Vici Wreford-Sinnott on a research trip to Dublin. She has short blond hair and is wearing a black cardigan and balck silk scarf. Vici is standing agasint the U2 grafitti wall which has a painting of a giant eye behind Vici. Photo credit Black Robin
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Welcome
Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a disabled British playwright, theatre director, film-maker, activist and equality strategist who is passionate about multi-layered theatre which brings a new aesthetic, alternative dramaturgies and engages audiences in new ways, telling previously untold or mis-told stories. She strives to make dynamic contemporary theatre which has striking visual imagery, a strong sound track and is energetic and physical, challenging widely held perceptions to make change happen. She seeks to disrupt the status quo, with artistic interventions and provocations. Vici is committed to disabled-led work which explores form, engages audiences in new ways and challenges established theatre venues and organisations to look at theatre differently and tp change the way they programme new work. Theatre created by disabled professionals is rich, experimental, brings a new aesthetic, is central to understanding who we are as a society and has a valid place in our cultural jigsaw. Vici is founder Artistic Director of Little Cog, a disabled-led theatre company, based in the North of England. She is a co-founder of Disconsortia which is an 18 strong collective of disabled artists from North East England. Vici is Co-Founder of Cultural Shift at ARC Stockton, a strategic artistic platform for disabled artists. As an equality strategist Vici has created a number of successful models of equality practice. Vici has previously held CEO posts at Arts and Disability Ireland, based in Dublin and ARCADEA, in Newcastle, England, both cultural disability equality development organisations. Vici is Associate Artist at ARC Stockton, Artistic Directing collaborator with Full Circle Theatre Company - an ensemble of learning disabled theatre makers and was awarded a scholarship for a practice-based PhD in Disability Theatre at Teesside University. Supported by British Council, Vici has recently taken up a series of international opportunities. |
