Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a dynamic professional disabled theatre director, who has worked in theatre and Disability Arts for 23 years. She is Artistic Director of Little Cog, which specialises in professional disability art in a number of art forms. Vici champions the equality of disabled people in the cultural landscape. Vici has a body of work entitled a Manifesto for Tricksters which explores aesthetics for change. She is committed to curiosity, physicality and the disability aesthetic, producing fresh, inspiring work which engages, cheers, provokes and creates change. Vici believes in the creation of a cultural landscape without limitations.

Vici is former artistic director of cirque des femmes theatre company and Sycorax Theatre Company which were based in Co Durham, North East England, and produced a body of successful work which toured and was featured at the Edinburgh Fringe, including Moll Cutpurse – A Comedy for the 21st Century and Deadly Devotchka, both written and directed by Vici.

In 1999 Vici was appointed CEO of Arts and Disability Ireland (a development organisation for the Republic of Ireland) where she produced a series of highly successful Disability Cabarets, introduced a National Mentoring Programme for Disabled Artists and was Artistic Director of the first national disability arts festival in the Republic Of Ireland – Dis/Cover. Whilst in Ireland Vici directed two of the first pieces of Disability Theatre in the Republic, The Baby Doll Project by Rosaleen McDonagh which won a Metro Eireann Multi-Cultural Award, and Broadcast co-devised with Donal Toolan, which was part of the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival.

In 2003 Vici became director of Arcadea (North East Disability Arts Development Agency) and held the post for six years before setting up her own creative company. The organisation supported the professional development and showcasing of the work of a number of disabled artists. Vici was Artistic Director of the region-wide Mimosa Festival celebrating professional disability art from around the country.

Vici founded Little Cog, a Disability Arts organisation in the Tees Valley in 2011 and has curated Love & Hate in the Tees Valley, an exhibition about Disability Hate Crime, and has directed Behind the Masque and Matryoshka both by Alison Carr. Vici co-devised and directed The Lab with Full Circle Theatre Company , a company of adults with a learning disability. Vici was awarded a residency at Zinc Arts, and an Arts Council grant to develop ‘The Art of Not Getting Lost’ with additional support from ARC Stockton and she presented two informal sharings of work in progress and a presentation at a Scratch night at ARC. The piece will premiere at ARC Stockton in May 2015. Vici is also working with Pauline Heath to develop stand up material and to direct her show OCCUPATION which will be performed in October 2015.

Portrait taken by Black Robin for his exhibition 21: The Last Avant Garde which celebrated 21 years of Disability Art in the North East of England.