Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Welcome

Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a disabled writer/director for stage and screen. She has been a passionate campaigner for the cultural equality of disabled people for almost thirty years. Vici creates new work which introduces new disabled protagonists and narratives around disabled people to challenge societal and cultural misconceptions and myths. She creates platforms for the work of other disabled artists, is a collectivist and also works with Full Circle Theatre Company. Vici offers support to arts and cultural organisations to increase their knowledge and confidence, and to improve their practice of disability equality.

Current Work

A LIVE THEATRE production – World Premiere
Three Acts of Love
By LAURA LINDOW, NAOMI OBENG & VICI WREFORD-SINNOTT
Thu 30 Nov 2023 - Sat 16 Dec 2023
Live Theatre Newcastle

Passion. Obsession. Acceptance. Betrayal. It’s time for a massive bowl of love soup!

Three ground-breaking female playwrights have cooked up a feast for you, with a trio of short plays with music that explore love in all its glorious, sticky complexity.

A young woman runs away from a world that doesn’t understand her and finds shelter in a local social club. But will they have the heart to truly let her in?

A visiting expert lecturing on the secrets of the heart has a dark and unexpected truth of their own.

An obsessive fan poses as her musical idol online and becomes lost in a maze of love and revenge.

From the boozy warmth of the social club to the endless labyrinth of the internet, this is a show about the communities we form, the care that we show each other and the love that we hope never tears us apart.

Come in out of the cold and enjoy a three-course play to warm the soul.

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A Little Cog and Full Circle Project in partnership with ARC Stockton
Autobiography
by Full Circle

We're entering an exciting R&D phase for Full Circle's new production as we explore who gets to tell 'life stories of note'. The company will use their unique visual flair to gather and develop new 'autobiographies' in audio, video and for the stage working alongside community and school groups.
Autobiography also sees the group offer actor training workshops for local learning disabled people who would like to develop their performance skills using Full Circle methods and more.

Recent Work

A Little Cog and Full Circle Production in partnership with ARC Stockton
Originally commissioned for Stockton International Riverside Festival 2022
Stomping Ground

It feels like you’ve finally forged your own Stomping Ground, and the wider world is beginning to accept you, so a sense of belonging begins to grow. But then the world is turned upside down in every way imaginable and no one can fix it. Full Circle invites you into a lesser seen world of lesser told stories, revealing that the communities we create can be magical. Theirs is a story about the fight for a rightful place for learning disabled people told with wit, pathos, and celebration, using their signature visual style.
This show is part of the Our Stomping Grounds Celebration of Learning Disability Culture by Full Circle.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

mage 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.

ice 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.

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.

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

Four powerful and cross-cutting monologues from exciting new disabled women protagonists, centred around surviving the pandemic.

A four star review from The Stage newspaper, 'Acted with verve, wittily scripted, both funny and hard-hitting'

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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

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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.

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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'

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.

a close up on a woman's eye. Heavily made up and false eyelash. A turquoise coloured image and border.

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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