• At CPT we are committed to ensuring the best possible experience for all artists, audience members and other visitors to our space. We welcome customers and artists with disabilities and are pleased to assist you in your visit. 

    If you have any questions or enquiries, please do get in touch by phone at 020 7419 4841 or email at foh@cptheatre.co.uk.

  • The Team

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    Jeanie Barnsley

    Deputy General Manager

    Jeanie (they/he) joined CPT in 2023. They previously worked in fringe theatres around Edinburgh and London. They're a trained actor and have written plays performed at the Nottingham Playhouse and by students at Manchester School of Theatre. You'll now find him supporting our programmed artists and organising all our hires, or else freelancing in creating queer community spaces and captioning theatre performances.

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    Sam Edmunds

    Artist Support Producer

    Sam is a director, producer and writer. He started working with CPT as a freelance technician in 2016 and has been developing work at CPT ever since. He is the Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning Chalk Line Theatre company and a former Resident Assistant Director of the Hampstead Theatre. Sam's work has toured both nationally and internationally, including the Untapped award winning Blanket Ban and the COMMON award winning The Nobodies. Sam's work has appeared at venues such as The Southwark Playhouse, Spazju Kreattiv, Hampstead Theatre and Arcola Theatre. He is also a reader for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize and sits on the board of Tangled Feet. 

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    Adam Gregory

    Front of House Manager

    Adam (he/him) began at Camden People’s Theatre in 2018 as a Front of House Team Member, and has recently stepped up to become the Front of House Manager. He began his career volunteering at VAULT Festival, and has since moved on to do Front of House work for festivals and theatres. He is a working class director, dramaturg and fringe theatre practitioner, and can’t really believe he gets to watch it every day as his job. His practice attempts to remove the traditional rules of theatre, and allow audiences the freedom to misbehave. He dreams of a day when no one feels like theatre "isn't meant for people like me".

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    Emma Groome

    General Manager & HR Lead

    Emma joined CPT in February 2021. Prior to this, she was Line Producer as part of the team that opened the Boulevard Theatre, where she programmed and produced a weird and wonderful variety of comedy, music, drag, live podcast recordings and more. She has also worked for Playful Productions on the Kinky Boots UK Tour and was previously the Stage One Apprentice Producer at English Touring Theatre. She has worked as a freelance Producer for Flute Theatre in the UK and internationally, creating productions of Shakespeare for inclusive audiences that include young people with autism. She is CPT's Access & HR Lead, and in 2022 took part in Clore Leadership's Inclusive Cultures Programme. 

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    Rio Matchett

    Artistic Director & Joint CEO

    Rio (she/her) is a dramaturg, writer and producer with a passion for access, new writing and community. Before joining the team at CPT, Rio led the studio programming and artist development programme at Leeds Playhouse, after several years of working as a freelance director and dramaturg, touring work such as Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone (Young Vic/Traverse). She has a PhD in 1920s lesbians, developed the MA Dramaturgy course at Leeds Conservatoire, led the Access & Inclusion working group on the Board of Storyhouse in Chester. Rio's next book is due to be published with Harper Collins/Penguin Random House in 2027.

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    Clare 'Bobbi' Robertson

    Executive Director and Joint CEO (Maternity Cover)

    Bobbi (she/they) is a producer and arts leader who has been the Executive Producer for Cardboard Citizens since 2019. Prior to that she was the Producer and General Manager for Belarus Free Theatre where her producing credits include ‘Burning Doors’, featuring Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina alongside the BFT ensemble, which toured across the UK, US, Europe and Australia.

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    Eleanor Shaw

    Development Manager

    Eleanor (she/her) joined CPT as Development Manager in 2024. She loves raising money creatively for the arts and making big asks for small theatres. As an artist, she's a writer of weird shows that discomfit and delight. 

    eleanor@cptheatre.co.uk
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    Kathryn Singleton

    Marketing Manager

    Kathryn (she/her) is passionate about showcasing underrepresented voices in theatre and creating delicious digital assets. She has weekly drop-in sessions for CPT's programmed and commissioned artists to chat about their outreach and marketing strategies. Outside of CPT, Kathryn is a freelance arts marketer, drag king, and a collector of too many hobbies.

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    Kaya Stanley-Money

    Executive Director (on maternity leave)

    Kaya is a theatre and dance producer who has been making and touring contemporary work across the UK and internationally for the last six years. Most recently, as a Producer for China Plate, she has developed work with artists and companies including Caroline Horton, Inspector Sands, Ben Wright and Chris Thorpe. Prior to China Plate, Kaya worked as the Production Coordinator for Little Angel Theatre, touring pieces such as A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Kneehigh) and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Peter Glanville & Barb Jungr) to children and families throughout the UK. Kaya also runs her own independent producing company, Platform 10, that champions new writing and was an Old Vic New Voices Festival Producer.

    The Front of House team work to bring audiences a positive experience at CPT night after night and comprises of:

    • Princess Bestman
    • Zoe Callow
    • Atlas Corsini
    • Sarah Deller
    • Lou Doyle
    • Simone French
    • Noemi Gunea
    • iulia isar
    • Heather Jones
    • Leena Makoff
    • Matt Matterson
    • Tilda Shearing
    • Bobby Wilkinson

     

    CPT also works has a New Programmers Scheme which comprises of:

    • Nene Camara
    • Alexandra Craveiro
    • Hannah Churchill
    • Georgia Figgis
    • Coco Jackson
    • Nohar Lazarovich
    • James Nash
    • Clemence Rebourg
    • Amy Tong
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    The Board

    Meet our board members.

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    Jobs at CPT

    All vacancies to join the CPT Team will be posted here.

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