Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal

Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal

Rose Fenton OBE and Lucy Neal OBE were the co-founding directors, from 1980– 2005, of LIFT – the London International Festival of Theatre. The Turning World: Stories from the London

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Kate Waters

Kate Waters

Kate Waters (aka Kombat Kate) is an Equity-registered Fight Director, a status she acquired in 2001, after gaining qualifications in fencing and martial arts. Since then she has worked across

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Kully Thiarai

Kully Thiarai

Kully Thiarai is the Creative Director and CEO of Leeds 2023, Year of Culture. She has spent her career changing systems and structures in the arts world that are barriers

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Michelle Terry

Michelle Terry

Michelle Terry is an Olivier Award–winning English actress and writer, known for her extensive work for Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, as well as

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Saviana Stănescu

Saviana Stănescu

Saviana Stănescu (Condeescu) is a Romanian-American playwright, poet and ARTivist, with Roma and Balkan roots, based in New York City/Ithaca, New York. Hailed as one of the most exciting voices

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Jenny Sealey

Jenny Sealey

Jenny Sealey has been Graeae’s Artistic Director since 1997. Sealey was encouraged to carry on dancing after becoming deaf at the age of 7. Although she could no longer hear

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Daryl Roth

Daryl Roth

Daryl Roth is an American award-winning producer whose mission is to champion meaningful, inspiring work on-stage. She is honoured to hold the singular distinction of producing seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays:

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Pip Robinson

Pip Robinson

Until recently, Pip Robinson worked for the O2 Arena as Deputy Production Manager where she was responsible for the technical management of the arena and its assets for major touring

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Emma Rice

Emma Rice

Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Wise Children, and an internationally respected theatre-maker and director. For Wise Children, Emma has adapted and directed the productions, Angela

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Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock’s stage plays include: Rockets And Blue Lights (National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and BBC Radio 3), Glutathione (Young Vic Theatre), The Principles of Cartography (The Bush Theatre), Tituba

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Kate O’Donnell

Kate O’Donnell

Kate O’Donnell is an award-winning transgender performer, activist, theatre and cabaret maker. In 2016, she founded Trans Creative, a trans arts company whose aim is to help trans people tell

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Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter, the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States

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