who we are

BrI is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, writing and sculpture. Using humour and parody she explores how art history, pop culture and personal relationships form identity. Blurring the lines between sincerity and satire, she examines how these external influences become mirrors for emotion, belonging and self-construction. Her work often plays with the tension of public persona and confession. Drawing from internet culture, performance theory and her own lived experience, she asks how we are afraid of existence yet desperate for it.

She also works as a dramaturg and facilitator, supporting artists to develop process led projects that centre embodied knowledge, experimentation and cultural nuance. She has performed and exhibited at Studio Voltaire, The Yard Theatre, Hoxton Hall, Greatorex Street and Pleasance Theatre.

Emily is a dramaturg, theatre maker, writer and lecturer. She received her doctorate from Bath Spa University in 2021. Her research focused on puppetry and dramaturgy, and produced The Mosaic Scale: a Toolkit for Dramaturgy (Routledge, 2024)

She has presented her research on dramaturgy, the uncanny, and puppet theatre in the UK, USA and Austria.

Emily also holds an MA in Scriptwriting. For over 20 years she has written, directed and dramaturged projects in cabaret, theatre, puppetry, and applied theatre. She is co-founder of Croon productions puppet company. Their work has been seen in London, on tour across the UK, Berlin, Prague and Minneapolis.

Emily has worked extensively as a performance lecturer in FE & HE and also for the educational provision of theatres. She was a visiting lecturer in dramaturgy for puppetry at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and also taught writing for performance at Derby University. She currently teaches her dramaturgy system The Mosaic Scale online.

Frey is a London-based dramaturg and theatre critic who writes for Exeunt Magazine, The Stage, and WhatsOnStage. He has previously worked for the Unicorn Theatre, the Young Vic, and the Royal Court, including as the Unicorn’s Schools Officer, Dramaturg Assistant on the Young Vic’s Neighbourhood Voices programme, and taking part in the Royal Court’s Script Panel. He was also a writer and dramaturg on PaperGang Theatre’s Asian Pirate Musical, a queer science-fiction musical that had a concert performance at the Pleasance Theatre in London in 2024. In 2025, he mentored on Sheffield Theatres’ TheatreMakers group.

Frey has worked with and read scripts for organisations including the Young Vic, the Bush Theatre, The Upsetters, Exit Pursued by Panda, 45North, and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. He loves rehearsal rooms, new writing (especially queer work), and theatre that scares him or shakes his assumptions—formally as much as politically. He is trans, Malaysian-Chinese, occasionally quite angry, and always orders xiao long bao

Maddy is a writer, dramaturg, critical friend, conversation facilitator, zine-maker, and more. She is the co-author, with Andy Field, of Performance in an Age of Precarity (Methuen, 2021), and collaborates with writers/artists Mary Paterson and Diana Damian Martin on Something Other, where performance and writing meet in new ways. She was writer-in-residence with the Franko B archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, resulting in a co-authored publication.

As a dramaturg, she has worked with artists including Paula Varjack (iMelania, #thebabyquestion) and Selina Thompson (salt, Twine). Her writing on theatre and performance has appeared in Time Out, The Guardian, Contemporary Theatre Review, Exeunt, and in books dedicated to artists Joshua Sofaer and Marisa Carnesky (co-authored with Mary Paterson), as well as Hoxton Hall theatre. She co-hosts theatre club, and an essay on this project was published in The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts.

Clodagh is a dramaturg, writer and director from London, currently based in Manchester. As a dramaturg, she has worked across a variety of projects in the independent sector, seeing her nominated for the d’n Fellowship 2024. Clodagh has also read for the Bush Theatre and George Devine Award, and taught at the University of Salford and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Clodagh was previously a Young Critic at the Almeida Theatre. She also makes new work with young people, recently for the National Theatre schools programme, Speak Up.

Clodagh also works in film. She is currently a Programme Adviser at Sheffield DocFest, and has previously hosted and curated panels, Q&As and events for BFI, HOME and Sheffield DocFest. As a writer/director for film, her debut short played in BAFTA-qualifying festivals worldwide, and she is currently in post-production on her latest short for BFI NETWORK. She has also written on documentary film for Open City Documentary Festival.

A former opera singer, Fiona works as a producer, director, dramaturg and workshop animateur, with credits across the UK’s independent and fringe opera scene. She specialises in participatory work, running education projects, community choirs and large scale, site-specific community projects.

The golden thread at the heart of Fiona’s work is a drive for social justice and catalysing change for individuals, communities and organisations. Widening access is central to this, driven by a belief that opera has the power to transform lives, and that representation, accessibility and co-creation are vital to its future. She is also Co-Chair of formidAbility opera company which puts accessibility at the foundation of the creative process.

Lee is Literary Associate of Squint, an award-winning company that combines text, movement and research to tell new stories, and has previously taught playwriting at Arcola Theatre, The Mono Box and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He is a script reader for the Park Theatre, and has also read for the Bush Theatre and Finborough Theatre, as well as writing for The Stage and Exeunt. In addition to his work as a writer and dramaturg, he also lectures in theatre history and practice at University of West London.