ABOUT US

TheatreAlive! is a charity which aims to:

• promote outstanding new creative talent and ground-breaking work in all branches of theatre-associated arts
• offer opportunities for new stage projects, help progress careers and help new
  companies seeking collaboration with an organisation with charitable status
• provide opportunities for post-training apprenticeships in theatre alongside
  experienced professionals to broaden awareness and acquire new skills.

TheatreAlive! is an Association limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No. 5229064, incorporated on 13th September 2004 and registered as a Charity No. 1107357 on 20th December 2004.

Performer Elliot Pritchard. National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest and Museum of Austerity. Other theatre includes: Chorus of Others for Frantic Assembly; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wilton’s Music Hall and on European tour; Macbeth at Nottingham Playhouse; Madama Butterfly at Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria; Dragonfly at Park Theatre; The Odyssey and First Time in a Dress at Jermyn Street London; The Snow Queen at Trinity; The Flying Bath at Little Angel, the Lyric Hammersmith and on UK tour; and Peter Pan at Regent’s Park. TV: The Windsors, Hitler’s Circle of Evil and Reading Between the Meaningful End. Film: The Cost of Living, Theatre, Wonderland, All the Ordinary Angels and Jack.

Producer Natalie Richardson has worked in theatre for 25+years and has produced more than 30 professional theatre & dance shows in London, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, on tour across the UK and in Europe with established names such as Trestle Theatre Company, Jean Abreu Dance & David Glass Ensemble.

Director Andrew Visnevski began his career at the Young Vic Theatre, London. In 1978 he created The Cherub Company London, a groundbreaking theatre ensemble which, under his artistic leadership until 2003, brought neglected classics and European drama to UK repertoire and toured its productions in 13 countries on 3 continents, in places as far apart as Holland and Zimbabwe, Spain and Iraq and Pakistan and the Sudan; visited many festivals in Britain and abroad and mounted seven Edinburgh Festival Fringe premières. His farewell season with The Cherub Company in 2003 inaugurated the opening of the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
In all, Andrew Visnevski has directed over 100 productions as well as leading workshops and seminars in the UK, France, Belgium, Poland, Israel and Greece. At the National Theatre of Northern Greece in 1988 he directed the world première of the Giorgos Himonas translation of Hamlet, as well as the world première of the Himonas translation of Macbeth in Athens in 1994, the music composed and recorded by Mikis Theodorakis.
 
His wide-reaching educational work includes heading the MA Courses at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and many productions, courses and projects as guest director for RADA over a period of thirty years. As Associate Teacher at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece he contributed to the setting up of the first professional theatre directors’ course in Greece.

He founded and runs TheatreAlive! an organisation promoting and supporting the work of new professionals and creative aspiration in theatre across the UK & Europe.
https://andrewvisnevski.com

Writer Jeff Lewis trained as an actor at RADA (1993 – 1996). Acting roles include The Client in the first English production of Bernard-Marie Koltes’ In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields (1999, Gate Theatre; directed by Kimon Kouffogiannis), as well as Macbeth, Shylock, Iago and Benedick.
Writing credits include Kulygin’s Dance (2000), which was given a reading by the RSC in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London; Akhmatova’s Salted Herring (2003), produced as part of the inaugural season at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre in London; and adaptations of Gogol’s Diary of a Madman (2010) and Jean Cocteau’s Opium (2017) all three directed by Andrew Visnevski. He also wrote the libretto for operas The Wings of the Dove by Andrew Ager and La Religieuse by Philip White. As well as the new version of Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice, his most recent work also includes the libretto for Ian Fletcher’s oratorio Jonah.

Designer Alexander McPherson has worked in the theatre from the age of fourteen, starting in the local repertory theatre in his home town of Bristol as scenic artist.  Doyen of British stage designers, his work includes plays and operas for major companies throughout Britain and Europe.  He was Head of Design for the Bristol Old Vic, also at Farnham, Newcastle and Windsor. He has designed a number of experimental productions in fringe and alternative theatres.  For the RADA MA Theatre Lab he designed Joshua Sobol's The Raft of the Medusa directed by Andrew Visnevski and, also for Visnevski as part of  the RADA Festival 2017, Jeff Lewis's stage adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Opium. His special interest lies in Commedia del’Arte, English popular theatre and in mask-making using leather. He also gives courses in specialist theatre painting.

Composer Saro Manoukian is a 2026 graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in composition, writing across concert and multimedia settings with a cinematic flair and a storyteller's instinct. His film scores have already caught attention on the international stage, with Love is a Gift, reaching the finalist stage of the Indie Film Music Contest. His concert works Incandescence and Kar both premièred at the RAM in 2024, marking an exciting first step into the field. Rooted in his Armenian, Welsh, and Irish heritage, his music reflects a distinct and personal voice. Composing for live theatre marks the start of an exciting new direction he has been eager to explore, drawn by the immediacy of performance and the unique creative challenges of storytelling on stage.

Additional Credits:

Website - Jed Staton
Graphic Design (photography) - Shane Han
Graphic Design Assistant - ALei Hu