Movement Toolbox

With Meghan Denton & Firielle Al Ju’beh (Dark Horse Theatre)

Discovering dynamic stories, connecting your imagination and body

Meghan Denton, an actor/theatre maker from Halifax (West Yorkshire), trained with Dark Horse Theatre from 2014 to 2020, playing lead roles in Snakebite (2015) and The Garden (2020), working alongside contemporary dance artist Vilmore James and director and writer Vanessa Brooks. Meghan has since joined the Dark Horse ensemble developing original work in their signature physical style, touring most recently with #Unit21 and joining the Separate Doors National Ensemble developing work for general audiences with integrated casts of learning disabled and non-disabled actors, working with movement director Angela Gasparetto. 
Firielle Al Ju’beh, a Palestinian actor/theatre-maker who lives in Yorkshire, trained with Dark Horse Theatre from 2017 to 2020, playing the lead role alongside Meghan in The Garden (2020), working with Pheonix Dance Theatre founder Vilmore James to develop a contemporary movement vocabulary for the show.

Laughing Matters – a comedy writing workshop series

With Jen McGregor

A fun, quickfire workshop series taking you through generating ideas, comedic structure, and how to turn an ordinary sentence into a zinger!

About Jen McGregor

Jen McGregor is an award-winning writer and director. Credits include The Premorial (Birds of Paradise/Perth Theatre), Ghost Stories (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Divergent Sounds (Southbank Centre) and Matchmaker Theatre’s The Real William Shakespeare… as told by Christopher Marlowe (EdFringe). Jen’s work explores themes of self-invention, death fear/death drive, and finding your place in a world in which you don’t easily fit.