About Voloz Collective

Voloz Collective is a multi award-winning international physical theatre company that reinvents and recharges physical comedy by exploiting the capacities of the human body and blurring the lines between the theatrical and cinematic. Hailing from three different countries, our team of four was brought together by two years of study at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. With a uniquely non-hierarchical approach to theatre-making, all members serve as actors, directors, and writers, and have a shared responsibility for all creative decisions.

Voloz’s mission is to remove cultural and economic barriers to accessing theatre by bringing international theatre to underserved populations.

Meet The Team

Olivia Zerphy (she/her)

Co-Artistic Director / Performer

Olivia Zerphy is a director, actor, and producer who specializes in devised physical and object theater. As a director, recent works include The Crawl (Spiegeltent, Brighton Fringe), feature film The Crack with Goldfish productions (premiering Summer 2025), La Poussière, a bi-lingual, female-lead adaption of The Grapes of Wrath (La Factorie, Normandy) and Handel’s Serse (Associate Director, Opera Holland Park, London). Olivia was part of the devising team and is currently a member of the European and American touring casts of Wakka Wakka’s The Immortal Jellyfish Girl (NY Times Critics Pick). In 2021 Olivia was directed by Peter Brook in a workshop performance of The Tempest Project and The Man Who at Paris's Bouffes du Nord theater. Olivia is a recipient of the Maguire Fellowship and the Thatcher Kazan Memorial Prize for excellence in directing. She has studied at Vassar College, Moscow Art Theatre School, and L’école Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Paul Lofferon (he/him)

Co-Artistic Director / Performer

Paul Lofferon is a Paris and London-based director and actor. He began his career in the arts at 18, studying acrobatics at the Circus Arts School of Piste d'Azur in Cannes. He then pursued theatre and studied acting for two years at l'Ecole Internationale de theatre Jacques Lecoq. During this time, he joined the company Theatre de la Feuille, directed by Ata Wong Chun Tat. In September of 2018, the company toured its show Madman in several cities throughout China, including appearing in the Beijing International Fringe Festival. Paul also participated in a research group led by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne around the show The Man Who at Les Bouffes du Nord. He is also involved as an actor in Dream by Irina Brook, an adaptation Shakespeare's Midsummer Night Dream. He is co-founder of the multi award winning company Voloz Collective with whom he co-created The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much in which he earned a nomination for 'Best Leading Performance’ by the publication Dark Chat at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023. With Voloz Collective, he is now one of The Pleasance Associate Artists 2024-2026 in London. Paul also performs in Winter’s Tale alongside Alex Lawther directed by Sylvain Levitte in France. He is currently rehearsing for the new musical Orso et le secret des étoiles , opening this fall at Le Grand REX in Paris before embarking on a european tour.

Emily Wheatman (she/her)

Co-Artistic Director / Performer

Emily Wheatman is a UK based actor and theatre-maker, specialising in comedy and physical theatre. A graduate of L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Emily’s previous work includes working with Manic Chord Theatre and performing in their 5* show Don’t Let Go, performing in La Poussière at La Factorie in Normandy and writing and performing with the Leeds Tealights in their award-winning Edinburgh sketch-comedy show in 2015. Her comedy work has been described as ‘Energetic and clever humour’ (EdFringe Review) and she received a special mention in the 2020 Mandy Comedy Competition: 'clever humour’.

Sam Rayner (he/him)

Co-Artistic Director / Performer

Sam is a UK based director, movement director and performer - working across theatre, opera and stand-up comedy. He is currently Resident Director of BACK TO THE FUTURE (West End). As director, Sam's work includes A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and SERSE for Opera Holland Park (“fantastically detailed”, The Guardian / “a tremendous success”, Broadway World), MAN OF 100 FACES (The Guardian’s “Readers’ Favourite Shows of 2022”) and FIVE YEARS WITH THE WHITE MAN (both for King's Head Theatre). Sam’s movement direction credits include JACK WHITEHALL: AT LARGE (Hammersmith Apollo/NETFLIX); LEO REICH: LITERALLY WHO CARES?! (Greenwich House/Soho Theatre/HBO); and JORDAN BROOKES: BLEED (Soho Theatre).