Alice is a Producer and Arts Manager who has worked on a variety of performance projects for Diverse City and other arts organisations in the South West including Activate Performing Arts, Lighthouse Poole, Pavilion Dance South West and Youth Dance England. Alice obtained her BA in Performing Arts and Literature from the University of Winchester in 2005 before training in Prince2 Project Management methodology.

Alice has built up a portfolio of arts and cultural projects – many of which have a focus on working with integrated groups of young people. She brings her organisational strengths, creativity and warm personality to the company.

For the last year, Alice has been located in Kenya, where she has forged new creative connections on behalf of the company, and led on new international work.

Becky is an experienced leader, creative strategist, income generator, change-maker and specialist in diversity and inclusion. Starting her professional theatre career as a performer, touring the beaches, pubs and schools of South Devon, Becky is currently Executive Director of Diverse City. Now based in Bristol, she has previously worked across the UK and Australia in performance, creative learning, new writing, arts development and arts access for regional venues, producing companies and touring theatres.
After 10 years bringing up a family and working in Sydney Australia (Australian Theatre for Young People and Accessible Arts Sydney Australia) she worked as a freelance creative producer, fundraiser and consultant with companies including Theatre Orchard, the forerunner of Super Culture, & Theatre Royal Plymouth (to set up Funky Llama). Becky has a BA and PGCE in English and Drama, is a graduate of National Fundraising School, a member of 2017-19 Change Creation cohort and regularly contributes to arts sector conversations about equality in working culture and strategy. Becky is a Charity Trustee of Wyldwood Arts (Chair) and Exeter Northcott (Co-Chair).

Becky joined Diverse City as Governance and Compliance Manager in January 2024. She has a background in the third sector, having previously worked in education charities.
Becky lives in Tunbridge Wells with her young family, Lurcher Archie and Cat Geoff and loves baking, drawing and picking up toys off the floor.

Beryl is an arts marketing consultant working within communications, PR, marketing and branding for more than ten years. Specialising in the arts and culture sector, she was previously Head of Communications at Trigger; a Bristol based arts organisation that creates and large scale outdoor and digital events and Communications Manager at Watershed, – a mixed -art venue, independent cinema and creative technology centre in Bristol.

Previously, Beryl worked in Branding and Design and in PR for a range of arts organisations, venues and festivals in Bristol including Bristol Beacon, IBT (Inbetween Time Festival), The Other Art Fair, Upfest – Europe’s largest street art festival, Massive Attack on the Downs, St Pauls Carnival, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival and Troxy and Natural History Museum (Events)

Caro Boss is the Communications Manager and arrived at Diverse City in 2019 after many years at Clean Break, a theatre company committed to raising the voices of women in prison.

After beginning her career in commercial London theatres, she quickly transferred her allegiance to working in applied arts and never looked back.

Claire is a Theatre, Dance and Circus Director, committed to achieving social justice. Claire founded Diverse City in 2005 and is the co-founder of Extraordinary Bodies, the UK’s leading professional integrated circus company.

Claire was a Clore Fellow in 2012 and writes for The Guardian online. She is a former course leader for Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University and was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to inclusion in the Performing Arts. Together with Jamie Beddard, Claire won the Clore Duffield 50th Anniversary prize, which they used to tour Extraordinary Bodies across the UK and support 10 ‘Unexpected Leaders’ who have faced barriers to entering the industry.

She is a co-creator of Mid Life, a taboo breaking show about menopause that played to sold out houses in 2019, and will be remounted in 2023. The show also led to Diverse City’s first short film Mid Life: The Skin We Are In.

Diana is a mathematician, theatre-maker and software developer from Barcelona. She enjoys combining her two passions: theatre and logic, wherever she goes. She is a member of the theatre company ANTS Theatre and freelancer in various fields. She is in charge of IT Support in Diverse City and makes sure all the tech is in place and works smoothly.

Eddy left Bristol for rural Dorset 12 years ago where she lives with her family, Monty the Red Setter and Olive the Cat!

Eddy is a qualified and practising Hypnotherapist based in The Isle of Purbeck. With a firm foundation in Finance roles covering the last ten years or so, Eddy has joined us as our Accounts Assistant working closely with Liz our Finance Manager.

Walking Monty on the beach, fire pits in the warm Summer evenings with friends and family are what keep Eddy relaxed, which is important to her. Although now and again she likes to challenge herself so in 2018 she trekked to Everest Base Camp and stood on top of the World.

Eilís is a facilitator, director and theatre maker. She is an inclusive movement specialist bringing together people of all abilities to participate in creative processes. Eilís graduated from the European Theatre Arts programme at Rose Bruford College in 2011. She now combines theatre with her extensive knowledge in creative support and is focused on developing theatre-training practice for young people with access needs. Eilís is the Artistic Director of Diverse City’s youth company, Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists. Eilís is also a trustee for We The Curious.

