The Creative Team
Created and directed by Sarah Winn
Sarah Winn has successfully worked in theatre for over 13 Years. She trained at the Oxford School of Drama and The School of Physical Theatre. Her credits include The Jeweller directed by Paul Jepson, in London’s West End, and The Good Earth, Wales Millennium Centre, as well as touring a one woman show for 3 months. She is most passionate about the work she does with young offenders, vulnerable adults and diverse communities. She moved from London to Kent four years ago, since then her work has been focused more locally. She is an Head of development for Portrait Theatre and a core member of FPAC, Folkestone Performing Arts Company.
Dramaturgy and assistant director by Isabelle Defaut
Isabelle Defaut is a verbatim and documentary theatre maker.
She trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy, London and later retrained as a theatre director with the Studio Theater in Washington DC. She completed her Masters in Theatre making at the University of Kent in 2020, specialising in Verbatim theatre. One of her recent projects was the development and production of a verbatim piece 'I am seen. Are you?', about mental health in young people, staged at the Marlowe in March 2023.
Isabelle is Artistic Director of Portrait, Resident Theatre Company at the University of Kent.
Movement director Will Townsend
William Townsend is a Theatre Maker & Facilitator, & the Co-Director of OFFIE award-winning Physical Theatre company GymJam Theatre.
He has worked & collaborated all over the UK & EU with GymJam, such as their international collaboration with DOGMA in 2022. William has co-created & toured shows with companies such as Babel Theatre, Katla, Undercover Theatre & more, in London, Norway, and Australia.
William uses play, challenge, & connection to craft movement that speaks more than words can. His work zooms in & out of reality and fantasy worlds, offering audiences wide and intimate perspectives.
