People
The Graeae Team
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Jenny Sealey OBE
Joint CEO/Artistic Director
Jenny Sealey OBE
Joint CEO/Artistic DirectorWhat is your favourite thing about your job?
I have loved and learned from all Graeae shows. All have had such different challenges, diverse casts and glorious chaos so it is hard to pin point just one. I am truly blessed that I love my job. All of it. I have the best teams so work is never a chore. It is always a job with a purpose and a kind accessible creative place to be.
Jenny’s directing career began with Interplay Theatre, co-directing Sea Changes, then directing Stepping Stones and Mad Meg. Jenny has been Graeae’s Artistic Director since 1997.
Directing credits for Graeae include:
Credits for Graeae include: The Paradis Files an opera (commissioned by The Stables for IF: Milton Keynes, in partnership with BBC Concert Orchestra and Curve Theatre); Reasons To Be Cheerful a musical (2010 co-produced with New Wolsey and Theatre Royal Stratford East); Sarah Kane’s Blasted (in association with RADA); Kaite O’Reilly’s peeling, The House of Bernarda Alba (co-produced with Manchester Royal Exchange); Blood Wedding (co-produced with Dundee Rep and Derby Theatre); ‘The Threepenny Opera’ (co -directed with Peter Rowe, co-produced with New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Nottingham and Leeds Playhouses and Birmingham Rep). Plays for young people include Diary of an Action Man and Whiter than Snow both by Mike Kenny. Outdoor productions include Against the Tide, The Iron Man, The Garden, The Limbless Knight – A Tale of Rights Reignited and for the WW1 Centenary This Is Not For You with disabled veterans.
International credits include: Blood Wedding (Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo); Romeo and Juliet (Saitama Arts Theatre, Tokyo); and at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) then touring outdoor arenas: Against the Tide; The Garden; The Limbless Knight – A Tale of Rights Reignited. Jenny co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony alongside Bradley Hemmings (GDIF).
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Kevin Walsh
Joint CEO/Executive Director
Kevin Walsh
Joint CEO/Executive DirectorWhat is your favourite Graeae show/project/programme and why?
I have many favourite Graeae shows, but the ones that really get me are where I feel like we are doing something that no other company can do. This Is Not For You, where we helped wounded veterans tell their story of exclusion and, ultimately, acceptance was something I will never forget.
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Jodi-Alissa Bickerton
Deputy Artistic Director
Jodi-Alissa Bickerton
Deputy Artistic DirectorWhat is your favourite Graeae show/project/programme and why?
Every production and programme which is rich in people to be creatively bold and fabulous.
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Vicky Berry
Access Manager
Vicky Berry
Access ManagerWhat is the first piece of art/performance/writing you remember creating/being a part of that made you the most proud?
A community opera at the Hackney Empire. It was ambitious work – sprawling, scary, spectacular! A brilliant insight into how different groups of people can come together to create the most glorious art that unites and inspires. I still find myself humming along to the songs nearly 20 years on.
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Lizzy Luxford
General Manager
Lizzy Luxford
General ManagerWhat is the first piece of art/performance/writing you remember creating/being a part of that made you the most proud?
I was in the village pantomime every year growing up, along with half of my family. I don’t remember a lot of the specifics, but I do remember discovering that feeling of community and the buzz around making a show – there’s nothing like it, whether it’s a village hall in Hollingbourne, touring Shakespeare in the rain, or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Charlotte McCabe
Marketing and Development Manager
