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Meet the Team

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Tom Bowtell
Artistic Director
Tom is a writer, director and performer who has been making adventurous work for, by and with young people for 10 years. He founded KIT in 2015 with a mission to use Adventures in Learning to improve children's educational engagement and achievement and unlock their creative talent. Tom has written or co-written 15 Adventures in Learning, including Inspiration Days, Arabian Nights and The Astronautical Challenge, which won the 2011 National Charity Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage. Tom co-created and starred in BAC's Offie-Nominated The Good Neighbour in 2013/14 and was a game designer on the BAFTA-winning educational game Nightmare High.

Please click here to see Tom's TEDx Talk: Can Theatre Actually Change Anything? 
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Kat Gill is a Creative Producer, Drama Practitioner and Access Consultant committed to expanding access to creative opportunities. Since graduating in 2012 from MA Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths Kat has worked extensively in the arts education sector and delivered innovative projects for various organisations, including, Primary Shakespeare, Peoplescape, Speech Bubbles, Royal Court, and Go Live.

As Co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of BLINK Dance Theatre CIC, Kat established an equitable organisational structure for neurodivergent and learning-disabled co-directors, fostering co-creation, producing accessible theatre and a SEND schools programme. Since BLINK she worked as Access Producer for the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival.  Kat runs accessibility training and consultancy for arts organisations, specialising in neuro-inclusion.
Kat Gill
Schools Programme
Producer
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Eleanor Pead
Company Producer
Eleanor is a Performer, Producer and Facilitator who's passionate about using the arts to promote connection and community. Eleanor joined KIT in 2024 as Interim Producer before becoming Company Producer. When she's not overseeing the delivery of KIT's Bridge Adventures, Eleanor looks for any opportunity to wear her KIT clip on tie and to jump into an adventure. 

Alongside KIT Eleanor works with several companies including Tobacco Factory Theatres, Tidal Tales Collective CIC, Tiny & Tall Productions and Unique Voice.
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Omar (he/they) is an actor, writer and practitioner from East London. Acting credits include plays at the Arcola, Royal Court and the RSC. Omar's writing for stage has been performed at the Bush Theatre and Park Theatre, and he has performed his poetry internationally. Omar graduated from the Acting BA at RADA in 2020, is a former Barbican Young Poet and member of Poets Platform at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and former Associate Artist at Coney.

As a practitioner, Omar has led numerous community and youth theatre projects at venues such as The Yard, Kiln Theatre, and the National Theatre. Omar really enjoys working on KIT's Adventures in Learning, whether they're playing kind-hearted Professor Memo, or ruthless property magnate Richard Stark.

Omar is currently part of KIT's Trainee Scheme which is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Omar Bynon
Trainee Director/
Facilitator

KIT also employs a large pool of brilliant freelancers. Without their enthusiasm, playfulness and skill, we would not be able to deliver the work.

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Harry is a freelance director and co-runs the new writing company, DONOTALIGHT. Harry was part of the Mercury Directors scheme for 2021/22. He is the Production Co-Ordinator for KD Theatre Productions. He studied Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, and graduated in 2018. 

Harry was KIT's Administrator and then P
roducer from 2021-2024 before moving to work as High Tide's General Manager. He still joins KIT from time to time as a freelance consultant and creative associate. 
Harry Tennison
  Director/Consultant Producer
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Bre joined KIT Theatre as a storyteller for a Save Our Stories project in 2021.

As an actor, she has most recently appeared in BBC's Malory Towers. She attended Identity School of Acting and previously Empower School of Acting, using the skills she honed to develop a love for writing, she went on to be awarded the Stanley Evernden prize at the University of Loughborough in 2020 for her co-written play 'Three'. Having worked with children in many capacities including a tutor of over 5 years, she is driven by a passion for facilitating individualised methods of learning through creativity.
Bre Francis
Performer
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Lucy Dear is a theatre practitioner, community engagement producer and project manager from London with fifteen years experience of working in the community arts field. 

