David Cecil in a court cell in Kampala. Photograph: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images
We call on the government of Uganda to stop the prosecution of David Cecil and to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
We write to express our concern over the prosecution of British theatre producer David Cecil by the Ugandan Media Council for producing the play ‘The River and the Mountain’. The play, which was staged in the Ugandan capital Kampala, chronicles the killing of a gay businessman by his staff. It has been highly praised for the tragicomic way it attempts to tackle widespread homophobia in Uganda where leading politicians wish to introduce the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and gay rights activists such as David Kato have been murdered or beaten with impunity. In this climate, free speech is severely restricted. Uganda’s National Theatre rejected the play and the Media Council instructed Cecil not to stage it until state censors had gone through it. Bravely, he went ahead. He now faces 2 years if convicted for ignoring their orders. We call on the government of Uganda to stop the prosecution of David Cecil and to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
Yours,
David Lan, Artistic Director, Young Vic
Mike Harris, Head of Advocacy, Index on Censorship
Mary Ann DeVlieg, Secretary General, IETM
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, former Chair of the British Council, Member of the House of Lords UK and leading Human Rights lawyer
Rachel Tackley, Director of English Touring Theatre and President of the Theatrical Management Association
Sir Richard Eyre
Stephen Fry
Vanessa Redgrave
Mark Rubinstein, Theatre Producer and President of the Society of London Theatre
Rt Hon James Purnell, former Secretary of State for Culture
Peter Brook
Hanif Kureishi
Michael Sheen OBE
Sandi Toksvig
Jane Horrocks
Tom Stoppard
Patrick Marber
Nick Starr, National Theatre
Nicholas Allot, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd
Simon Callow
Bill Paterson
David Edgar, President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Rt Hon Simon Hughes MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons
Dame Harriet Walter
Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern
Malcolm Sinclair, President, Equity
Thelma Holt
Dominic Cooke, Artistic Director, RoyalCourtTheatre
Janet Suzman DBE
Jan Goossens, Artistic Director, KVS – Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brussels
Mike Leigh, Dramatist & Film Director
Michael Boyd, former Artistic Director RSC
Juliet Stevenson
Joan Beveridge, Chair, Equity’s LGBT Committee
Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, NY
Judith Knight MBE, Director Artsadmin
David Whelton, Managing Director Philharmonia Orchestra
Declan Donnellan, Cheek By Jowl
Nick Ormerod, Cheek By Jowl
Ahmed El Attar, Studio Emad Eddin Foundation – Cairo – Egypt
Jessica Hepburn, Executive Director, Lyric Hammersmith
Vicky Ireland MBE, Vice Chair, Action for Children’s Arts, Vice Chair England, Theatre for Young Audiences UK, Co Artistic Director, A Thousand Cranes Theatre
Jenny Topper OBE, SquareDeal Productions Ltd
David Micklem, Joint Artistic Director, Battersea Arts Centre
David Jubb, Joint Artistic Director & Chief Exec, Battersea Arts Centre
Dominic Hill, Artistic Director, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
David Farr, Associate Director, RSC
Nelson Fernandez OBE, Director, NFA International Arts and Culture
Michael Pennington
Paul Heritage, Director, People’s Palace Projects
Yvette Vaughan Jones, Chief Executive, Visiting Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts
Melly Still, Theatre Director
Farooq Chaudhry, Producer, Akram Khan Company
Patrick McKenna, Chief Executive, Ingenious Media
David Harrower, Playwright
Dario Marianelli
Sir Norman Rosenthal
Pawel Potoroczyn, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Tanika Gupta, Playwright
Richard Jones
Patrice Chéreau
Henry Goodman
Hamish Glen, Artistic Director, The Belgrade Theatre.
