Meet the Young Company Practitioners

Chloë Thurlow

Performer, facilitator, musician and theatre maker

Chloe is a Bristolian performer and faciliatator with a background in music and comedy. She has a passion for devised theatre and ensemble work, and creating music and sound using only the voice. She's a previous MIB graduate, and has performed in places including The National Theatre, Chatsworth House, and Chelsea Arts Festival.

Rosie Mullaney

Actor, facilitator and theatre maker

Rosie is an actor, facilitator and theatre maker based in Bristol. She is a co-founder of award-nominated theatre company Coin Toss Collective and has worked with Bristol Old Vic as a facilitator for Young Company and Young Company City since 2021. Most of all, she always loves an exciting game of Zip Zap Boing!

Rhiannon Lewis

Facilitator, performer and martial artist

Rhiannon is a facilitator, performer and martial artist working in multiple venues around Bristol. Rhiannon trained in Acting at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (2019-2021) and was part of Bristol Old Vic’s 2023-24 ‘Made in Bristol’ cohort. She loves to work from a sense of childlike joy and play.

Georgia Casimir

Playwright, director and facilitator

Georgia Casimir is a playwright, director and facilitator. She graduated from University of Bristol’s Theatre and English BA in 2022 and went on to join Bristol Old Vic’s Made in Bristol scheme (2022/3). She recently held the position of Trainee Creative with The Egg and forms one half of Hagseed Theatre. Collaboration and story-telling are central to her practice and she enjoys working with themes of queerness, magic and comedy. 

Alexandra Wollacott 

(She/Her)

Actor, movement director, facilitator and drag king

Alex creates work with young people that involves dynamic movement, and nurturing their authentic theatrical voices. She graduated from Bristol Old Vic’s Made In Bristol scheme in 2017 (InkBloc Ensemble), and has since graduated with a first class degree in acting. Alex brings a unique energy and openness to devising process and loves investigating the building blocks of theatre making.

Krista Matthews

Writer, director and dramaturg

Krista was part of Bristol Old Vic’s Made In Bristol scheme (2016/2017) and is a graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she studied Drama, Applied Theatre and Writing for performance. Krista’s practice focusses on collaboration, often with young people, and creating work which is firmly rooted in challenging what theatre or performance can be. Krista has also recently began facilitating workshops in a secure children’s home, using theatre skills as a tool for self-advocacy.

Frazer Meakin

Director, movement director and facilitator working across theatre and film

Frazer is a graduate of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s MA in Drama Directing. He is passionate about bold, ambitious and innovative storytelling and has experience working across a wide range of styles and forms: from devising physical theatre to Shakespeare, musical theatre to stand-up comedy. 

Collaboration and ensemble are at the heart of his practice. He loves facilitating and using the arts as a catalyst for imagination and importantly giving a voice to all; encouraging ‘yes’ in a world of ‘no’.

Xahnaa Adlam

Theatre maker, facilitator and performer

Xahnaa attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA Drama, Applied Theatre and Education course.

Within her practice, Xahnaa uses the theatre to assist the people, not the people to assist the theatre. She creates environments where the creative energy and direction is participant driven. Xahnaa is there to shape the space and anchor the work. It is the participants, through their growth, exploration and collaboration who will fill it in. 

She is a recipient of the Henry Forse Award for outstanding commitment to the Bristol Old Vic Engagement department.

Harry Gould

Director and theatre maker

Harry graduated from Bristol Old Vic’s Made in Bristol scheme in 2020 and then went on to study an MA in Directing at LAMDA.

He is interested in new stories about and for young people with a particular focus on the mental health of young people and the role theatre can play in tackling related issues exacerbated by modern living and the pandemic. Harry’s practice always aims to create a sense of community, and to empower artists and audiences, to use their imagination and be challenged to empathize. 

Cameron Thorne

Facilitator and director

Cameron is a graduate from the Bristol Old Vic’s Made in Bristol course, the University of the West of England and a former teacher. Cameron is a facilitator and director who through his work, aims to promote inclusivity and access within Theatre for neurodiverse and disabled young people.