work

The Tempest Opera

2026

Vache Baroque

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I W. Shakespeare ed. Vache Baroque

Director | Paul O’Mahony

Musical Director | Jonathan Darbourne

Set Design & Costume | Caitlin Mawhinney

Lighting | Ben Pickersgill

Sound Artist | Dan Samsa

Photography | The Photography Shed

The Cherry Orchard

2026

The Royal Shakespeare Company

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Anton Chekov / Laura Wade

Director | Tamara Harvey

Set Design & Costume | Anna Fleischle

Lighting | Aidene Malone

Composer | Laura Rossi

Photography | Johan Persson

Henry V

2026

The Royal Shakespeare Company

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I William Shakespeare ed. Tamara Harvey & Alfred Enoch

Director | Tamara Harvey

Set Design & Costume | Lucy Osbourne

Lighting | Ryan Day

Composer | Jamie Salisbury

Photography | Johan Persson

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

2025-26

Young Vic Theatre

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Rajiv Joseph

Director| Omar Elerian

Set Design & Costume | Rajha Shakiry

Lighting | Jackie Shemesh

Sound Design | Elena Pena

Photography | Helen Murray

Limp Wrist & The Iron Fist

2025

Brixton House

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Emmanuel Akwafo

Director| Nathanael Campbell

Set Design & Costume | Amelia Jane Hankin

Lighting | Jahmiko Marshall

Composer | Pierre Flasse

Photography | Helen Murray

Choir

2025

Chichester Festival Theatre

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Director| Hannah Joss

Set Design | Anisha Fields

Photography | Helen Murray

The Constant Wife

2025

RSC

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I W. Somerset-Maugham / Laura Wade

Director| Tamara Harvey

Set Design | Anna Fleischle & Co

Composer | Jamie Cullum

Photography | Johan Persson

Shanghai Dolls

2025

Paines Plough / Kiln

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Amy Ng

Director| Katie Posner

Set Design | Jean Chan

Composer | Nicola T. Chang

Photography | Marc Brenner

Romeo & Juliet: A Rap Love Story

2025

The Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I William Shakespeare / Corey Campbell

Director| Corey Campbell

Set Design | Simon Kenny

Composer | That’s a Rap

Photography | Nicola Young

Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew

2025

The Bush Theatre

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Coral Wiley

Director| Debbie Hannan

Set Design | Max Johns

Composer | Holly Khan

Photographer | Helen Murray

Treasure Island

2024

Orange Tree Theatre

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I R.L Stevenson / Hannah Kahlil

Director| Natasha Rickman

Photographer | Steve Gregson

Pericles

2024

RSC

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I William Shakespeare

Director| Tamara Harvey

Set Design | Jonathan Fensom

Composer | Clare van Kampen

Photographer | Johan Persson

Richard my Richard

2024

A co-production from Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Shakespeare North Playhouse

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Writer I Philippa Gregory

Director| Katie Posner

Othello

2024

Shakespeare's Globe | Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Director| Ola Ince

Writer I William Shakespeare

Designer I Amelia Jane Hankin

Illusion Designer & Director I John Bulleid

Composer I Renell Shaw

Assistant Directors I Prime Isaac and Lindsay McAllister

Sleeping Beauty Rock N Roll Panto

2023/24

Theatr Clwyd

Choreographer | Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Co-Directors | Francesca Goodridge and Daniel Lloyd

Writer I Christian Patterson

The Court Must Have a Queen

2018

Hampton Court Palace

Movement Direction & Choreography by Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Sam Curtis-Lindsay

Writer I Ade Solanke

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2023

Shakespeares Globe

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Elle While

Writer | William Shakespeare

Composer | James Maloney

Set Design | Wills

Photos | Helen Murray

The Tempest: Reimagined

2023

Regents Park Open Air Theatre | Unicorn Theatre

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Jennifer Tang

Writer | William Shakespeare

Music & lyrics | Harry Blake

Set design | Chiara Stephenson

Photography | Marc Brenner

The Tempest: Reimagined at Regents Park Open Air Theatre, a production in a beautifully wondrous space amongst the trees, open to the elements then went into the dark, cozy Weston Theatre at the Unicorn. The show introduces younger audiences from six years plus to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, through the use of traditional Shakespearean text and contemporary musical song and dance. For this production I was working with actors with varying movement experience and training, as well as navigating working on a 2 level set and revolve, with some more technical props, costume and illusion elements. Having been my third Shakespearean production, I was excited to explore the text, always looking for ways to integrate contemporary modern movement ideas within a historical, deeply valued and respected text form. The Tempest: Reimagined had an extremely talented cast and creative team that came together to make a fun, vibrant and modern take on The Tempest in two completely different environmental settings.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2024

RSC

Movement Director| Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Director| Eleanor Rhode

Writer I William Shakespeare

Set & Costume Designer I Lucy Osborne

Illusion Designer & Director I John Bulleid

Lighting Designer I Matt Daw

Composer I Will Gregory

Jericho's Rose

2018

The Hope Theatre

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Director & Writer I Lilac Yosiphon

Co-Director I Mike Cole

Watson

The Albany 2015

Choreography by Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

I know all the secrets in my world  

2015-16

Latitude Festival I Watford Palace Theatre I The Porter Theatre I Pegasus Theatre Oxford I Salisbury Playhouse I Unity Theatre Liverpool I Lincoln Drill Hall I Bristol Old Vic I The Lowry Salford I The Drum Birmingham I Nottingham Playhouse I Mercury Theatre Colchester I The Albany London

Movement Direction by Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Written and directed by Natalie Ibu

The Van Man

National Tour 2012

Concept and Choreography by Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster.

