Secret Life of Fungi: LIVE 

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SHOW CREDITS

Creative Director - Simon McBurney

Creative Producer - Tim Bell

Technical DSM - Ross Flight

Sound design – Cosmo Sheldrake

Rehearsal Stage Manager - Sarah Finney

With thanks to Treatment Studio

Production – Fane & Complicité

VIDEO

Fungi: Web of Life

Wim van Egmond - mycelium timelapses

Steve Axford / Planet Fungi – mushroom timelapses

Patrick Hickey – mycelium timelapses

May Kindred Boothby – Animation: ‘the roots of life on land’

Entangled Life sprouting mushrooms - DRK Videography

Special thanks to Rachel Cargill & AMOLF / VU Amsterdam for the ‘The Blob’

Corentin Biscot – mycorrhizal network growth videos

Loreto Oyarte Galvez – mycorrhizal network stills and flow videos

Joe Togneri - mycorrhizal flow videos

AMOLF / VU Amsterdam – mycorrhizal flow / network videos

Henk-Jan Boluijt and the ARETHA engineering team at AMOLF – mycorrhizal lab videos

Anand Varma, WonderLab – ophiocordyceps timelapse

Sarayaku videos: Camera: Diego Forero, Sound: Andrés Villegas. Clips are from: Allpa Ukundi Ñukanchi Pura. Underground, Around, and Among Us. Gualinga, E, et. al (Directors) (2025).

SOUND

Entangled Life song created by Cosmo Sheldrake, track mixed and mastered by Vahakn Matossian

Sound of Armillaria network responding to block of wood – Stefan Olsson

Reggaeton Kichwa – José Angun Gualinga / produced by Cosmo Sheldrake

Sarayaku soundscapes – Cosmo Sheldrake

 IMAGE

Yu Fukasawa – Phanaerochaete vetulina

Jan Dijksterhuis

Yu Matsuura – Cicada images

Tineke van der Pouw Kraan