The Company

Artistic Directors, Creators, & Producers


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Eat the Cake Studio

Brought together by their shared love of stories, history – and cake! – Frances, Elena, Maddy and Jen have united their creative powerhouse strengths to create Eat The Cake, an experience design studio dedicated to redefining the experience of storytelling and audience engagement. Let Them Eat Cake, their debut show under the banner of the new company, is an intimate retelling of a turning point in the French Revolution from the point of view of legendary icon, Queen Marie-Antoinette.

The Team

Rachel Calvo

Photographer

Rachel Calvo

Rachel Calvo, originally from Australia, is a portrait photographer based in Paris. She specialises in creative boudoir, family portraits, themed portrait shoots and modern personal branding. Whether you want to dance in front of the Eiffel Tower, fulfil your gothic heart’s desire at Père Lachaise cemetery, or create a beautiful Vanity Fair style studio portrait, a photoshoot with Rachel will be an entirely memorable experience. The results will not only blow your mind, but create a legacy for you and future generations to cherish forever.

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Mathieu da Vinha

Historical Consultant

Mathieu da Vinha

Mathieu da Vinha is a French historian. He defended his thesis on the chambermaids of Louis XIV and is a specialist of the French court of the 17th and 18th centuries. Among his numerous written works, we can note his most recent book, Dans la Garde Robe de Marie-Antoinette.

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Joleen Emory

Make-Up Artist

Joleen Emory

Joleen Emory is a Franco-American make-up artist who splits her time between Paris and LA. Certified through L’Institut Technique du Maquillage in Paris and having worked in television, theatre and fashion for 10 years, she is passionate about what she does. She has worked for various French TV channels such as France 2, M6 and NRJ12, just to name a few. Her fashion and bridal editorials have been published in various magazines and blogs internationally. She has always loved the beauty of the 18th century and has made it her specialty. She was part of the makeup team for the documentary ‘Le Versailles Secret de Marie Antoinette’ made by Arte and does makeup every year for the Bal Masqué de Versailles.

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Janine Springall

Pastry Chef

Janine Springall

My name is Janine Springall. I have a love and passion for cooking from an early age as a child. I loved learning from my Great Grandmother’s and Grandmother’s in the kitchen when I was little.I grew up in Seattle, Washington in the US and gained a degree in classical French Cuisine and pastry Applied science, whilst working in fine dining restaurants and private dinner clubs. I moved to France with my husband in 1998 where I continued to broaden my knowledge in the culinary arts. I was also lucky enough to travel and discover more about international cultures through food. I started L’Assiette de Paris 10 years ago with cooking classes and specialized cakes and pastries, later to include events, weddings and private parties throughout Paris and the suburbs.

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The Actresses Behind the Characters

Elena Odessa Ray

Duchess of Polignac

Elena Odessa Ray

Elena was born in California where she caught the theater bug at around the age of 11. That was when the answer to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” became irrevocably “an actress.” She took classes in improvisation, acting, dance and voice and continues her training with her voice teacher and occasional workshops. Her indomitable thirst for learning and adventure brought her to France a first time and she fell in love with the place and so, after a few years of university in the US (she ended up with a degree in linguistics, following her father’s advice to have “something to fall back on”) came back to France for good. She has never stopped acting in various theater projects, clown, burlesque, short and feature films, voice work, institutional films, and perhaps her biggest claim to fame: playing Annie Oakley in the Wild West Show in Disney Village Paris for the last ten years. She recently created an “almost” solo show, Ma Voix, about her quest to find her voice as a singer and her path as an artist. She is thrilled to be a part of Let Them Eat Cake and is also a co-founder of the company.

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Pauline Prevost

Marie-Antoinette

Pauline Prevost

Pauline is half-american, half-French and grew up in Paris. She studied drama at the Ecole Claude Mathieu and received her DET (Diplôme d’Etudes Théâtrales) from the EDT91 in 2017. Pauline’s passion for acting, clowning, dancing, modeling, bodypainting, and improvisation has led her to a vast and varied career. She has played leading roles in the independant films Aya, Secondaire, After Dark, and Alive. Her immersive theatre credits include the portrayal a schizophrenic mystic little sister in Dernières Fiançailles a behind-closed-doors-whodunnit signed Juliette Colin, and Mary Stuart in the eponyme bilingual creation by Sean Hardy. Pauline can be seen in various commercials and she is part of the original Phantasmaphone experience, a troop of actors who anonymously reads literature over the phone. She is an integral member of Les Affreux, a special effects horror monster theater group and she works with emerging young theater companies to explore innovative forms of expression. Excited by the process of creation, this bubbly, bilingual, hardworking artist is thrilled to be working with Eat the Cake Studio and embraces the challenge of interpreting the historical character of “Marie-Antoinette” in Let Them Eat Cake and in Ladies of Versailles.

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Joleen Emory

Mlle Montansier

Joleen Emory

Joleen Emory is a Franco-American make-up artist who splits her time between Paris and LA. Certified through L’Institut Technique du Maquillage in Paris and having worked in television, theatre and fashion for 10 years, she is passionate about what she does. She has worked for various French TV channels such as France 2, M6 and NRJ12, just to name a few. Her fashion and bridal editorials have been published in various magazines and blogs internationally. She has always loved the beauty of the 18th century and has made it her specialty. She was part of the makeup team for the documentary ‘Le Versailles Secret de Marie Antoinette’ made by Arte and does makeup every year for the Bal Masqué de Versailles.

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