Shhhh!

National Tour 2013-14

Concept and Choreography by Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster.

Beautiful Thing

2023

Theatre Royal Stratford East, Leeds Playhouse and HOME Manchester

Movement & Intimacy Coordinator | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director I Anthony Simpson-Pike

Writer I Jonathan Harvey

Sound Designer I Xana

Lighting Designer I Elliot Griggs

Set Designer I Rosie Elnile

C12 Dance Theatre

UK, and International Tours 2005-2018

When Annie-Lunnette left Middlesex University in 2005 she set up a dance theatre company called C-12 Dance Theatre, alongside Adam Towndrow and Nasae Evanson. During her years of working in this company her roles included teaching, choreographing, producing and running this small to mid-scale dance company, that made indoor and outdoor productions that toured across the UK and Europe. Annie-Lunnette devised, choreographed and produced a multitude of works over a 12 year span, and of the many many many highlights of her time with C-12 Dance Theatre, evidence of a few shows can be seen here;

Trolleys (2012-2018), a production which toured for several years, directed by Shaun Parker, that Annie-Lunnette assisted and produced, was an outdoor 20 minute supermarket trolley ballet of physical feats and beautiful fluidity, having the chance to take this show across Europe and Australia was an absolute career highlight of hers!

Shhh! (2013-2016) Annie-Lunnettes’ concept and choreography, as a full length indoor production set in a library exploring themes of community cohesion, the love of books and reading as a passionate force for escapism, and destruction of the closing down of these public community spaces.

The Van Man (2012), Annie-Lunnettes’ (concept and choreography) was a short outdoor production set in and around a Luton Van that explored themes of isolation, loneliness and being on the road while striving for genuine connections with others.

The Little Match Girl and Other Happier Tales

2016-18

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Shakespeares’ Globe

Choreography & Movement Direction by Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster

Director | Emma Rice

Writer I Hans Christian Anderson, Adaptation by Joel Horwood

Set Designed I Vicki Mortimer

Sound Composer I Stephen Warbeck

The Dark Room

2017

Theatre 503

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director I Audrey Sheffield

Writer | Angela Betzien

Pop Music

2018

Latitude Festival & Birmingham Rep

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director I James Grieve

Writer | Anna Jordan

Phillip Pullman's Grimm Tales

2018-19

Unicorn Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Kirsty Housley

Writer I Phillip Pullman, adaptation by Philip Wilson 

Aesops Fables

2019

Unicorn Theatre

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Jusitin Audibert & Rachel Bagshaw

Writer I Aesop

Set Design I Lily Arnold

Roundabout 2019

On The Other Hand We’re Happy

Daughterhood

Dexter & Winters’ Detective Agency

Paines Plough Roundabout – Edinburgh and Tour

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Stef O'Driscoll

Writers I Daf James I Charlie Miles I Nathan Byron

Sound I Dominic Kennedy

Daughterhood

Paines Plough Roundabout National Tour

July - Aug 2019

Director | Stef O'Driscoll

On The Other Hand We're Happy

Paines Plough Roundabout National Tour

July - Aug 2019

Director | Stef O'Driscoll

Chiaroscuro

2019

Bush Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Lynette Linton

Writer I Jackie Kay

You Stupid Darkness

2019-20

Theatre Royal Plymouth I Southwark Playhouse

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director I James Grieve

Writer I Sam Steiner

Pavilion

2019

Theatr Clwyd

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Tamara Harvey

Writer I Emily White

Sound I Dan Balfour

The Last Noel

2019

Various – Bristol Fire Station

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Jonathan Humphries

Writer I Chris Bush 

The Bee in Me

2020

Unicorn Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Rachel Bagshaw

Writer I Roland Schimmelpfennig 

Set Design I Khadija Raza

Sound I Jon McLeod

Overflow

2020-21

Bush Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Debbie Hannan

Writer | Travis Alabanza

Set Design | Max Johns

Sound | Francis Botu

The Panto That Nearly Never Was

2020

Theatr Clwyd

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Tamara Harvey

Writer | Christian Patterson

Musical Direction | Tayo Akinbode

Set Design | Adrian Gee

Black Victorians

2021

Outdoor Arts Tour

Rehearsal Director | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Jeanefer Jean-Charles

