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 two full time courses, as well as a programme of short courses.
Our Staff
Artistic Leadership
Steve Green
Artistic Director & CEO
Charleen Qwaye
Director of Training & Head of Acting and Courses
Heads of Department
Harriet Whitbread
Head of Voice
Magda Tuka
Head of Year of the Monkey;
Head of Movement & Devising
Guillaume Pigé
Head of Devising
Artistic Associate
Simone Coxall
Creative Associate
Monkey Business
Jonathan Maydew-Gale
Academic Development Manager
Neil Onions
Development Manager
Thomas Valentine
Academic
Manager
Tanja Raaste
Producer
Hetty Partington
Marketing & Communications Manager
Jonne Damhuis
Building Coordinator
Course Tutors
Darren Strange, Brigid Zengeni, Jorge De Juan, Simone Coxall, Arthur Wilson, Lewis Hart, Ian Henderson, Paula Paz, Shane Dempsey, Heather Nimmo, Lawrence Evans, Phillippa Strandberg-Long, Ewa Kolodzieska, Patrick Bailey, Anne Dennis, Ellen Havard, Ellie Jones and Poppy Rowley
Acting
Steven Green, Jorge De Juan, Darren Strange, Ian Williams, Chris Pavlo, Colleen Pendergast, Harry Myers and Nathaniel Tapley
Acting for Camera & Radio
Frank Wurzinger
Clown
Antonio Fava
Commedia dell’Arte
Tamsin Stanley
Contextual Studies
Donna Diamond, Nicky Goh, Ivana Ostrowski and Maria Clarke
Dance
Simone Coxall, Anne Dennis, Sarah Meadows, Rich Rusk and Finn Morrell
Devising Theatre
Guillaume Pigé, Magda Tuka, Ramon Ayres, Eyglo Belafonte, Angela Gasparetto, Nancy Kettle, Igne Barkauskaite, Jonathan Gunning, Andrei Biziorek and Parke Fech
Movement
Simon Egerton
Musical Director
Tom Espiner & Fiona Clift
Puppetry
Helen Ireland
Singing
Rob Leonard, Keith Wallis, Enric Ortuño and Joe Golby
Stage Combat
Ken Pickering and Mark Woolgar
Textual Analysis
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
Voice
Sophie Wilkinson, Carla Turner, Magda Tuka, Hannah Vincent and Darcy Wallace
Yoga
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
