Trustees
Dan Mace - Acting Chairperson
Deputy chair Citizenship Foundation, an independent charity promoting effective citizenship education; recently retired after 38 years as a solicitor and partner in a city law firm working on corporate law and governance and a wide range of corporate transactions; deputy chair of the Public Legal Education Strategy task force supported by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
Mary Rebecca Blackwell - Treasurer
Hostel Project Manager for Centrepoint (Berwick St.) Previously Housing Officer for Bridge Housing Association. Senior Finance Manager at Ennersdale House and 91 Dean Street.
Sian Edwardes-Evans
Teacher. Previously Community Development Officer for London Bubble Theatre company; exhibitions organiser for Canada House.
Mary Ann Hushlak
Prose writer, screen writer and script editor. Trained counsellor. Previously worked for Canadian Institute of Public Affairs.
Andy W Ganf
Barbra Mazur
Grants Officer for the Social Justice Programme and Manager of the Fund for Refugee and Asylum Seeker Young People at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Over nine years' experience in the voluntary sector. During this time she worked at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in the United States. Since coming to Britain five years ago she has worked as a Grants Manager at the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation in the Social Development and Environment sectors. She has also worked at the Big Lottery Fund as a Grants Officer on the Education Programme.
Mojisola Adebayo
Mojisola Adebayo is a performer, writer, director and teacher. She has a BA in Drama, an MA (with distinction) in Physical Theatre (University of London) and has undertaken extensive training with Augusto Boal, Black Mime Theatre and others. Over the past 15 years she has had the pleasure of working on various theatre projects all over the world including Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Finland, India, Israel, Norway, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, the USA and most recently, Antarctica where she carried out research and filmed the visuals for her landmark polar production Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey. This play has received wide critical acclaim, is published by Oberon and will tour Southern Africa with the British Council in 2008. As a performer based in Britain and Ireland she has performed in over forty productions, mainly focusing on new writing, devising and adaptations, with various companies including The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Abbey Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, Creative Origins / Birmingham Rep, Southwark Playhouse, Black Mime Theatre / Nottingham Playhouse, Theatre Resource and London Bubble amongst others. She has also appeared in numerous television and radio productions for the BBC, Channel 4 and Thames and plays Nina Udenze in RTE's Fair City.
All of Mojisola's work is concerned with power, identity and change. She is a specialist in Theatre for Social Change particularly in areas of conflict and crisis, a field in which she has worked extensively worldwide including the occupied Palestinian territories (Ashtar Theatre and Medicin du Monde) and Sri Lanka post tsunami (British Council). Her new book Theatre for Development: a Handbook with John Martin of Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts and Manisha Mehta of Vidya, India will be published through the AHRC in 2008. She has directed over 30 productions for various companies, and devised and written as many scripts. Mojisola is currently a dramaturg for Pegasus Theatre Company, an Associate Artist for Pan Intercultural Arts and is currently working on three plays which will go into production in 2008/9 Muhammad Ali and Me (Oval House), 48 Minutes for Palestine (Lyric Hammersmith) and Matt Henson: North Star (Oval House). Matt Henson: North Star is the second in Mojisola's series of polar productions looking at climate change. To this end Mojisola has been invited to take a creative arts expedition with Cape Farewell to the Greenland Arctic alongside performing artists who include Moby, Brian Eno, Anthony Hegarty, Laurie Anderson, Ruichi Sakamoto, Jarvis Cocker and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppellin.
Gaynor Quilter
Director of Alone in London Service since 1995, Gaynor Quilter is a passionate and visionary leader, committed to creating an environment for children and young people to develop skills, gain personal awareness and sustain independence whilst encouraging them to value family and other relationships.
John Moffatt
Philip Parr
Sue Timothy
Sue Timothy has worked in the arts for the whole of her working life. Her main (though not exclusive) experience is in theatre - as a manager, producer and a funder. Thus, she has wide knowledge and experience of the arts and the arts funding system and more specific knowledge and experience of theatre, theatre practices and structures.
Senior Management
Adrian Jackson - Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer
Adrian@cardboardcitizens.org.ukCardboard 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 most recently 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, and 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.
Nigel Lavender - General Manager
nigel@cardboardcitizens.org.ukNigel Lavender has been working in professional theatre for 25 years. He began his career backstage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, moving around a wide variety of producing venues before going into management, running touring companies including Black Theatre Co-operative. In 1993 he joined the Royal Theatre Northampton as Administrative Director, and was a principal architect in the creation of Northampton Theatres Trust. After a year off travelling in 2000, he returned to London and worked for four years as General Manager of Oval House, before moving to the Junction in Cambridge, a multi-disciplinary music and theatre venue, as General & Finance Director.
