The Team

Staff

Adèle Reeves de Melo Executive Director & Co-CEO

Adèle joined the Boundless Theatre team in March 2024 as the Executive Director & Co-CEO. Previously, Adèle was the Programmer, Producer & Head of Theatre for VAULT, whose flagship event is the critically-acclaimed VAULT Festival, the UK’s leading independent showcase of live performance and artistic talent.

Adèle is also a freelance producer and script-reader with a background in fringe theatre, live music, mixed-medium festival projects and award coordination. Originally from Scotland, she studied an MA in Theatre & Performance Studies at King’s College London. Following this, Adèle spent 3 years working for the Pleasance Theatre core management team in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Adèle identifies as queer and is inspired by performance that breaks outside the traditional theatre space, and focuses on projects that address narratives of refugeehood, intersectionality, national identity and political commentary.

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.

Laura Evans Head of Communications & Development

Laura joined Boundless in April 2025 as Head of Communications and Development. Laura brings a wealth of experience across 11 years in the sector, primary across marketing, communications and festival producing. Previously, Laura has been Head of Marketing & Comms at Arcola Theatre and VAULT Festival, and Marketing Manager at UK New Artists, Attenborough Arts Centre, Underbelly Festival, The Spark Arts for Children, and for a range of festivals in the East Midlands.

Originally from Cardiff, Laura studied BA Performance & Digital Arts and MA Performance Practices at DeMontfort University, and subsequently co-founded a contemporary performance company, A Bang in the Void, which she ran for four years with long time collaborator, Andrew Davis. Whilst in Leicester, Laura also worked as an Associate Lecturer at DMU, teaching BA & MA students on performance and arts management courses.

Laura loves seeing work that centres queer voices and narratives, and multidisciplinary work that transcends traditional genre and form.

Pavlos Christodoulou Creative Director & Co-CEO

Pav joined Boundless Theatre in 2020 as a one day a week finance administrator. 4 years later he rejoined the company as Creative Director and Co-CEO. Pav has had a squiggly creative career, working as an artist, director and artist-trainer in professional and community settings.

His artistic practice focuses on interactive and game-based encounters between audience members, as well as sound and audio. Alongside his work at Boundless he is currently producing a BBC Radio 4 commission.

Pav as a Cypriot South Londoner cares a lot about community. He is motivated by bringing transparency and connectedness in his work and professional life. He believes in the power of third space, listening and grass roots organising as the basis for meaningful community arts practice.

Rebecca McGreevy Programme Administrator

Becca (she/her) is a producer and director of theatre from Merseyside, with a background in audience strategy and new work development. As Programme Administrator she champions and supports projects and shows across Boundless, from administrative management to community work.

Alongside Boundless she is Director of Teastain Theatre, developing socially driven and experimental new writing. Recent shows include: TAP ROOT (Director, The Glitch, Feb 2025), Thirst (Director, Vault Festival, 2023) and Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play (Producer, Omnibus Theatre, 2022).

Becca also reads for Theatre 503 and works as a freelance production assistant and producer for theatre.

Board

André Renaud Chair of the Board

André Renaud is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Boundless Theatre. Originally from Canada, André has been based in the UK for over 25 years. He is Group Vice President of Format & Finished Sales at Warner Bros. International Television Production, where he leads global commercial strategy for the group’s format and finished content, and has held commercial roles at BBC Studios and ITV Studios.

Before moving into television, André trained as a performer, earning a BMus from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he specialised in voice and electroacoustic composition, and completed postgraduate studies in musical theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. He also holds the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM), a professional diploma in music teaching. André brings a lifelong passion for performance and storytelling to his work with Boundless, supporting the next generation of artists.

Ben Quashie Trustee

Ben Quashie is the tallest Director and award-winning Producer in the game, with eight years of experience across theatre, film, and audio. Of mixed-race White/Black Caribbean heritage, Ben brings a practical, inclusive, and joyful vision to every project, driven by a deep commitment to artist development, new writing, and expanding access for underrepresented voices.

He began his career by founding Nuu Theatre, a company focused on nurturing emerging artists aged 18–25. He has since held pivotal roles at major UK institutions, including the Royal Court (Participation Assistant), English Touring Theatre (Assistant Producer), and Brixton House, where he was the theatre’s inaugural Producer.