Carrie Cracknell, Associate Director, YoungVicTheatre
Jeton Neziraj, Executive Director, Qendra Multimedia, Kosovo, Former Artistic Director of the National Theater of Kosovo
Josie Rourke, Artistic Director, Donmar Warehouse
Zoë Wanamaker
Gawn Grainger
Graham Devlin CBE
Madani Younis, Artistic Director, Bush Theatre
Professor Gavin Henderson CBE, Principal, CentralSchool of Speech & Drama
Polly Teale, Artistic Director of Shared Experience Theatre
Michael Stewart, Director, Open City Docs Festival
Joseph V Melillo, BrooklynAcademy of Music
Lucy Prebble
Anthony Sargent, General Director, The Sage Gateshead and Chair Elect, International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)
Anthony Burton CBE, Partner at Simons Muirhead and Burton, Solicitors, London and Chair of RoyalCourtTheatre, London
Rufus Norris, Associate Director, National Theatre
April De Angelis
Lindsey Coulson
Charlotte Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Independent Theatre Council (ITC)
David Almond, Author, playwright, Professor of Creative Writing, BathSpaUniversity
Neil Bartlett
Christine Payne, General Secretary, Equity
Martin Sherman
Nigel Cooke
Gordon House, Former Head of BBC Radio Drama
Wouter Van Ransbeek, Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Kate Pakenham, Executive Producer, Donmar Warehouse
Maxyne Franklin, Director, BRITDOC Foundation
Dennis Kelly
Jonathan Dove, Composer
Natalia Kaliada, Belarus Free Theatre
Nikolai Khalezin, Playwright
Michael Codron CBE, Michael Codron Plays Limited
Orla O’Loughlin, Artistic Director, Traverse Theatre
Richard Johnston, Chief Executive, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
David Pugh, Independent Theatre Producer
Dafydd Rogers, Independent Theatre Producer
Ruth Mackenzie
Lindsay Duncan
Nina Hajiyianni, Chair TYA UK/Artistic Director Action Transport Theatre
Professor Michael Adler
Professor Paul Hamilton, Head of Department of English, Queen Mary University of London
Allegra Galvin, Programme Director, Parabola Arts Centre
Rachael Gilmour, Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Nadia Valman, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature School of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London
Fleur Melbourn, Freelance designer and artist
Guy Snapper, National Association for the Teaching of English
Professor Isabel Rivers, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Jen Harvie, Drama Department, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
Antonio Molina-Vázquez, Director, Spain NOW!
Alex Lanipekun, Actor
Emily Fletcher
John Van Burek, Artistic Director, Pleiades Theatre, Toronto
Ruth Daniel, Director, Un-Convention
Chris Kelham, Actor
Bill Winters, RenshawBay
Bjarni Jónsson, playwright/producer LÓKAL International Theatre Festival Reykjavík
Jodi Myers
Dan Boyden, Programme Manager, ACT Change!
Jonathan Lloyd, Artistic Director, Polka Children’s Theatre
Lisa Goldman, Theatre Director and writer
Stephen Unwin, Artistic Director, RoseTheatre, Kingston
Jacqui Honess-Martin, Artistic Director, InSite Performance
Jiaxuan Hon
Professor James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester
Jonathan Reekie, Chief Executive, Aldeburgh Music
Joseph W Alford, Artistic Director, Theatre O
Dr Nadia Davids, Lecturer in Drama, Department of Drama, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
Sean Foley
Dr Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London
Sylvan Baker, People’s Palace Projects
Hannah Quigley
Mervyn Millar, Artistic Director, Handspring Puppet Company UK
Ela Monaco, Head of Production, Wiener Festwochen GmbH
Diane Borger, Producer, American Repertory Theater
Noa Maxwell, Director, Noa Maxwell Associates Ltd
William Oldroyd
Nick Palliser, Noa Maxwell Associates
Alexi Kaye Cambell, Playwright
Nikola Kodjabashia, Composer, Theatre Musical Director, Performer
