Pauline is a multidisciplinary theatremaker based in Yorkshire. Originally from London, she began as a dancer with initial training at the Weekend Arts College and continued at the Rambert School, London. Pauline’s dance career spanned 15 years, dancing, teaching and taking the role of rehearsal director for contemporary dance choreographers and companies across the UK. Pauline’s interest in making shows has led her to collaborate with theatre companies including Red Ladder Theatre Company on Promised Land and Tell Tale Hearts Children’s Theatre’s Yummm! In 2013, Pauline was the lead artist on her first full evening work Burmantofts Stories, a site specific outdoor piece made with the Burmantofts community and produced with the Leeds Playhouse as part of their Transform season. In 2017 Pauline was Associate Director on the Leeds Playhouse’s Queen of Chapeltown working alongside director Amy Leach. Now making work in her own right, Pauline’s interest is in reframing spaces and histories through experential art and culture to help her audiences re-examine shared histories and enable lost voices to be heard. Pauline’s critically acclaimed solo show 2017’s What If I Told You is a co-production with the Leeds Playhouse. Written and performed by Pauline and directed by Chris Goode, the show toured to theatres throughout the U.K. and was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 where it was a shortlisted nominee for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Pauline is an Associate Artist with the Leeds Playhouse and Chris Goode and Company.

Simon Minty has delivered consultancy, training and public speaking in the field of diversity, specialising in disability, since early 2000s. Based in London, his work is international. He works with many clients from a small NGO to a multinational corporation. This international work has helped Simon develop a broader understanding of different cultural approaches to disability. He also has a creative side, helping improve the portrayal of disabled people in media and has worked with BBC, Channel 4, Five and Sky Television. He’s produced numerous videos and co-produced and performed in the sell out Edinburgh Fringe comedy show Abnormally Funny People in 2005 and returning again in 2015. He co-hosts two podcasts, BBC Ouch! and The Phil & Simon Show. In addition, Simon is a Non-executive director of Motability Operations. He is an Ambassador to the Business Disability Forum and Business Disability International. He also helped establish the Disability Media Alliance Project in California. Simon has a Post Graduate diploma in Disability Management at Work and a BSc (Joint Hons) in Philosophy and Sociology, both from City University in London. In 2016 GQ named him as one of the 100 best connected men in the UK. He has featured on the Power 100 List of disabled people for the past five years. He has personal experience of disability being of short stature and limited mobility.

Griselda Yorke is the Deputy Lead Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Her responsibilities at the RSC include all UK and international touring.  Before joining the RSC Griselda was Executive Producer for the pioneering immersive theatre company, Punchdrunk. Previously Griselda was Executive Director at Cheek by Jowl, producing and touring productions in three languages in the UK and around the world.  Prior to that she was a Producer at the Barbican Theatre where projects included Robert Wilson and Tom Waits’ The Black Rider and Merce Cunningham’s Events.  She has worked in New York, with Pomegranate Arts.  Griselda sits on the Board of Improbable Theatre and the Cambridge Arts Theatre and is a mentor for the National Youth Theatre.

Chris is a Director in Banking and Capital Markets at Deloitte primary focussing on working with companies listing on the stock exchange. He is primarily based in the UK, but works with teams and companies across the globe. He has experience working with both large and smaller organisations undergoing growth and change and is passionate about bringing his financial experience to Improbable.

Ruth Mackenzie has been director of the London 2012 Festival (the official cultural programme for the London 2012 Games), general director of Scottish Opera and the Manchester International Festival, artistic director of Chichester Festival Theatre, consultant dramaturg of the Wiener Festwochen, special adviser to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport and consultant to the Barbican Centre, the LSO, the BBC and the Tate, amongst others. She has been awarded the Peter Brook Empty Space Special Achievement Award and made a CBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Clair Chamberlain worked at Nicky Webb Associates before moving to Blackheath Concert Halls and then the Southbank Centre where she managed marketing for the Dance & Performance, Literature and Education programmes. She then set up Marketing and PR agencies Chamberlain McAuley and then Chamberlain AMPR with Ben Chamberlain before co-founding The Corner Shop PR in 2007.

After an early career as one half of a successful comedy double-act, Phil joined BBC Radio in 1990 and has worked as a comedy producer, series producer and executive producer across the radio and television industry: in-house for the BBC television, and as a freelance and staff member in the independent production sector, including Talkback Productions and Objective Productions, where he set up the company’s comedy department. Phil currently works as the Head of Comedy at Channel 4. His work has received numerous awards including BAFTA’s, British Comedy and Royal Television Society Awards.

Stephen started his career in regional theatre before moving to London where he was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre, before moving to the National Theatre and the Public Theatre in New York. His award-winning production of An Inspector Calls is currently touring the UK. His global hit Billy Elliot the Musical won ten Tony awards including Best Musical, more than any other British show in Broadway history. Additionally, award-winning London productions of The Audience and Skylight have recently finished Tony-winning, sell-out runs on Broadway. His first four films Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close together received 19 Academy Award® nominations and two wins. His most recent film, Trash, set in the favellas of Rio de Janeiro was nominated for Best Film not in the English Language in the 2015 BAFTAs. Stephen is currently directing the new Netflix series The Crown written by Peter Morgan. He is Director of the Pier 55 Performance Park in New York and was Creative Executive Producer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

David is a Director in Global Health Practice and leads the Firm’s Center for US Health System Reform. He has worked in America and abroad with many of the leading national health insurers and has also been a guest speaker at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Yale, and other universities. He is also a passionate supporter of the arts and also serves on the Advisory Boards of the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Manhattan School of Music.

Edinburgh-based poet and visual artist Elspeth Murray is Company Manager of Puppet State Theatre Company and Chair of Puppet Animation Scotland. She has a broad range of experience as an arts practitioner particularly with poetry and creative writing residencies and was featured in BBC Radio 4’s documentary Blood, Sweat, Tears and Poetry. She has a strong interest in the arts and health having worked as a trainer in Health Promotion and for a cancer network around patient and carer involvement in policy development. She is trained in Critical Response Process, has experience in facilitating Open Space events and is a big fan of Devoted & Disgruntled.