Jack Wakely (they/he) grew up in the West Country, but has lived and worked in London since 2008. They graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with a First Class degree in Drama & Theatre Arts (BA Hons). They're an advocate for recognising gender diversity, invisible disabilities and neurodiversity within the arts.
Jack has been Co-Artistic Director of the award-winning Silent Faces Theatre since the company was founded in 2015, making brave, ridiculous, unique and challenging devised theatre. Alongside Josie Underwood and Cordelia Stevenson, they've written and devised three shows: Follow Suit, A Clown Show About Rain and Godot is a Woman. Godot is a Woman was published in 2022 by Renard Press.
They are a founding ensemble member of Degenerate Fox (the London Neo-Futurists) since 2016, writing, directing and performing in The Dirty Thirty, a fortnightly outing of an ever-changing menu of 30 original plays, performed in one hour, against the clock.