Cllr James Barber, Liberal Democrat councillor for East Dulwich
Alison Tickell, Chief Executive, Julie’s Bicycle
Cllr David Noakes, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Cathedrals Ward, Opposition Spokesperson for Health and Adult Care, Vice-Chair of Health and Adult Care, Communities and Citizenship Scrutiny Committee, Vice-Chair of Borough & Bankside and Walworth Community Council
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Jean Nicholson, General Manager, Birmingham Opera Company
Karen McHugh
Sue Parish, Artistic Director, Sphinx Theatre Company
Thomas O Kriegsmann, President, ArKtype, Brooklyn, NY
Chuck Mike, Collective Artistes
Petia Tzanova, Cardboard Citizens
Antonia Reed-Felstead, Actor
Becky Martin, Producer Lyric Young Company, Lyric Hammersmith
Dan Jones, Joint Artistic Director, Sound&Fury Theatre Company
Adrian Jackson, CEO and Artistic Director, Cardboard Citizens
Ramin Gray, Artistic Director, Actors Touring Company
Kat Joyce, Co-Artistic Director, Tangled Feet
Nathan Curry, Co-Artistic Director, Tangled Feet
Anna Lane, Lane Consulting
Stephen Crampton-Hayward, Managing Director, Whitechapel Gallery
Kevin Fitzmaurice, Producer, RSC
Bailey Lock, Producer, Lyric Hammersmith
Tim Foster, Partner, Foster Wilson Architects
Nicola Thorold, World Stages London
Adam Low
Dominique Le Gendre, Composer
Maggie Lunn, Maggie Lunn Casting Ltd CDG
James Bierman, Executive Producer, Michael Grandage Company
Rosie Hunter, Executive Director, People’s Palace Projects, Co-Chair, Independent Theatre Council.
Femi Elufowoju, jr, Actor & Theatre Director
Jenny Stoller
Paul Mayersberg
Patrick Handley, Partner, Brunswick Group LLP
Matt Peover, LAMDA
Fiona Baxter, Associate Director, Farnham Maltings
Benedict Andrews
Henry Little, Chief Executive, Orchestras Live
Paul Arditti, Paul Arditti Sound Design Ltd
Alan Rivett, Director, Warwick Arts Centre
Dr Martin Smith, Formerly chair, Young Vic Theatre Company, Special Adviser, Ingenious
Che Walker
Kirsty Hoyle, Unicorn Theatre, Society of London Theatre
Christopher Rodriguez, Executive Producer, Talawa
Talawa Theatre Company
Warwick Arts Centre
Stage Management Association
Tara Wilkinson, Producer, Paines Plough
David Buckland, Director, Cape Farewell, The ScienceMuseum’s Dana Centre
Steve Tompkins, Haworth Tompkins architects
Hamish Jenkinson, Director, Old Vic Tunnels
Amber Massie-Blomfield, Borkowski.do
James Farncombe
Joanna Kennedy, Chair, Unicorn Theatre
Chris Elwell, Director/CEO, Half Moon
Dusty Hughes, Playwright
Mara Isaacs, Producing Director, McCarterTheatreCenter, Princeton, New Jersey
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Matt Burman, Head of Programme & Audiences, Warwick Arts Centre
Ellie Raymont, Streetwise Opera
Richard Hudson
Elaine Romero, Playwright
Ben Eaton, Invisible Flock
Victoria Pratt, Invisible Flock
Richard Warburton, Invisible Flock
Gwen Van Spijk, Executive Director of Lone Twin
Nicky Gathorne-Hardy
Kyle Soller
Jude Akuwudike
Andrew Comben, Chief Executive, Brighton Dome & Festival Ltd
Donna Munday, Director of Theatre Production, Working Title Films/Billy Elliot
Jonathan Chambers, Actor
Walter Bilderback, Dramaturg, The WilmaTheater, Philadelphia, PA
Angela McSherry, Arts Producer/Consultant
Wyllie Longmore
Kate Tyndall, Arts Consultant
Jean-Marc Puissant, Set and Costume Designer, Freelance
Mark Nelson, Actor, Professor of Theater at Princeton University, New Jersey
Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Independent filmmaker
SueSummers, Finestripe Productions
Cecile Quinney
Yael Loewenstein, Independent theatre practitioner
Thomas Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins Associates
Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel
Tilmann Broszat, Festival Director SPIELART Munich, Germany. Organisation: Spielmotor Muenchen e.V.