In the UK she has delivered projects at the Young Vic, Theatre Peckham, Poplar Union, Lyric Hammersmith, Unicorn Theatre, Kiln Theatre, The Old Vic, Southwark Playhouse, Bush Theatre, British Museum, Gate Theatre, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Chickenshed, Graeae, Green Shoes Arts, New Wimbledon Theatre, Tender, Battersea Arts Centre, Blackhorse Workshop. Internationally she has worked with Faust International and Dramatic English in Hong Kong and the Phillipines. 
Lucy Dear
Associate Producer

 

Aminita Francis

Performer and facilitator

 

Aminita Francis is an Actor, Vocal Artist, Composer & Writer from London, her musical & theatrical works have taken her from Battersea to Brazil. Her talents, originally nurtured by subsidised arts programmes, have come full circle as she now facilitates music and performance workshops for young people between her tour dates. Recent work includes: Critically Acclaimed 'Frankenstein How To Make a Monster' (Battersea Arts Centre & BBC film) & 'The Immersive Great Gatsby' (West End).

You can find more of her work here or on social media @AminitaFrancis.
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Kirsty Harris
Designer and maker
Kirsty Harris is an artist, designer and maker specialising in installation and performative works. Kirsty makes immersive worlds and experiences in found environments, landscapes and theatres. She has made work for babies aged 6 months and all the ages that come after.
She has collaborated with and designed community projects for companies including; Wildworks, Kneehigh, Punchdrunk, Shunt, The Young Vic, Coney, Likely Story Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre (BAC). She has been commissioned to make her own work by; BAC, Southbank Centre, The Discover Centre, National Theatre Wales, The Museum of London, The National Trust, Leeds Castle and other organisations. 
www.khmakesthings.co.uk
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Toby is a theatre maker who was on the BBC Performing Arts Fund ‘Ones to Watch’ list in 2015 & completed a BBC Community Theatre Fellowship with The Old Vic. He is an Associate Artist with theatre-makers Coney and is the Director for their young change-makers company, the Young Coneys. Toby runs Beyond Arts, which uses art to amplify the voices of young people who have experienced cancer and is also one of Julie’s Bicycle's Creative Climate Leaders. www.tobypeach.co.uk  
Toby Peach
Performer, writer and director

 

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Indie is a creative explorer. His work spans acting, music, producing and now directing theatre.

He has been a member of Sounds like Chaos for 10 years, devising and performing in shows such as 'Phenomena', 'Wow Everything Is Amazing!' and 'Fire in the Machine'.

He has also performed with number of collaborators including The Science Museum, Lyric Hammersmith, Manchester International Festival, Unicorn Theatre, LIFT Festival.
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Performer and facilitator

 

Fran Moulds
Performer, Writer,
Facilitator and Director
Fran has been working with KIT since they were founded in 2015, co-creating and starring in Inspiration Days such as Alien Egg and Lost Aussies and leading workshops in schools. More recently, she has written and directed for KIT. Fran has co-written and performed numerous acclaimed shows with Punchdrunk Enrichment and Coney.
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Fran is the founder of Brambledash, an outdoor theatre company based in Brighton which specialises in creating magical immersive theatre in woodland environments to inspire children and connect them with nature.
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Alexandra Donnachie (she/her) is an award-nominated actor-writer, facilitator and theatre maker from South London.  

Writing credits include: twenty-eight (DEM Productions); 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle; When We Died (Carbon Theatre).  

Acting credits include: 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle (performed with younger sister Kate); Return to Elm House (Battersea Arts Centre); Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (BAFTA Winner 2019).  

