Alessandra Davison
Alessandra is a director from Birmingham, also working as a freelance dramaturg and photographer. She is currently the Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, as well as being a board member of Stage Sight and a reader for the Royal Court Theatre and Park Theatre. Most recently, she directed a cast of inmates at HMP Spring Hill for Kestrel Theatre Company’s Christmas show.
As Director: Carbon and Tipping Point (Readings in translation at Royal Court Theatre, co-produced by the Italian Cultural Institute and PAV/Fabulamundi Playwrighting Europe); Tamzara (Unge Viken Theatre Company); SCRATCH (Harold Pinter Theatre with The Jamie Lloyd EMERGE Company); Ephemera (Living Archive: Royal Court Theatre); Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith - EMERGE Programme); Call me Maybe (recorded short at the Arcola Theatre); Hatch (Baron’s Court Theatre); By Way of Kensal Green (Theatre 503); Drylands (Tramshed); SWAY - a live action audio play (Virtual Collaborators); Hot Off Da Press and Three Wishes (both as director of the Lyric Hammersmith’s START Company, also co-writer).
As Assistant and Associate Director: Private Lives (Donmar Warehouse), Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court Theatre); A Number (The Old Vic); Idyll (Pentabus Theatre); Torch Song (Turbine Theatre); Me for the World (The Young Vic) and CARE (The Pappy Show).
Liv Fowler
Liv is a poet & playwright from South London. Her work focuses on the class system and gender. She enjoys pushing boundaries and making the audience question their biases.
Liv was a part of Pentabus’ National Young Writers Company in 2020/21, writing a short audio play exploring the issues of sexual assault and consent. This was accepted for 13 Submissions new writing night in July 2022 and performed at The Other Palace Theatre. Liv reached the semifinals of The Roundhouse’s Slam Poetry competition in July 2021 and at the beginning of last year received Arts Council England funding for R&D on a play she wrote exploring the relationship between class, mental health & opportunity.
The beginning of this year, Liv created her own comedic poetry event called ‘Rhymes & Stitches’ which encourages comedic poetry. Recently, Liv headlined at Bring Your Own Bars Boxpark Wembley and has just finished her first writing commission for BBC Radio 4.
Aled Gomer
Aled Gomer is a working class actor and writer from Cardiff. He is a recent graduate from the acting programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and previously trained at Drama Centre London. Aled is also the recipient of the Garrick award and Carne Trust award for demonstrating considerable acting talent.
His acting credits include Edward ii, The 39 Steps, Macbeth, The Welkin and Mad Margot (Richard Burton Company). He has been a participant on the writers programme for the Young Artists Festival at The Other Room, also the Local Young Writers Group with Pentabus and is currently a participant on the National Writers Group with Pentabus.
Aled is currently cultivating his skills and knowledge in improvisation and devising, with the hope to imbed these tools in his rehearsal and writing process.
Nickie Miles-Wildin
Nickie Miles-Wildin is a theatre and radio director who loves telling stories that are full of hope, connection, community and that challenge the structures of ordinary storytelling, reaching audiences that are sometimes excluded from theatre spaces and even stories. Her work challenges the preconceptions around disability and Nickie aims to put those narratives centre stage through her passion of new writing and devising.
Nickie was previously Joint Artistic Director and CEO of DaDa, Associate Director at Graeae Theatre Company where she was Head of New Writing.
In 2014 Nickie co-founded TwoCan, Gloucestershire’s first disabled led theatre company.
Recent theatre credits include Tuning In (Miles-Wildin & Ng Productions with Theatre By The Lake and Graeae), Jekyll & Hyde (MST), Alien Nation (Hope Mill), Little Bits Of Ruined Beauty (Pentabus), Fly The Flag (National Theatre and FUEL), Leave The Light On For Me (Mind The Gap), Kerbs (Graeae Theatre / Belgrade Theatre), When This Is Over, Cuttin’ It and The Tempest @Abraham Moss (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Iron Man (Graeae /Spark Arts) The Forest of Forgotten Discos (Contact Theatre)
Online work: Crips Without Constraints Parts One & Two (Graeae), MMXX & ConnectFest (Royal Exchange Theatre)
Audio: Love Across The Ages (BBC Radio4 & Naked Productions – nominated Best Radio Drama at ARIAS 2023), The Night Of The Living Flatpacks (Naked Productions), Ghost Pine (Audible x Lamda)
Coming up: The Little Big Things (Associate Director & Dramaturg)
Anoushka Warden
Anoushka grew up in the West Country.
She studied BA Theatre Studies at Kingston University and a Masters in Acting for Screen at Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
Following her studies Anoushka acted on stage and screen and wrote and acted with a comedy sketch group.
For the last 10 years Anoushka has worked in PR at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and the Royal Court Theatre.
Anoushka had her first play, My Mum’s a Twat, staged at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in January 2018. She then went on to be a participant in the Royal Court Theatre’s Introduction to Playwrighting Writers Group. Following the play she was picked as one of 12 writers for the 2018 Channel 4 Screenwriting course. In 2019 Anoushka then decided to perform My Mum’s a Twat at the Edinburgh Festival and it was then made into an Audible play. It is currently in development for television with Lookout Point Productions.
In 2019 Anoushka became an Associate Artists at The Bunker Theatre until its closure.
Her second play, My Dad’s a Cunt, won the Platform Presents Playwrighting Prize in August 2020 and she is currently developing Jessica Hepburn’s two books,The Pursuit of Motherhood and 21 Miles, into a feature film.