The Team

Menagerie work with a variety of writers, actors, directors and other partners to help us achieve our aims (thanks to all of you by the way!); the following are people who work with the company on a day to day basis.

Paul Bourne, Artistic Director	Freelance Director, Artistic Director of Menagerie and The Hotbed Festival, Paul has directed and produced over sixty professional productions in ten different countries. His work has ranged from productions on the fringe through to major international touring. Highlights include Guignol (Tennessee Williams) in New York and The UK, The world touring production of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (out of Washington DC), and the European premieres Oleanna and The Secret Garden. Previously Artistic Director at the Frankfurt Playhouse and Center Stage New York, his focus is on creating and developing new work for the stage, offering appropriate productions that entertain, challenge and inspire. Paul also runs the corporate training for menagerie and has delivered training and support for companies at all levels including Liverpool F.C and the BBC. Contact: paul@menagerie.uk.com
Patrick Morris, Associate Artistic Director	Patrick Morris trained at Exeter University before moving to the USA for nine years where credits include Henry VI at New York’s Public Theatre, Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways directed by Joseph Chaikin, and On the Razzle working with Tom Stoppard. Work in the UK includes site-specific projects with Wrights and Sites, and national tours with Foursight Theatre, most recently playing Jason in their production of Medea.For Menagerie, he has appeared in The Cull by Steve Waters, Hard Sell by Craig Baxter and directed premieres of Naomi Wallace’s The Retreating World and Claire Macdonald’s Correspondence. Patrick is Associate Artistic Director of Menagerie and currently directs the Writer Attachment Programme. Contact: patrick@menagerie.uk.com
Cassandra Bradnack, Project Coordinator	Project Coordinator for Menagerie since October 2010. Cassandra studied an Arts Management Masters at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and also works as a Tutor of Art at Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts. Cassandra has managed many contemporary and creative projects and has experience of marketing, fundraising and working within the arts environment. Cassandra will continue to support all of Menagerie’s up and coming projects. Contact: cassie@menagerie.uk.com
Jacqui Honess-Martin, Literary Associate	Jacqui is a freelance director and playwright and Artistic Director of InSite Performance. For InSite Performance her directing credits include: SMITH, performed in the Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum, Antigone, performed in the disused Walworth Council Chambers. She is currently developing the UK premiere of Ostrovsky’s The Girl Without A Dowry in a new adaptation by Samuel Adamson for InSite. Development work has included workshops at the Jerwood Space and The National Theatre Studio. Other directing credits include: Auricular: Live Audio Drama at Theatre 503. She assisted David Levaux on the West End revival of Tom Stopppard’s Arcadia, at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 2009 and other assisting credits include Remembrance Day at the Royal Court Theatre and Woyzeck, for Cardboard Citizens at Southwark Playhouse. The first full production of one of Jacqui’s original plays was Tell Out My Soul which was part of Summer Plays Festival at the Public Theater, New York in 2008. Contact: jacqui@menagerie.uk.com
Emma Butler Smith, Producing Consultant	Emma is a freelance producer, general manager and marketing consultant, working on UK tours, West End runs, theatre festivals and living history events.As well as working for Menagerie, Emma also works as ‘Magic Fairy’ for companies including Fresh Glory Productions, the Lions part, Passamezzo and REEP. For the Royal Shakespeare Company, Emma managed the Touring Department, the Newcastle 25 Season and the SummerHouse before becoming part of the RSC Enterprise team and then Head of Publications. Her other work includes events & marketing manager for a historic house, account manager for a publishing/printing company, youth theatre director, head of theatre studies department in two schools and sixth form house mistress in a boarding school.Contact: emma@menagerie.uk.com
Lester Lloyd-Reason, Chairman	Lester Lloyd-Reason is Professor of International Enterprise Strategy, Director of the Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR). He is Programme Director of the BA (Hons) Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management. He has considerable experience of research in the area of entrepreneurial management of international SMEs and has more than 130 publications in this field. He has developed two research projects under the European Union Phare-ACE programme, has been in receipt of personal research grants from the British Academy and the Soros Foundation and is currently Academic Advisor to a 45-country study into SME internationalisation being undertaken by the OECD. He is a member of the International Council for Small Business, has served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in the UK and serves on the Editorial Board of a number of Journals, including the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ). He is Board member of Enterprise East Ltd. and Chairman of Menagerie Theatre Company.
Nigel Atkinson, Board Member	Nigel was a senior manager working at Executive Board level at Cambridge University Press (CUP). Whilst at the CUP, Nigel was involved in a number of areas including.Sales, Marketing, Communications, Customer and Public Relations, as well as People Management and Business Planning. Nigel recently studied with the University of Cambridge for a Masters degree in Social Enterprise and Community Development; his dissertation covered the Business Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Alison Pearn, Board Member	Alison Pearn is Assistant Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, with experience in research, educational outreach, public engagement with science, management, and fundraising. With her colleagues she is researching and publishing all letters written by or to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), and has jointly edited eight volumes of the award-winning definitive edition The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (F. Burkhardt, et al. eds, Cambridge University Press, 1985-). Alison also writes for the popular press, and has appeared in radio interviews and programmes, including In Our Time, and Woman’s Hour. She has also collaborated with the playwright, Craig Baxter, and with Menagerie, to create the highly successful dramatisation of Darwin’s letters, Re:Design. www.darwinproject.ac.uk
James Barlow, Board Member	James qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton working mainly in the audit division in both the UK and Australia. More recently he has worked for small fast growing companies with particular focus on raising funds and cash management along with developing and implementing the necessary controls and systems as the companies have grown.
Rachel Aspinwall, Artistic Associate	Rachel was a founding member of Menagerie in 1999. She performed in and directed many of the company’s shows and supported and undertook key artistic and strategic decisions. She was with the company for five years before moving to the SW of England. She remains an Artistic Associate of the company and performs or directs with the company on a freelance basis.
Mhari Gallagher, Producer/Marketing	Mhari is a freelance Producer, Director and Workshop Leader. Recent projects include: the devising and direction of a play for Suffolk Arts Link; the design and delivery of the education programme for Scamp Theatre; the co-producing and co-directing of a ‘Fall in Love with Theatre’ event at the Mumford Theatre. Previously, Mhari worked as the Associate Producer for Cambridge Arts Theatre, as well as in the Marketing and Education Departments. She has taught Drama in a variety of school and theatre contexts in the UK and The Netherlands, and she has an MA in Theatre Direction: Text and Production from the University of East Anglia.