The Company
MODEST GENIUS THEATRE COMPANY
We make new dark physical comedy about social taboos. Based in Bristol and the South West, the company was formed in 2015 by graduates of the Lecoq, Gaulier and Dell'arte theatre schools. Using clown, mime, physical theatre, storytelling, movement and music we mesmerise our audience with poignant material that takes you on an emotional journey. We love the extremes and give our audience permission to feel how they feel.
Tristan Green started his career in the theatre with Spotlites Theatre Company in Kent, where he worked as an actor and teacher. He then studied drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London, during which he helped to devise The Hamster Themepark for the National Student Drama Festival 2004, and performed in a new translation of The Dispute by Pierre Marivaux at the Edinburgh Festival. After university he performed in several new plays at the Battersea Arts Centre, as well as The Blue Room by David Hare, and Requiem for Frida Kahlo by Juan Vila.
In 2007 Tristan was awarded an Entente Cordiale scholarship by the French and British governments to train at the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris. Recent theatre work includes cabaret shows at Theatre 13 in Paris and for the Serious Road Trip festival at Besançon, an adaptation of Mulholland Drive at the BAC in London, and a mask piece for the designer Adam Kimmel in Paris fashion week. Tristan is a co- founder/member of The Last Baguette theatre company and has acted in Shake!!! William Speare and Dracula - l’humour plus fort que la mort with the company. Tristan also works with Company Crache Larmes, and has played in their show Ubla, Dubla, Trubla in Paris, Aurillac and the UNIMA Out the Box festival in South Africa.
In 2007 Tristan was awarded an Entente Cordiale scholarship by the French and British governments to train at the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris. Recent theatre work includes cabaret shows at Theatre 13 in Paris and for the Serious Road Trip festival at Besançon, an adaptation of Mulholland Drive at the BAC in London, and a mask piece for the designer Adam Kimmel in Paris fashion week. Tristan is a co- founder/member of The Last Baguette theatre company and has acted in Shake!!! William Speare and Dracula - l’humour plus fort que la mort with the company. Tristan also works with Company Crache Larmes, and has played in their show Ubla, Dubla, Trubla in Paris, Aurillac and the UNIMA Out the Box festival in South Africa.
Sidney Robb is a co-founder of The Last Baguette. She graduated from Ecole Philippe Gaulier in 2009 after two years of study with an ‘Excellent Diploma’. Since then she has devised and played in Shake!!! William Speare directed by Aitor Basauri, in France, Switzerland and Canada. She worked with The Last Baguette to create their second show, a comic cross-dressed adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, directed by Balthazar Gaulier and performed in Paris and the surrounding area. She also played Molly Bloom in a new contemporary music composition by Rebecca Saunders, based on James Joyce’s Ulysses, in the festival Les Amplitudes in Switzerland.
Since 2010 Sidney has worked as a writer and director with Little Tykes Theatre in Paris, creating a trilogy of plays called The Chronicles of Zamelot, which includes The Pirates Beach, The Cowardly Dragon and The Locked Tower for children to play in. She also works as a workshop leader for children.
In England Sidney studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London She also studied clowning with Angela de Castro and was selected to take part in a young directors workshop at the Young Vic Theatre. She was commissioned to write and direct a play for children at Malmesbury Carnival, which was a devised adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Count Karlstein. She performed at the BAC in Whatever Remains and Jack Rabbit.
Since 2010 Sidney has worked as a writer and director with Little Tykes Theatre in Paris, creating a trilogy of plays called The Chronicles of Zamelot, which includes The Pirates Beach, The Cowardly Dragon and The Locked Tower for children to play in. She also works as a workshop leader for children.
In England Sidney studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London She also studied clowning with Angela de Castro and was selected to take part in a young directors workshop at the Young Vic Theatre. She was commissioned to write and direct a play for children at Malmesbury Carnival, which was a devised adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Count Karlstein. She performed at the BAC in Whatever Remains and Jack Rabbit.
Tess Cartwright is a Canadian performer based in Bristol, UK. Her love for theatre has been a constant in her entire life. She graduated from Arts Canterbury High School, drama programme and then received a degree in Drama in Education at Brock University. She then moved to Northern California where she complete the Professional Training Programme at Dell'Arte Internation School of Physical Theatre specializing in ensemble based theatre.
From there she stumbled into the circus world and moved the Chicago where she performed and led the CircEnsemble circus troupe around the city performing in various events and teaching social circus to urban youth. Moving to the UK she continued her circus performing and teaching focusing on comedy juggling with duo act, The Ebb and Flo Show and her glow-juggling/beatbox show, Beatrick with Vid Warren. It was only the next logical progression to dive into the balloon artistry world and become Miss Popularity, a highly-skilled balloon artist travelling the world and spreading joy and smiles one balloon at a time with her shows and walkabout act.
After the death of her partner Vid Warren in 2015 she then went back to her theatre roots, formed this company and aims to start conversations about taboo subjects in society through theatre.
From there she stumbled into the circus world and moved the Chicago where she performed and led the CircEnsemble circus troupe around the city performing in various events and teaching social circus to urban youth. Moving to the UK she continued her circus performing and teaching focusing on comedy juggling with duo act, The Ebb and Flo Show and her glow-juggling/beatbox show, Beatrick with Vid Warren. It was only the next logical progression to dive into the balloon artistry world and become Miss Popularity, a highly-skilled balloon artist travelling the world and spreading joy and smiles one balloon at a time with her shows and walkabout act.
After the death of her partner Vid Warren in 2015 she then went back to her theatre roots, formed this company and aims to start conversations about taboo subjects in society through theatre.