Aimee is a performer, writer and musician.

Performing credits include: My Name is Leon (BBC2); Chase Tales Trail (Birmingham Rep/Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles); Jazz in the Jungle/ Oscar at the Opera/the Christmas Moon Cat (Joey Walter/Ning-ning Li); The Decision (Birmingham Opera Company), Bright Places workshops (Birmingham Rep).

Rae Mainwaring is a disabled Writer from Birmingham. She was part of The Rep‘s Foundry 2019 cohort and is an alumni of Graeae’s Beyond program and BBC writers room Cov voices.

In 2023, her play Bright Places won the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 bursary award. Her play, ‘The Last (plastic) Straw‘; written for young performers, was commissioned by the Playhouse project and performed in several regional theatres.

Rae has a series in early development for screen with Left Bank Pictures and has taken part in a Netflix writer’s room.

Jeanette has a background in Sound, AV and Production Management, and has been working in Theatre as Company Stage Manager and Deputy Stage Manager roles for the last ten years.

Recent credits include: Northanger Abbey ( Orange Tree Theatre, London / Octagon Theatre, Bolton / SJT Theatre, Scarborough / Theatre by the Lake, Keswick – Co Pro 2023), Little Red Riding Hood (The Rep, Birmingham 2023), Not The Last (Women And Theatre, Birmingham 2023), Biscuits For Breakfast (Hampstead Theatre, London 2023 ), and Run Rebel (Pilot Theatre, Tour, 2023)

Previously at The Rep: Good For a Girl; Community; Love & Rebellion Festival; Order & Chaos Festival; Parklife; Uncommon Riches Festival; GrimeBoy; The Play What I Wrote; Sky Comedy Rep; Constructed; Blue/Orange; Stuff; Elephant; I Knew You; To Sir With Love; The Quiet House; The Rotters’ Club; Folk; Unknown Male; The Mother; Tweet Tweet; Respect; Cling To Me Like Ivy; Last Easter; How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits; Bulletproof Soul; Looking For Yoghurt and Hopelessly Devoted.

Other theatre credits include: Bright Places (Carbon Theatre); Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan the Musical (BOA Group); Shrive, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Bad Roads, Serious Money, The Trojan Women, The Penolopiad, The Learning Lottery, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, Byrthrite, Animal Farm, The Red Vial and The Visit (University of Birmingham).

As Associate Sound Designer: Counting & Cracking – UK tour (Belvoir), Family Tree – UK tour (Actors Touring Company), Rebel Music – (Middle Child Theatre/Birmingham Rep)

Audio work: Chase Tales Trail – Cannock Chase Heritage Trail audio walk (Cannock Chase Council & Birmingham Rep)

Clive is also a visiting lecturer at University of Birmingham and BOA Stage & Screen.

Birmingham Rep has been at the forefront of theatre in the UK for over 100 years. The Rep has an unparalleled pioneering history and is the only producing theatre in the UK’s second city. It is the oldest building-based theatre company in the UK, and the forerunner of both the RSC and the National Theatre.

The Rep’s mission is to create artistically ambitious, world-class theatre for everyone. The commissioning and production of new work lies at the core of The Rep’s programme, and over the last fifteen years the company has produced more than 130 new plays.

The Rep’s acclaimed learning and outreach programme is one of the largest and most diverse of any arts organisation in the country. The Rep has nurtured new talent throughout its history – from Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook to its modern-day youth theatre, and the ground-breaking Rep Foundry theatre-makers’ programme, it has offered opportunity and training for thousands of early career writers, directors and artists.

2025 Rep highlights include a sold-out new production of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns co-produced with Leeds Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse; Sathnam Sanghera’s Marriage Material adapted for stage by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti coproduced with Lyric Hammersmith and the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas written by Humphrey Ker and David Reed with original songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Many of The Rep’s productions go on to have lives beyond Birmingham. The theatre’s long-running production of The Snowman celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, alongside its forthcoming twenty-seventh consecutive season at London’s Peacock Theatre. Since 2021, other Rep tours and transfers have included A Thousand Splendid Suns, Community, Of Mice and Men, Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical, The Way Old Friends Do, The Play What I Wrote, Animal Farm and East is East.

Joe Murphy became Artistic Director of The Rep in March 2025. Joe’s inaugural season will be announced in September 2025.