Our Team.

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Sophie Stone

Sophie Stone is an actor, writer, facilitator and consultant. She is a Co-Founder of The DH Ensemble Theatre Company, Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre, Pentabus and a member of The RADA council. Having directed, written for, consulted and performed for TV, Film & Theatre, at places such as The Globe, West End, Old Vic, Young Vic, BBC, Netflix, ITV, National Theatre, BBC3 Radio, among others, she has over 25 years experience. She is currently part of the Steering Group for Flarewave Festival

Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings MBE

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Omeima is a British-Sudanese textile artist, craft maker and independent curator who has exhibited both nationally and internationally, receiving an MBE in 2022 for services to people with disabilities in the Arts.

Omeima was also awarded ‘runner-up’ for the Arab British Centre Award for Culture (individual award) 2019. The Award for Culture celebrates organisations and individuals whose work has significantly contributed to the British public’s understanding of the Arab world over the last two years. 

Omeima is a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow 2019/20, a creative consultant, accessibility consultant and trainer and a leader in creating Deaf and hearing integrated activities, promoting both equity and professional development opportunities.

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Nadia Nadarajah

Nadia Nadarajah is a Deaf English South Asian actress who uses BSL.

Nadia trained at the International Visual Theatre in Paris in Physical and bilingual acting. She was also part of Deafinitely Theatre’s Creative Hub training scheme. For Deafinitely Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Tyrannosaurus Drip (Stratford Circus), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Tanika’s Journey (Southwark Playhouse). Other theatre credits include: Can I start again Please (Edinburgh Festival 2015), I Believe in Unicorn (Wizard Presents), We’re going on a bear hunt (Little Angel Theatre). Television includes: The Hub, Snapshot: Dicing with sex and Wicked series 2 & 3 (Remark! Production).

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Christopher Sacre

Christopher Sacre is a deaf British signer and has been a visual artist and art facilitator since 2000. He specialises in providing creative workshops/activities that are inclusive to deaf people, supporting other facilitators to improve the accessibility of their provision at galleries, museums, and other creative events. 

In 2016, he established and a Creative Director at SEE AND CREATE CIC, a 'What’s On' listing website enabling all participants to have greater opportunity to participate in BSL creative events and accessible in spoken English.

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David Ellington

David Ellington’s roles have been diverse, including film, theatre, and television drama and presenting since 1997. David has always enjoyed creative works including TV / film making projects and theatre workshop projects which includes running theatre courses for young Deaf and disabled students.

David co-founded ViSign Film Festival at Waterside Media Centre, Bristol in 2003 and 2005, attracting deaf and hearing visitors to insight what the deaf shorts were, building up the good relationship with other arts media organisations.

In 2015, David's stint as Agent for Change, supported by Arts Council England (South West), David consulted with the top creative team, Watershed in Bristol, to pave different ways of improvement to be an inclusive venue and also did numerous arts organisations to raise deaf awareness and engagement toward the Deaf community. He was awarded in Bristol’s 100 BME Powerlist 2018.

He is currently involved in leading monthly events -  Deaf Conversations About Cinema at Watershed. It has been running since 2016.

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Ally Rogers

Ally’s area of focus is guided tours in museums, theatre and galleries.

Ally is a teacher at Hamilton Lodge School and College here in Brighton and has worked in Education for over 20 years.  She studied Pre BA Foundation Art course at Hastings College of Art in 1984. She has a passion for Arts and spends many hours of her free time visiting exhibitions across Sussex and London. Before the pandemic, Ally gave guided talks at the Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Royal Academy of Art.  Ally is proud of her Deaf identity and is a strong believer in offering events in BSL for the Deaf community.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones is a brand designer working at ME Brands. We create new brand identities or refresh the brand identity of Deaf and Disabled organisations, charities, and small businesses. Matthew is also a Communication Support Worker at North Kent College, providing deaf students 1:1 curriculum and electronic note-taking and ensuring that he meets their communication abilities. Recently, Matthew has taken on a BSL Tutor role at an independent school providing after-school BSL classes. Matthew believes that it is important to have a Deaf role model where possible so we can influence other deaf young people to achieve successes.

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Zoë McWhinney

Zoë McWhinney is a Visual Vernacular performer and a poet in British Sign Language (BSL). As a Deaf person and native BSL signer, she works as a freelance theatre maker, consultant and workshop facilitator in BSL storytelling, poetry and Deaf culture. As an actress, she has performed internationally both on stage and in films.