Vanessa Bunn
Vanessa is a Facilitator, Producer and Director who specialises in collaborating with young people to develop ways of using art as a force for good in their lives.
BA English and Philosophy – University College Dublin
MA Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama – University College Dublin
MA Theatre for Community and Education – Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Producer – Rye-Ting Festival
Ambassador – Theatre Peckham (since July 2021)
Facilitator/Director – Harris Peckham Community Showcase 2022
Facilitator/Director – Rehearsing for Life, a Forum Theatre project 2023
Co-Curator – Peckham Fringe Festival 2023
Beth Carter
Beth is a Creative Producer and Facilitator who specialises in adapting Greek Myths and Plays through critical theatremaking as socio-politically relevant to today’s world.
BA Classical Civilisation – University of Nottingham
MA Theatre for Community and Education – Mountview
Producer – Order From Chaos (Edinburgh Fringe Greenside Venues) 2019
Producer – Cinnamon Tea (Short Film, Nottingham New Theatre) 2020
Producer – Artists Make Money (Podcast) 2021
Facilitator and Consultant – Greek Myths Unplugged (Unicorn Theatre) 2022
Facilitator – Outside Edge (Royal Court) 2022
Technical Programmer – These Are Rituals Youth Theatre (Theatre Peckham) 2022
Zack Chand
Zack is an educator, theatre-maker, theatre in education practitioner, facilitator and producer that uses the arts as a tool for young people with complex learning difficulties.
BA Hons Drama and Secondary Education – Bath Spa University 2020
Performing Arts (Acting) – Activate Learning 2017
Monique Eleanor
Monique is a professional actor who is passionate about creating performances that show black excellence and shine the light of African diaspora stories and impact change. Through this cause she has gained an interest in how to decolonize main stream media, and wants to share the beauty of marginalised stories that are so often underrepresented or silenced.
Her credits include: performer in Here is Home, writer and divisor in Aunt Flo’s School for Girls, live performer in The Drip by Amalia Pica, Mrs Weiss and Ladybird in Zawe Ashton’s Skunk directed by Ed Viney, Gigi in He’s Just Not That Into Tou (Bath Productions), The Duke in Measure for Measure (Bath Spa Production, Sparkfest), Narrator for Password Protected (IMDb scripted reading).
BA (Hons) in Acting at Bath Spa University.
ATCL (Distinction) from Giles Foreman Centre for Acting.
Ellen Larson
Ellen (she/her) is a theatre-maker and producer who loves collaborative theatre and is passionate about community engagement.
Founder – Moon House Theatre, a theatre company specialising in Greek theatre for modern audiences
Assistant Producer – Paines Plough
BA (Hons) Acting – Bath Spa University
@ellencharlarson on Twitter / ellen@painesplough.com
Rina Mashonga
Rina is a theatre-maker, musician and creative facilitator specialising in anti-oppression and theatre-based approaches for engaging minoritised young people.
BA (Hons) English and Education – University of Wolverhampton
MA Theatre for Community and Education 2022 – Mountview
Workshop and Performance Facilitator: Theatre for Critical Consciousness: Harris Academy Peckham (yr9+10), 2022
Director: These Are Rituals Youth Theatre (Theatre Peckham) 2022
Director/Writer/Composer: Solomon and Sheba (Arenberg Schouwburg, Antwerp) 2021
Co-Founder, Theatre-Maker: We Are Not People Dance Theatre Company, 2013 – present
Emma Hope O’Hara
Emma is a creative practitioner, with over a decade of experience of working with young people both nationally and internationally in a variety of educational and community settings. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to create spaces for young people with Special Educational Needs and Autism to use theatre as a tool to explore their identity, develop their understanding of the world and their importance in it.
HNC Performance – University of Essex
BA Theatre and Performance Practice – London Metropolitan University
Stage Manager – DON’T YOU DARE (Voila Festival) 2018
Producer – R ’n’ J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules (Ed Fringe) 2019
Assistant SM – Mid Life (Pit/Barbican) 2019
Co-Executive Producer and Location Manager – Trapped, Short Film (BFI Southbank) 2022
Emily Rose Taylor
Emily is a facilitator, educator and theatre-maker, who is invested in the transformational power of arts, with a focus on advocating towards social and communal change. She is currently working within the Production Department at the Birmingham Rep, following careers in both the healthcare and educational sector.
CertHe Introduction to Acting – Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
Represented by International Actors London.