Susanne Gelles, Referentin des Intendanten, Wiener Festwochen GesmbH
Matthias Pees, Head of Dramaturgy, Wiener Festwochen
Judy Daish, Judy Daish Associates Ltd
Kate Fahy, Actor and Director
Estelle Longmore, Intergen CIC
William Ayot, Director, NaCOT (National Centre for the Oral Tradition)
Joe Bettles, New York Actor
Andrew Wood, Executive Director, San Francisco International Arts Festival
Lesa Dryburgh, Director, Stop The Pigeon
Jane Mason
Griselda Yorke, Executive Producer, Punchdrunk
Caroline Forsyth, Unicorn Theatre
Josie Dixon, Lucian Consulting
Rowan Rutter, Co-Producer, The Yard
Joseph W Hocking, AKA Ltd, London
Jonathan Meth, Curator, the fence
Adam Coleman, Head of Young People’s Strategy, Lyric Hammersmith
Phil Bateman
Lizzi Gee
Jibbe Willems, Playwright (The Netherlands)
Mark Thomson, Artistic Director, Royal Lyceum Theatre
Peter Eyre
Fred Fortas, Member of Fence
Beki Bateson, Executive Director, LIFT
Matthew Byam Shaw,Playful Productions
Róise Goan, Director, Dublin Fringe Festival, Ireland
Mark MacNicol, Playwright
Pawel Pawlikowski, Freelance Film Maker
Andras Gerevich, Freelance Poet and Playwright, Hungary
Steve Mannix, Freelance
Jamie Gahlon, Center for the TheaterCommons, EmersonCollege, BostonMA
Mattew Schmolle
Peter Rowe, Artistic Director, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Joey Hateley, TransAction Theatre
Toby Clarke, Head of Performing Arts, Oval House
Sian Alexander, Executive Director, Bush Theatre
Annie Hemingway
Stephen Spence, ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY, Equity
Carrie Thomas, Clean Break
Jill Green, Jill Green Casting, Co-ordinator for Women’s Human Rights, Mayfair and Soho Amnesty Group, Trustee for IceandFire/Actors for Human Rights
Sam Hodges, Criterion Theatre
Bethan Dear, Jackdaw
Rick Fisher, Lighting Designer
Peter-Frank Dewulf
Felicity Davidson, Tamasha Theatre Company
Roxanne Peak-Payne, The OldVicTheatre
Kaijah McMahon, Central School of Speech and Drama
Linda Jane Devlin
Jim Johnson, Artistic Director and CEO, Peshkar Productions
Gabriel Rodriguez
Amy Letman, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Mimi Jordan Sherin, Theatrical Lighting Designer
Zoe Farmer, CaliforniaCollege of Art
Philippa Wilkinson, HighTide Festival Theatre
Peter Arnot, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
Stef Smith, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
David Leddy, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
Kieran Hurkey, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
Alan MacKendrick, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
Lewis Heatherington, Council member Scottish Society of Playwrights
Anamaria Marinca, Actress
Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director, The WilmaTheater, Philadelphia, PA
Alexandra Wood
Steven Atkinson, Artistic Director, HighTide Festival Theatre
Ric Watts, Unlimited Theatre
Titania Krimpas, Writer/Director/Dramaturg
Mark Yeoman, Artistic Director, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, NL
Jennifer Burraston, Actress
Steve Ball, Associate Director, Birmingham REP Theatre, UK
Emilie Beck, Co-Literary Manager, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Zoe Hurwitz, RoyalCourtTheatre
Nick Borsack
Carl Miller
Stefanos Constantinou, Managing Director, 5C Digital Limited