Alex can be heard in several audio dramas for Audible and Big Finish Productions and plays a series regular in Dark Shadows (BFP). She recently wrote an episode for the upcoming season, set for release in 2022.  
Alexandra Donnachie
Performer and facilitator

 

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Emma Bentley
Performer and facilitator

 

Emma Bentley is an actor, writer and workshop facilitator from the Midlands with a fascination of blurring the lines between audience and actor. She is the co-writer and performer of two solo shows (To She Or Not To She and What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors both Pleasance Courtyard Edinburgh runs and subsequent tours). She is currently doing an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is a columnist for A Younger Theatre. She has been proudly working with KIT since 2017, as an actor and voice over artist. She is also one of the performers of Nest, a sensory show for carers and pre-walking babies. Her work has been performed at New Writing Nights at venues such as Southwark Playhouse, The Vaults and The Pleasance. You can read Emma's work here: https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/author/emma-bentley/
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Hemi was born and raised in Istanbul. He completed his drama training at the Guilford School of Acting. Since his graduation, he acted in various projects in radio, theatre, film, TV, immersive theatre, musicals, Shakespeare, cabaret, commercials, dance and voiceover, his most notable credits including Mamma Mia The Movie, Eastenders E20 and Berberian Sound Studio at the Donmar Warehouse. Hemi runs his own theatre company theatreMania, which provides drama classes to nurseries, for children aged between 3 and 6. To find out more about his work, you can visit

www.hemiyeroham.com
Hemi Yeroham

Performer and facilitator

 

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Adam is a freelance theatre practitioner, workshop facilitator and stage manager from Essex, specialising in theatre for young people and community arts. Having trained in Applied Theatre at the Royal Central School in Speech and Drama he has gone on to deliver projects with the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Rochester Dickens Festival, Bigfoot Arts Education, Half Moon Theatre, National Archives and worked on the National Theatre Public Acts production ‘As You Like It’ in 2019. He is currently doing an MA in Arts and Cultural Management at King’s College London alongside a variety of freelance work. 
Adam Wheeler
Stage Manager

 

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Monique joined KIT in 2019 and was launched into its Adventures in Learning by becoming Agent Slate - an agent who works for the Society Against Stories. She is a freelance creative facilitator, producer and administrator, who strives to empower and educate children through alternative education. Working mostly with the visual arts, her community engagement practice and passion for education now crosses multiple forms. She works as a Learning Assistant at the Tate Galleries, a Teaching Assistant with the Floating Classroom, a specialised SEND support worker at the Watermans Arts Centre and a workshop leader at the Brixton Windmill.
Monique Kellay
Associate Producer​
Natalie Raaum
Associate producer
and documenter
Natalie Raaum is Associate Producer and freelance documenter for KIT. Natalie is Complicitè’s Creative Learning Producer. Recent experience includes working with Punchdrunk Enrichment (2015-18) as Project Manager for their acclaimed in-school project 'The Lost Lending Library'. In 2013 she started to work with Coney as freelance Assistant Producer and. in 2017/18, she produced 'The Droves', a large-scale, site-specific immersive show which was created by young people for an adult audience. In 2018 Natalie produced Marathon by JAMS, recipients of The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. Natalie graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013.
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Emma is a product of the European Theatre Arts course at Rose Bruford College - which means she does a bit of everything really! Most of her work to date has been as an actor puppeteer on theatre productions such as Les Enfants Terribles’ Alice’s Adventures Underground, Tall Stories’ Room on The Broom (both Olivier nominated) and Pins & Needles Mr Popper’s Penguins and Father Christmas. Emma also works extensively in immersive theatre, for companies such as Punchdrunk, Look Left Look Right, Coney & DifferencEngine. When not performing, Emma can be found teaching yoga, facilitating educational adventures for young people and stilt walking. Emma is also an award-winning voice-over artist and motion capture performer, with credits including Disney & Warner Brothers, and CBBC.
Emma MacLennan

Performer and facilitator

 

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Anna is an actor, director, and facilitator from Manchester. After graduating in Acting from LIPA, she trained with the Royal Exchange Theatre as a Young Director. She has since appeared on stage and screen including Parade (Hope Mill Theatre), Fearless (ITV),  and The Little Prince (Vienna's English Theatre). Working extensively with the Royal Exchange Theatre, she has been Associate Director on The Tempest and Utopia, as well as delivering an array of theatre workshops in writing, voice technique, and play. Anna is currently training in British Sign Language.
Anna Berentzen
Performer, director and facilitator

 

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