Featherless Core Team
Penn Bálint (they/he) - Writer/Director/Composer
Penn is a Hungarian multimedia artist based in Devon. They have a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and founded The Yoko Situation to find like-minded creatives. Themes across their work include disability, queerness, and post-Soviet identity, often drawing on lived experience of migration and cultural hybridity.
Penn has produced art for clients such as The Guardian, Dartmoor National Park, and Wandering Tiger Productions. His first film 'Moments I Saw In Red' (2023) has been screened at the BAFTA-qualifying BFI Flare and Oska Bright film festivals among others, and they were selected for the BFI New Voices scheme in the same year.
Penn's second film, 'Soviet Fantasia' (2024), was commisioned by Exeter Phoenix and also supported by a successful Kickstarter campaign. The film was shot on 16mm film in Hungary, and selected for Aesthetica, and BFI Flare film festivals. Penn has also curated a screening for Two Short Nights Film Festival, and is currently a festival judge for Edinburgh Short Film Festival.
His writing has been commissioned by Exeter Phoenix, and ADC Theatre. Theatre directing credits include 'Attrition' at the National Student Drama Festival and award-winning 'No One Needs to Know' at Howard Theatre.
Luke Jeffery (he/him) - Producer
Luke is a writer, director and producer with a passion for creating surreal, subversive stories for the stage and screen.
He is the founder of Wandering Tiger Productions, a Devon-based company that specialises in immersive theatre productions and original films. In 2016, his short film ‘Hell’s Bells’ was commissioned as part of BFI NETWORK and Creative England’s iShorts scheme, and in 2017 he was selected for the BAFTA Crew programme. More recently, he acted as Executive Producer on Penn Bálint’s short film ‘Soviet Fantasia’ - which was selected or Aesthetica Film Festival and BFI Flare. Other work includes the short films ‘Seeing Red’ (2014) and ‘Blind Spot’ - currently in post-production.
Luke’s site-specific theatre projects often transform unconventional spaces - from historic buildings to public streets - into stages for meaningful, memorable encounters. Notable projects include ‘Humbug!’ - Exeter’s longest running Christmas show, and ‘An Audience with a Ghost Hunter’ - an interactive Halloween production.
Beyond his own creative work, Luke is a Producer with the rural arts charity Villages in Action, supporting touring performances and participatory projects across Devon’s villages. He is also an Events Producer at Exeter City of Literature, helping to promote storytelling in all its forms, and an Associate Artist with Alright Mate?, a men’s mental health organisation using the arts to encourage open conversations and reduce stigma.
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