Co-Leadership at Boundless - Boundless Theatre

2023 Co-Leaders

Jordi M. Carter Co-Artistic Director & CEO

Jordi M. Carter is a Caribbean-British performer, creative director, artist-educator and producer from South London, with a passion for Afrocentricity, racial & social justice, and radical Black cultural expression across theatre, film and performance.

A former Young Vic Young Associate (Taking Part & Creators Program, 2021- 2022) and Theatre Peckham Young Producers alumnus (Spring 2022), Jordi has trained extensively in the work of creative/community producing and artistic output/development. Through contributing to the design and delivery of theatre projects and productions for and with local community members, young adults, emerging artists and professional creatives, Jordi has developed a passion for creative community development and social engagement, underpinned by cultural consciousness. Jordi is also an alumnus of the University of Sussex, graduating in 2021 with a First Class Honours Drama & Film Studies BA (Hons) degree, and is currently a member of the Young Vic’s 2022 Fresh Direction (professional development) programme for emerging creatives.

As an educator, Jordi has worked with drama schools and educational organisations including ICTheatre Brighton and Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, specialising in Afrocentric and holistic approaches to theatre-making and performance. He recently devised and directed the Black Performance Lab in collaboration with ICTheatre Brighton, exploring structures of performance, actor training, and theatre arts education practices that spotlight the history and contributions of the Black presence in the arts.

Credits include: Assistant Director, WE NEED NEW NAMES (UK Tour by New Perspectives and Fifth Word in association with Brixton House), April – June 2023 | Associate Producer, SATURN RETURNS (by Gateway Arts Productions, Nominated for Best Dance Production at the 2022 Black British Theatre Awards), Southbank Centre, Sep 2022 & Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Oct 2022 | Assistant Producer, TP25: OF THE CUT, Young Vic, Jul-Aug 2022 | Young Producer, DEAR BLK LDN, Theatre Peckham, Apr 2022 | Co- Producer, YV: MAKERS’ MOTIVE, Young Vic, Mar 2022 | Assistant Producer, FIVE PLAYS, Young Vic, Dec 2021 | Assistant Producer, YV UNPACKED: LOVE REIGN, Young Vic, Oct 2021.

Lamesha Ruddock Co-Executive Director

Lamesha is a producer, stage manager and historian. Through her production company, Blemme Fatale Productions, Lamesha produces theatre and events that aims to promote active engagement with Black British History and to enable people with skills to respond creatively. She follow the motto of each one, teach one as she feel a responsibility to spread what she know in the hopes of healing the effects of colonialism on knowing one’s history, culture and language.

Lamesha has produced at Battersea Arts Centre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Lamesha’s stage management credits include Breeding (King’s Head), Baghdaddy (Royal Court), Hamilton (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (Yard).

2024 Co-Leader

Beth Drury Associate Programme Director

Beth (they/them) is a queer, working class director and theatre maker from South London. They first engaged with Boundless as a Drama Club member in 2022, meeting with members of the team to discuss various pieces of young adult fiction and if, or how, they could be adapted into performance. Now, they have joined Boundless as Associate Programme Director as part of their Co-Lead project.

As a director, they make work that is loudly connected to our socio-political realities and queers artistic norms and structures. They are interested in building slow, sustainable creative practices that focus on how access and shared community responsibility can help us all make and engage with art in a connected, sincere and felt way.