As a director, Ben has led work across professional and community theatre, short films, audio dramas, and comedy, with a focus on storytelling that centres joy, hope, and emotional complexity. He is passionate about elevating new voices and supporting artists, particularly those from working-class and Global Majority backgrounds, to take their next creative step.

He is a Trustee for Boundless Theatre, SCRUM Theatre, and Nuu Theatre. By the end of 2024, Ben’s work will have contributed to over 68 productions, earning 39 award nominations and 8 wins across the Black British Theatre Awards, UK Theatre Awards, Stage Debut Awards, and Offies—including his own nomination for Best Producer at the BBTAs in 2023.

Caspar Cech-Lucas Trustee

Caspar is passionate about making Art more accessible. He was lucky enough to engage in the arts, specifically theatre, as a young person and it made a massive difference to his life. He has dedicated a lot of his professional and personal life to this cause. He works at City Bridge Foundation, a charitable funder that distributes £25 million pounds a year to charities and organisations who support Londoners. Within this work he assesses funding applications and makes recommendations to the grants committee as to whether the applications fit within the Trust’s criteria. This has allowed him to develop good knowledge of charity governance, finances, and what funders are looking for within funding applications.

Before this, Caspar worked as a Trust Fundraiser for various arts organisation’s (mainly participatory arts activities), as a Producer for various emerging and fringe theatre companies, and in events producing. Caspar lives in South East London near Crystal Palace Park, but grew up in Bristol

Charlotte McMillan Trustee

Charlotte is a lawyer, mother of three teenagers and lifelong lover of the arts (visual arts, theatre and film in particular). Charlotte’s first voluntary role many years ago (last millennium) as a newly qualified solicitor was on the board of the Arts Law Centre in her home state of Queensland, Australia and she has since remained passionate about using her skills to support the creative industries due to her belief in the positive impact they have on society.

Charlotte is Deputy General Counsel at ITV. She has over 25 years’ experience in legal and business affairs roles in private practice and in-house, with a particular focus on media and tech companies. Previous in-house roles have included as assistant general counsel at Virgin Media and interim head of legal at Channel 4. She spent two years as a senior legal consultant to TikTok, starting just before lockdown and riding its wave of growth. She has also set up her own tech business, Storychest, a private digital scrapbook for families.

Deepa Menon Trustee

Fliss Gush Trustee

Fliss is the Schools Programme Manager at Eastside, a Hackney-based arts education charity. She manages the strategic development and delivery of Eastside’s national school programmes portfolio, including Artists in Residence, Spoken Word Power and Creativity Live.

She also leads on multiple research projects, including a place-based Artsmark research project working with SEND schools in Newham and an inquiry-based, CPDL project working with schools and spoken word poetry artists in Redbridge funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Teacher Development Fund.

Kirsten Adam Trustee

Kirsten is a creative producer with a passion for working with young people and communities. For the past six years, she has been at the National Theatre, where she is currently Head of Young People’s Programmes. In this role, she leads nationwide initiatives including Connections, the NT’s flagship youth theatre festival.

Her previous experience includes work with leading arts organisations such as the Barbican, the Young Vic, and Watford Palace Theatre, where she has consistently championed inclusive, impactful engagement in the arts.

Layla Chowdhury Trustee

Layla Chowdhury actor, dramaturg and producer based in London. She founded her company The Mango Ensemble to devise and collaborate on new political plays with a close team of creatives, and to increase access to the industry.

She worked as an Assistant Producer for The Orange Tree Theatre, was a recipient of the Stage One BTG producer training and is now a producer at The Lyric Hammersmith.

Joining the boundless board is hugely exciting, a company who puts young people at the centre of their work is rare but hugely needed in the industry. It is through young people that the industry is challenged and develops and there aren’t enough opportunities for young people to lead. I’m particularly interested in the developing of the youth advisory board, and how to crest high quality theatre that breaks down the barriers we see all over the industry currently.

Staff

Board

Ideas

Political musings from a 15-year-old

Boundless Advisor Maya McFarlane interviews Natives playwright Glenn Waldron

Young audience insights