Adrian Jackson - Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer
Adrian@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Cardboard Citizens’ Artistic Director Adrian Jackson founded the company in 1991. Since then he has directed over 20 productions for the company, devising and writing many of them. As well as producing many Forum Theatre pieces, Adrian has also directed all the company's larger-scale site-specific productions, including Pericles, co-produced with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has worked as Augusto Boal's translator on five books Games for Actors and Non-Actors, The Rainbow of Desires, The Legislative Theatre, Hamlet and the Baker' Son (Boal's autobiography) and The Aesthetics of the Oppressed. He has led workshops with Boal on many occasions, and they collaborated on The Art of Legislation, an Artangel-sponsored piece of Legislative Theatre at County Hall in London.
He is also working on his own book, provisionally entitled The Art of the Joker. As a leading expert on the Theatre of the Oppressed, Adrian is a well-travelled teacher and speaker. He has taught Theatre of the Oppressed work in many contexts, throughout Britain and Ireland, and many places throughout the world, including France, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, India, Colombia and Kosovo.
Cathy Weatherald - Project Manager - Youth & Employability Programmes
Cathy@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Cathy joined Cardboard Citizens in 2006. As Project Manager she has managed a number of programmes focussing on outreach workshops (anything from Theatre to Samba). She visits hostels and other centres to engage with a wide range of people who go on to to particpate in more intensive performance projects with CC. Cathy is currently focussed on working with young people aged 16-25 on the ACT NOW Programme, in an innovative partnership with Centrepoint, National Youth Theatre and The Roundhouse. The programme aims to engage young people not in eduaction, employment or training in professional theatre training to improve their confidence, motivation and contacts which in turn helps them to engage with further training and employment opportunities. Cathy is part of the Programme Team which offers pastoral support to particpants on all projects and holds an NVQ level 3 in Advice & Guidance. She also co-ordinates the PEARL programme which accredits participants on our inclusive arts and performance projects. Prior to working at Cardboard Citizens, Cathy worked for The Big Issue and Carnival Collective in Brighton, Cathy graduated from University of Sussex with a degree in Anthropology.
Donna Walker - Project Manager, Members' Programmes
donna@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
For three years Donna Walker was an Intensive Personal Advisor to Young People in the Local Authority Care system. She worked with Young People from the age of 16-25 years old on all personal development issues. Donna took the lead on Youth Participation Projects where she used media tools to provide a platform for Care Leavers to express their views on how children services are run. Donna also developed and delivered “Total Respect” training- a Children’s Rights programme for local authority managers, local counsellors and senior housing workers.
Donna studied Performing Arts for three years at Epping Forest College Essex. She also has a degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Kingston University. Donna has continued her studies in Drama and recently completed a foundation course in Drama Therapy at Goldsmith University London.
Lisa Caughey - Deputy Chief Executive
Lisa joined Cardboard Citizens in April 2006 to contribute to the overall management and financial planning of the company. In close collaboration with the Chief Executive, Lisa is responsible for driving Cardboard Citizens forwards in strategic, developmental and organisational terms, as well as overseeing all ongoing aspects of the company's financial, contractual and legal obligations as a charity, a company and an employer.
Prior to working at Cardboard Citizens, Lisa managed a number of special events within the National Events Department for Cancer Research UK. Here she specialised in developing high value corporate, individual, celebrity and media partner support through creating and implementing high profile, arts projects. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art (National College of Art & Design, Dublin) and a Master of Arts Degree in Enterprise and Management for the Creative Arts (University of the Arts London). Lisa also completed the Clore Leadership Course.
Oliver Proctor - Project Manager - Outreach
oliver@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Oliver is responsible for managing the Hostel Tour and the company's other outreach activities in hostels and day centres.
He joined Cardboard Citizens after returning from four years living in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was teaching drama and directing plays and theatre projects. Oliver had previously run Theatre for Development projects in Uganda, East Africa and Mumbai, India after training in Applied Theatre and Theatre for the Oppressed techniques at Manchester University while studying for his degree in Drama.