Photos | Ash Mills

Rockets and Blue Lights

2021

National Theatre

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Miranda Cromwell

Writer | Winsome Pinnock

Set Design | Laura Hopkins

Sound | Femi Temowo

Mum

2021

Soho Theatre | Theatre Royal Plymouth

Movement Director | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Abigail Graham

Writer | Morgan Lloyd Malcom

Set Design | Sarah Beaton

Sound | Anna Clock

Beauty and The Beast Rock N Roll Panto

2021-22

Theatr Clwyd

Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Tamara Harvey

Writer | Christian Pattinson

Musical Director | Tayo Akinbode

Sound | Wills

Set Design | Adrian Gee

Photos | Kristen McTernan

Cock

2022

Ambassadors Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Marianne Elliot

Writer | Mike Bartlett

Music | Femi Temowo

Set Design | Merle Hensel

An Octoroon

2022

Abbey Theatre Dublin

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Anthony Simpson-Pike

Writer | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Music & Lyrics | Giles Thomas

Set Design | Sabine Dargent

Photography | Ros Kavanagh

Little Women

2022

Storyhouse – Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Natasha Rickman

Writer | Louisa May Alcott Adaptation by Anne Odeke

Romeo & Juliet

2022

Storyhouse – Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | John Young

Writer | William Shakespeare

Heart

2022

Audible at Minetta Lane Theater, New York

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Ola Ince

Writer | Jade Anouka

Music | Renell Shaw & Fitz Patton

Set Design | Arnulfo Maldonado

Photos | Trevon James

The Famous Five: A New Musical

2022

Theatr Clwyd | Chichester Festival Theatre

Choreography & Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Tamara Harvey

Writer | Elinor Cook

Music & Lyrics | Theo Jamieson

Set Design | Lucy Osborne

Photos | The Other Richard

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

2023

Harold Pinter Theatre | Manchester Opera House | Theatre Royal Brighton

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Josie Rourke

Writer | Sam Steiner

Sound | George Dennis

Set Design | Robert Jones

Photography | Johan Persson

The Flood

2023

Queens Theatre Hornchurch

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Stef O'Driscoll

Writer | Vicky Donoghue

Sound | Dominic Kennedy

Set Design |  Khadija Raza

Photography | Craig Sugden

Robin Hood: A Rock N Roll Panto

2022-23

Theatr Clwyd

Movement Direction & Choreography | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Tamara Harvey

Writer | Christian Paterson

Musical Direction | Tayo Akinbode

Set Design | Adrian Gee

Photos | Kristen McTernan

To work on a pantomime is an epic and wondrous thing. To create a larger than life production full of movement pathways and shapes to entertain, bring joy and laughter over the festive season is such a purely joyous way of working for me. Having a background that predominantly lies in contemporary dance theatre practices, it has been an enlightening and liberating experience to be in the studio, cultivating movement that is fun, playful and full of comedy, that enhances the storytelling and truly encapsulates the magic vibrancy that is often many peoples, particularly young audiences, first exposure to live theatre. Being a Rock N Roll Pantomime, this production saw me choreographing sequences for performers that act, sing, dance and play a multitude of instruments. Robin Hood featured a glorious and playful set design, that we jumped, slid, swung and climbed in, on and around. This was my third time choreographing for panto at Theatr Clwyd, and it is always pure joy to end the year with a sublime cast and creative team. Last year we were nominated for seven awards by the UK Pantomime Association, going on to win best villain and best pantomime under 500 seats so I couldn’t be prouder of this show and the people in it! This Christmas 2023 you will find me back in Flintshire choreographing in the big circus top tent for Theatr Clwyd’s Sleeping Beauty, rehearsals have begun, so get your tickets now

You Bury Me

2023

Bristol Old Vic | The Lyceum Edinburgh | The Orange Tree Theatre

Movement Direction | Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Director | Katie Posner

Writer | Alham

Sound | Karim Samara

Set Design | Sara Perks

I often find myself walking into studios and having to navigate collaborating with a whole new team of creatives and performers for the first time. This was one of those magical experiences that led to being a beautiful production, and an experience that is very close to my heart. You Bury Me is a production of new writing by Alham, who won The Womens Prize for playwriting 2020, an explosive, political debut about a generation emerging from a national trauma, determined to live and love freely. Set in Cairo Egypt, addressing the aftermath of the 2011 revolution for young people. Described as a love letter to Cairo with all its complexities and nuances. Here I worked with a cast of six performers, some with little movement training, who’s characters and stories interweaved and intertwined throughout the production. The production became a high paced, dynamic and extremely physical production, with the movement emerging from the themes, energy and ideals around the city of Cairo’s vibrancy – the hustling, bustling city that had undertones of darkness and fear, as well as a community of connection and people patriotic to the land that they are born on. I worked closely with Katie to shape the world of the piece, the show opened at Bristol Old Vic, in a traditional proscenium theatre, then went on to be adapted for the more intimate space at the Orange Tree Theatre in the round. This production was hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure. So very proud of this production, working with such a talented bunch of artists to tell this beautiful story.