Elana was herself a Diverse City Unexpected Leader from 2016 – 2017, and in addition to her work administrating the Connecting Communities project, is  a London-based artist who works as a performer, director, dramaturg, producer and sound designer, often at the same time. Her work explores shame, noise, disability and contemporary oral histories.

Gemma is a theatre maker, and community artist, specialising in arts and wellbeing practice. She is passionate about creativity in all its forms, and enjoys nothing more than bringing her love for the arts and its unique ability to connect us, to places and people helping to grow communities, and support individual development.

Gemma has been working in the arts since 2007, and in that time has benefitted from a wide range of roles and experience; she has co-founded two arts and health organisations, been artistic director to a theatre company, led artistic engagement programmes for charities to theatres, led socially engaged festivals, programmed for an arts centre, and taught at HE and FE levels.
It is this breadth of skills, experience and devotion to community arts that Gemma brings to her role developing and producing exciting and ambitious community led work with Diverse City.

Jamie joined Diverse city as Co-Artistic Director and is also part of the Creative Team behind Extraordinary Bodies. Jamie grew up in a time when opportunities for disabled people in the arts were limited, but was offered an acting role by the BBC that kicked off his professional career. Since then Jamie has taken the arts world by storm.

In 2011 he left his role as Diversity Officer for the Arts Council to concentrate on developing his freelance portfolio. In 2012 he directed Breathe for the opening ceremony celebrating the Olympic Sailing, and in 2013 he became a Clore Fellow. Jamie recently completed a six-month run at The National Theatre in Threepenny Opera and played the Leader in the return of Bristol Old Vic’s production of Messiah.

Jesse is a creative practitioner who loves making wonderful things happen. As company manager, she helps ensure operations run smoothly and systems are in place to ensure everyone has what they need to do their best work. Prior to joining Diverse City in 2018, Jesse was a freelance cultural producer and managed the Brighton Digital Festival – as well as tackling public arts projects with Create London and working in partnership with organisations like the Barbican, the V&A and Waltham Forest Council. Outside of working with Diverse City, Jesse has an independent creative research practice focused on examining digital culture, and lectures on the Digital Media Arts MA course at the University of Brighton

Laura has worked in Theatre, Film and TV for over 30 years. The vast majority was spent as a casting associate and casting director.  Laura had the pleasure of working on high profile and major movies such as Possession, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and About A Boy and major TV shows Casualty and Holby City. She was also Casting Director
for the BAFTA / Rocliffe New Writing forum for 13 years.

More recently, Laura was Industry Liaison and Professional Development Manager at the Drama School LAMDA from 2012 – 2019 and in 2021 she graduated with a Master of Arts in  Creative Producing with distinction from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is now a freelance producer for Theatre and a trustee of the Mowlem Theatre in Swanage.  Laura is passionate about Female led work, new writing and access to the arts.

Liz is our Finance Manager. She has been with Diverse City since 2014 after meeting Claire at a local toddler group. Liz is a Chartered Management Accountant with 20 years experience of Management Reporting and Budgeting.

Liz moved to Dorset from London and enjoys summers on the beach and winter country walks with her family. She also loves drinking prosecco and scoffing a good curry!

Louise lives in Dorset with her 2 teenage children and scruffy labradoodle dog. She is fiercely proud to have worked for the NHS for the last 20 years in Administration, even with all the challenges it faces. Louise joined the Diverse City team in 2017 to support Liz, our Finance Manager and Claire, our Joint Artistic Director in Swanage. Louise finds the whole philosophy of Diverse City wonderfully refreshing.

In her spare time, Louise loves to run and also has a passion for adrenaline activities. A tandem skydive, paragliding, micro lighting, hot air ballooning, abseiling, gliding and a few flying lessons are some of the incredible things she has done!

Paula has worked in the live events industry for over 25 years, after studying BA Popular Music and Recording at Salford. Following years of work in sound engineering and lighting design she now combines her technical and logistical knowledge as a production manager.
She has been the production manager for Human and now Delicate.
Paula is passionate about making live events more environmentally responsible and is the Green Champion for both Diverse City and Theatre Orchard.

Saskia has worked in the arts for 8 years, following her passion for social justice and high calibre theatre straight to Diverse City’s door.

Sophia is a producer for Diverse City’s Next Generation programme. Her first encounter with Diverse City was as stage manager for Delicate. She soon became involved with further projects within the company and is now helping to keep Next Generation’s and Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists’ workshops, residencies, trainings and shows running smoothly. Outside of Diverse City, Sophia is a versatile creative freelance who wears many hats including audio describer, director, and performer with a love for clown and physical theatre.  She is also the co-chair of the National Association of Streets Artists (NASA-UK).