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.

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. I

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.

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.

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.