Meet the Theatre Makers

PREVIOUS WORK
- The Lost Disc
Performer & writer
Soho Theatre

- Man Watching
Performer
Royal Court Theatre

- Detroit
Performer
National Theatre

- The London Snorkelling Team
Performer
Roundhouse

- The Receipt
Performer and writer
Lyric Hammersmith / Melbourne Comedy Festival/ New York

- Waters of The Moon
Performer
Salisbury Playhouse

- The Winslow Boy And Arcadia
Performer
Chichester

- Small Craft Warnings
Performer
Pleasance

CONTACT
www.willadamsdale.com
[email protected]

LOCATION
Based in Hull but travel all across the UK and Internationally

PREVIOUS WORK
Jason has an extensive list of credits which you can view on his website.

CONTACT
www.jasonaddison.com
Agent – www.cdm-ltd.com
Twitter - @JasonAddison24
Instagram - @jayaddison24

PREVIOUS WORK
South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough Award 2018 Nominee
Received the Firecracker Photographic Grant 2020 Foam Talent 2021 award.
Artwork exists in a number of collections including Autograph ABP, Hyman Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Mead Art Museum.
Currently filming Sister Pictures/Amazon Studios upcoming book adaptation of the 2017 best selling feminist Sci-Fi novel The Power by Naomi Alderman.

TRAVEL
Heather is based in London but is open to travel

CONTACT
www.heatheragyepong.com
www.spotlight.com/profile/4766-7868-7791
Twitter: @heatha_a
Instagram: @heathatrottlives
Facebook: Heather Agyepong

PREVIOUS WORK
- I Have Met the Enemy (and the enemy is us) 2019
Co-production with Northern Stage,

- Radical Acts, 2018

- We're Still Here, 2017
Co-production with National Theatre Wales

- The Deal Versus the People, 2015
Co-production with Leeds Playhouse

- No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, 2013 - 2016
National and international tour

- Our Glass House, 2012-2013

TRAVEL
Bradford and Cardiff and tour nationally and internationally

CONTACT
www.commonwealththeatre.co.uk
Twitter: @Common_WealthHQ

Instagram: @Common_WealthHQ
Facebook: Common Wealth Theatre Co

Richard is one of the Artistic Directors of Uninvited Guests alongside Jess Hoffmann and Paul Clarke. Richard has been making theatre, installation, and digital projects with the company since 2000. In all projects, Richard has been involved in, he has served as performer, deviser, and writer.

PREVIOUS WORK
Schlock (2005)

Love Letters Straight From Your Heart (2006 - still available for touring)

It is Like It Ought To Be (2007)

Make Better Please (2012)

The Good Neighbour (2013)

To Those Born Later (2019)

Love Letters At Home (2020 - currently touring in the UK and internationally as a live Zoom performance)

Until 2020, Richard was also Head of Producing at Battersea Arts Centre, where he worked for 18 years. As well as programming and producing many artists' shows at BAC, he occasionally took the artistic lead himself - e.g. London Stories: Made By Migrants (2016)

TRAVEL
Based in London.

CONTACT
www.uninvited-guests.net
[email protected]
Twitter: @RichardDufty

PREVIOUS WORK
THE SPALDING SUITE - Writer
Fuel
2015

BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES
National Theatre & Fuel
2017

THE HALF GOD OF RAINFALL - Writer
Kiln Theatre & Fuel
2019

THREE SISTERS - Writer
National Theatre & Fuel
2019

THE LITTLE PRINCE - Writer
Fuel
2020

BORDERS & CROSSINGS - Writer
Fuel & Public Theatre New York
2021

THE 14TH TALE - Writer/Performer
Produced by FUEL
Arcola Theatre, 2009
National Theatre, 2010

UNTITLED, Soho - Writer/Performer
Fuel
2010

KNIGHT WATCH - Writer/Performer
Fuel
2012

BLACK T-SHIRT COLLECTION - Writer/Performer
Fuel
2012

AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT. - Writer/Performer
Soho Theatre
2015