Nigel is very pleased to be joining such a ground-breaking company as Cardboard Citizens, and looking forward to contributing to the company's growth and development.
Lisa Caughey - Fundraising and Marketing Director
lisa@cardboardcitizens.org.ukLisa joined Cardboard Citizens in April 2006 to contribute to the overall management and financial planning of Cardboard Citizens. She also has responsibility for managing the fundraising and marketing team. Currently the priorities of the team are to strengthen and raise the profile of Cardboard Citizens, by attracting new partners and income to the company, while also building on the support of all current ones.
Lisa has four years previous experience in managing niche special events within the National Events Department for Cancer Research UK, with specific knowledge of developing high value corporate, celebrity and media partners through creating and implementing innovative, high profile, cultural projects. She has a BA degree in Fine Art (National College of Art & Design, Dublin) and a Masters in Enterprise and Management for the Creative Arts (University of the Arts London).
Tim Nicholls - Programme Director
Tim@cardboardcitizens.org.ukTim joined Cardboard Citizens in April 2008. As Programme Director he is overseeing the London Development Agency contract, the programmes team and the membership of Cardboard Citizens. Before Cardboard Citizens, Tim’s background was in the homelessness sector running the HomeLink project for Quaker Social Action before becoming the Director of the Simon Community working with rough sleepers in Central London. Tim holds a degree in Theology from the University of Leeds.
Michael Gaunt - General Manager
michael@cardboardcitizens.org.ukMichael has worked in the Music and Theatre world for over 25 years. Starting as a musician, he worked in production, artist and tour management for a variety of companies and individuals, and has worked extensively throughout the UK at many Theatres, and Festivals.
His management experience has been developed over the years working at organisations such as The London Borough of Camden, and with many organisations such as ACE, HeartnSoul, The Liverpool Playhouse, and many more regional and London Theatres.
Michael is proud to be with Cardboard Citizens and looks forward to contributing to the ongoing development and future of the Company.
Staff
Sarah Levinsky - Associate Director
sarahlev@cardboardcitizens.org.ukSarah has joined Cardboard Citizens as Associate Director after two years freelancing for the company as a director and workshop leader. She recently directed the Cardboard Citizens 15th Anniversary Party, complete with dancing gangsters and cakes (some real, some containing falsetto singers and machine guns), and has assisted Adrian Jackson in the past on Visible and King. As Associate Director Sarah will now be lead director on the Hostel Tour, and deliver or collaborate on the workshop programmes, Forum for Change projects, and the yearly community production.
Recently Sarah has worked as a freelance director, workshop leader and/or choreographer for the Theatre Royal Plymouth (Brunel's Platform Theatre); the Centre for Performance Research (for whom she has also performed); Company of Angels and Attic Theatre Company (working with young asylum seekers); as well as in various schools. She has been Co-Artistic Director for Mapping4D since she co-founded the company in 2001, after returning from Argentina where she had been working with El Baldio Teatro in Buenos Aires. With Mapping4D, she has devised and directed Slender, The Pink Bits (winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2004), Vertigo and Little English. Sarah has also worked for Dance United and the British Council, in partnership with Ballet San Marcos and the Municipality of Los Olivos, as Project Manager for a dance-for-development project in Peru, supporting Royston Maldoom on the creation of the Rite of Spring with 75 young people from deprived backgrounds in Lima.
Jonathan Kaunda - Finance Manager
jonathan@cardboardcitizens.org.ukJonathan Kaunda joined Cardboard Citizens in January 2008 as Finance Manager, reporting to the General Manager. He brings to Cardboard Citizens 13 years of charity specific finance and accounting experience gained at senior level. He is a chartered accountant of 14 years post qualification experience, an Independent Charity Examiner and also holds an M Sc in Finance.
Tracey Weller - Project Manager
tracey@cardboardcitizens.org.ukTracey Weller studied Arts Management at the Roehampton Institute, Surrey and has been working in arts and events management for over twelve years. Tracey is delighted to be working for Cardboard Citizens and will be working specifically on the Hostels' Tour, Forum for Change projects and conferences.
Valentine Leys - Fundraising officer
valentine@cardboardcitizens.org.ukValentine is responsible for raising income from trusts and foundations and for co-ordinating all aspects of fundraising at Cardboard Citizens. She has several years' experience in fundraising, marketing and business development in the charity and private sector. Valentine has a Masters' degree in French Linguistics and Literature from Université Paris 7 (France), and recently completed a post-graduate diploma in Charity Fundraising and Marketing at London South Bank University.
