Our Team
We are a team of people whose joint mission it is to
create change in the world of performance.
Fourth Monkey is very much a family. Our dedicated staff work closely with some of the UK’s finest drama practitioners, students and theatre-makers, to create a truly unique working environment where individual creative expression is valued and nurtured.
The organisation is led by our CEO, Executive and Artistic Director, Steve Green. As well as taking overall responsibility for the strategic direction, financial management and governance of the organisation, Steve also directs the Fourth Monkey Ensemble.
The training department is led by the Director of Training and Deputy CEO, Charleen Qwaye. This team delivers four full-time courses, at undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation level, as well as a programme of short courses.
Our Staff
Artistic Leadership
Artistic Director
Steve Green
Director of Training & Head of Acting and Courses
Charleen Qwaye
Heads of Course
Head of BA(Hons) Acting & MA Collaborative Theatre
ASJ
Head of Year of the Monkey & Two Year Rep
Simone Waller
Heads of Department
Head of Voice
Harriet Whitbread
Head of Movement
ASJ
Head of Devising
Guillaume Pigé
Artistic Associate
Creative Associate
Simone Coxall
Monkey Business
Development Manager
Neil Onions
Academic Development Manager
Jonathan Maydew-Gale
Marketing & Communications Manager
Hetty Partington
Building Coordinator
Jonne Damhuis
Producer
Tanja Raaste
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Course Tutors
Acting
Darren Strange, Brigid Zengeni, Jorge De Juan, Simone Coxall, Arthur Wilson, Lewis Hart, Ian Henderson, Paula Paz, Shane Dempsey, Heather Nimmo, Lawrence Evans, Ewa Kolodzieska, Patrick Bailey, Anne Dennis, Ellen Havard, Ellie Jones and Poppy Rowley
Acting for Camera & Radio
Steven Green, Jorge De Juan, Darren Strange, Maggie Zolinsky, Louise McMenemy, Ian Williams, Chris Pavlo, Colleen Pendergast, Harry Myers and Nathaniel Tapley
Clown
Frank Wurzinger
Commedia dell’Arte
Antonio Fava, Cheryl Stapleton
Contextual Studies
Tamsin Stanley
Dance
Donna Diamond, Nicky Goh, Ivana Ostrowski and Maria Clarke
Devising Theatre
Simone Coxall, Anne Dennis, Guillaume Pigé, Sarah Meadows, Rich Rusk and Finn Morrell
Movement
Guillaume Pigé, Magda Tuka, Ramon Ayres, Eyglo Belafonte, Angela Gasparetto, Nancy Kettle, Igne Barkauskaite, Jonathan Gunning and Parke Fech
Musical Director
Simon Egerton
Puppetry
Tom Espiner & Fiona Clift
Singing
Helen Ireland
Stage Combat
Rob Leonard, Keith Wallis, Enric Ortuño and Joe Golby
Textual Analysis
Ken Pickering and Mark Woolgar
Voice
Harriet Whitbread, Joel Trill, Nancy Wigglesworth, Emma Wainer, Alice White, Aundrea Fudge, Nick Trumble, Kit Lessner, Izo FitzRoy, Cassandra Gonzales, David Brown, Rebecca Whitbread and Lucy Atkinson
Yoga
Sophie Wilkinson, Carla Turner, Magda Tuka, Hannah Vincent and Darcy Wallace
Associates and Partners
Arts Council England, Complicité, Told by an Idiot, Theatre Re, Ephemeral Ensemble, Rhum & Clay, Clay & Diamonds, Shunt, Small Nose Productions, Temper Theatre, 6FootStories, Camden Fringe, The Marlowe Theatre, The Marlowe Society, The Cervantes Theatre, The Spanish Theatre Company, Blind Summit, Falmouth University, The Stage, TheSpaceUK, Visual Elements, Hawthorne and Halo
Our Patrons
Fourth Monkey are delighted to announce that we have welcomed several new patrons into our collaborative community of staff, students and supporters. They represent theatre professionals who work across acting, directing and dramaturgy, onstage, in film and beyond:
Brigid Zengeni | Danielle Kassaraté | Guillaume Pigé | Jonjo O’Neill | Jorge de Juan | Paula Paz | Sophia Khan
