SCRUM is a democratic collective of collaborators.

meet the team

  • Lucie is Co-Lead of SCRUM, and trained at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she was the Cullman Scholar in Directing. She works for Cheek by Jowl as an assistant director and dramaturg. Recent credits include Garage (New Nordics Festival), The Hands that Could, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Sea Witch, The Dog Pack Play (Yale School of Drama), Styx Songs, WOLF/ALICE, The Ugly One (Yale Cabaret).

    Outside the theatre, you’ll find her in museums, working in outreach projects focussing on decolonisation and mental health.

    www.luciedawkins.com

  • Rebecca is an actor and writer. Theatre credits include: Love and Work (Lord Stanley, Camden), Rotterdam (UK Tour), The Three Musketeers (The Dukes), Rapport (Caravan Theatre at the Vaults), N.P.B.D (Lyric Hammersmith), Deadly Dialogues (C+2, The Kings Head and 3LD in New York), Trident Moon (Finborough) Twelfth Night (Thelma Holt and Cameron Mackintosh Japan/UK Tour). Screen credits include: Love, Death and Robots (Netflix) and Emmerdale (ITV). Writing credits include: Rapport (Caravan theatre) and Boxtickers (CPT). Rebecca studied at Oxford University and then went on to train at Central School of Speech and Drama.

  • Claire is a multi-disciplinary theatre-maker/performer/ director. Following a degree in History from the University of Oxford, She took a hard left across the channel to train in physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. As a trained musician, she also composes and devises original music and is looking for ever-inventive ways to approach theatre, comedy and music from an interdisciplinary platform. Most recently she took her solo show Intolerable Side Effects to Edinburgh Fringe 2019, a clowning polemic on contraception. She also works regularly with The Three Inch Fools to direct their multi-roling, multi-instrumental take on Shakespeare.

  • Sean is a writer, theatre maker and educator. His practice explores creative and disruptive possibilities of play. Which mostly means that he likes mucking about to come up with text and likes putting on shows in weird places. He has been performing improvised comedy since 2016, he got an MFA in Creative Writing in 2018, and he also works in autism education.

  • Tommo is a dramaturg for text and production, and a director.

    He is a co-founder of script-reading and dramaturgy company RoughHewn (winner of an Olwen Wymark Award from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain), and sits on the Board of the Dramaturgs’ Network, working on anti-racist strategies in dramaturgy and support for early-career dramaturgs.

    As a dramaturg, work includes How to make a revolution (Finborough Theatre online, forthcoming), There Is No Planet B (Theatre Deli, Sheffield), One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios), Out of the Dark (Rose Theatre, Kingston), In My Lungs the Ocean Swells, Inside Voices (VAULT Festival, both Origins Award Winners), Omelette (VAULT Festival, Origins Award Nominee), Griff Rhys Jones: Where Was I? (International Tour) and Griff Rhys Jones: Jones & Smith (National Tour).

    Tommo was Visiting Tutor on the MA Playwriting & Screenwriting at City, University of London, a and Tutor for Text at Identity School of Acting, and has worked as reader for theatres including the Bush, Royal Court, Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible and Traverse.

  • Dom is one of SCRUM’s elected Co-Leads. He began his career as a child actor, with early roles including Valentine Logue in The King’s Speech, and Andrew Cooper in The Inbetweeners. Recent screen credits include The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe for ITV and JJ Abrams’ Overlord for Paramount Pictures. He is a musician, being a graduate in Music from New College, Oxford, and also works occasionally as a freelance filmmaker.

  • Lucy Jane Parkinson (LJ) is a non-binary actor who trained at MMU and Brunel where they obtained an MA in Contemporary Performance Making. LJ’s theatre credits include: She Ventures and He Wins (The Young Vic), Rotterdam (National tour), Communion (The Young Vic), BULLISH (National tour), JOAN (International tour), The Three Musketeers, (The Dukes Theatre)

    For their role as “Joan” in the one-woman show Joan, LJ won the ‘Best Performer’ Stage Edinburgh Award, a Scotsman Fringe First, ‘Best Performance’ Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award and an OFFIE for ‘Best TBC Award’. LJ is also a DragKing Cabaret artiste ‘LoUis CYfer’ and won the Drag Idol title in 2014 as well as King of the Fringe in 2015. LJ also runs a clear theatre company with Rebecca Banatvala called Korupt Kabuki they are currently working on their first show together called BOXTICKERS.

  • Gráinne is an actor and a recent graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She was nominated for ‘Best Actress in a Play’ at The Stage Debut Awards 2018 for The Elephant Man (Bristol Old Vic). Further credits include Father Brown (BBC), Fireworks (Theatre Royal Plymouth/VAULTS), Lonely Laura and Her Sister Niamh (Tinite Films), Callisto: A Queer Epic (Forward Arena), and the Christmas campaign for HSBC/The Alzheimer’s Society (That Lot).

  • Florence Brady is an actor, singer and performance researcher who trained at Rose Bruford and the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices. She is currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Music, exploring communal singing in diverse contexts through materialist feminist frameworks. Recent stage credits include: The Kaspar Hauser Experiment (touring 2022) and Kidding (Edinburgh Fringe/The Park Theatre).

Our Board of Trustees

  • Trustee

    Sir David is a Non-Executive Director of the Economist. He is currently Chair of Council, Roehampton University, Senior Independent Director on the Cambridge University Press and Assessment Board, President of Coram (the oldest children’s charity in the UK), Chair of the National Equality Standard advisory board, Chairman, Rare Recruitment, Chair of Bath Mozartfest, Chairman of Chapel Street Community Schools Trust, and Chair of The Institute of War & Peace Reporting Europe, and former Chairman of Sadlers Wells.

  • Trustee

    Niamh was previously the Executive Director of Cheek by Jowl and had also served as the Senior Producer with the Hofesh Schechter Company. She notably worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company and managed the World Shakespeare Festival as part of the Cultural Olympiad of London 2012. Before her move to the UK in 2011, she contributed to Dublin's Gate Theatre, touring the theatre's productions to festivals worldwide.

  • Trustee

    Heather is the Digital Content Producer for the Donmar Warehouse, and formerly worked as Digital Programme Producer at the Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, and Live Stream Producer for the Bush Theatre. She was a Young Digital Creator for the Old Vic Theatre, and holds an MA in Creative Producing from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

  • Trustee (Chair)

    Ramin is a Tony & Olivier Award winning producer. Theatre producing includes The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre), Company (Gielgud & Jacobs Theatre, Broadway, Winner of 4 Olivier Awards), The Ferryman (Jacobs Theatre, Broadway, Winner of 4 Tony Awards); 1984 (West End & Broadway); Showboat (New London Theatre, West End); Nativity! (National Tour); Gypsy (Savoy Theatre, West End, Winner of 4 Olivier Awards); Annie (First Class National Tour & West End).

  • Trustee

    Penelope is a producer, fundraiser, and theatre-maker. She's currently a producer for the Production Exchange and POPELEI. She was the Development Director for both RADA and Tamasha Theatre Company, and prior to that worked as a development officer for the Royal Court Theatre. Her first full-length play She’s Just Something That’s Happening was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting in 2021.

  • Trustee

    Ella is a Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor at HM Treasury. She trained in development with the Philharmonia Orchestra before working as a Development Coordinator for Opera Holland Park. She was formerly Senior Business Development Executive for Brexit at Pinsent Masons.

  • Trustee

    Mihaela is a prominent computer scientist and a professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine. She currently holds the John Humphrey Plummer Professorship at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Her research focuses on developing machine learning methods for healthcare applications. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the IEEE Darlington Best Paper Award, and the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine.