Meet the Team
Igniting disabled excellence across the arts
Jamie Hale
Artistic Director
Jamie Hale is an award-winning theatre maker, poet, (screen)writer, charity CEO and founder and Artistic Director at CRIPticArts. Their work focuses on crip- and queer- realities, and the urgency of living as a disabled person.
Verve Poetry Press published their first poetry pamphlet, Shield in 2021. Jack Thorne read from it in the 2021 MacTaggart lecture, where he described them as an “extraordinary voice”. Hannah Gadsby described their solo film, NOT DYING, as “fantastic”.
In 2021, they were awarded the Jerwood Poetry Fellowship, won Director/Theatremaker of the Year Award in the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Awards, and were listed in the Disability Power 100 as one of the hundred most influential disabled people in Britain. They also directed the sell-out 2021 CRIPtic Showcase.
Jamie is working on their first poetry collection, building CRIPtic Arts and developing their TV series with Channel 4.
Caitlin Richards
Lead Producer
Producer and wearer of many hats with 6 years experience and counting making events & shows happen. Proud working-class Northerner.
Caitlin started her career in Special Events and Fundraising in the charity sector. She has worked for the Royal Horticultural Society, the British Red Cross, RADA and English National Ballet as well as in raising funds for cultural, environmental and humanitarian causes.
Caitlin moved into producing in 2021, co-producing the 2021 CRIPtic Showcase and development programme, before producing comedy at one of London’s leading comedy clubs. She has been with CRIPtic Arts as Lead Producer since 2021. Here, she works to create opportunities and outstanding theatre alongside deaf and disabled creatives. This included producing the R&D and performances for Jamie Hale’s solo show NOT DYING (2022).
Jack Wakely
Development Producer
Jack Wakely grew up in the West Country, but has lived and worked in London since 2008. They graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with a First Class degree in Drama & Theatre Arts (BA Hons). Jack is an advocate for recognising gender diversity, disability and neurodiversity within the arts.
Jack has been Co-Artistic Director of the award-winning Silent Faces Theatre since the company was founded in 2015, making brave, ridiculous, unique and challenging devised theatre. They are a also founding ensemble member of Degenerate Fox (AKA the London Neo-Futurists), writing, directing and performing in The Dirty Thirty, a fortnightly outing of an ever-changing menu of 30 original plays, performed in one hour, against the clock.
From a background of self-producing work with both Silent Faces and Degenerate Fox, Jack went on to work as Producer and Project Manager at Open Door and Producer at Cardboard Citizens. As a creative producer, they’re focused on producing work with a social purpose, as well as supporting marginalised artists to tell stories.
Alice Christina-Corrigan
Community Programmes Officer
Alice Christina-Corrigan is a visually impaired actor, theatre maker and facilitator based in Manchester. Having spent the last few years working on projects surrounding community voices, disability activism and creative access, Alice is thrilled to be combining these skills in producing and facilitating the CRIPTIC 2023 Connect Through Creativity Project 2023.
Alice’s work includes a DYCP focused around accessible story telling practice, mentoring for companies such as Graeae and DCF Charity, audio description consultancy for companies such as Sheffield Theatres and Royal and Derngate, worked as a creative captioner for Ransack Theatre as well as Past Life- Alices first show, which has been performed at the Barbican Centre, Bloomsbury Festival and Camden People’s Theatre and most recently, became a Developed with Artist at The Lowry. Alice aims to change the trajectory of disabled artists’ voices in the arts sector by providing longevity to artists careers, with a keen interest in providing opportunities to new and emerging, working class and northern voices.
Meg Terzza
Marketing Officer
Meg is an award-winning digital storyteller who uses their background as a filmmaker and photographer to tell engaging stories through digital content. Meg has worked with a variety of artists, theatre makers, filmmakers and musicians across the North, with work featuring in outlets such as The Times, The Stage and The BBC.
Meg has been creating digital content in the theatre industry since they were a teenager. Their previous work at Shakespeare North Playhouse was shortlisted for a Digital Culture Award, won them a Liverpool City Region Tourism Award and an invitation to speak at the AMA’s Digital Marketing Day. A storyteller at heart, they’re passionate about working class, queer, disability and autistic representation in the arts.
Luke Rogers
Project Coordinator and Assistant to Jamie Hale
Luke Rogers is a queer and autistic London-based artist, producer and performance-maker, originally from Essex. They graduated from University of Chichester in 2021 with a BA (Hons) First class in Acting, followed by the completion of their MA in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London. Since their time in the arts, Luke has developed numerous participatory theatre projects that are rooted in their lived experience as a queer nuerodivergent person.
Their shows are visceral, comedic, and raw attempts to explore contemporary topics in a way that celebrates both personal and collective experience. From their work on Please Hold, a show by their theatre company which explores toxic masculinity and the commodification of the female body, all the way to the neurodiversity of There Will Be a Party – all these large universal themes are framed in a way that is always personal and relatable to the audience, whilst politically instigating conversation around the topics.
Luke has also since appeared in Ted Lasso on Apple TV and What We Do In The Shadows on Disney+, in addition to lending their voice to Bethesda’s Fallout Franchise.
Quinn Clark
Writer and Transcriptionist
Quinn Clark is an award-winning author, researcher and access worker from Newcastle upon Tyne. As a disabled and neurodivergent practitioner, Quinn often intertwines themes of trauma, mental health and disability with humour and wordplay in their work. They are currently working as a Personal Assistant to playwright and Pathfinders CEO Jamie Hale,, and as an Access Worker with Arts Council England. Likewise, they are funded by Arts Council England to work on their debut full-length novel, Out of Your Depth: a science fiction romp about a man who transforms into an octopus against his will.
Research, Resources, Revolution
Research, resources, revolution is the CRIPtic Arts research and development programme. Our research needs to contribute to resources. We will use those resources to create change. You can meet the team leading this project below.
Dr Jessi Parrott
Research & Policy Lead
Dr Jessi Parrott is a disabled researcher specialising in employment issue in UK theatre and television. They received their PhD, on disability casting conventions, from the School of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, with co-supervision from Warwick Business School. They are also a creative and performer – of both their own and other people’s work – and a playwright, poet, trainer and facilitator. When making their own creative work, they are particularly interested in multidisciplinary and co-creative explorations around the intersections of disabled, queer and trans identity. They are incredibly passionate about holding space for, and platforming, other artists and creatives, and advocating for the arts industries to become more equitable, intersectionally inclusive and accessible through both research and practice.
Sam Brewer
Arts & Communities Lead
Sam is an access consultant, facilitator, actor & theatre maker. He graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama’s BA Acting CDT at Central in 2020. Since graduating he has heavily involved himself in disability related activism and was the director of The Diversity School Initiative. He is also an ambassador for the Disability Artist Network Collective. He runs workshops on access tools in the rehearsal room – skill building for practitioners on making their methodologies more accessible. These workshops are designed to be active, engaging and cheeky. Self describing the way he works as “take the work seriously, don’t take yourself seriously.” He co – founded Flawbored in 2021.
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