KELLY MUNRO-FAWCETT

Co-founder & Co-creative producer

Kelly has a mixed bag of roots, starting life in Birmingham before moving to Nottingham and growing up there. Kelly adopted the North as her home at 21 and is happily based in Leeds with her young son Hadley.

Kelly is a passionate advocate for parents in the arts and lives with the reality of maintaining a career whilst managing the needs of a little one. It can be challenging but she wouldn’t have it any other way!

Kelly is also very passionate about arts for all and is an experienced community development worker and workshop specialist, with a particular focus on working in areas of low arts engagement.

She’s also a freelance producer and tries to remember she’s also an actor several times throughout the year! Check out her Spotlight page!

LOUISA MAY PARKER

co-founder & co-creative producer

Lou was born and raised in Wythenshawe, Manchester and remains very proud of her working class roots! She trained as an actor at The Arden Manchester and more recently completed her MA at Drama Centre London. She was also lucky enough to spend two months training at The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, Moscow.

Lou wrote RedBobble’s debut show ‘The Box’ and as an actor she’s worked in theatre, film and TV. Check out her Spotlight page!

She is an experienced workshop leader having worked with companies such as Collingwood Learning and Eyewitness Theatre and has led and developed workshops for communities and schools.

As well as acting she now spends her time producing, teaching, temping and everything else that comes with running an arts company! She has recently become a first time mum to baby Rose…

You can follow Lou @louisamayparker

EDANE NG

MARKETING ASSISTANT

As well as running her own bestselling online toy store and producing and marketing for Malaysia’s number one independent radio station BFMRadio, Edane is a classical pianist currently studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and is a Manchester International Festival Sounds Artist for 2022.

Growing up in Southeast Asia, Edane is passionate about creating classical music projects which represent the underrepresented voices. Her current work in progress topics include violence in education, quarter life crisis of millennials and gender equality in the 21st century.

She was Gold prize winner of the Asia Music Competition 2015 and the 6th Asian Youth Music Competition in Malaysia and has achieved notable success in classical piano competitions in her home country and internationally.

E-da-nee is known as a classical crossover artist who performs diverse genres such as folk, rock, and pop with classical music. Past collaborations include with visual producers, beatboxers and journalists and recent commissioned performances are with Brighter Sounds, SoundUK and PINS.

MARTHA SIMON

associate artist

Martha is a director (and a Geordie!) currently living in Yorkshire. She trained as an actor at the Arden alongside Kelly and Lou, but very quickly decided directing was the path for her.

Martha has directed touring theatre for around nine years and has also taught at various Drama Schools and Universities in the North West. She loves developing writers and working with new writing and for RedBobble, she has directed To Walk In Your Shoes and If I Should Fall.

Martha can currently be found running around after new baby, Joni!

RedBobble asked Martha for her biog and as always she was incredibly modest and played down her extensive experience! You can follow her journey on twitter @marthasimon13

CLAIRE HILLS

ASSOCIATE ARTIST

Claire brings to RedBobble her many years specialising in children’s theatre and workshop facilitation.

Having spent the majority of her 20’s being a jobbing actor and street performer, Claire established Topsy Turvy Theatre in 2010 to create high quality and meaningful theatrical experiences for 2-7’s. Topsy Turvy Theatre has a distinctive style of high energy storytelling, stunning scenery and hand made puppets in its productions. As Artistic Director of Topsy Turvy Theatre, Claire has written/adapted/directed seven touring productions which have all toured extensively to theatre, school and community settings to great success. Claire performs in all of the shows, is part of the build team and also does all the administration for the company. Check out her work at www.topsyturvytheatre.co.uk

As a skilled workshop facilitator and mentor, Claire freelances for many arts organisations working with children, community members and actors with disabilities. She was delighted to be asked to be an associate artist for RedBobble and can’t wait to get stuck into the exciting projects they have coming up.

CHARLOTTE O’LEARY

ASSOCIATE ARTIST

Charlotte is a playwright specialising in site-specific, landscape theatre. She is passionate about writing great roles for women as well as giving disenfranchised young people a voice.

She’s written about her own experiences of being a teenage carer, and has explored why young people are radicalized. She hopes to explore the topic more.

She studied an MA in Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London where she met Louisa. Before that she worked as a journalist for nearly a decade at the BBC, and as a Professor of English at the University of Monaco.

Last year she wrote ‘If I Should Fall’ for RedBobble Arts, based on letters sent to her grandmother and discovered under her mum’s bed after 40 years. She is excited to work with RedBobble again!

You can find out more about her work here: www.charlotteoleary.co.uk

RACHAEL MUNRO-FAWCETT

ASSOCIATE ARTIST

Rachael is a documentary photographer based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She has been working as a photographer ever since completing her BA Hons degree in Photography in 2007 and back in 2013 had the pleasure of collaborating with RedBobble Arts on their long term project ‘To Walk In Your Shoes’. 

Curious to explore the topic of connection, Rachael has a strong affinity for people and nature and this is evident throughout her funded and personal projects. Her practise is driven by an ardent belief in the power of photography to facilitate discussions that initiate positive change within societies and she hopes to be part of the discussion.

When not working on documentary or commercial assignments she loves to travel and explore new cultures and landscapes.

Rachael's work can be found here: www.rachaelmunrofawcett.co.uk