Anna Berentzen
Manchester
Anna is a director and theatre maker from Manchester. She studied at LIPA as an actor before moving into directing, training on the Young Creative course at the Royal Exchange. She is obsessed with the outdoors.
In 2020 Anna co-founded Hawkseed Theatre Ltd with Hannah Donelon. Their aims are to support, develop, and celebrate new writing for theatre that raised the voices of those often under or misrepresented in theatre.
Callum Berridge
Worksop/Sheffield
Callum is a director, theatre-maker and dramaturg with a special interest in new writing which explores contemporary working-class identity/ies, social mobility and social justice, particularly in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, reflective of his own experience growing up. Underpinning his work is a desire to be overtly political, formally experimental, and a collaborative, co-authored approach to making theatre. He has previously worked with Not Too Tame Theatre Company and Derby Theatre, and extensively with Sheffield Theatres, and is currently one of its Bank Cohort 2022/23 supported directors.
Emily Ling Williams
Sussex
Theatre as a director includes:
The Full Works, The Key Workers Cycle (Almeida Theatre), text me when you’re home, 5 Plays (Young Vic); Swallow; 16 (Lemon House Theatre); Lucky Cigarette (New Earth Theatre); GYSB; Tuesday at the Library; A Perpetual State of Happiness; Good Trouble (Moongate Productions); Appropriate (RWCMD); Miss Julie (LAMDA); Preach (Rose Bruford); Turbines (Paines Plough/ RWCMD/GateTheatre). As Dramaturg: Endurance (HOME Manchester), Before You Go (New Earth Theatre).
Mandeep Kaur Glover
Leicester
Mandeep is a British South Asian Director, and her work is centred around telling stories from under-represented groups and is dedicated to reaching audiences who have been traditionally excluded from the arts and what it means to live in Contemporary Britain.
Sam Hardie
Edinburgh
Sam is a theatre maker and director from Fife whose work centres around play and community. She co runs award winning theatre company The PappyShow and has worked on shows including BOYS, GIRLS, CARE and What Do You See? as well as running workshops and programmes for the company around the UK.