In the UK Oliver has worked creatively with adult male offenders, youths at risk and young people in care. He also spent two years working as a Support Officer for a London Homeless Charity where he first came into contact with the inspiring work of Cardboard Citizens.
Petia Tzanova - Marketing Manager
petia@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Petia is Cardboard Citizens’ Marketing Manager and an insatiable ‘people person’. She joined the company in June 2010, and works on much of the communications, marketing and fundraising events.
Prior to joining Cardboard Citizens she set up the marketing and communications for 3SC, a national third sector bidding consortia and was an Associate Consultant for Eastside Consulting, a leading third sector consultancy specialising in social enterprise and homelessness. She has also worked as theatre facilitator for workshops in the war-torn North East of Sri Lanka with charity Fun For Life and New Theatre Works, interned with Eudemonic, an agency for creative collaboration & development, ran a theatre company that specialized in devised and adapted theatre, taught the Youth Theatre at the Warwick Arts Centre, and ran a variety of festivals and events promoting international culture & dialogue.
She has a BA in Politics & International Studies and an MA in Creative & Media Enterprise, both from the University of Warwick. Petia comes from Bulgaria via Sri Lanka, Taiwan & the UK.
Stuart Grey - Administrator/ PA
Stuart@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Stuart joined Cardboard Citizens in February 2008. He is responsible for running the office, all administrtive tasks, organising the company's Theatre of the Oppressed Professional Training and is also PA to Adrian, the Artistic Director. Recently, Stuart has been working as Assistant Producer on Cardboard Citizens production of Mincemeat. Before joining Cardboard Citizens Stuart worked as Deputy Sales Manager at the Royal Court Theatre. He graduated from Goldsmiths College with a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts.
Terry O'Leary - Associate Artist
terry@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Terry joined Cardboard Citizens eight years ago. Since then she has acted in and directed numerous shows including The Wall, Urban Wildlife, Bean Street and Peckin' Me Shed. She is an internationally recognised Forum Theatre Joker (facilitator) and has led training workshops around the UK and abroad. Terry leads our work with socially excluded young people in schools, and homeless people and refugees at the Crisis Skylight centre.
Tony McBride - Director of Projects
Tony has been working as a theatre practitioner for over 20 years. He specializes in the techniques of Forum Theatre and other creative and participative ways of working. Alongside directing he has devised and led various training programmes for professionals and non-professionals, exploring the Theatre-making process as a site for learning with a broad range of community groups in many and varied contexts.
Tony is pleased to be back in post as Director of Projects with Cardboard Citizens, having experienced a previous incarnation as its Associate Director. Tony has directed 15 shows (and counting) for the company including work for arts centres, hostels, schools and peer forum projects. He is currently overseeing the development of the ACT NOW project, whilst contributing to and supporting other areas of the company’s eclectic workshops, training and performance programmes.
Valentine Leys - Director of Development
valentine@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
Valentine is responsible for co-ordinating all aspects of fundraising and communications at Cardboard Citizens - from applying for grants to keeping in touch with friends, funders, company members and the general public. She has worked for several years in fundraising, marketing and business development in charities and the private sector.
Yago De La Torre - Database Administrator
A former Biochemist, Yago joined Cardboard Citizens over 5 years ago when he started attending the Circus Workshop in the Crisis Skylight Centre. After a while he started volunteering in the office during a collaboration between Cardboard Citizens and Cirque du Monde and helped devising what was to be the Professional Circus and Street Artist course that Cardboard Citizens ran in 2005-06, of which he also took part as a student. Once the course was finished he moved on from being a volunteer to becoming a full member of the staff, and also completed a Circus Arts Higher Degree. His main duty in the office is to look after the database and the data collected from everybody who is somehow involved with Cardboard Citizens.
