Directing credits include Love Child; “Gripping but measured production." Evening Standard, Seed, Mary Stuart (Time Out Critics’ Choice) - “Excellent performances and some stunning moments of violence...” The Independent; “Fascinating” Time Out; “Nicolette Kay directs the often exhilarating proceedings…a production of character.” The Guardian; The Dreams of Clytemnestra and Mela (BAC) and The B3 Team (Lyric Studio, Hammersmith).
Acting credits include leading roles such as Miss Hoyden in The Relapse (opposite David Jason), Ophelia (opposite Edward Fox) at the Young Vic, the premiere of Love Bites by Anthony Minghella, She also co-translated Mary Stuart which was subsequently published and has been continuously performed in the English speaking world. She has written a full length play; Falling Out devised Slide and written numerous short performance pieces.
Aviva worked as an actress with companies such as Monstrous Regiment before qualifying in Law. She is a barrister specialising in Public and Private Law involving children, emergency remedies and procedures, child abduction and Hague Convention, civil actions against the police. Qualified Family Mediator, French Speaker. Co-Author: International Kidnapping (The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction). Recommended in 2007 Legal 500, 'a strong children law practitioner'.
Joan is a social anthropologist and contract researcher who has been at Moray House for over 10 years. Her research interests reflect the wide range of projects in which she has been involved and include inter/multidiciplinary working in school settings, exclusion from school, and the experiences of marginal groups in school education (e.g. Gypsy Travellers, Refugees, pupils with a visual impairment, and pupils diagnosed with ADHD). She co-taught a post-graduate course in qualitative methods for several years and is currently co-supervising 2 PhD students. Publications- click here
Pat spent nearly all of her working life working in inner London as a teacher and Headteacher of a Primary school, apart from three years as a Community Development Officer in Southwark developing services for children and young people. She has been a Trustee for Oval House for ten or more years and saw it develop its policy from being a Youth club to a performing arts centre.
Jane is the editor of a business publication for the Institute of Director, Kent Branch. She has been involved in marketing for nearly 20 years working with companies such as NEC, Samsung and Novell. She has also been involved with Home Start, an organisation which helps young mums with pre-school age children with a multitude of issues. Jane has one adopted child and is a frequent helper at school.
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We were committed to giving a voice to the new, the marginalised and the excluded.