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.

Daniel MacAlistair Gott

Graduate of BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship at Rose Bruford College, and MFA in Voice Studies at RCSSD in London. Career highlights as a performer include work at The Queens, Polka, and Rose theatres in London as an actor; a record deal with Decca Records with The Punchbowl Band including subsequent work on the Soundtrack for Sherlock Holmes (2009) under direction of Hans Zimmer; and a whole host of international concerts for celebrity and VIP clients as a singer and accordionist playing traditional Irish Music.

As an acting and vocal coach he has taught at a plethora of drama schools and universities internationally, and currently has been an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the UAE since 2021.

His work has also extended into experimental theatre at the Grotowski Institute in Poland, and he has applied this extensively in service of his work at The Freedom Theatre in Palestine

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