Organisational Structure

Unicorn Theatre:

Artistic Director: Purni Morrell

Executive Director: Anneliese Davidson

Technical Director: Phil Bentley

STAFF:

DIRECTORS' OFFICE

020 7645 0512 | office@unicorntheatre.com

• Artistic Director Purni Morell
• Executive Director Anneliese Davidsen
• Producer Carolyn Forsyth
• Assistant to the Directors' Yasmin Lewis
• Finance Director David Cheddie
• Young Company Director Ellen Edwin-Scott
• Learning Associate Catherine Greenwood
• Community Projects' Director Sally Pembroke

DEVELOPMENT

020 7645 0527 | development@unicorntheatre.com

• Director of Development Tamzin Golding
• Development Manager (Trusts and Foundations) Cecelia Lagier
• Development Manager (Corporate Sponsorship) Lorna Killin
• Development Officer Melissa Wilkins

COMMUNICATIONS

020 7645 0555 | marketing@unicorntheatre.com

• Director of Marketing and Communications Helen Tovey
• Schools' Relationship Manager Ella MacFadyen
• Marketing Officers Bonnie Smith and Jane Dodson
• Events Producer Sair Smith
• Box Office Manager Dan Crosby
• Press and PR (freelance) Clióna Roberts, CRPR
• Community Arts Apprentice Georgia Hayden
• Deputy Front of House Manager Warrick Griggs
• Performance Managers Lyn Medcalf, John Cockerill
• Ushers Anna Johnson, Clare Quinn, Flo Dessau, Haleemat Adeyemi, Henry Reynolds, Housni Hassan, Jackie Downer, Jessica Hayles, Joanna Selcott, Josh Stamp-Simon, Katy Cracknell, Malika Quintyne
• Box Office Assistants John Cockerill, Tom Dancaster, Nadia Giscir, Clare Quinn, Oliver Roll, Claire Sundin, Paul Brewster

PRODUCTION

020 7645 0500 | production@unicorntheatre.com

• Technical Director Phil Bentley
• Production Assistant Liz Lawson
• Technical Building Manager Colin Allen
• Technicians Jef Mitchell, Matt Lewis & Rob Johnson
• Stage Door Keepers Paul Brewster, John Cockerill, Tom Dancaster, Nadia Giscir, Jessica Hayles, Anna Johnson, Lyn Medcalf, Matthew Newell, Claire Sundin, Emma Thomson, Clare Quinn

'The Unicorn was founded in 1947 as a touring theatre that operated out the back of a van and took plays around the country for children. Its core founding philosophy was that plays for children should be treated as, made the same way and judged the same way as plays for adults.'

'It is two and a half years since Morell took up her post at the Unicorn. Not long after she started, she declared: "I think of the Unicorn as a theatre, and not necessarily as a theatre within the children's sector." There were mutterings from some people who thought it was a sign that the plain-speaking former head of the National Theatre's Studio – Belgian by nationality, but raised in the UK – wanted to alter its focus. But the Unicorn remains very much a space for the young, and in the future is likely to become even more so: there are plans afoot for a show next year where anyone over the age of 12 will be excluded from the audience.'