Associate/Assistant Director

  • A powerful new production exquisitely staged’  - 4* The Scotsman

    Writer - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Adapter - Elizabeth Newman
    Director - Sarah Brigham
    Associate Director - Laura Ryder
    Musical Director- Shonagh Murray
    Set and Costume Designer - Jen McGinley
    Lighting Designer - Emma Jones
    Sound Designer - Ivan Stott
    Movement Director -Sasha Harrington
    Fight Director - Robin Hellier

    Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

  • ‘...Exhilarating, tear-jerking joy…’ Reviews Hub 

    Writer - Abi Zakarian
    Director -Sarah Brigham
    Assistant Director - Laura Ryder
    Designer - Neil Irish
    Musical Director and Sound Designer - Kelvin Towse
    Lighting Designer - Arnim Friess
    Movement Director - Jon Beney

    Photo credit - Pamala Raith 

  • Caroline Wilkes – Director
    JMK Assistant Director - Laura Ryder
    Katherine Chandler - Writer 
    Deborah Mingham – Designer
    Jonathan Pearce – Sound Designer
    Sam Waddington – Lighting Designer
    Reisz Amos – Composer

    Photography by Graeme Braidwood

  • Toured to Birmingham REP, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Bath Theatre Royal and Leeds Playhouse

    ‘An evocative production with quietly radical casting’ 4* The Guardian 

    Director - Iqbal Khan
    Associate Director - Caroline Wilkes
    Resident Director (Tour) and Creative Enabler - Laura Ryder 
    Set & Lighting Designer - Ciarán Bagnall
    Costume Designer - Kay Wilton
    Composer & Sound Designer - Elizabeth Purnell
    Movement & Fight Director - Yarit Dor
    Puppet Director, Designer & Maker - Michael Crouch

    Photo credit: Mark Senior

  • Integrated theatre show with learning disabled, autistic and/or neurodivergent actors about kindness and a boy who wants a drum.

    Creatives Team :
    Amy Crofts
    Anna Brooks
    Bethany Smith
    Bharat Singh
    Inês Sampaio Figueiredo
    Jen Sumner
    Jennifer Kay
    Jo May
    Laura Ryder 
    Laura Gotheridge
    Laura Ryder
    Matthew Schoonerwoerde
    Rachel Gilmour-Jones
    Robert Buxton
    Tom Shelton

    Design: Maria Terry and Nikki Charlesworth

    Photo credit: Chris Webb