Graeae Theatre Company
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Graeae was founded in 1980 by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson. The company built a reputation as a respected theatrical voice with audiences, critics, the arts establishment and the disabled community.
In the beginning, Nabil and Richard worked from home, running occasional one-off performances at events across the country. The first production was Sideshow, which Nabil performed and directed.
In 1981, the first United Nations Year of Disabled People, Graeae went international, visiting Greece, the home of the myth from which it derived its name.
Since those early days, the company has grown and adapted to the changing attitudes of society, and the passions of the disabled community. Under the Artistic Direction of Nabil Shaban, the company performed many shows and became established as a registered charity. Then, in 1994, Ewan Marshall became Artistic Director. Shows such as Ubu and Flesh Fly cemented the company’s reputation as a force that could last.
Since 1998, Jenny Sealey has been Artistic Director and has overseen successes such as peeling, Diary of an Action Man and Blasted. In 1999, Missing Piece was launched, an intensive and accredited training course for disabled actors, and the success of this has fed into our current training courses Scene Change and Into the Scene.
Graeae now tours nationally (and sometimes internationally) up to three times a year with imaginative and exciting productions of both classic and newly-commissioned theatre.
Graeae’s aim is to redress the exclusion of people with physical and sensory impairments from performance and to create genuinely pioneering theatre in both its aesthetic and content.
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Matthew Gardner
Stage Manager
Jonny Leitch
Sound Designer
Matthew Gardner
Stage Manager
Tiiu Mortley
Actor
Tiiu Mortley
Voice Over: English
Tiiu Mortley
Actor
Cindy-Jane Armbruster
Actor
Victoria Oruwari
Singer
Rosie Giarratana
Deputy Stage Manager
Elanor Webber (Elanor-Rose Maxey)
Stage Manager
Jude Mahon
Actor
Tiiu Mortley
Actor
Corinna MacEwan
Lighting Technician
Jude Mahon
Actor
Freya Busby (Freya Groves)
Set Designer
Roshni Savjani
Company Stage Manager
Roshni Savjani
Company Stage Manager
Ceri Ashcroft
Actor
Sarah Lyndon
Stage Manager
Sarah Lyndon
Stage Manager
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