Image Credit: Josie Dale-Jones photographed by Flavia Fraser-Cannon. Josie Dale-Jones grew up around theatre-makers, absorbing early on something surprisingly powerful: the knowledge that making theatre could actually be a job. She founded ThisEgg while still young, and some 15 years…
Image Credit: Linnea Berthelsen photographed by David Reiss. Linnea Berthelsen took the scenic route into acting. Growing up in Denmark, she started gymnastics at three, travelled solo through China, Australia and the US at 18, and eventually wandered into an…
Image Credit: Biz Lyon in rehearsal for Midnight in Nashville. Biz Lyon knows a thing or two about detours. Originally from Kentucky, she trained in New York before a creative life that has taken her back and forth between Tennessee,…
Image Credit: Francesca Moody, founder of Francesca Moody Productions. Photographed by Rich Lakos. If you’ve spent any time around the UK’s Fringe scene over the past decade, chances are you’ve felt Francesca Moody‘s influence – even if you didn’t realise…
Image Credit: Photo of Gus Mitchell and Katurah Morrish, founders of the Forgery Collective. There comes a point when talking about the future is no longer enough – you have to build it. That’s exactly what writer and director Gus…
Image Credit: Dialectics of Erasure – a lecture performance by Mudar Al-Khufash, courtesy of the artist. In a moment where questions of visibility, power and narrative control feel increasingly urgent, Dialectics of Erasure lands with sharp precision. The work reframes…
Image Credit: Louise Orwin, photographed by Frederick Wilkinson. Louise Orwin has never been one to play it safe. Known for work that pushes at the edges of performance, power, and audience complicity, she’s built a reputation for asking difficult questions…
Image Credit: Tamm Reynolds as Midgitte Bardot, photographed by Holly Revell. There’s a through-line in Tamm Reynolds’ work that starts early – somewhere between Gloucestershire and a Drama Club stage, aged nine, playing Clarence the Seahorse in The Water Babies,…
Image Credit: Daphna Attias (left) and Terry O’Donovan (right), Co-Artistic Directors of Dante or Die. For two decades, Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan have been reshaping how theatre lives in the world. Their paths into performance began far apart –…
Image Credit: Photo of Leyla Nazli by Olivia Harris. From the moment a five-minute piece of political visual theatre stopped her in her tracks at the age of ten, Leyla Nazli’s path was set. That early spark – later intensified…