Leanne has worked at 20 Stories High for 12 years and loves working closely with our youth theatre/young actors. She is a co-founder of Tell Tale Theatre, a local community theatre group. She is currently enjoying being a mum and loves most music ever made!

Ameera (she/they) is a Theatre Maker from South Africa. She has worked as a performer, writer, and director around the world, with their work focussing on highlighting the stories of marginalised communities. She likes The Sims, Beyonce, McFly, and chocolate chip cookies. Not a big fan of Pina Coladas. Neutral on getting caught in the rain.

Lucy has worked with 20 Stories High since 2013 in varying roles! She enjoys eating good cakes and keeping the office tidy. Her favourite show of 20SH is BLACK.

Laura has worked in The Arts for over 12 years. Over her career she has worked with a number of amazing creative companies in Liverpool including Wired Aerial Theatre (As The World Tipped), Tmesis Theatre, (International Festival of Physical Theatre: Physical Fest), and Merseyside Dance Initiative (Big Dance Link Up 2012). She is a co-owner of the world’s largest collection of artwork by the jazz musician Miles Davis (long story..!).

Amy joined 20 Stories High in 2008 as a young person in Youth Theatre. Since then Amy has remained part of the 20 Stories High community, coming to see shows and taking part in other vessels of the theatre. Today she is the Administrator for 20 Stories High.
Amy likes playing board games, writing and singing.

Tasha is an independent theatre producer based in Liverpool. She founded and produces for the theatre company The B Collective. Tasha also works with Liverpool based TurnTable Theatre and Emma Rice’s Wise Children. Previously she has worked at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, HOME Manchester, epb in London and National Youth Theatre. Tasha is on the Diversity Action Group at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.

She hates bland food so carries around Sriracha on her keyring just in case…!

Joe is a spoken word poet who was first introduced to 20 Stories High as a Launch graduate back in 2018. Inspired by the company’s work in local community, and the positive impact that they have on the young people, he joined the 20 Stories High team and now works as a support worker with our youth theatre. His biggest inspirations are Lemn Sissay, George the poet and the rapper Lowkey.

Donna has been working at 20 Stories High for 4 years as Youth worker, but has worked young people for over 15 years! Originally trained as an actor performing devised theatre that explores real-life stories relevant to young people, it was through this experience that Donna gained a real enthusiasm for working with children and young people, as well as
adults with learning difficulties. In her spare time, Donna is currently working on a one-women show based on her own life experiences. She also likes collecting miniature things and loves her crazy cat Jess.

Nathan studied Theatre and Performance at Leeds University before moving to Nottingham to become the Diversity and Participation Officer at Nottingham Playhouse. Directing for Nottingham Playhouse includes Noughts and Crosses, The Domino Effect, Holloway Jones.
Nathan loves hip hop, grime and dancing…….. badly.

Alina (she/they) is an actor + poet from Berlin. She creates work based on connections and is particularly invested in the politics of who tells stories, how they are told, and why they are told. When not at 20 Stories High, actoring, or writing, they can usually be found baking (too much) bread, watering (too many) plants, and spending (way too much) time on FPL.

Lemn Sissay is a poet, author and theatre maker and 20 Stories High’s first patron. The company have been talking with Lemn for a few years about their work and their shared connections; political, artistic and social.
“Lemn is inspirational and I cannot wait for us to draw on his expertise and talent to enrich our work.” Keith Saha

Catrina was born in Liverpool and lived in London, Scotland and the North East before coming home to the best city on the world. She consults for lots of organisations helping them develop their strategies, organisations and teams. She loves music (and has a shrine to David Bowie in her house), visual arts, theatre, reading, yoga and walking for miles. She believes that creative expression makes people happier and life better and is always fascinated to hear other people’s stories.

Manoka is a University of Liverpool student currently studying Business. He also a proud member of  20 Stories High, taking part in the Young Actors Company and Future Collective. His number one goal is to make Liverpool a better place either through the arts or business (or both).

Jennifer John is an award winning composer, singer/songwriter, music mentor and vocal coach. Her 30 year career within music spans the community, commercial and corporate sectors, and stands alongside her innovative work as a Creative Director specialising in the human voice. More recently she won the Liverpool City Region Individual Response to Covid-19 award for her global virtual choir creation, Love Sings, which involved 180 people from 15 different countries.

Priyanka was born and brought up South Wales but spent a year in India aged nine, reading books, playing in the dirt and making friends with cows. Growing up in a medical family, she trained to be a Clinical Psychologist in Liverpool and now works as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist. Priyanka is also a trained yoga teacher. Her favourite food is curry and she loves to dance when she can (which is usually in the kitchen whilst cooking it).

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Kieron was born and brought up in Wallasey, Merseyside a long time ago. He makes entertainment, factual and documentary programmes and still gets excited about coming up with ideas, telling stories and creating something new.

Charlie is a proud scouser who works as an arts fundraiser in the music industry. She loves theatre, music, art and football – and believes passionately in positive social change. Her most memorable live concert was watching Primal Scream at her first Glastonbury aged 17. Her super power would be to play football with a right foot like Steven Gerrard and the left foot of John Barnes.

Lisa is from Bolton, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She is the Co-Head of Culture at Touchstones art gallery and museum in Rochdale and Director of INDRA, an international peace building organisation for young people. Lisa has worked in the arts for over 25 years, and is a tenacious change maker that believes in the transformational power of the arts for everyone.

Zoe is a Venue Consultant with a focus on social value, sustainability, and inclusive design.

Before this she worked for a wide range of cultural organisations in the UK and SE Asia as a production, stage, and venue manager.

Recently she’s been working in human-led experience design, looking at how we think and feel when interacting with public space. Above all, her priority is making sure that communities are represented, and everyone feels welcome to engage with art and culture in our modern cities.

Peter is a born and bred Scouser. He previously worked for the Everyman & Playhouse
theatres where most recently was appointed as the organisation’s first Digital Producer. Prior to that, he worked in the Marketing team, overseeing the development of the Young Persons’ Membership programme. He now works for the Virtual Engineering Centre, an innovation lab that bridges the gap between technological academic research and new
product and process development.

The thing that kicked off his passion for theatre was joining Young Everyman Playhouse in 2012, so knows how important and life changing Youth Theatre can be for young people.

Rob has worked with 20 Stories High since 2019 and has been an arts and culture fundraiser for nearly 20 years, raising money for museums, festivals and music organisations – among many other things. You name it, he’s raised money for it! He’s from Merseyside but lives on an olive farm in Catalonia, Spain with his family, 6 goats, 3 sheep, 10 hens, a dog and a cat. Rob loves music and is absolutely obsessed with The Beatles.

Lee has worked as a strategic advisor to 20 Stories High since 2016, and is currently Programme Director for State of Mind – the company’s in-depth commitment to health and well-being.  She particularly likes working with the company because they live by the things they believe in – respect, compassion, inclusivity.  They also work really hard, make excellent work, and know how to laugh – which is really important…