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
Welcome to my website
Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a disabled theatre and screen writer / director, an activist and equality strategist who is passionate about radical, multi-layered performance which brings a new aesthetic, unseen narratives and engages and excites audiences in new ways. She creates leading disabled protagonists to challenge age old stereotypes and out-dated cliches and tropes around disability.
She seeks to disrupt the status quo, with artistic interventions and provocations. Vici is committed to disabled-led work which stakes its claim in the national story. She belives that if we are not telling all the stories, we are not telling the truth. Vici supports and challenges dominant theatre and broadcasting to examine their role in erasing valid voices from our cultural jigsaw and has advised and worked with many partners in the arts.
Vici is represented by Nicola Bolton Management.
Vici is founder Artistic Director of Little Cog, a disabled-led theatre company, based in the North East 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. She has been a leading fugure in the UK disability arts movement for almost 30 years.
Vici regularly contributes to contemporary thinking on disability and culture in key note provocations, panels, articles and blogs. She is regular contributor to the global platform Theatre Art Life.
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 taken up a series of international opportunities.
She seeks to disrupt the status quo, with artistic interventions and provocations. Vici is committed to disabled-led work which stakes its claim in the national story. She belives that if we are not telling all the stories, we are not telling the truth. Vici supports and challenges dominant theatre and broadcasting to examine their role in erasing valid voices from our cultural jigsaw and has advised and worked with many partners in the arts.
Vici is represented by Nicola Bolton Management.
Vici is founder Artistic Director of Little Cog, a disabled-led theatre company, based in the North East 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. She has been a leading fugure in the UK disability arts movement for almost 30 years.
Vici regularly contributes to contemporary thinking on disability and culture in key note provocations, panels, articles and blogs. She is regular contributor to the global platform Theatre Art Life.
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 taken up a series of international opportunities.
Current Work
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A BBC Culture in Quarantine Commission,
Co-commissioned by Arts Council England, ARC Stockton, Home in Manchester and Northern Stage Hen Night Written and Directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott A digital short film Inspired by the book 'Crippled' by Frances Ryan Starring Nicola Chegwin More information click here A Durham Book Festival Commission for New Writing North Half Way There / The Unsung A radio drama Written and Directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott Co-creators Mandy Colleran, Cheryl Martin, Caroline Parker and Jacqueline Phillips More information click here Funded by Arts Council England as part of Valid Voices produced by Little Cog Funny Haha A series of comedy workshops for disabled women Guest facilitators Dolly Sen, Jess Thom from Touretteshero and Francesca Martinez Six workshops culminating in a gig for an invited audience More information click here A Stockton International Riverside Festival Commission An ARC Stockton and Little Cog production in partnership with Full Circle Stomping Ground Presented as a short film in 2021 and as a full production in 2022 Devised by Full Circle ensemble of learning disabled theatre makers Directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott More information on the show click here More information on Full Circle click here |
Image description - A film still from Hen Night, tinted with blue and purple hues. Nicola Chegwin plays Jessica, a young disabled white woman with long blond hair. In the image she is singing and pointing into camera, holding a microphone firmly in her hand. She is wearing hen party accessories including a white dress, feather boa, pink fluffly handcuffs and a costume white veil on a tiara which says 'bride' on it. The veil is over the back of her hair and not her face. She is wearing a hen party sash.
Image Description - Photos of women over 50 left to right - Caroline Parker is a white woman with a bright red mohawk, is wearing a blue top with a chunky beaded necklace and colourful long earrings. She is wearing glasses. Cheryl Martin is a black woman, with black shoulder length hair. She is holding a retro microphone and is speaking into it. She is wearing a strappy dress and has an ornate, vintage necklace on. Mandy Colleran is a white woman with long red hair. She is sitting in a power-wheelchair, wearing a black top and blue skirt and is smiling right at us. Jackie Phillips is a white woman with asymmetrical blond hair. She is wearing a black top and is smiling wisely. Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a white woman with spiky blond hair. She is wearing a scarf and looking off to the right smiling.
Image Description - a slide which reads Funny Haha / Sold Out. Photographs of three women against a brick wall with a 1950s microphone in a spotlight. Dolly Sen is a woman of mixed heritage, has brown shoulder length hair, is wearing a black jumper and is showing colourful tattoos on her forearms. She is smiling. The image also includes a brick wall with a silver 50s style microphone on a stand. Jess Thom is a young white woman with dark curly hair which is short at the sides. She is wearing a colourful stripy jumper and is smiling directly into the camera. Francesca Martinez is a young white woman with short fair hair and is wearing a bright blue top. She is also smiling at the camera. At the edge of the image is a 1950s style microphone.
Candice is a young woman of mixed heritage. She has black curly hair and is wearing a black top and orange full length playsuit. She is dancing with glow sticks under confetti on a stage.
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Recent Work
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An ARC Stockton and Northern Stage commission
Funny Peculiar Written and Directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott A digital short (48 minutes) Starring Liz Carr, Mandy Colleran, Bea Webster and Vici Wreford-Sinnott More information click here An ARC Stockton and Home Manchester Homemakers commission Siege Written and Directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott Starring Philippa Cole A 12 minute short “It is a dynamo solo performance from actor Phillipa Cole and is chock-full of witty and cleverly explored disability politics and feminist issues.” Disability Arts online More information click here An ARC Stockton and Home Manchester Homemakers commission The Wrong Woman Discussions Vici Wreford-Sinnott in conversation with JulieMc McNamara, Melissa Johns, Tammy Reynolds and Bea Webster 5 short films exploring themes of performance and disabled women, being 'looked at', transgression and agency. More information and films click here A Spare Tyre commission for Statues for the Unforgotten A Site of Suitable Scale A three minute short film Written and performed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott A Site of Suitable Scale references hidden and unmarked lives and deaths of disabled people but also celebrates the Civil Rights Movement of Disabled people in the UK which has fought to bring about social, political, cultural, and personal change for disabled people. For Dorothy Filmed by Black Robin See the film here |
Image description - four portraits of disabled women. Left is Liz Carr plays Zsa Zsa and she is a white woman in her forties, seated in her wheelchair, with a dark brown bob haircut, a stylish long striped scarf in her hair and she is wearing a black top. Next is Bea Webster who is a mixed race woman of dual heritage, Thai and Scottish, with long brown hair and a black top. It says the word girls on it in mixed colurs. She has two arms raised as if she has won a race. To the right of Bea is Vici Wreford-Sinnott who plays Raquelle. She is a white woman in her fifties with spiky silver hair. She is smiling and looking right into the camera as she rearranges her large glasses. Mandy Colleran is at the ed and she plays Blanche. She is a white woman in her fifties wearing a blue top and a headset and mic for her zoom meeting. She is a wheelchair user. The text reads Little Cog's Funny Peculiar written and directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott. There are film festival laurels for Toronto International Women Festival, Together! 2020 Disability Film Festival and Venice Shorts. There is a quote from a four star review from The Stage newspaper which reads, 'Acted with verve, wittily scripted, both funny and hard-hitting'
Image description - Philippa Cole playing Mim in Siege. A close up of a young white woman wearing large loveheart sungalsses, a costume wig and a black PVC dress. She is looking into the camera. The whole image has a turquoise filter.
Image description - a close up on a woman's eye. Heavily made up and false eyelash. A turquoise coloured image and border.
Image description - A close up portrait of Vici Wreford-Sinnott, smiling. She is a white woman in her fifties with teal hair and a scarf to match, dark rimmed glasses and a black top. She is seated against a black backdrop.
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