Francesca Clark Producer, HighTide Festival Theatre
Ian Nicholson, Director
J.Stephen Brantley, Artistic Director, Hard Sparks
Adrian Stokes, Theatre Director/Actor
Jenifer Landor
Andy Hayles, Charcoalblue LLP
DC Jackson
Tim Thomson
Harry Burton
Marco Gambino, WOH Productions Ltd
Shelagh McLeod
Undule Mwakasungula, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) Malawi
Leonie Kubigsteltig, Schauspiel, Frankfurt
Andrea Mason
David Calder, Former Board Member, YoungVicTheatre
Gary Everett, Artistic Director, Homotopia Liverpool UK
Natatlie Richardson, Freelance Producer, Living Structures, The Awake Project and Trestle
Maia DeSanti, Actress
Kaite O’Reilly
Geoffrey Smith, Film Director
Pat Trueman, Theatre Director
Thomas Ostermeier, Schaubuehne, Berlin
Leo Wood, Independent Productions
Patrick Morgan
Nimer Rashed, Playwright/Filmmaker
David Sawer
Lu Kemp, Freelance Director
Zayd Dohrn, Northwestern University
Tarlan Rasulov, General Manager of YUG Theatre (Azerbaijan)
Nina Lyndon, Freelance Theatre Producer
Francesca Simon
Jamie Wood, The FreQuency D’Ici
Betty Simpson
Raj Bhari, Director,Talk for a Change
Adam Ganz
Ann Mitchell
Dan Rebellato, Professor of Theatre, RoyalHollowayUniversity of London
Cora Bissett
Pippa Bailey, Freelance Producer/Director
Ian MacNeil
John Fulljames, Royal Opera House
Anna Mackmin, Freelance theatre director.
Tim Etchells, Artistic Director, Forced Entertainment
Maria Vigar
Barrie Keeffe
Anne K.Holmes, Education Director, The WilmaTheater, Philadelphia, PA
Jo Harry
Sean Buckley
Sue Lefton
Viktor Svaikovskij, World Wide Workshop, Royal Exchange Theatre
Stewart Laing, Artistic Director, Untitled Projects
Blandine Pélissier
Jim Pope, Co-Artistic Director, Playing On
Ags Irwin, freelance producer/fundraiser
Lucy Kirkwood, freelance writer
Nathanial Martello-White, Writer/actor Young Vic
Rebecca Gilman, Associate Professor, Northwestern University Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union
Rich Rubin , Producing Artistic Director, Quince Productions
Joe Ahearne
Jack Thorne
Indra Ove, Actress
Maria Delgado, Queen Mary, University of London & Chair ATC
Catherine Silverstone
Mania Akbari
Leonie Mellinger, Actor
Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director, Yellow Earth
Matthew Dunster, Associate Artist Young Vic
Rose Fenton, Director, Free Word
Maria Oshodi, Extant
Christopher Borg, The New York Neo-Futurists
Jack Lowe, Artistic Director, curious directive
Zawe Ashton, Actress
Eileen Vilka, For Those in Need
Alexander Zeldin, Theatre Director
Krupa Pattani
Michael Smythe, NOMAD and Old Vic Tunnels
Peter Kosminsky, Writer/Director, Stonehenge Films
Hugo Plowden
Clara Giraud, Independent Producer
Lydia Stryk
Michael England, Freelance Music Director
Claire Rosser
Steven Cheshire
Alison Halit, Performing Arts Producer and Consultant
Tim Hatley
Alicia Clements, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Western Australia.
Sam Boardman-Jacobs, A.D. Found Reality Theatre, Cardiff
Toby Brown, M.D. Found Reality Theatre, Cardiff
Dick Bird, Freelance Stage Designer
Clare Birks, Birks Holden
Heather Redfern, Executive Director, The Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Vivienne Griffin
Ally Capellino
David Fletcher, Chair of the Executive Board of the Young Vic
Elaine Henson, freelance musician and teacher, member of The Musician’s Union.
