Tanushka Marah is a theatre director and the Artistic Director of ThirdSpace Theatre CIC. She also works as a Movement Director for companies such as the RSC, a dramaturg, writer and workshop leader.  She was an Artist in Residence at The Brighton Dome, and regularly works for Brighton People’s Theatre.

After completing a degree in Philosophy her early career began by founding Company:Collisions which toured for ten years all across the UK and abroad. She won two awards, The Genesis Young Director Award at the Young Vic and The Outstanding Theatre Award Brighton Fringe, her work has also been nominated for two awards. Her production of Medea, toured international festivals in Cyprus and Albania, representing British Classical Theatre. Two of her original works appeared in London’s International Mime Festival. Rest Upon The Wind sold out at Riverside Studios and Tristan Bates before touring extensively in the Middle East during 2012.

Angela is a performing arts lecturer, artistic director of Speak Up! Act Out! cic, and an Applied Theatre workshop facilitator.

Her practice involves working with theatre makers, community groups, charities, corporations, and educational institutes, as well as with individuals as a mentor and coach.

Angela teaches performing arts and production design at Northbrook College, and is a visiting performing arts lecturer at Portsmouth University. In 2019 she was the recipient of a travel Fellowship, researching how Improvisation can be used as a tool to support the wellbeing and mental health of young people.

Graham works as a practitioner in theatre, circus, storytelling, and combat. He specialises in creating site-specific and outdoor spectacle events, including theatrical performance, circus, storytelling, film, and moving visual arts installations. He runs Sometime Soon Arts and is also a regular collaborator with the internationally-acclaimed large-scale performance company Periplum. Graham is also a freelance tutor, delivering workshops and educational projects with BTEC and HND students from Northbrook College and North Herts College. He also teaches masterclass residencies in Spain, Greece, France, and Italy with Pavilion Tours to performing arts students at A level, BTEC, and HND level.

Natasha is a director, writer, author, and teacher of Drama. She is a Brighton-based practitioner, who currently teaches at BHASVIC College and ThirdSpace.

Natasha is an author and researcher for ‘We Teach Drama’, ‘Mousetrap’ and ‘Get Up Stand Up – The Bob Marley Musical’. Natasha specialises in physical theatre, total theatre, and cathartic community based projects.

Linda is an award-winning playwright writing theatre, audio, and fiction. She mostly writes science fiction, climate stories and contemporary mash-ups of classic texts.  She is currently writing a play about a load of street-kids in Jacobean London. Her contemporary adaptation of The Secret Garden will be at the Leeds Playhouse in Spring 2027.

Linda has also just completed her first novel, ‘The Sky is the First Thing,’ told through the eyes of a female clone: think Jane Eyre meets Never Let Me Go. Finalist Andromeda Science Fiction Prize, 2025. Her adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’ was at the amazing London Library in June 2026. She has received a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation to write her stage-play ‘All the World’s a River’ about a group of street-kids in Jacobean London and developed a global podcast series, ‘No Place but the Water’, set in a hotel at the end of the world, into a YA novel. The whole series was released on Audible in Summer 2026.

Her work has won a Pearson Award, Grand Prix at the Prix Marulic, BBC Best Single Audio Drama, Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Theatre Award, Tinniswood Award, Arias, MEN Best New Play and the Yale Drama Series. Her stage-play, ‘The Invisible’ was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Saint Joan of the Anthropocene’ was a finalist in the Prix Italia, 2025 and BBC Best Adaptation, 2026.

She is represented by United Talent Agency in New York and Curtis Brown in London | https://www.lindamarshallgriffiths.co.uk/

Rob is an actor, performer and director. He trained with ThirdSpace, performing in Romeo and Juliet, Bakkhai and Earth Teeth, and has since taught and performed with ThirdSpace for 4 years. He trained internationally in physical and devised theatre at the École Philippe Gaulier, and Grotowski Institute. He has devised and directed his own work with his theatre company Split Hairs, praised as “perfectly achieved physical theatre” – touring across the UK to Theatre Royal Bath, Norfolk, Labyrinth Arts Festival, and more.

He has performed with Bim Mason’s Bigheads which regularly garner national attention, performed puppetry at the Kew Gardens with Long Nose Puppets, and devised physical comedy work with Told By An Idiot co-founder and clown expert Stephen Harper. He has taught Acting and Theatre as a guest teacher at the University of Cambridge, Northbrook College, and Brighton Clown School.

Oceana is an actor, deviser, mover, and vocalist from a Greek, Cuban, American and Lebanese background. She has a strong passion for creating innovative, collaborative work. Oceana graduated from East15 Acting School with a BA in Acting & Contemporary Theatre and has a background in musical theatre.

Drawing inspiration from artists like Gecko, Pina Bausch, and Augusto Boal, she excels in movement, devising, and improvisation. A skilled singer, harmonist, and advanced guitarist, Oceana enjoys creating both solo and ensemble pieces. Her show El Viaje headlined Femme-Fest at The Other Palace and received several five-star reviews at Brighton Fringe 2024, where it also earned her the Pebble Trust Young People’s Bursary. Since graduating, she’s been actively working in the industry from music videos, modelling, to forum theatre pieces. Including 5 weeks of R&D with Chris Evans & Amit Lahav, and regularly performs at open mics.

Oceana also starred as Jay in ThirdSpace’s Brighton Festival production of Earth Teeth in 2025, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth – Alas, Poor Country in 2026.

Gina trained as an actor at the BAFTA Award winning Television Workshop, working as a professional actor on stage, TV & film. She is a lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary Theatre and has a wealth of experience in devising, directing and teaching; her continued and respected work with young people in Drama gives her the insight, sensitivity and sense of humour required to work with younger actors. A practical, positive approach, partnered with a creative and imaginative flair and a love for storytelling in all its dramatic forms. Her film work focuses on character and emotional tone. Passionate about inspiring teams toward a shared vision, and thinking creatively around both content and form. Her first short film ‘Plaster’ was officially selected for film festivals in the UK, Sydney & Mumbai.

Kirsty specialises in choral design for theatre, choral arrangements and composition, facilitating group composition through improvisation, and collaborative work with instrumentalists.

Kirsty has been the Choral Designer for several ThirdSpace  productions and has also worked with Brighton People’s Theatre, New International Encounter Theatre, The Albany, London, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe.

Kirsty was a secondary school teacher for many years and is the founding Artistic Director of Hullabaloo Community Quire. She also runs Bards and Ballads Choral Theatre projects in Brighton, London and Cambridge as well as Hubbub Song Hub in Brighton and Raise the Roof Community Choir in London.

Dave is an experienced producer, change manager, relationship manager, administrator, events and project coordinator having worked in the corporate consultancy and charity sectors, with a history as an organisational lead in the theatrical and arts industry.

He left his Operations and Facilities Manager role at The So & So Arts Club due to COVID-19, and worked with Winston’s Wish from February 2021 to December 2022. Having implemented and change-managed a new method of service delivery, he left Winston’s Wish to join Plain Numbers as Partnerships & Services Manager.

Before moving to Brighton, he was a theatre director trained at the King’s Head Theatre on the Resident Directors’ Scheme and is an Olivier-nominated associate director for King’s Head’s La Boheme at Trafalgar Studios in 2016. He has won awards and received critical acclaim for his directing work including The Soul of Wittgenstein and The Yellow Wallpaper and ran his own theatre company, Another Soup for over 7 years.