Ours is a theatre of story-telling visuals, transformational design, magic, comedy, music, physical performance, puppetry, multi-media and most importantly thrills.
Artistic Directors
Candice Edmunds
Candice is the Co-Artistic Director of Vox Motus and works as a director and dramaturg across theatre, opera, and dance.
She co-directed the world premiere of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Musical (Disney/Michael Harrison Entertainment) and is currently developing the stage adaptation of Stephen King’s IT with Jamie Harrison.
For Vox Motus, Candice has conceived and co-directed all of the company’s productions. Recent highlights include Flight for the Edinburgh International Festival and Dragon (winner of the UK Theatre Awards for Best Production for Young People).
Candice has also produced numerous international tours of Vox Motus’s work and facilitated the first collaboration between the Bridge Theatre and the Barbican Centre, presenting Flight as one of the few live theatre experiences in London in 2020. She was previously an industry mentor for the Federation of Scottish Theatre’s Step-Up scheme and has represented Scottish theatre at cultural exchanges worldwide. Originally from Australia, Candice is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Other directing credits include Carmen (Oper Wuppertal), her critically acclaimed adaptation of Dance of Death (The Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow), and the world premiere of dissident playwright Yuri Klavdiev’s Thoughts Spoken Aloud from Above. She has collaborated with Barrowland Ballet on The River (for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme), Wolves, Whiteout, and A Conversation with Carmel.
Jamie Harrison
Jamie is a director, designer and illusion designer based in Glasgow. Most recently he co-directed and designed set, puppets and illusions for the first stage adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks for Disney/Michael Harrison. He created the illusions and visual effects for Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Sonia Friedman/Netflix – West End & Broadway), and magic and illusions for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman/Colin Callendar – West End, Broadway, San Francisco, Melbourne, Hamburg, Tokyo, Toronto), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre, West End, UK Tour), Pinocchio (Disney/National Theatre), and A Beautiful Noise (Broadway).
Other work includes set design for The Magic Flute (Ex Machina/Quebec Opera Festival) and illusion and puppet design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Brothers/Neal Street Productions).
Jamie is co-artistic director of critically acclaimed theatre company Vox Motus, which produces and tours new work nationally and internationally. He has conceived, co-directed and designed all of the company’s work, most recently Flight for the Edinburgh International Festival, which won several awards and has toured extensively around the world, and Dragon (co-produced by National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre, China) (UK Theatre Awards - Best Production for Young People).
He was awarded the Edinburgh International Magic Festival’s Lafayette Award for outstanding contribution to stage magic, a special citation from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the San Francisco Theatre Critics’ Circle -Excellence in a Theatre Specialism Award. Jamie trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Company
We are drawn to stories that explore extremes of behaviour and taboos in the contemporary world: often unbelievable true tales that delve into the bizarre, glorious, exhilarating and macabre. The stories we tell offer audiences opportunities to engage in live experiences that may in small (or large) ways enhance or challenge their understanding of the world.
Vox Motus is a sociable creature and for each project collaboration with other artists - composers, designers, illustrative artists, choreographers, digital editors - is at the heart of our work.
Artistic Directors Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds conceive, write, direct and design Vox Motus' productions. They continue to dream up new works of increasing imagination and endeavour to take to the widest possible audience - nationally and internationally - sharing Vox Motus' unique brand of Scottish theatre.
Vox Motus is supported by Creative Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