TRAVEL
Inua is based in London but open to travel

CONTACT
www.inuaellams.com
Twitter: @InuaEllams

Instagram: @InuaEllams

PREVIOUS WORK
- Hans Christian Andersen Museum (2021)
Designer

- The Day I Fell Into A Book (2020)
Writer, Performer, and Sound Designer
Southbank Centre, UK Tour, Hong Kong, produced by Fuel

-The Little Prince (2020)
Sound Designer
Stratford Circus produced by Fuel

- Animals (2020)
Composer
Dens and Signals production

- The Iron Man (2020)
Composer and Sound Designer
Graeae production. Hong Kong International Festival

- The Garden (2020)
Composer and Sound Designer
Graeae production. Cultural Olympiad, Tokyo (postponed)

- I'm a Phoenix Bitch (2019)
Sound Designer
Bryony Kimmings Production. UK and Australian tour

- Dog Ballet (2019)
Sound Designer, Composer, Musician
A Nigel and Louise productions. Eyeview Festival, Torquay.

- Now Is The Time To Say Nothing (2019)
Sound Designer

- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (2018)
Sound Designer
The Crucible, Sheffield

- Aruna (2018)
Composer and Sound Designer
Graeae production. Chennai, India

- A Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer (2018)
Sound Designer
Complicite Associates / National Theatre production. UK and Australia tour

TRAVEL
Based on the South Coast of England. Happy to travel

CONTACT
[email protected]
Twitter: @mrlewisgibson

PREVIOUS WORK
THE JUNGLE
St. Ann's Warehouse, New York
2020

TRAVEL
Based in London but willing to travel.

CONTACT
https://linktr.ee/mylenegomera
Twitter: @mylenegomera

Instagram: @mylenegomera

Akiya is a talented stage and screen actress. She has numerous film and television credits, including on BBC's Casualty and Little Britain. Akiya recently starred at Lady Macbeth in Kit Monkman's film adaptation of Macbeth.

PREVIOUS WORK
- Clare Barron's Dirty Crusty at The Yard Theatre
- The Dark at Ovalhouse
- Emma Rice's The Little Matchgirl and Twelfth Night for Shakespeare's Globe

Akiya is a regular collaborator with the National Theatre, RSC and Young Vic. Akiya was also in the original cast of Swallows and Amazons (West End and Tour), starred as Hermia in the smash-hit international touring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as dual roles of Medea and Maddy in the all-female cast of Medea, all produced by Bristol Old Vic.

Akiya voices the role of Amma in the emmy-winning CBeebies series BING, Adaline in the award-winning Netflix series HILDA, Lil' Sue in THE RUBBISH WORLD OF DAVE SPUD, and she is currently voicing the role of Snork Maiden in the animated series of MOOMINVALLEY.

PREVIOUS WORK
- Hartlepool Monkey: Homecoming (2020)
Engagement Lead and Associate Film Director
Fuel Theatre and Gyre&Gimble

- Quest for Missing Questions (2000)
Co-director
Unfolding Theatre and Woodhorn Museum

- The Amazing Other (R&D) (2020)
Co-director
The Market Theatre Laboratory, Johannesburg, and ODDMANOUT

- Dawn (2020)
Director
Elevator Festival, Live Theatre

- Perfectly Norman: A Story Gig (2019)
Director, Writer, and Performer
New Writing North

- Blokes, Fellas, Geezers (2019)
Dramaturg

- Spectacular Drag Storytime (2019)
Director
Curious Arts

- Chicken Licken: A Tale Jam (2019)
Director, Writer, and Performer
Co-production with Durham Gala

- The Winter's Tale (2019)
Director
National Theatre

- Izzy Gizmo: A Story Gig (2018)
Director, Writer, and Performer
New Writing North

- Pricks (2018-2020)
Director
Jade Byrne and Little Mighty

- The Tin Foil Astronaut (2018-2019)
Director and Co-creator
Kitchen Zoo

- Macbeth (2017)
Assistant Director
National Theatre

- Clown Doctor (2017- Present)
Tin Arts in hospital settings across the North East and virtually

