Hackney Showroom The Hackney Showroom is an award-winning cultural organisation which supports exceptional artists to make live performance. Hackney Showroom’s hallmark is their support of artists who sit outside the mainstream, developing their craft and carving out a space for exceptional experimental artists who are innovating new forms of performance.
Sam Curtis Lindsay Sam Lindsay trained as an actor and has since directed, programmed and produced work shown across the UK and featured in numerous major festivals. Recent directing credits include the acclaimed Heartbreak Hotel (The Jetty, North Greenwich); The Court Must Have a Queen by Ade Solanke (Hampton Court Palace); Thank You For Your…
Travis Alabanza Travis Alabanza is a London based artist, writer and theatre maker. As one of the UK’s most prominent trans artistic voices, over the last 4 years Alabanza has initiated much of the public conversation around the intersections of blackness, gender, transness and class, as noted by numerous publications (MOBO, Dazed, Artsy). Their work…
Paloma Oakenfold British born Paloma Oakenfold trained for three years at the Guildhall school of music and drama before training in Theatre Directing at Birbeck University. Since 2010, Paloma has worked extensively as a performer and director in film, TV and theatre across the UK. In 2014, Paloma co-founded the all-female theatre company What’s Her…
Robert Softley Gale Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over ten years of experience in diverse roles including disability rights activist, actor and performer, writer, artistic director and advocate of equality of access to the arts for disabled people. Since then Gale has been pursuing any available opportunity saying “What…
The Handlebards The HandleBards began with a sense of adventure, a love of Shakespeare and a nifty little pun. Since four fearless friends pedalled Twelfth Night to twenty UK venues in 2013, we have grown to become an internationally renowned theatre company, bringing our uniquely irreverent brand of Shakespeare to audiences all over the globe. Our shows have received critical acclaim from…