KATE LITTLEWOOD
Kate Littlewood is a director, a voice and text teacher and a translator, with 35 years in the fields of theatre and education. After studying Spanish and French at Cambridge University, she translated plays (Worlds Apart by Jose Triana and The Last Days of Don Juan by Nick Dear) for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Lorca for Red Dog Theatre Company. While lecturing on the Drama BA at the University of Gloucestershire, Kate translated, adapted and directed Lorca’s Yerma and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega. She lived in Grazalema in Andalucia for 6 years with her young family, where she tracked down Lorca’s ‘wildflowers’.
She has directed Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida and The Merchant of Venice for the Edinburgh Fringe and at The Rose Playhouse, Bankside and CLF Art Café in Peckham. Kate has performed in festivals with Dame Harriet Walter and soprano Lorna Anderson and has performed poetry and plays for the BBC. She is in the process of completing an MA in Voice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
CHRIS McGILL
Chris McGill is the owner and founder of Rebel Reel Cine Club, a pop up cinema that curates films with artists work and performances, DJs and musicians performing at venues as eclectic as Dungeness Beach to the Rio, Dalston to legendary music venue 100 Club to Vineyards such as Westwell Winery.
With introductions and interviews of directors, actors and writers this is event cinema focusing on cult and counter culture but embracing new films for companies such as Mubi. Chris also founded MILKTWOSUGARS LIMITED, a London-based marketing, partnership and Sponsorship agency connecting brands through cash and in-kind sponsorship and reciprocal marketing opportunities predominantly for theatre productions clients including The Devil Wears Prada Musical, National Theatre Productions, Disney Theatrical, Dreamworks, Sonia Friedman Productions and the Design Museum, London Design Museum and countless others.
Chris also art directs window displays, hosts cultural talks and sits on the committees of two members clubs having served on the Groucho Club committee for 8 years and the Park Theatre board for 3 years around it’s opening.
He also regularly serves as an industry expert and judge for the ARTS THREAD Global Creative Graduate Showcase, evaluating emerging talent across disciplines like Digital Visual Communications, Film, and Fashion.
MARIA McLINTOCK
Maria McLintock is a curator, lecturer and writer. She is a former curator at the Design Museum, London, and has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
She teaches at Central Saint Martins (UAL) and the Royal College of Art. Maria is one of the curators of the British Pavilion at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2027.