Sarah Murphy - Marketing Officer
sarah@cardboardcitizens.org.ukUnder the guidance of the Fundraising & Marketing Director, Sarah works on all aspects of marketing and publicity. She holds a Masters in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at Trinity College Dublin as well as a higher certificate in Management Practise in the Arts through the University of Ulster. She manages the website, Friends Scheme and print & design.
Lauren Adair - Fundraising Officer (Currently on Maternity Leave)
lauren@cardboardcitizens.org.ukLauren is responsible for all aspects of fundraising at Cardboard Citizens. She has several years experience in both fundraising and community development work, having been the Assistant Development Director at the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago, USA and an urban planner at the state regional planning agency in Boston. Lauren has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Smith College, Massachusetts.
Cathy Weatherald - Project Manager (Hostel Workshops)
Cathy@cardboardcitizens.org.ukCathy joined Cardboard Citizens in July 2006. As Project Manager for the Hostels Workshop, she oversees the planning and delivery of four workshops which are funded by the London Development Agency each week. Before Cardboard Citizens, Cathy worked for Carnival Collective where she danced, drummed and did office work. Cathy graduated from University of Sussex in Brighton, and holds her degree in Anthropology.
Stuart Grey - Administrator/ PA
Stuart@cardboardcitizens.org.ukStuart is both PA to the Artistic Director and responsible for all administrative tasks for Cardboard Citizens. Stuart studied drama and theatre arts at Goldsmiths College before working as Deputy Sales Manager at the Royal Court Theatre before joining Cardboard Citizens in Feb 2008.
Terry O'Leary - Associate Artist
terry@cardboardcitizens.org.ukTerry met Cardboard Citizens as a hostel resident at one of our workshops. Almost six years later she has acted in numerous shows and is now one of the finest Forum Theatre 'jokers' (Forum Theatre facilitator) in the UK. She is also in demand as a trainer for many theatre courses including Central School of Speech and Drama. Terry leads our work with socially excluded young people in Merton and recently directed her first Engagement Programme tour The Wall.
Lucy Martin - Membership Officer
Lucy@cardboardcitizens.org.ukLucy offers administrative support, including the delivery of projects, across Cardboard Citizens' activities in London, but particularly focusing on our creative arts programme This Way Up. She also supports the Project Manager in working with current and potential participants to engage them with the full programme of opportunities that Cardboard Citizens offers.
Cashel Gormley - Project Assistant (Hostel Workshops)
Cashel@cardboardcitizens.org.ukCashel studied Theatre Studies at Glasgow University. Whilst at University she co-founded a moment's peace theatre company and produced their first show that's what we should all be mourning at the Edinburgh Fringe 2004. In 2006 a moment's peace embarked on their second project Petrified Paradise that explored the UK asylum and detention system. Petrified in Paradise was performed at The Arches in Glasgow and four community spaces across the city. A moments peace facilitated workshops with young people and discussion sessions with audience members in each of the four areas. Cashel was stage manager for The Flats (produced by conFAB): a play created with a performed by asylum seekers and people from Pollok that told the stories of their experiences of seeking asylum in the UK and integration in Glasgow. The Flats was performed as part of Refugee Week 2006 at Gilmorehill G12 and was brought back by popular demand later in the year in three Glasgow spaces. In 2007 Cashel worked within the Policy and Communications Team of Scottish Refugee Council on the programming and organisation of Refugee Week 2007. Cashel recently joined Cardboard Citizens as Project Assistant for the Hostel Workshops. This project, funded by the London Development Agency is working to deliver exciting performing arts workshops in hostels across London over the next two years. Participants in each workshop will have access to Cardboard Citizens Information, Advice and Guidance sessions that aim to increase access to further education, training and employment.
Danny Gregory - Project Assistant (Hostel Tour)
danny@cardboardcitizens.org.ukDanny first encountered Cardboard Citizens when he saw one of the Engagement Programme performances in a day centre. Four years later, he has acted in the 2006 performance of Dust and is now part of the Hostel Tour team, helping to deliver the programme that got him involved in the first place.
Yago De La Torre - Data Administrator
yago@cardboardcitizens.org.ukA former Biochemist, Yago joined Cardboard Citizens over 4 years ago when became homeless and started attending the Circus Workshop in the Crisis Skylight Centre. After a while he volunteered to devise what was to be the Professional Circus and Street Artist course that Cardboard Citizens run in 2006-07 and, funny enough, became one of its students... Once the course was finished he moved on from being a volunteer to becoming a full member of the staff (and also to a Circus Higher Degree!).
His main duty is to look after the data collected from everybody who is somehow involved with Cardboard Citizens. He makes sure that we know who you are so that you don't miss a thing!
