by Ali | May 4, 2017
Dominic is a writer, director, facilitator and dramatherapist and has worked with theatre companies and marginalised client groups in prisons, PRU’s, homeless shelters, housing institutions and mental health settings. Organisations include Cardboard Citizens, The Roundhouse, The Lyric, National Youth Theatre, MIND, Birmingham Youth Offending Service, Feltham Young Offenders and HMP Doncaster. He is a lecturer on the MA Dramatherapy programme at Roehampton University. As a writer, his work includes International Playwriting Festival winner The Resurrectionists, Trevor Loves Charlotte (British Association of Dramatherapists), Talking to Tallman (National Youth Theatre) and Victoria (Channel 4). Having trained as an actor at Rose Bruford, Dominic has also had a successful stage and screen acting career, taking roles in productions at The National Theatre, Liverpool Everyman, Sheffield Crucible and the Young Vic to name a few and his screen work includes roles in Coronation Street (ITV), Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. He has recently been developing new material with theatre company Ridiculusmus and writing a new play exploring mental health for Blue Elephant Theatre.
by Ali | May 4, 2017
Chetna trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2004 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. She has since worked nationally and internationally in theatre, television, film and radio. Highlights include: Casualty -semi regular (BBC), Hens! (Sky Arts Playhouse/Riverside studios), Identity (ITV), Holby Blue (BBC), Behud (Soho Theatre/Belgrade Coventry), Green Wing (C4), Shades (Royal Court Theatre), Arabian Nights (RSC), New Tricks (BBC), and A Disappearing Number with Simon McBurney’s Complicite, recipient of The Evening Standard Award, Critics Circle Award and the Olivier Award for Best Play. In 2010 the show travelled to New York, India and the West End, as well as performing in the NT Live broadcast. Her most recent credits include Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed award winning series Black Mirror: The National Anthem (C4/Zeppetron), The Thick Of It (BBC), Down Dog (Feature Film/Overhang productions), Much Ado About Nothing starring Meera Syal (RSC/West end) and The Westbridge (Royal Court)
Chetna is also a highly experienced drama facilitator and co founder of Outspoken Arts – an organization that creates and delivers bespoke performing arts and media workshops for mainstream and marginalized groups.
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by Ali | May 4, 2017
Deji is an established actor, teacher and role-player and in the last year he has worked extensively within the business sector. He has worked exclusively on programmes for Siemens Energy, Crossrail and Lewisham College. He is a qualified Barrister and often provides representation on a pro bono basis in the Employment Tribunals within the London region. Deji also has a passion for working with young people and often co-ordinates youth led programmes within schools and education organisations. Deji is highly experienced in forum theatre and live interaction.
Deji is Creative Youth Worker at Generation Arts and is currently working with the Future Stage Weekly Drop-in company.
by Ali | May 4, 2017
As a visiting tutor for the Future Stage Project at Generation Arts, Andrew is a writer, actor, director and facilitator who enjoys teaching young people and emerging artists. One of Andy’s passions is in using new writing and drama to engage young people in educational settings, and he is able to use his limitless energy to carry out this aim at Generation Arts. As a writer Andy has experienced significant recent successes staging and performing in his original work ‘The Me Plays’ at The Old Red Lion Theatre for which he has been nominated for 2 ‘Offies’ – Off West End Theatre Awards (Best Male 2014 and the TBC Award) and achieved numerous 4* reviews. In 2011 he won the Ideastap/ NYT/ Shine Drama ‘Write to Shine’ competition and was the deserving recipient of a two year mentorship from playwrights Lin Coghlan and Phillip Osment. He has delivered workshops in schools across London working with peer assistants and acting as a mentor. A former participant of the National Youth Theatre’s Playing Up programme, he subsequently worked as Youth Programme Assistant on the social inclusion programmes at NYT working with Ali and Michelle, and wrote an original piece which was performed by the young people in The Roundhouse hub space. He has creatively assisted on National Youth Theatre summer courses with young teenagers culminating in a sharing of work at LABAN. Andy is a founding member of Generation Arts.
by Ali | May 4, 2017
Hayley is Peer Facilitator with responsibility for training at Generation Arts. She is also an actor, writer and workshop facilitator making theatre with young people. Hayley studied Drama at the University of Essex graduating with 2:1 honours degree in 2012. Since then she has been involved in various productions with the National Youth Theatre and the Tricycle Young Company including ‘Pigeon English’ at the Bristol Old Vic theatre (2013) and ‘The Kilburn Passion’ at the Tricycle Theatre (2014). This year she has also had the opportunity to take part in a cultural exchange in Saudi Arabia whereby she delivered theatre making workshops to the locals. As well as this she also got the chance to perform her own writing in Saudi and a subsequent piece of devised work at the Vaults Festival (2015).
Theatre credits include: Kilburn Passion (Tricycle Theatre) Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic) The Class (National Youth Theatre) Team Welcome Ceremonies (National Youth Theatre)
