Katrina Woolley

Festival Director

Katrina is a theatre-maker and programmer from South London. She founded Big Mind Theatre to explore the relationship between performance and wellbeing, where she has run workshops, directed and produced original works based on lived experience of mental illness, and created the Anxiety-Free Fringe Guide. She has worked with companies including Utopia Theatre and MAYA Productions, and was previously a supported artist at Sheffield Theatres, where she ran a creative affinity space for other chronically ill theatre-makers. She also works as a Youth Engagement Officer for mental health charity, Young Minds. 

Lydia Harrison

Festival Producer

Lydia is a theatre producer originally from Sheffield. After completing her MA in Creative Producing from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, she has produced many early-stage projects that span the Edinburgh Fringe, the Other Palace and Maiden Speech Festival. Throughout her work as a producer and her own lived experience, mental health and wellbeing has become very significant, particularly since COVID-19.

She is currently the Operations Manager at LAMDA.

Julia Weingaertner

Assistant Producer

Whilst at university, Julia was the president of the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group. Since graduating, she has produced Big Mind’s last digital production, “The Garden Party,” in July 2020. She currently serves as the Programs and Marketing Assistant for the non-profit Arts Education New Jersey and as the Marketing Coordinator for off-Broadway Shakespeare company Hamlet Isn’t Dead.

Tom Robbins

Production Supervisor

Tom is a Production Manager experienced in working across physical and digital spaces to provide technical solutions that facilitate authentic storytelling. Tom’s work sees him working with companies and festival across the country to deliver memorable and high quality events, and he is always striving to develop new solutions to push the boundaries of what an audience might expect.

Will Amott

Digital Project Manager

Will is an independent project manager and producer of live and digital arts who currently acts as Associate Producer at Autin Dance Theatre and has previously worked with In Good Company at Derby Theatre, Beatfreeks and SHOUT Festival.

Elske Waite

Technical Manager

Elske is a stage manager who has most recently worked for the acclaimed Not F*ckin’ Sorry (Soho Theatre), UnReal City (Battersea Arts Centre), and two rounds of Ondervinden’s The Folk Effect (online festival). Elske also works as a writer and theatre maker and is Creative Director of both Ondervinden Theatre and Gin and Tonic Productions.

Emily Aboud

Guest Curator

Emily is a theatre director, writer and Artistic Director of Lagahoo Productions - an international theatre company specializing in feminist and queer work from the Caribbean and beyond. She was most recently shortlisted for the JMK Award 2021 as well as the Genesis Future Directors Award. She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund.

Sam Osborne

Website Designer

Sam is a freelance web designer and theatrical production manager. He’s previously made websites for Haste Theatre, Anegada Theatre, and The Nottingham New Theatre; and in the world of theatre worked with Playing On, YESYESNONO, and Theatre Alibi. He additionally makes new theatre work as one third of Phone Box Theatre.

Guillaume Doussin

Graphic Designer

Guillaume is a theatre-maker, producer and graphic designer from Southern France, currently part of Theatre Peckham’s resident company. He has designed for various arts organisations, including the Montreal Fringe Festival, Good Chance Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles and Mountview’s Catalyst Festival.

Grace Dickson

Advisory Producer

Grace is a freelance theatre producer and General Manager. She is Company Producer for Grace Dickson Productions, THESE GIRLS and Lagahoo Productions, is the Administrator for Burn Bright, and is Assistant Producer to Ellie Claughton, with whom she works for LUNG, Breach and Barrel Organ.

Nikita Karia

Festival Correspondent

Nikita is a theatre producer and arts writer from South London. She produces fringe theatre for early-career artists. As a writer, she explores subjects within the personal, cultural and political realms as well as being a regular theatre critic for The Stage.

Harriet Corke

Festival Correspondent

Harriet is a writer & performer from Essex, currently based in east London. After graduating from Queen Mary University of London in 2018, she put her English degree aside & began writing for theatre. Her reviews have been published by The Spy in the Stalls; her creative work has been published by Ostrich Magazine & SLAM Kings Cross. She is a founder member of woman-run theatre company Culford Company, with whom she is co-writing her first full-length play.