Music Hall, or Gaiety Theatre Dublin.
Halvor Schultz
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Halvor starred as a child actor in Norway, playing in various TV shows and the main role of Ola in the feature film Beatles in 2014. Since finishing his studies at Jacques Lecoq and founding Akimbo in 2021, he has been working as a director for a student production in Oslo, and participated as an actor in The Unbounded, an Alumni Project for the University of Toronto. In August 2022, he received the “Best Actor” award for his performance in NO ONE at the Oslo Fringe Festival. The Norwegian Association for Stuttering and Slurred Speech interviewed Halvor Schultz in an article for NRK, and he is an advocate for representation of disfluency in modern theatre.
Owen Bleach
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Before founding Akimbo at Jaques Lecoq, East 15 graduate Owen worked as a theatre practitioner in the UK. He has ten years acting experience making both immersive, site-specific and traditional theatre, including feature film Strangers Within (2014) and his own touring show, The Imaginauts.