Madelaine Moore
Artistic Director
Lou Rogers
Executive Director
Guleraana Mir
Participation & Projects
Director
Madelaine is an award-winning Theatre and Screen Director. Twice shortlisted for the prestigious Sir Peter Hall Director’s Award. she was one of three Directors in the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort, and recipient of an MGCfutures Bursary.
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Madelaine’s work is strongly informed by her interest in disrupting traditional gendered narratives and tackling big ideas through a feminist lens. She enjoys exploring themes of social justice and political issues in surprising and irreverent ways through playfulness with form, and drilling down into common tropes and subverting them. She works in two main areas; professional text-based theatre, and in participatory settings, particularly within the male prison estate.
Her debut short film ‘Twitching’ is currently receiving accolades on the US festival circuit. Her second short, ‘For Good Or Ill, Rain Will Come’ premiered at the Cornwall Film Festival, and her third, 'AwayDay' wrapped in 2025.
Theatre credits include: The Ice At The End Of The World (Ominibus), OUTPATIENT (Park Theatre), Edith (Lowry & Theatr Clwyd), Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Goblin (Old Vic Theatre), Ladykiller (National Tour, Brits Off Broadway), Evelyn (Mercury Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Algorithms (Soho Theatre, Netflix Stage to Screen Winner), Second Person Narrative (Arcola Theatre), The Awakening (Jack Studio), FATTY FAT FAT (Soho Theatre, Origins Award winner).
An alumna of Central School of Speech and Drama’s MA Applied Theatre course, she has worked in a freelance capacity with companies including National Theatre, BBC, Good Chance Theatre, Old Vic New Voices, Shakespeare Schools Festival, Lyric Hammersmith, Tricycle Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, Roundhouse, Synergy Theatre and Unlock Drama. She has been a visiting lecturer at St Mary's University Drama and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and worked extensively in prisons and alternative education units.
Prior to this she completed her acting training at Arts Educational.
Lou is a Producer with over 25 years experience, and a background in performing. She trained at Birmingham Theatre School, The University of Birmingham and ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts). Most recently she was Producer for Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival and Senior Producer Artist Development at South East Dance. Previously, Lou has been producer for Rifco Arts and Creative Producer at Stopgap Dance Company and worked with Unlimited, The British Council and Disability Arts online to create integrated dance work with disabled and non disabled artists along with working on the paralympic flame handover ceremony.
Lou has produced small to large scale touring projects and everything in between. From one woman shows, contemporary dance to new writing; they include such diverse subjects as a bhangra musical, interactive magic show, skateboard and BMX shows, children’s theatre, outdoor festivals, dance films and Paralympic events. She created and curated the iF (Integrated Fringe) Platform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015 - a unique platform showcasing the best disabled artists and integrated companies working in the UK with partners The British Council, Disability Arts Online, Forest Fringe, The Point, Unlimited and Stopgap. Lynn Gardner of the Guardian called it a 'brilliant initiative'.
In rare gaps between shows in Edinburgh Lou met her husband Olly and together they run their own production company Hubble Bubble Productions. Lou is Chair of Project Female and on Thick & Tights’ advisory board.
Guleraana is an award-winning writer & theatre maker. She is passionate about telling authentic stories that celebrate not stereotype, and speak to complex social realities in a fresh and disruptive way. She specialises in developing new work through devising and writing with young people and community groups, and leads writing programmes for artists of all ages at a number of institutions. She has worked on participatory playwriting projects for institutions such as Donmar Warehouse, Almeida Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, and Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester.
Her work for screen includes episodes for BBC's Doctors (series 24), BBC Children’s, and junior writer on Sky Studio's THE RISING (2020). Guleraana was a member of the BBC Writersroom North cohort of 2018/19 and has had writer’s residencies at Soho Theatre & Shakespeare’s Globe. She was a recipient of the Genesis Kickstart Fund in 2021 for her play I Am The Ghost of Qandeel Baloch. She currently has an original TV series in development with afshan d’souza-lodhi.
Professional writing credits include: Santi & Naz (co-writer, Soho Theatre & National Tour), At What Cost?, Take A Chance On Me, The Testing Place for BBC’s DOCTORS (Series 24), All The Small Things (BBC Children’s), MISFITS (co-writer, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), The Bigger Picture (audio, commissioned by Tamasha & SOAS), and Coconut (Ovalhouse & national tour).
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