Meet the team…

TOM FOSKETT-BARNES

Co-Artistic Director

Tom Foskett-Barnes is a composer and sound designer working predominantly in film, theatre and sound art. Film credits include Academy Award-nominated documentary BLACK SHEEP and BAFTA-nominated short TONI_WITH_AN_I. Theatre credits include SAP (UK Tour/Roundabout), BOY PARTS (Soho Theatre), ANNA BELLA EEMA (Arcola Theatre) and BULLRING TEHCNO MAKEOUT JAMZ (Royal Court). Tom has worked at theatres including The Globe and The Old Vic.

In 2016 Tom was Sound and Music Composer in Residence with ROLI as part of the Embedded_Innovate Scheme and in 2017 Tom was selected as part of the Old Vic 12. Tom trained at the Royal College of Music as a Soirée d'Or Scholar generously supported by a Clifton Parker Award 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

• Matthew Downie MBE (Interim Chair)

• Costa Ellinas (Treasurer)

• Anu Kalia (Secretary)

•Ellie Keel

• Sophia Louw

• Josh Willacy

• Miranda Wolpert MBE