The Girmit Team
Simmy Gupta
Simmy Gupta is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Nutkhut. Born in England of Indian origin, Simmy trained in the 500-year-old tradition of Kathak (North Indian Classical dance). Her training…
Ajay Chhabra
Ajay Chhabra is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Nutkhut. A British actor, director and producer of Indo-Fijian heritage, Ajay was born and raised in London and Kent and has…
Louise Green
Louise has been working in arts, events and stage management since graduating from Wimbledon School of Art in 2006. Having gained experience worldwide with various creative arts companies, Louise’s journey…
Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen was born and lives in London. She is an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London working on the system of indenture in…
Ellie Newland
Ellie Newland is the Learning and Education Manager for Nutkhut. Graduating from the University of Wales and holding a PGCE from Brighton University, Ellie is passionate about arts and education.…
Iqbal Singh
Iqbal Singh is the Regional Community Partnerships Manager at The National Archives. He is part of the Outreach team and has led on a number of Outreach projects for The…
James Edward Marks
Experimental mixed-media, social video for social good tinkerer, DIY multi-dimensional motion arts & 4D spatial social-casting creator, curator, chatter & provocateur - of award winning sub & pop culture reference…
Pam Jarvis
As an evaluator of heritage projects, Girmit gave the opportunity to look at how untold stories reveal difficult aspects of heritage. Girmit’s stories of poverty, exploitation, disruption of communities challenge…
Wendy Smithers
Wendy has worked with Nutkhut since 2015 as a bid writer, creative producer and critical friend and led on both core cost grants and project-specific bids for the company. She…
Elyssa Fagan
Elyssa Fagan is a freelance communications consultant with over a decade’s worth of experience working across PR, marketing and copywriting. During her career she has been in charge of creating…
Patrick Morgan
Working in the field of design and Luxury fashion for over 20 years with brands from Tom Ford, YSL, LVMH, Christian Dior, Fendi, and Dior perfume including weekly, monthly pieces…
Lorna Inman
Lorna is a Virtual Reality Artist and Video Creator, devising bespoke hand-painted virtual reality experiences and videos. Creating virtual environments for events, workshops, social media channels and live performance, Lorna's…
Dr David Tully
Dr David Tully runs Scenegraph Studios who specialise as Creative Technicians, building the tech behind immersive experiences. From Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Game development and software engineering, we apply all…
Neil Cartwright
Neil built the Nutkhut website. He created his first website in 1997, when HTML was still easy to learn. From there, he joined Sony Music as their first 'Webmaster' and…
Jay Creagh
Making of Documentary - Film Director Jay is a talented young director, making documentary and narrative-based films, music videos and Commercials. A trained photographer, He joined the team at Squire…
Marius Matesan
PlayLabZ director and co-founder Marius Matesan is a mixed media artist exploring the complex relationship between humans, technology and psychedelics. Prior to PlayLa.bZ he’s worked with DoubleMe, INC as a…