Committee

Kirin Hilliar

Theatre allows us to explore others’ lives, culture, relationships, history, fears, traumas, desires and more. It’s intoxicating. Generating a complete production from nothing, and working with fantastic people, is really satisfying.

Catherine Broad

I still remember the night I saw The Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre, London. Though I was already a lover of performing, this production showed me how powerful theatre can be. Working with a creative team to engage and challenge an audience is an absolute thrill.

James Mitchinson

John Thekanady

Hani Yakan

Theatre is, by its nature, a fleeting moment in time. It has the power to elicit all kind of emotions and sensations in us mortal beings. It can lift us up or drop us deep into a bottomless pit. That’s how I felt as a young boy in Aleppo, Syria a long time ago when I saw the visiting New Shakespeare company perform “The Taming of the Shrew”. It was my first theatre experience. I was hooked back then and still am, always striving to feel some of those emotions in every play or performance I see or take part in.

Aileen Kelly