Danielle recently concluded a third summer season at Shakespeare’s Globe playing the roles of Anne Page, Robin the page and Bardolph in The Merry Wives of Windsor. 

For her previous performance in The Comedy of Errors, also at the Globe, she was recognised with a commendation at the Ian Charleson Awards. Danielle is the recipient of the Spotlight’s Most Promising Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award.

Directing credits include:

Piaf (Watermill Theatre); The Land Of Might-Have-Been (Buxton Festival / Norwich Theatre); Rough Girls (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (RSC / Barbican / UK Tour); The Whip, Dido Queen of Carthage (Nominated for best director at UK theatre awards) (RSC); Beryl (Bolton Octagon) Mark and the Marked, The Hate Play, Macbeth, (Box Clever Theatre); Whose Sari Now? (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Tristan Bates); Diary of a Thief (The King’s Head Theatre).

Kimberley has led development and dramaturgical work for the RSC, Lyric Belfast, Headlong, Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre Studio. Other roles include Education Associate Practitioner for the RSC, Connections Director for the National Theatre, judge for the Alan Bates Award and reader for The Bruntwood Prize. 

Kimberley trained at Rose Bruford College and the National Theatre Studio Directors course and is a Clore Leadership Fellow 2024/25.

Hannah is a British–Syrian designer based in Yorkshire. Trained at Wimbledon School of Art, she has created designs for more than 80 productions across the UK and Europe, spanning theatre, film, music videos and installation work.

Directing credits include:

Piaf (Watermill Theatre); The Land Of Might-Have-Been (Buxton Festival / Norwich Theatre); Rough Girls (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (RSC / Barbican / UK Tour); The Whip, Dido Queen of Carthage (Nominated for best director at UK theatre awards) (RSC); Beryl (Bolton Octagon) Mark and the Marked, The Hate Play, Macbeth, (Box Clever Theatre); Whose Sari Now? (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Tristan Bates); Diary of a Thief (The King’s Head Theatre).

Kimberley has led development and dramaturgical work for the RSC, Lyric Belfast, Headlong, Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre Studio. Other roles include Education Associate Practitioner for the RSC, Connections Director for the National Theatre, judge for the Alan Bates Award and reader for The Bruntwood Prize. 

Kimberley trained at Rose Bruford College and the National Theatre Studio Directors course and is a Clore Leadership Fellow 2024/25.

Stephanie Dale has a degree in Theatre and Media Drama, and an MA in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham. 

She founded and ran the MA in Drama Writing, with David Edgar, at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, June 2018-Dec 2021. 

​Publications include: Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021); Women and Work, Women and Theatre (2021) and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (Simon and Schuster, 2016).

Lauren is a creative producer born, raised, and based in Doncaster. 

Her work spans subsidised and commercial theatre, live events, short film, and participatory arts. She is currently the Producer (Productions & Artist Development) at LUNG and has collaborated with organisations including Factory International, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Sheffield Theatres, New Earth Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds 2023, Chol Theatre, and ThickSkin.

Mad Friday Productions (MFP) are a Doncaster-based, collaboration-driven, women-led theatre company founded in 2021 by Danielle Phillips (Actor/Writer) and Lauren Yvonne Townsend (Producer/Writer) – Doncaster-born childhood friends united by a passion for storytelling, pride for their hometown and an ambition to share Northern, working-class stories to the world. 

Ben trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts after graduating in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton. 

Theatre includes, As Music Director: Ride the Cyclone (Southwark Elephant); The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace); The Power of Camelot (BYMT, Exeter Northolt Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Before After (Southwark Playhouse); The Box of Delights (RSC); Harry & Greta (BYMT Workshop, also Co-Arranger); Cymbeline (RSC); Help We Are Still Alive! (Seven Dials Playhouse); Thrill Me (Jermyn Street Theatre); Cinderella (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth and Palace Theatre, Newark); The Trail to Oregon! (The Other Palace Studio & Edinburgh Fringe Festival, also Arranger). 

Jessie is a theatrical Lighting designer based in Hull. Their training is rooted in years of hands-on experience as a technician and theatre maker. They were an ALPD Lumiere (2020).  

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