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Photography by Holly Bancroft

As PRODUCER,

I am Associate Producer for Brave Mirror Productions, where I also lead on marketing and social media management. 

I am lead producer for Penny Drop Productions. I have also produced for several other companies on single jobs.

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about my production companies

Brave Mirror Productions

Brave Mirror is a theatre and production company rooted in Bristol and London. The focus of the company is on collaboration: that art cannot, and should not, be made in a vacuum. Our projects are old stories, told in new ways, and with new voices. The company is led by Jamie Saul (Artistic Director), and Thomas Duggan (Executive Producer). 


I support the Creative Director Jamie Saul and Executive Producer  Thomas Duggan. I lead on the marketing and social media management of the company. I do this alongside facilitating productions assisting creative direction and administration in the productions. 


Our next project will bring 2023 smash-hit 'Attention Span' to the Camden Fringe! 


Please see: Brave Mirror website


Penny Drop Productions

Penny Drop is a women-led group making theatre that explores the fun and the uncanny through devised work.

We are committed to celebrating the humanness behind theatre making in our work and image, always considering the audience experience and female perspective in our work. 


I work running PENNY DROP PRODUCTIONS with a core team of two others. I collaborate on the creative direction of productions, and lead the marketing/front facing brand development, and administrative production. 


The most recent production, "LADY'S FINGERS'" saw a sold out run in Bristol, and is in the process of touring across the UK in London and Birmingham. 



Past projects as producer

'Attention All Passengers'

For Brave Mirror Productions 


Directed by Jamie Saul, produced by Thomas Duggan and Holly Bancroft, and features original music by Maia Harding.


Production photography taken by Holly Bancroft


"A comedic show combining small sketches into a story-based theatre production. An intimate and immersive experience" - A Youngish Perspective 


All our work for 2024 will be made sustainably, using guidance from the Theatre Green Book. Our creative teams, as always, will be made up of emerging artists of all ages, towards the start of their careers.


The Golden Goose Theatre, London 

May 2024

'Lady's Fingers'

For Penny Drop Productions


A show about feeling like an adult and a baby at the same time, and how sometimes you need to grow up and eat your vegetables. 


Described by audiences as "Samuel Beckett meets Dolly Alderton" and "an evening with my younger self" by audience members". 


Following a sold-out run in Bristol, Penny Drop Productions will be bringing the show on tour. 


The Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol 

May 2024 

'The Ponds'

'Show His Eyes'

For Daily Bread Theatre 


A man’s body is found drifting in The Ponds, an apparently idyllic, female-only bathing space, hidden from sight by trees. Who he is, or how he got there is anyone’s guess.

This is not a murder mystery, rather an exploration of female fantasy and spaces and what happens when they are disrupted.

“Scintillating set of characters and witty writing … perfect fusion of comedy and meaning.”
- Epigram


The Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol, December 2023

The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol, April 2024 (unattached) 


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'Show His Eyes'

'Little Women, And Us'

'Show His Eyes'

The Weird Sisters live in the Theatre. Banquo and Macbeth seek to dominate and exploit. 


Semi-immersive and using live-feed video as a male lens, Show His Eyes confronts the entitled and exploitative response of patriarchal forces when met with an ambiguous yet decisively female-coded power. Using the encounters between these men and the Weird Sisters, ‘looking’ becomes a form of currency - a means of control and domination. Show His Eyes interrogates the ecofeminist concern that the domination of land parallels the domination of women.


The Wickham Theatre, Bristol, May 2023

'Little Women, And Us'

'Little Women, And Us'

'Little Women, And Us'

A devised piece about adaptation, and how sometimes the actor might not fit the role. Using original text from the literary classic ‘Little Women’, this piece explored the embodied experience of being a women and performers. This piece had a lot of layers in it, using projections of personal home-videos (that look terrible in the production photos!) brought by the cast onto the ‘Little Women’ set, puppetry and movement.


The White Theatre, Bristol, January 2023

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