- (Do Not Enter) Monster Zoo (2017)
Director
New Writing North

- The First Time is Free (2017)
Director
Open Clasp Theatre Company

- The Friendly Dragon and the Tiny Bird (2017)
Director
Creative Cocoon, Alnwick Playhouse

- The Owl and the Pussycat (2017-2018)
Director and Co-creator
Kitchen Zoo

- Frost of Forgetfulness (2016)
Director
Unfolding Theatre, nominated for Journal Culture Award

- Hey Presto! (2016)
Director
New Writing North

- Man on the Moon (2015)
Director
New Writing North and Sage, Gateshead

- The Worst Princess (2014)
Director
New Writing North and Sage, Gateshead

TRAVEL
Based in Whitley Bay, North East England.

CONTACT
www.ruthmaryjohnson.com
Twitter: @maryroo

Lizzie is a Lighting Designer based in Glasgow but travels across Britain and Europe for her work.

www.lizziepowell.com
Instagram - @eap73
Agent - www.ahatalent.co.uk

Speakers Corner is a collective based in Bradford, which focuses on mental health, body image, and activism.

PREVIOUS WORK
- WOW Bradford
- WOW Global

TRAVEL
Based in Bradford

CONTACT
www.commonwealththeatre.co.uk/bradford/speakerscorner
Facebook: Speakers' Corner Collective
Twitter: @SpeakersCornerC
Instagram: @speakerscornercollective

PREVIOUS WORK
- Mary Sees Red (2020)
- Tinderbox (2020)
- A Sense of the Future (2019)
- KINGS (2019)
- Old Tools > New Masters = New Futures (2019)
- De Opsluiting (2019)
- Manchester International Festival (2019)
- Lunar (2019)
- Hairy Art BBC radio documentary (2019)
- Moonwhile (2019)
- The Manchester Project at Christmas (2019)
- She Bangs the Drums (2018)
- Oh Man (2018)
- There is a Light: BRIGHTLIGHT (2017)
- Climate of Fear (2017)
- National Poetry Day (2016)
- Climate of Fear (2016)
- The Siege of Christmas (2016)
- Under the Covers (2015)
- The Shrine of Everyday Things (2015)

TRAVEL
Based in Manchester but open to travel

CONTACT
www.keishathompson.com
Facebook & Instagram: @shebekeke
Twitter: @keke_thom

PREVIOUS WORK
THIRST TRAP by Rachael Young Composer & Sound Designer (Digital experience, 2021)

UR FAVOURITE SCARY MOVIE by Louise Orwin
Composer & Sound Designer
(Digital experience, 2020)

The Land Of Her by Natasha Sturgis
Composer
(The Place, 2020)

Escape From Planet Trash by Ginger Johnson
Sound Designer & Performer
(The Pleasance, 2019)

Little Wimmin by Figs In Wigs
Sound Designer
(The Pleasance, 2019)

DESTRUCTION/DISORDER/DIRT/POLLUTION
Creator & Performer (Rich Mix, 2019)

How To Catch a Krampus by Ginger Johnson
Sound Designer & Performer
(The Pleasance, 2018)

CRY CRY KILL KILL by Louise Orwin
Sound Designer & Performer
(R&D, Barbican and Battersea Arts Centre, 2018 - Present)

OH YES OH NO by Louise Orwin
Sound Designer
(Camden People’s Theatre, toured nationally, 2017)

NIGHTCLUBBING by Rachael Young
Music Development Collaborator
(Camden People’s Theatre, toured internationally, 2017)

KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT by Christopher Brett Bailey
Composer & Performer
(Ovalhouse, toured nationally, 2016)

Breathe (Everything Is Going To Be Okay)
Creator & Performer
(SPILL Festival, toured nationally, 2016)

Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart
Creator & Performer
(Camden People’s Theatre, 2016)

This Is How We Die by Christopher Brett Bailey Composer & Performer (Ovalhouse, toured internationally, 2014)

TRAVEL
Alicia is based in London but is open to travel.

CONTACT
www.aliciajaneturner.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @aliciajturner
Instagram: @aliciajaneturner