Advisory Group

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Cherry is a London-based writer, director, performer, and spoken-word poet. Her work often explores identity, family, and universal anxieties. She is interested in creating work that is relevant, empowering, electric, and blurs boundaries between disciplines.

Web: https://cherryeckel.weebly.com/

Instagram: cherrytheeckel

Twitter: cherrytheeckel

Emilia Hargreaves Advisory Group

Emilia has been a part of the Boundless Advisory Group for a while now, and since completing the Certificate of Higher Education at East 15 Acting School in 2018, she has spent the majority of her time creating. Now training at MN Academy, Emilia spent her time in lockdown writing and developing stories and spoken word pieces, as well as composing music. Prior to lockdown, Emilia worked as a Drama Teacher at multiple local drama schools across Ealing, including Questors Youth Theatre and Yourstage Drama.

Emilia is also currently constructing her own series of short devised pieces, which incorporate her musical compositions with pieces of spoken word and physical theatre.

Instagram: emilia.hargreaves

Twitter: emiliaharg

Julia Pilkington Advisory Group

Julia is an actor and theatre-maker based in London. She recently graduated from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master’s in acting, where she was a recipient of the Embassy Scholarship. She is a keen actor-deviser and co-created with Poltergeist Theatre the sell-out show Lights Over Tesco Carpark (Pleasance, New Diorama). She recently enjoyed playing a chorus part in season two of Boundless Theatre’s audio-drama, Radio Elusia.

Twitter: JuliaPilkington

Sadhana Narayanan Radio Elusia Season 2 Writer

Sadhana is a member of the New Vic Youth theatre, working on projects such as the 2019 National Youth Theatre Connections show ‘The Sad Club’ and Heritage Lottery funded Dorothy Clive project. She’s also a contributor on the Voice magazine, an online platform for young people interested in art, culture and politics.

Pronouns: she/her

www.voicemag.uk/users-portfolio/sadhana-n

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Liam Stone Advisory Group

Liam is an energetic, passionate and determined creative artist from Birmingham. Liam has trained at Birmingham Ormiston Academy and Peer Productions and is looking now to develop as an actor, specialising in contemporary theatre. He joined the Advisory Group with the hope that his opinions will help shape the most important of topics for theatre.

Instagram: liamstone__

Tolu Fagbayi Advisory Group

Tolu Fagbayi is an artist, writer and musician. She has BA Acting degree and is also in the process of writing her first play which explores the identity and intersectional feminism.

Tolu is an energetic, passionate and professional artist and person who strongly believes equality in all areas especially within the arts.

Instagram: toluafagbayi

Betty Williams Advisory Group

Betty is a London based Northern facilitator and theatre-maker.

Growing up in a multicultural working-class household and being queer, theatre provided space for creativity they did not otherwise have, and they now work with a particular passion for the community of theatre and curate their Creative Practice challenging ways of creative engagement. Having been a secondary carer for their dad, and as a disabled and neuro-divergent person, they aim to create access inclusivity in their practice.

Before working in the Arts, they worked in Sales as an Executive Team Trainer and worked in TV and Education for ITV’s Emmerdale Studios. Betty began their creative career in the Arts through the National Youth Theatre, first as an actor through NYT’s 2018 intake course, then later shifting focus into Facilitation. Having discovered a love of theatre, they enrolled at East 15 Acting school, where they discovered their passion for facilitation and Applied Theatre. After achieving their Certificate of Higher Education, they began their BA degree at The Royal Central School of Speech, studying Drama, Applied Theatre and Education.

Whilst at Uni, Betty has continued work with NYT, as a Course Assistant, Course manager and now as an Emerging Artist. They also work as a Creative Practitioner, leading two programmes at WAC Arts (Spark & Ignite), and as Workshop Leader at ATG Learning. Betty is also an emerging Director, having directed at Arts Ed and Tramshed.

Urussa Malik Advisory Group

I’m a writer and working part-time, front of house, in an art museum, I am based in both Manchester, Lancashire and Halifax, West Yorkshire. I did my bachelors in English Literature from University of Manchester and looking to build on my degree more. I’ve done a few artist development programmes as a playwrighter in Oldham and London and currently helping out on a student film production! My work, whatever form it tries to take, focuses on the self, independence, translation and the abstract!

Bella Cavicchi Advisory Group

Bella Cavicchi (she/her) is a theatre artist, educator, and freelance producer. She is an alumna of Brown University, where she graduated with a B.A. in Literacy and the Performing Arts, and the University of Cambridge, where she graduated with an MPhil in Arts, Creativity, and Education, taking a particular focus at both institutions on the radical possibilities of devising theatre with young people. As a producer, recent credits include MEDEA THE MUSICAL (Paradise Green, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022), ED: THE NEW, TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL, GINGER-INCLUSIVE PARODY SKETCH SHOW (Canal Cafe Theatre, 2022), and the Almeida For Free Festival, produced as a member of Almeida Theatre’s 2022 Young Producers Cohort. When she’s not in the rehearsal room or managing spreadsheets, Bella teaches drama at a secondary school just outside of London—and loves that she spends each day thinking about theatre!

Seyi Osibamowo Advisory Group

Seyi is a creative producer who focuses on the inclusivity and celebration of often marginalised communities such as the LGBTQAI+ community and those who are racially othered. Having grown up rarely seeing herself represented in mainstream arts and media, Seyi seeks to produce arts and culture that centers the queer and/or black experience.

Seyi produces with Raze Collective to support and develop both in-person and digital queer performance. Seyi has experience producing theatre, cabaret & musicals and has worked extensively in stage management & production roles with The Cocoa Butter Club. Seyi currently works as podcast producer, working with the award-winning Transmissions Roundhouse.

Eric Gherman Advisory Group

He is an Actor/Writer/Director/Producer whilst also studying for a Business Management BA. He studied Theatre at the BRIT school; following COVID, he started to work with the Almeida Theatre as a Young Producer and was part of the Orpheus Project with Babel Theatre. He is writing a new play taking a fresh look at masculinity and how it affects men daily.

Dasha Knurenko Advisory Group

Dasha is an international student from Ukraine passionate about creative writing, journalism, social issues and the arts. She enjoys writing for her school’s newspaper and tries to take an active part in the artistic life of her community. She has previously worked on multiple literary and translation projects with an NGO “Foundation of Regional Initiatives” and has been a recipient of the BBK Art Fellowship in Germany. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in cultural institutions and exploring world literatures and languages.

Michaela Tranfield Advisory Group

Michaela is a creative based in London. She is a programme manager at intergenerational charity, InCommon and an associate at 64 Million Artists, a creative social enterprise. Michaela is passionate about how theatre can platform new stories and creatively connect local communities. Her favourite ways of getting creative are through facilitation, writing and going to London’s various theatre productions.

Twitter: @_michaxla

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