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Creative Team

• Jordi M. Carter

  Director

  
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  Jordi M. Carter

  Director

  Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director and theatre-maker from Streatham, South London. His work is shaped by storytelling practices from the Global South and Black Diaspora, and centres mindfulness and cultural expression. He is currently the 2024/25 Lambeth Baylis Trustee at The Old Vic, and was the inaugural Co-Artistic Director/CEO at Boundless Theatre and former Young Vic Young Associate.

  Training includes: Black Acting Methods Studio (via ACE: Developing Your Creative Practice, 2023/24); The Knot (New Diorama, 2023); Creating Routes (Talawa, 2023); Fresh Direction (Young Vic, 2022/23).

  Recent credits: Marie & Rosetta (Rose Theatre / ETT / Chichester Festival Theatre); Animal Farm (Stratford East / Leeds Playhouse / Nottingham Playhouse); And (Theatre503); His Name (Contact Manchester); Aromatherapy (Talawa); The Government Inspector (Lyric Hammersmith / UAL); We Need New Names (National Tour); Of The Cut (Young Vic); Five Plays (Young Vic); Love Reign (Young Vic).

• Basheba (Bashiie) Baptiste

  Assistant Director

  
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  Basheba (Bashiie) Baptiste

  Assistant Director

  Bashiie is a producer and Multi-creative artist, specialising in artist development.

  A Stage One Alumni Bashiie has been an Associate Producer on two West End transfers, Best of Enemies, by James Graham and Shifters by Benedict Lombe and has since used the knowledge gained to make and create work in a way that challenges conventional theatre making.

  Bashiie has worked as a producer, facilitator and artist with theatres, venues and creative spaces and government run organisations across London and the wider UK including: The Bush Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Tom Thumb Theatre, the Young Vic, Talawa Theatre Company, Zooco Theatre Company, Peer Power UK and Company Three.

  As the Artistic Director of Care to Culture C.I.C, Bashiie works with care experienced young people and those without a primary care giver, offering paid training, learning and development opportunities to artists that are otherwise ignored because of the perception of others.

• AJ Turner

  Sound Designer

  
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  AJ Turner

  Sound Designer

  AJ Turner is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist working across contemporary theatre, live art and experimental music based in London. Their practice centres on the raw, visceral affectivity of sound in performance, creating and collaborating on interdisciplinary projects through an intersectional feminist, disabled, queer lens.

  Their critically acclaimed work in theatre has toured internationally and across the UK, seen at venues including The Almeida, Schaubühne, Battersea Arts Centre, Carriageworks (Sydney), Frascati (Amsterdam), Arken (Copenhagen), and Soho Playhouse (New York).

  In their experimental music work they have performed at venues and festivals including the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Dark Mofo (Tasmania) and Rewire Festival (The Hague). They have been commissioned by organisations including the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra and Spitalfields Music, and they were a Bang on a Can (New York) Composer Fellow in 2018, and a London Sinfonietta Writing the Future Composer from 2020 – 2022.

• Holly Glenn

  Stage Manager

  
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  Holly Glenn

  Stage Manager

  Holly Genn is a stage manager who enjoys working with devised processes, New Writing and Children’s Theatre.

  Recent Credits include: Room on the Broom (Tall Stories UK Tour); Route 158 (Punchdrunk Enrichment, Touring); BLUE (Seven Dials Playhouse); The Instrumentals (Southbank Centre); WOW! It’s Nighttime (Little Angel Theatre); The Nightwoman (Barbican); Fiesta (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); FLOOD (Theatre Temoin, Touring); The Instrumentals (Little Angel Theatre, Touring); Sleeping Beauty ( The Grange Theatre).

• Chloe Stally-Gibson

  Production Manager

  
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  Chloe Stally-Gibson

  Production Manager

  Chloe is a freelance production manager and former associate artist of Zoo Co Theatre Company and ChewBoy Productions.

  Her recent work includes: Shifters (Bush & Duke of York’s); Punch, A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic); Perfect Show For Rachel (Barbican); Tender, This Might Not Be It, Insane Asylum Seekers (Bush); Playhouse Creatures (JCTP); Silence (Tara Theatre).

• Hazel Low

  Set & Costume Designer

  
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  Hazel Low

  Set & Costume Designer

  Hazel Low is a performance designer and collaborator across theatre, live art and spatial design.

  Recent Credits include: Playfight (Paines Plough, Roundabout and UK Tour); The Glorious French Revolution (New Diorama Theatre); Blubber (Summerhall); The Legend of Ned Ludd (Liverpool Everyman); succession theme is my ringtone (Rose Theatre); Tiger (Omnibus Theatre); Bonfire (Derby Theatre, Sheffield Theatre, Non Such); As We Face The Sun and Pass It On (Bush Theatre); Who Killed My Father (Tron Theatre and Scottish Tour – co-design with Blythe Brett); Splintered (Soho Theatre); Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse); Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre -co-costume designer and design associate); I, Joan (Shakespeare’s Globe – design associate); Bogeyman (Pleasance Queendome);The Magic Flute (Royal College of Music – co-designed with Rosie Elnile); Trainers (Gate Theatre – design assistant).

  Spatial design projects include NDT Broadgate (design associate) and the Royal Court’s pop up bar Court in the Square in 2021.

• Joshie Harriette

  Lighting Designer

  
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  Joshie Harriette

  Lighting Designer

  Lighting Designer Joshie was the winner of the ‘Lighting Recognition Award’ at Black British Theatre Awards 2023 and was 2023 fellow with Factory International. 

  Lighting designs include: Shirley Valentine (Liverpool Everyman); Dawns y Ceirw (Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru); Legacy (RBO); The House of MCR (Factory International Manchester); The New Real (RSC); Bear Snores On (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); No More Mr Nice Guy (Nouveau Riche, UK Tour); Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist (The Other Palace, The Lyric Theatre and UK Tour); The Princess and the Pea (Unicorn Theatre); Evita (Curve Theatre); Nutcracker (Southbank, Tuff Nut Jazz Club); The Legends of Them (Brixton House); Dream of Delphi Tour (Bat for Lashes, Queen Elizabeth Hall); Sucker Punch (National Theatre and UK Tour); Outcast (Scottish Ballet); Say Something (National Dance Company Wales); Hot House, The Instrumentals (UK Tour); Eve and Cain (Queens Theatre Hornchurch) and Warrior Queens (Julia Cheng, Sadler’s Wells).

• Jess Senanayake

  Assistant Stage Manager

  
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  Jess Senanayake

  Assistant Stage Manager

  Jess Senanayake (she/they) is an award-winning theatre maker and poet. Her practice spans a range of disciplines, including Producing, Performance, Stage Management, Direction and Facilitation. Their work has been featured in Brownies, House of Poetry, THE FAT ZINE, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Jess is also an Associate Artist of Half a Girl Productions.

  Selected credits include:

  A Playlist for the Revolution (Bush Theatre); Slave Play (Noel Coward Theatre); Pippin (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Your Lie in April (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The PappyShow’s 10th Birthday Pit Party (Barbican); Don’t Drink the Water (Almeida Theatre), NO I.D (VAULT Festival); RIDE – A New Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); A Monster Calls (UK and US Tour); and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (UK Tour).

• Xanthus

  Movement Director

  
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  Xanthus

  Movement Director

  Xanthus is a visual storyteller operating in spaces as a photographer, theatre & movement director, performer, writer and filmmaker. Their creative work is centred around celebrating the varied narratives Black people hold, with an emphasis on girlhood and womanhood.