Readers Gallery

Alistair is a queer, working class artist originally from Manchester. They are the Head of Artist Development at The Old Vic, an Associate Artist at National Youth Theatre, Artistic Director of WoLab and a patron for COMMON.

Aida Rocci is a director and dramaturg. Born and raised in Spain (but of Italian ascent), she set out to learn about theatre and psychology in the US, UK, and Russia. After all this moving around, she now lives in London.

Amanda is a Puerto Rican actress, writer and translator. She holds an MA Acting in acting from RCSSD and a BA in Comparative Literature and Acting from the University of Puerto Rico. She recently wrote and performed her own piece Hurricane Diaries at the Blue Elephant Theatre.

Antonia is a London-based director and producer working across theatre and film. She began her training during her BA at Columbia University in New York and then completed an MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She specializes in both new writing and adaptations that challenge the dominant narratives and is particularly passionate about telling women’s stories and queer narratives. As a migrant artist of Eastern European origin, she is also interested in subversive stories that have an international resonance and push the boundaries of the theatrical form.

Bluey Little is a queer playwright and dramaturg from Glasgow by way of Leeds. She trained at Royal Holloway and the University of Glasgow, before serving as youth reader for the Royal Court and assisting in development workshops at Traverse Theatre. She is very excited to read for the prize!

Breman is a British Tamil director from London, who was Resident Director at the National and Kiln Theatre. He has also read for Soho Theatre and Leeds Playhouse. He won a scholarship onto the Lir Academy's MFA Playwriting. He has won the Directors Guild Award and Sunday Times Playwriting Award.

Chloe is an award winning theatre writer from London. She is a dramaturg, facilitator and script consultant. Her work in this area is informed by a decade working for new writing theatres and companies, such as Graeae and the Royal Court. This is her first time reading for Theatre Uncut Award. She really excited about reading your plays and thanks the playwrights for sharing a bit of you with us!

Dan is a Queer performer, presenter, lecturer, producer, curator and activist. He is also a Creative Climate Leader and is the host of Off Book, the Young Vic Podcast.

Northern based Dermot is an actor, director, and dramaturge (amongst other things) who uses the he/him pronouns. He makes work that is often rooted in social justice, looking at what it means to be a human in the modern world and sees this, primarily, through his personal intersecting lenses of being a university educated, working class black man.

Emily is a writer of many kinds, including but not limited to playwright, journalist and academic. After training in Montreal and at RADA, before undertaking a PhD which researched theatrical responses to the AIDS crisis, and the evolution of LGBTQ+ theatre. Her book on Angels in America is being published by McFarland, and she is also working on a second book on Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent. As a playwright, She has produced work with Clock Tower Theatre, Dirty Protest Theatre and The Other Room and The Arena Theatre Wolverhampton and is a writer for the 14/48 theatre festival there.

Emily is the Resident Director at the Almeida and was previously Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic and Trainee Director at Paines Plough. She is also studying for an MSc in International Politics. Emily lives in a small village in Sussex and am mixed-race White British and Chinese Malaysian.

Frankie McCafferty is an actor, writer and director. He has worked as a freelance theatre artist for over thirty years. He has received awards for his work from the Irish Times, Edinburgh Fringe, Belfast Telegraph and Adelaide Fringe. He trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris.

Isabel is a queer theatre-maker and writer of English and Ghanaian origins based in London. After studying English at Cambridge, she trained with NYT Rep, then joined the RSC for 2019. She co-created the binary-bending collective Pecs Drag Kings, inclusive arts event Brainchild Festival and the bestselling ‘Lionboy’ book trilogy, adapted by Complicité.

Jac is a freelance director trained at the National Theatre Studio. He is Co-Director of PowderHouse, company-in-residence at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

Recent work includes Antigone (PowderHouse for National Theatre Wales, Sherman Theatre & BBC Arts), For All I Care (NTW), Fel Anifail (Sherman Theatre), Now The Hero (Associate Director, 14-18 NOW)

Jay is a proud brummy and currently the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme 18 month Resident Assistant Director at Tobacco Factory Theatres. He’s an alumni of the Birmingham Reps Foundry programme for emerging Directors. He has worked extensively as a facilitator/Director nationally & internationally in varying contexts . Jay is passionate about using theatre beyond the means of entertainment and exploring counter narratives.

