Our Team
Dora Colquhoun
Dora is a writer, performer and theatre maker, recent productions include 'The Lodger' 2024 and ‘ADHD The Musical’ 2023. Dora is incredibly versatile and has a breadth of creative experience spanning 10 years. The core of all her work is storytelling with heart, she is open to using many creative forms and has collaborated with some fantastic artist, and organisations including: Wild Rumpus, Jamie Wood (international award-winning clown) Adam Mcguigan (Wake The Beast) Tmesis, Izzie Major (Frightwig) Liverpool Biennial, Action Transport Theatre, Cocoloco, RAWD, Cbeebies, Directors: Sue Hill (Wildworks) and John Wright (As Told By An Idiot)
Izzie Major
Izzie Major is a director, performer and performance artist whose work explores the absurd, the macabre, the mystical, the feminine and the grotesque. A lover of anything kitsch, surreal and apocalyptic, she enjoys net curtains, bald caps and existential crises. An associate artist of Hope Street Limited and Metal Culture, Izzie is a core member and performer in both Fright Wig and Izzie & Dora.
Phoebe McSweeney
Phoebe is a drama facilitator and community activist with a degree in Applied Theatre and Community Drama based in Liverpool. Phoebe works with marginalised communities through creative programmes that promote social change. Aiming to make the arts more equal and diverse by introducing it to groups who struggle with access due to financial and cultural reasons. Phoebe supports communities to compost a piece of theatre and intergrade it into individuals’ life’s, with the theatre having a base issue to educate. Phoebe works in community theatre and professional theatre that encourages empowerment, social change, and education, overall improving the arts industry and living standards.
Elinor Randle
Elinor is Artistic Director at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
She has worked in many mediums, nationally and internationally since 2003, specialises in ensemble-based theatre and is also Artistic Director of Tmesis Theatre and the international theatre festival, Physical Fest Elinor is skilled at supporting performers, students and theatre makers to reach their full potential in performance and the creation of work, both script based, physical and devised.
Frankie Gold
Frankie studied an MA in performance at Alra North and has a wealth of experience in theatre making, illustration and facilitation. She has worked with Travelled Companions, Altru and All things Considered Theatre. She is a wonderful operatic singer and has toured with the Chester Operatic society.
Harriet Warnock
Harriet is a freelance Producer, Project Manager and creative access support worker, who specialises in socially engaged work. She has worked with artists and writers such as Mandy Redvers-Rowe (Measuring Up, Shielded), Dora Colquhoun (ADHD The Musical, The Lodger R&D) Angie Waller/Nana Funk (Tough Old Bird) and with organisations such as The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Shakespeare North, Paperwork Theatre (Deep Blue) One September Art (Out of the Narrow Place).
In 2023 she joined Culture Liverpool to deliver the Education and Community Programme connected to Eurovision. She was previously General Manager at NPO Collective Encounters. Most recently she has been working at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse as producer (maternity cover), producing a season of in-house shows. She has been a visiting lecturer at LIPA on the Applied Theatre and Community Drama BA as well as doing individual career mentoring. She has an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths. She was one of the first cohort on The Hale’s Spaces of Joy Producer Programme, a national development and networking programme for producers working with learning disabled and neurodivergent artists.
Emma Hirons
Emma is a trained Yoga teacher and wellbeing practitioner, She has extensive experience working with neurodivergent creatives.
Emma trained as a Physical Theatre Performer at Hope Street Ltd. in Liverpool and furthered her training in Clown with Philippe Gaulier in Paris.
She has worked as a freelance actor for Companies such as Spike Theatre, Tell Tale Hearts, Liverpool Everyman Theatre, Unity Theatre, Torch Theatre and Brewery Arts Kendal. She has toured nationally and internationally with work for young audiences.