Meet the team…

TOM FOSKETT-BARNES

Co-Artistic Director

Tom Foskett-Barnes is a musician and composer working across theatre, film, and live performance.

His work for stage has been presented at leading venues including the Berliner Ensemble, Royal Court Theatre, Southbank Centre, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His film work has screened at major international festivals including Sundance, the Berlinale, and the London Film Festival.

Residencies have included the Sound and Music Embedded scheme, the Britten Pears Arts Foundation, the Old Vic 12, and the Jette Parker Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House. He trained at the Royal College of Music and was the recipient of a BAFTA UK Scholarship.

Tom is passionate about improving accessibility to the arts and advocating for access to the arts as a human right.

KATIE PESSKIN

Co-Artistic Director

Katie is an accomplished stage and screen director with extensive experience of developing new writing and writing for comedy. She also teaches acting, directing and comedy performance at top drama schools including LAMDA, East 15 and Mountview Academy of Arts.

Recently Katie has been developing a number of screen projects as both a writer and director, including a screen adaptation of the critically acclaimed play, Pickle Jar, which she developed with writer/performer Maddie Rice.

Katie’s work as a director includes MOTHER: Colleagues (Underbelly); Cash Cow (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); Pickle Jar (SOHO Theatre/Underbelly, Edinburgh); Ken (Pleasance Edinburgh/The Bunker Theatre); NewsRevue 2017 (Pleasance Edinburgh); Sam Bailey: Live in the West End (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue); The Last Five Years (Greenwich Theatre); 35MM: A Musical Exhibition (Greenwich Theatre/Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh).

Katie is a fervent believer in the wide-ranging benefits of engaging with the arts at a young age and improving access to the arts is at the core of her work.

OUR BOARD

• Gerard Blair

• Matthew Downie MBE (Chair)

• Costa Ellinas

• Sarah Jane O’Neill

• Sophia Louw

• Steven McIntyre

• Josh Willacy

• Miranda Wolpert MBE