Meet our team
Our dynamic suite of seasoned professionals is dedicated to elevating your entertainment experience to a new level.
With a wealth of expertise and an unwavering passion for customer satisfaction,
we’re here to turn your vision, or your nightmare, into reality.
Pen Hood
Oss
Pen is a shy, reclusive beast who values her privacy.
She appears only in films, photographic projects, musical compositions, ancient tales, and across her social media, and attends only select local festivals, events, weddings, and the openings of exhibitions, crisps, snacks and envelopes.
She likes to keep in shape with joyful prancing and some light bystander traumatisation, and by following a plant-based diet of greenery pilfered from unsuspecting hats.
Kasek Nos
Oss
Kasek Nos is as gentle as she is wild. Find her at the Sundown parade, dancing and spinning, beckoning in the longest night.
One of the oldest remaining Montol Beasts, she was conceived as the Grey Mare who treads the year’s round in Celtic mythology. Her name translates as ‘Night – mare’ and if you are brave enough to touch her she will carry your worries and fears away with her on her journey to the Land ‘Neath the Mound to be transformed and resurrected into dreams of hope and possibility for the year to come.
Maw Bras
Oss
Maw is Pen Hood’s chonky sidekick who serves mainly as a hatstand, but dreams of taking the team forward to solving mysteries in a time-travelling coffee-pot.
Pen says he can’t keep secrets and he’s not allowed to talk about their new film that’s . . . oops, secrets!
Mergh Rudh
Oss
Mergh Rudh, the striking red horse of Lanust, first emerged from among the holed stones and burial mounds that surround Carn Kenidjack. This wild place, where the ancient magic still lingered beneath the ground, was once said to be the birthplace of the serpent current. People would come from all around to witness the golden glow of the solstice sunset as the dying sun set over the distant Isles of Scilly. As the last bit of daylight faded the legendary red horse would appear, marking the rebirth of the year.
Alargh Du
Oss
Alargh Du is a wild young Oss recently found wandering the rugged shoreline of Trenow Cove.
He is allegedly keeper of the fabled black key & guardian of the bird kingdom.
When not frequenting bars drinking cocktails or out raving at questionable venues of ill repute he can be found haunting the moors & shoreline of West Cornwall.
“For at least two hundred years the extraordinary Beasts of Penzance have prowled the winter streets after dark, terrifying passersby and performing random acts of kindness for kittens and little children …
secret traditions passed down, mother to daughter, father to son for generations …“
an anonymous teaser
Penzance
Old Ned
The Raven King of Montol
Behind the Northern clock face of Market Place, nests the mysterious Raven King.
For most the year his only company is that of a pair of rooks who bring food to the monarch’s lofty abode.
Despite appearances, Old Ned is a creature of light and is often overcome by the dark forces of winter.
One Montol night, he was roused by the sound of music and revelry as people gathered at Greenmarket with the sun itself!
Emboldened and curious, he fluttered down from his roost where he was met by hoards of rowdy revellers who encouraged him to join the dancing.
A kind and elegant woman stepped forward to show him how and together they accompanied the sun to a high place above Penzance where is was set alight, marking the end to the darkness of winter.
Since then, Old Ned and his queen have returned to Montol, to accompany the sun to its burning place and herald the coming of a new year.