Katherine is a freelance theatre director from Belfast. She is also Co-Director of new writing company View From Here.

She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab and a JMK Regional Director and Leverhulme Arts Scholar.

Liam was Trainee Dramaturg at BRONKS Theatre for Young Audiences in Brussels, during which time he also worked with Milo Rau/NTGent, Ontroerend Goed, and Purni Morell/KVS. As well as reading for Theatre Uncut he reads for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

LM is an actor who loves theatre and reading. She is based in the seaside town of Hastings. LM comes from a mixed ethnic background and was born into a working class family. She is thrilled to be part of the Theatre Uncut team of readers.

Meghan Tyler is a queer, Irish playwright and actor from Newry.

Since graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2014, Meghan received the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Award supported by The Traverse Theatre and been on The New Playwrights’ Programme with The Lyric Theatre for CROCODILE FEVER. Meghan currently has a residency at The National Theatre.

Molly Beth Morossa is an award-winning writer, theatre maker and cabaret artist. Hailing from Essex, they grew up in a working class family and went on to study at Chelsea School of Art & Design. As a queer and non-binary individual, they are passionate about lifting up stories less heard.

Rhiann is a 27-year-old Freelance Theatre Director and Associate Director of Prime Cut Productions, Belfast. She is a working class, pansexual female from Northern Ireland with a Manchester accent. Identity and politics form a huge part of her work as a Director and she is thrilled to be a reader for this award.

Shannon Yee is an award-winning playwright / producer living in Northern Ireland. Her perspectives as an immigrant, ethnic minority, queer, disabled artist-parent are embedded in her work (www.s-yee.co.uk). Most notably, her Reassembled, Slightly Askew immerses audiences in her experience of nearly dying and subsequent acquired brain injury (www.reassembled.co.uk).

Siobhan is a freelance director from Cardiff whose work is experimental and playful with form, and explores gender, queer identity, mental health, and class-consciousness. As a feminist and a queer woman she is fascinated by theatre that analyses and deconstructs gender dynamics through an intersectional lens. She creates work in English and Welsh.

Tabby Lamb is a non-binary writer, performer and activist. Their debut solo show SINCE U BEEN GONE was produced by HighTie & The Queer House and described as “bold, honest and swollen with love” by The Guardian. A graduate of Soho Theatre Writers Lab and he LGBTQ Arts Review #RaisingOurVoices scheme for Queer and Trans writers. Alongside their performance, Teddy founded @TheatreQueers in 2018, and runs workshops with LBGTQ+ youth

Tobi Kyeremateng is a multi-award-winning cultural producer and social entrepreneur. She has worked with the likes of gal-dem, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nike, Roundhouse, Samsung, and Tate Modern, and has had work featured on Complex, NOWNESS, Vinyl Factory and 180 The Strand. Tobi is the founder of award-winning initiative Black Ticket Project.

Tommo is a dramaturg for text and production, and a director. He is co-founder of RoughHewn, Visiting Tutor on the MA Playwriting at City University, and a member of the Dramaturgs’ Network Advisory Board. Cis male. Ashkenazi Jewish. Lives in Sheffield.

Tian is a 37 year old Black cis gay man. He is a freelance theatre director and producer. He is a 2nd generation Caribbean immigrant who grew up in Tottenham, London. His theatre company New Slang Productions works predominately with artists, actors and creatives of colour and the shows are centred around the Black experience. He now lives in Manchester and recently was made the STUN x The Lowry Associate Artist for 2020/21 and he also teaches acting at ALRA North.

Willy Hudson is a queer artist from Devon. His debut solo show Bottom premiered at Edinburgh 2018, followed by a run at Soho Theatre and a national tour. In his theatre work he likes to amplify queer voices and confront social taboos with autobiographical storytelling, comedy and fusion of form.

