Executive Director

Welsh learner. Core team.

Ann consults with the Board and has the responsibility of overseeing the strategic direction of the organisation. She’s everyone’s line manager and works with the Artistic Director and Communications Director in the development, funding, marketing, management and delivery of Small World’s productions and projects. With an MA in Education for Sustainability, she is an artist, puppeteer and educationalist to her core who manages to retain her creative role under the pressure of management.

😊 Ann is a beekeeper and come the spring, she is known to drop everything to rescue a hive or catch a swarm.

Artistic Director

Arts Council of Wales Associate (co design group for Climate Justice policy). Core team.

Bill has an artistic vision that firmly focuses Small World Theatre’s productions and resources around sustainable practice. He chose to begin influencing our futures as a puppeteer in Dandelion Puppets with co-founder Ann Shrosbree in 1979. Their work took them to Asia, African and the Middle East until it was time to bring their experiences home to Wales. Bill co-creates the content of productions as well as having a pro-active role in directing performances, designing and making props, sets, puppets and giants.

😊 Bill is a tremendous chef and host. He approaches them in the same way he makes theatre - with huge creativity and sometimes on a gigantic scale.

Communications Manager

Welsh learner. Core team.

Sam is a long standing member of the team responsible for the brand, marketing and contributing to strategic business development. With 20+ years experience in arts management, her creativity have led her to work across marketing, design, making, project management and arts facilitation with Small World Theatre.

😊 Sam is an artist who regularly exhibits inspired by walks and the memory of landscape.

Operations Manager

Amy is a project and community manager with 15 years’ experience developing and delivering programs for the creative industries in Wales. She has strong communication skills with a background in engagement. She has a project management qualification in Prince2 and an MA in Arts Management from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

😊 She gets her kicks looking at birds and stroking cats

AMETHYST Project Manager

Welsh learner. Core team.

Deri is a trainee psychotherapist with 27+ years working in Theatre of the Oppressed and 20+ years working with young people experiencing mental health problems. Prior to setting up the Amethyst project, Deri worked with the Amber Project Cardiff and with Theatr Forum Cymru. Her experience is around self-harm, anxiety, depression, and bullying. She is responsible for leading on planning, fundraising and delivery; coordinating referrals and freelance facilitators for Amentyst. Recently she started Ieuenctid Byd Bach with the support of Small World Theatre.

😊 Deri is a singer in a punk band and is most happy on a festival field.

PA and Venue Administrator

Core team.

Hélène has an MA in Sustainable Product Design. She studied applied arts in Strasbourg and then traveled to the U.K to be a designer. Her career has followed her interest in design, textiles and sustainability, working as a sales assistant for MIYAKE and in marketing for Melin Tregwynt. She is responsible for customer service, venue hire, administrating the live events programme and box office duties.

😊 Hélène enjoys receiving friends and family for mini holidays at home in Wales.

Volunteer Coordinator and Events Officer.

Welsh learner. Core team.

Sarah is a natural maker, sculptor and seafarer. She is a member of the RNLI and balances her creative work with her life saving skills. Sarah loves a logistical challenge and uses her problem-solving skills. She is responsible for live events delivery and venue logistics, as well as being an artist maker who works on SWT’s productions with the Artistic Director.

😊 Sarah clears her diary to be the volunteer steward coordinator at the Glastonbury Festival.

Amethyst facilitator

Core team (freelancer).

Hannah is a youth worker extraordinaire working with young people in West Wales for 27+ years. Beginning her training with Theatr Forum Cymru, she now works with Amethyst and other 3rd sector projects. She models empathy and understanding for participants of the Amethyst project and Ieuenctid Byd Bach.

😊 Hannah likes nothing better than to perform theatrically on stage in a band.

Amethyst facilitator.

Welsh learner. Core team (freelancer).

Faye is in her final year at University Wales Trinity Saint David studying Applied Theatre. She joins us to work with young people in Amethyst and IBB and to co-establish an LGBTQ+ support group.

😊 Plays the ukulele and makes jewellery.

Syrcas Byd Bach performer/trainer.

Welsh learner. Core team (freelancer).

Jess trained as a dancer after a PhD in microbiology and began her aerial journey. She trained for inclusive dance with companies Blue Eyed Soul and Everybody Dance, touring outdoor shows and teaching workshops for disabled and nondisabled children and adults. She instantly fell in love with rope on an intensive at Circus Maniacs Bristol, but didn’t return to circus full time until she joined SBB as one of its lead artists in 2018 after a second PhD in ecoactivist performance.

😊 Jess is an environmental artist. Her mission is to develop an aerial language in Welsh.

Syrcas Byd Bach performer/trainer.

Core team (freelancer).

Emma’s aerial journey started in 2016 at Upswing Aerial London. She has attended SBB as a student, assistant trainer and now delivers classes to beginner-intermediate levels. In her practice she has embraced silks, trapeze, rope and acro. Her performing career began with SWT including online cabarets and outdoor events, as well as at Beyond the Border with Citrus Arts.

😊 Emma cultivates year-round crops of oyster and shiitake mushrooms that she sells.

Performer, maker.

Welsh learner. Core team (freelancer).

Debbie is an Occupational Therapist working with Hywel Dda Health Board and has a past career in aerial circus and as a TV presenter. Working with Small World she is an artist/performer who is adept at all manner of things; performing in street shows and cabarets, making giant costumes, running circus skills workshops and working with children/young people with additional needs.

😊 Deb is BSL fluent.

Welsh learner. Core team (freelancer).

Samba is Senegalese and Welsh. He is an amazing football coach and a youth worker/giant puppeteer when he works with SWT. Samba coordinated volunteers and helped host live events over 10 years. Samba is taking a sabbatical.

😊 Samba is an AfriCAN.