Valerie Bird, Havant Literary Festival
Thomas Frank, Artistic directior and general manager,Koproduktionshaus Wien GmbH
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Martin Travers, Scottish Society of Playwrights
Han Duijvendak, Producer/Director HANDSTAND Productions Liverpool
Sue Cockerill
Paula Jenkinson
Brian Bishop, Education Director, Warwick Arts Centre
Henriette Baker, Theatre of Europe
Claire Summers, Exim Dance Company
Christopher Slagmuylder, Director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
Anna Ledgard, Independent Theatre Producer and Educationalist
Sue Williams, Executive Director, Unity Theatre Liverpool
Claudia Jazz Haley, Freelance Creative Practitioner
Rachel Salmon
Helen Cooper, Writer/Librettist
Jennifer Kharibian
Danny Braverman, Theatre Director and Writer
Christof Belka, Dresden State Theatre (Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
Katie Bradford, Head of Integrated Production, Fallon
Oliver Scott, Director, Mercurial Dance Ltd
Jeni Draper, The Fingersmiths Ltd
Niels Ewerbeck, Artistic and Managing Director, Mousonturm
Richard Oyarzabal, Executive Director, Spare Tyre
Miriam Buether, Theatre Designer working for Miriam Buether Limited
Susie McKenna, Creative Director, Hackney Empire
Rachel Mars, Performance Artist and Producer
Ruby Diamond, Equalities Committee, Equity UK
Jon Refsdal Moe, Artistic and General Director, Black Box Teater, Oslo
Liz Kessler
Tiffany Powell, Producer, Lyric Hammersmith
Ben Ellis, Playwright
Vicki Grace
Ralph Brown
Jenny Jules
Nick Wass, Artistic Associate (Literary), Tricycle
Phil Osment, Playwright/Director
Sarah Barnfield, Price Gardner Management Ltd.
Sally Preston, actress
Jessica Higgs, Freelance Theatre Voice Coach
Bella Williams, Tricycle Theatre
Simon Heawood
Oliver Meers, Artistic Director, Northern Ireland Opera
Bush Hartshorn, Artistic Director, Dansehallerne
Kosha Engler, Actress
Jo Cowen, Equity Member
Vanessa Lee, Freelance voice actress/writer/producer
Christopher Middleton, Equity Member
Robert Fox
Kate Williams, Actor
Reeda Harris, Actor
Emma Garrett, Actress
Holly Conneely, Tricycle Theatre
James Foran, Tricycle Theatre
Bill Nash
Sean Egan, Bates Wells & Braithwaite
Trevor White
Richard Truss
Michelle Lawrence, Director, Link Up (UK)
Abigail Thaw
Elizabeth Freestone, Artistic Director, Pentabus Theatre
Emma Faulkner, Freelance Theatre Director
Federay Holmes, Literary Associate, The Factory
Simon Heap, Director, Made100 Limited
Paul Baldwin
Katherine Fry
Caryne Chapman Clark, Freelance Theatre and Development Practitioner
Alex Hassell, The Factory
James Yarker, Artistic Director, Stan’s Cafe
Vanessa Baptista
Keith Osborn, Actor
Jan Needle
Natalie Macaluso, Assistant Producer, Criterion Theatre
Natasha Stevenson, NSM Ltd
Jennifer Withers, NSM Ltd
Michael Fry, East 15 ActingSchool
Adam Venus, Actor
Dean Paul Gibson
Miranda Bell, Mercury Theatre
Gareth Kieran Jones, Actor
Per Ananiassen, Artistic Director, Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Norway
Geraldine Alexander
Simon Dowe, Interim Chief Executive, The Sussex Beacon
Amy Hodge
Poppy Keeling, Complicite
Charlotte Asprey
Jo Trainor, StageWon
CJ de Mooi, BBC
Sean Lapham
Stephen Daly, Lyric Hammersmith
Penny Dyer
Adam Brooke, Actor
Matthew Xia, Freelance Director / Journalist / Composer
Miranda Cook, Equity member and Equity LGBT Committee member
Pete Lawson, Playwright and TV writer
Kate Flatt, Choreographer and teacher RoyalBalletSchool
Joe Bateson, Morton Bates Arts Services
Stuart Goldsmith, Stand-Up Comedian
Cory Hippolyte
Gemma Lloyd, Act Up
Georgia Lester
Debra Hauer
Martina Geßner, Hebbel-TheaterBerlin
Anoushka Lucas, Singer and Composer
Stephanie Courtney, Founder, Fortune’s Fool Productions, Dublin, Ireland
Susan Dickinson
Gavin Barlow, Chief Executive/Artistic Director, The Albany
Belinda Clisham, Scenic Artist