Yuyu Wang is a London-based theatre maker and creative producer originally from China. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has read for the Royal Court’s Introduction to Playwriting Group, Lynne Gagliano Writer's Award and Traverse Theatre’s Open Submissions.

Zoë has been a freelance theatre director for fourteen years. She has worked at theatres across the country - notably Nottingham Playhouse; Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; Theatr Clwyd and The New Vic in Stoke. In 2007 she won the New Wimbledon Theatre’s Emerging Directors Award and from 2018-19 she was the Associate Director of the New Vic.

Alice is a theatre maker based in Cardiff. She has worked predominantly in Welsh fringe theatre and on bilingual projects as a director/assistant director. She also works as a dramaturg and most recently worked with Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and BBC Cymru Fyw on their digital content commissions. Alice set up her own production company earlier this year; 'BolSHE' is a company created to utilise and celebrate creative Welsh and Wales based women.

Andy is a Director & Dramaturg based in Walthamstow. He has worked for institutions like: The National Theatre of Scotland, the Traverse Theatre & The National Film and TV School as well as (too) many pubs scattered across London. He loves plays, video games and sleeper trains.

Andy Routledge is a theatre director and dramaturg from Northampton. He has directed projects at Royal & Derngate, Royal Exchange, Curve, HOME and Vaults Festival. He is the artistic director of 60 Miles by Road or Rail and was previously the trainee director at Royal Exchange.

Chelsey is a working-class theatre director from south Wales. She is currently the Carne Trust Associate Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough and is a co-founder of the multilingual devising company PowderHouse who are Company in Residence at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.

David Furlong is a bilingual artist from Mauritius. He trained as an actor in Paris at the National Theatre, before establishing in London where he has been running Exchange Theatre since 2006. He is now an experienced multi-offie-nominated director and also freelance theatre-maker (including the Royal Opera House, The Young Vic).

JN Benjamin is a black woman from south london. she is also a writer, producer and broadcaster. her work is focused on society, arts and culture and she has been published in titles including the stage, the pool, time out, exeunt magazine and the sunday times.

Julia Head is a director of live work from Bristol. She is the Artistic Director of FullRogue. She works extensively with Bristol Old Vic’s Engagement department and was awarded the Henry Augustine Forse Award for her contribution to Engagement. She is the Company Director of Young SixSix that collaborates closely with young people to make new work and supports them to realise their creative potential. In 2018 she received a Bristol Old Vic Ferment Leverhulme Arts Scholarship to develop her practice. Julia is an Associate Director of Twisted Theatre and is also a trustee of MAYK. Currently: NORA: A Doll's House by Stef Smith (The Egg, Bath), MASSIVE by Charlotte Josephine (Audible Original Productions), Wild Swimming by FullRogue (BristolOldVic//59E59, NYC). Recent credits include: A Short Haired Cat which Claws at the Furniture by Joe Harbot (Young Vic 5 Plays), Our House is on Fire (BTA, The Egg Bath), Chaos by Laura Lomas (YTM, Tobacco Factory Theatres).

Kash is theatre director based in Halifax. Recent directing credits includ: Part of Beyond Chinatown Signal Fires Project (Yellowearth Theatre Company) Stolen Rainbows (M6 Theatre Company) Guards at the Taj (Theatre by the Lake) Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (Freedom Studios) Airplays (Leeds Playhouse),Memories of Partition (Royal Exchange)

I am a British Asian Writer and Director and I was born in Hackney, London to working class parents. My first experience of theatre was through school trips to Theatre Royal Stratford East and that sparked everything for me.

Zoë has been a freelance theatre director for fourteen years. She has worked at theatres across the country - notably Nottingham Playhouse; Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; Theatr Clwyd and The New Vic in Stoke. In 2007 she won the New Wimbledon Theatre’s Emerging Directors Award and from 2018-19 she was the Associate Director of the New Vic.