Associate Artists
Licketyspit works with a range of associate artists including musicians, designers, photographers, videographers and composers. All of our associates share our commitment to creating high-quality child-centred theatre and creative experiences for families.

Johnny Austin
Johnny Austin
Johnny is an actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in theatre, radio, film and television for over 15 years. Johnny was awarded the New Playwrights 2011 Award by the Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and the 2011 Eileen Gallagher and Ann McManus Scholarship by Shed Productions. In 2012 he completed a Masters Degree (With Distinction) in TV Fiction Writing at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Johnny has always been particularly keen on work for a children's audience, and has performed in various Licketyspit productions, as well as directing the 2012 Christmas Quangle Wangle. He has also directed children's theatre for Scottish Youth Theatre and played the role of Scientist General Linus Curie in Series 7 of the children's television series MI High on CBBC.
Johnny is an Associate Artist of Licketyspit and currently works with us as an Executive Producer and General Manager.

Fraser Macleod – Facilitator & Project Manager
Fraser Macleod – Facilitator & Project Manager
Fraser Macleod is freelance director/facilitator and senior project manager.
Fraser first worked for Licketyspit when he played Big Tony in the first production of Magic Spaghetti in 2005. He has been pivotal to the company's development as a key associate artist, ever since, most recently as Lead Actor-pedagogue/project manager over the first two years of BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow in 2017/2018. You can find out more about Fraser’s work at www.frasermacleod.com.

Tim Brinkhurst – Composer & Musician
Tim Brinkhurst – Composer & Musician
Tim is an artist, songwriter, producer and composer.
He has written and produced music for all of Licketyspit's shows, as well as working with Virginia on the Wee Stories Early Years project. He composed the music for Hare & Tortoise, Molly Whuppie, Wee Witches, Quangle Wangle, Heelie-go-Leerie and Green Whale.
Tim's most recent contribution to the world of sound has been to write and perform the narrative for Channel 4’s FourToTheFloor multimedia shows in 2019. He has also provided composition and sound design on around twenty theatrical productions.

Catherine Lindow – Artist & Illustrator
Catherine Lindow – Artist & Illustrator
Catherine Lindow is an artist and illustrator whose favourite subjects include rooftops, drainpipes, dogwalkers and bits of unexpected sprouting greenery! She also works part time for Edinburgh Libraries.
Catherine set up Licketyspit with Virginia in 2004 and designed the original sets for Molly Whuppie, Wee Witches, Quangle Wangle and Hare & Tortoise.
She also designed the posters for all of our shows and illustrated the Molly Whuppie and Wee Witches books.
In 2021 she led online making workshops as part of our project Family Art Voyage.
You can find more of her work at www.catherinelindow.co.uk or on Instagram @catherixx.

Amy Geddes – Fiddler/Composer
Amy Geddes – Fiddler/Composer
Amy Geddes is a fiddler, fiddle teacher, singer and composer from Galloway.
Amy performed live in the 2012 run and 2016 Edinburgh Fringe run and tour of Molly Whuppie. She also devised and ran "Come & Try Fiddle" workshops alongside the show!
Amy is a founding member of the Pathhead Music Collective and was nominated for Tutor of the Year at the 2015 Trad awards. She has also played in bands including Tannas, Maysha, Amy Geddes Trio and Redwood Mountain.
Her other theatre work includes work for Dogstar Theatre, East Kilbride Village Theatre. She was also the Musical Director of Slanjayvah Danza's 2018/19 sell out Edinburgh Fridge & touring production.

Gavin Marwick – Fiddler & Composer
Gavin Marwick – Fiddler & Composer
Gavin Marwick is a fiddle player and composer who first caught the public eye through his work with Iron Horse in the 1990s.
Gavin developed the live score of Molly Whuppie and has performed in it live on a number of occasions. Other theatre work includes work for the Traverse, Dogstar, and Dundee Rep.
Gavin is a freelance musician with a strong Scottish background with a broad interest in inspiration from other sources. He has thirty years experience working in musical performance: concerts, festivals, ceilidhs, theatre, recording, touring, radio/media, tutoring.
Current bands include Bellevue Rendezvous, Up In The Air and Ceilidh Minogue. He promotes his own projects and writing through his Journeyman label. Gavin's website: www.gavinmarwick.co.uk

Ali Maclaurin – Designer
Ali Maclaurin – Designer
Ali Maclaurin is a fantastic set and costume designer based in Fife.
She has worked with Licketyspit for over 12 years and designed the sets for Heelie-go-leerie and the remounts of Molly Whuppie and Hare & Tortoise. She also created the set for Licketyspit’s pioneering immersive theatre as early intervention production, LicketyLeap.
Ali works as a freelancer across Scotland and other design projects include Dogstar Theatre Company's award-winning show The Tailor of Inverness.
Find out more about Ali's work at: www.alimaclaurin.net

Mary McMaster – Harpist & Composer
Mary McMaster – Harpist & Composer
Mary is a clarsach player, singer, composer and arranger of original and traditional Scottish music.
She collaborated with composer Tim Brinkhurst and fiddler & composer Gavin Marwick on the live score for Licketyspit's Molly Whuppie, which she also performed in, mos recently at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe run in 2016. She has also performed music for the LicketyTale of Molly Whuppie with Virginia Radcliffe.
She is currently collaborating with Virginia on Babbity Beans (in development) - a new Licketyspit project to create a collection of new and adapted songs for baby rooms in Glasgow nurseries.
Mary sings and plays the clarsach (Scottish harp) with the Poozies and is a member of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.

Taz (Itxaso)
Taz (Itxaso)
Hiya! I’m Taz and when I Lickety Play I have great fun becoming ‘The Funky Chicken’ and meeting all the other exuberant creatures in the circle. Everyone makes up the most exciting animals you’ve ever imagined!
Itxaso (Taz) Moreno is a freelance actor who has worked with Licketyspit for over 18 years. She first joined the company to play Baletxo in our show Green Whale in 2006. She later trained as one of the first 'Margarets' in LicketyLeap, and regularly performs LicketyLeap as part of our Storyplay Schools programme. She has worked as a Lead Actor Pedagogue on Women's Aid Storyplay, Porridge & Play Hubs, Big Porridge & Play Glasgow and Picnic & Play. She has also led Playcard Play & Playground Play delivery in our Storyplay Schools. In 2024 she was the lead artist on LicketyMovers, after training with ContaKids.
Wrench & Franks – Graphic Artists
Wrench & Franks – Graphic Artists
Artists Kevin Wrench and Andrew Franks make and combine environments with video, animation and performance (they also make and record music!)
Wrench & Franks designed the Lickety Playcards and most our project logos - CFN, Porridge & Play, Picnic & Play, Bookplay and Storyplay!
Find more of their work at www.wrenchandfranks.com