Eleanor Howell, Actress
John May, John May Management
Tim Baynes
Sophie Austin, Artistic Director, Teatro Vivo
Judy Ryde, Director of The Trauma Foundation South West, Bristol
Katarzyna Maicher, Song of the Goat Theatre, Poland
Tayo Aluko, Nigerian-born Actor, Writer, Singer
Nicole Abraham
Richard Pryal, Actor, Young Vic
Becky Weymouth, Dewynters Ltd
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Neale Pirie
Angus Jackson, Associate Director, Chichester Festival Theatre
James Turnbull
Darren John Langford, Artistic Director Men in Dressing Gowns Ltd
Bundle Weston
Tony Weston
Kat Lorenz
Charlotte Moore
Laura Thomson
Phillip Breen, Theatre Director, RSC
Simon Shimell, Dewynters Ltd
Prue Skene, Chair, Free Word
David Evans, Head of Production, National Theatre Wales
Zoe Waites, Actor
Pandora Colin, Actor
Sarah Jane Leigh, Freelance Theatre Producer
Chris Nayak, Actor
Ranulf Kinloch-Jones, Price Gardener
Candice Edmunds, Artistic Director, Vox Motus
Michael Ratcliffe
Howard Lichterman
Celia Robertson, Actor
Mary Elliot Nelson, Nelson Browne Management Ltd
Beatrix Campbell, Writer and Broadcaster
Anna Poole
Jonty Stephens, Actor
Sarah Hall, Managing Director, Dewynters Ltd
Clare Summerskill, Artemis Theatre Company
Simon Muller, Factory Theatre
Neil Bull, Freelance Theatre Director
Penny Cherns
Simon Lacey, Company Manager, New Adventures
Nadja Dias, Freelance Producer / Candoco Dance Company
Dr Hank Willenbrink, Assistant Professor / University of Scranton, Department of English and Theatre
Samantha Lawson
Philip Goulding, Playwright
Topher Campbell, Artistic Director, The Red Room
Matt Fishel, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Christian Hodell, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Michael Symons, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Louise Donald, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
India Sinclair, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Christopher Farrar, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Alexander Cooke, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Madeleine Charman, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Adam Hogan, Hamilton Hodell Ltd
Gordon Cummings, Clavering Players
Imogen Slaughter
Paul Oswell, Freelance journalist
Gareth Evans, Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery
Mark Babych, Theatre and Film Director
Katie Langridge Knight Hall Agency
James Seabright, Producer, Seabright Productions
Louise Chantal, Producer, Louise Chantal Productions
Janet Steel, Artistic Director, Kali Theatre Company
Lisa, Andronova, INGENIOUS INVESTMENTS
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Laia Gasch, Independent Creative Producer
Jennie Walden Cook
Clemmie Sveaas, Freelance Performer
Adam Barnard, Joint Director, Company of Angels
Daryl Beeton, Artistic Director, Kazzum
Asma Hussain, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Lidia Ziemke, Director + Dramaturg, Schaubuehne Berlin
Gareth Nicholls, Imaginate Artist in residence
Kerry Shale, Actor
Sasha Pick, Actor
Olivette, Cole-Wilson, Equity
Kirsty Doubleday, Dewynters Ltd
Conall Quinn, Three Streets Theatre Company
Virginia Leaver, Producer, Company of Angels
Christine Bacon, Artistic Director of ice&fire theatre
Gina Isaac, Mercury Theatre Company
Kezia Burrows, Actress
Tobias Christopher
Robin Thompson, Double R Design Ltd
Sara Langridge, Actress
Vanessa Fagan, Producer
Polly Highton
Paris Thomas-Robinson, WorkPost
Ali Pottinger
Jessica Temple
Graham Waites, ExeterUniversityGraduateSchool of Education
Robert Price, Senior Voice Tutor, RADA
Gill Lloyd, Director, Artsadmin
Lynn Linsdale, The Trauma Foundation South West
Julie Wilkinson, Playwright, member of the Writer’s Guild and a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity
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