ABOUT
Who we are and what we do.
Out of the Box is a company that brings intricately crafted, well thought through mysteries to your event.
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Our first project was a birthday party for 23 players. Through lockdown we developed smaller games for six or seven. We have most recently created a bespoke wedding for over 50. Regardless of size we have remained committed to creating worlds and characters that take us back to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and put catching the criminal entirely in your hands.
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With puzzles, treasure hunts, official reports and more dubious sources of information there really is something for everyone.
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THE TEAM
Our team varies from game to game but there are three people who are almost guaranteed to be involved
Beth Jay
Creative Director/ Actor
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Beth is responsible for the bulk of the writing of our mysteries. She creates the skeleton plots as well as the majority of the puzzles.
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Beth has over five years experience in Immersive Theatre. Acting Credits include Crisis? What Crisis? (Parabolic Theatre), Illicit Signals Bletchley (Mechical Thought) and Phantom Peak (The League of Adventure)
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Edward Cartwright
Content Creator/ Actor
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Ed creates many of the pieces of evidence to support the plot. He also proofreads, playtests and, when necessary makes an excellent cup of tea.
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Ed has over ten years of acting experience. Credits include Bridgerton (Netflix),
Doctor Thorne (ITV) and The Trench (Les Enfants Terribles)
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Creative Consultant
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We want to ensure that your party is exactly as you want it so if you have any special requests we want to hear them.
We've encoded messages in Spice Girls lyrics and hidden clues on Ladybird jigsaw puzzles- please don't hesitate to ask if we can accommodate your request- we will always do our best.
ACTORS
We work with a wonderful team of actors. Depending on your party you can meet as many as nine of them
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Gabriel Burns
Gabriel is an actor and composer based in London. A graduate of Identity School of Acting, his credits include X&Y (Lyric Hammersmith), Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, The Immersive Experience (Layered Reality) and Bridge Command (Parabolic Theatre).
Gabriel has also written musical adaptations of The Frogs and The Witches which have been performed at theatres in Reading and London.
Dare Emmanuel
Dare is an actor with fourteen years experience in various styles of performance.
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Recent roles include Orisino in Parabolic's House of Cenci viewed around the world online, Davros in Doctor Who Time Fracture which won the licensing awards and Robin in Feature Film The Captain.
Zoe Flint
Zoe is a director and actor specialising in immersive theatre.
Acting credits include For King and Country & Crisis? What Crisis? (Parabolic Theatre), Illicit Signals Bletchley (Mechanical Thought), Phantom Peak (The League of Adventure), and Line of Fire (Cross-Stitch Theatre)
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Andrew Futaishi
Andrew is a London based mixed race actor, director, writer and filmmaker.
He works across the whole stage, screen and voiceover spectrum, most recently appearing in short film Clickbait, on CBS and in My Neighbour Totoro.
Nicole Jacobus
Nicole is a performer and science communicator based in London.
She has presented and performed on behalf of the Royal Institution and at the Big Bang Fair, and as drag king Jack Knife, has entertained audiences at The Glory, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Oxford Old Fire Station and at Winchester Pride.
Chloe Mashiter
Chloe is a performer with over a decade of experience in immersive and interactive theatre, including work with companies such as Secret Cinema, Parabolic Theatre and Jury Games.
Chloe is also a designer for live games, ranging from tabletop role-playing games to megagames and larps, and works an associate artist at Coney.
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Monica Nash
Monica is a London based actor and singer with credits spanning classical and family theatre, musicals, film and audio drama.
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Recent theatre credits include playing Thea in Hedda Gabler and Eliante in The Misanthrope for Here to There Productions; Lesley Garnet in Dead Quiet and Mrs Hall in The House of Irene Adler for ImmerCity.
TV Credits include Queen Elizabeth I in The Reformation for EWT and Mrs Yate in The Passion of Edmund Campion for Triptych.
Monica regularly perfoms with Jury Games Ltd in their shows Jury Duty and The Office Party
Amelia Stephenson
Amelia is a writer and performer.
Immersive credits include Illicit Signals Bletchley and Jeff Wayne’s Immersive War of the World.
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She is co-creator of the comedy trio ‘Quirks and Foibles’ (three time Funny Women Award nominees) and writer for the Random Sketch Generator podcast.
Christopher Styles
Christopher is an actor and writer based in London.
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Recent Theatre credts include Alan Turing in Hidden Figures: WW11 Gus Dixon in Line of Fire and Major Charles Richards in Illicit Signals Bletchley.
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Christopher is also an associate artist for Parabolic Theatre.
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Timothy Styles
Timothy is a London based film and theatre actor with an MA in Screen: Acting from Drama Centre London.
As well as being a trained stage combatant, he also specialises in comedy, improvisation and immersive theatre.
He has recently appeared in The Murder Express Part Deux: Jewel Of The Empire, Illicit Singals Bletchley and Murder at Sea
Arathi Suresh
Arathi Suresh is a trained dancer, actor and immersive theatre maker currently based in London.
For Hitcher Encounters: The Labyrinth Project by Daedalus, We're All Strangers Here, Transience and Genesis.
Other credits: Hidden Figures: WW2 (PartyGeek).
Dom Thomson
Dom is an actor based in London.
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Recent Theatre credits include; Captain Wentworth in Persuasion, Nick Carterway in Cyanide at the Speakeasy and Pax in Phantom Peak.
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He has also appeared on film as Greg in Throne of Games, Logan in The Kettle and Kenny in The Way We Were.