Board

Dymphna Callery (director)

Dymphna's theatre credits include Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Edna O’Brien’s Virginia, together with original plays Olywyn: For One Woman and Cello, Skinning the Hare, and stage adaptations of Thérèse Raquin and Women In Love. She has a Masters Degree in Writing Studies and her poetry collection What She Said and What She Did was published in 1996. She moved to Wolverhampton in 2000 from Liverpool, and teaches on the Drama and Performance degree at the university. Her book Through The Body, a practical guide to physical theatre, was the first in this field and sells well globally. She is developing a new book on devising with colleagues at the university. Dymphna was introduced to Foursight's board through Kate Hale. Her major theatrical interests are physical theatre and playwriting - hence her particular interest in Foursight’s work. She has given up other board memberships (including Total Theatre) to stay with Foursight because it’s such good fun!

 

Preya Chauhan (director)

Preya's experiences of the arts began aged 4, performing folk dances at her local temple.  Guided by strong, intelligent women (including her mother and dance teacher) she joined a dance company; and from that point, was hooked!

After completing university she was accepted on a Fast Track ITC Arts Management training course, and enjoyed a placement at Birmingham Rep working on audience development. She worked freelance in community arts before being selected by the Channel 4 Researchers Training Scheme, after which she worked with BskyB, Channel 5 and the award-winning BBC2 Arts and Culture show Desi DNA.

Preya has worked with many fantastic people and organisations, set up education projects, and worked in events management and youth work. Most recently she has found herself back at her roots, with her current role as Regional Youth Dance Coordinator at DanceXchange: the National Dance Agency in Birmingham. She enjoys advocacy for the arts across sectors and also setting up opportunities for young people to get involved in the arts. 

With around 10 years of a range of experiences in the creative industries she relishes being able to give back by lending her guidance and support to Foursight.

 

Jo Carr (director)

Details to follow

 

Louisa Davies-Foley (director)

For Louisa, having moved around a lot as a child, something that was always a constant was music. She began violin lessons aged 6, whilst her mother sang in a local choir, and her late father, a percussionist, took her to folk festivals all over the country.

Whilst at university in Norwich, reading English and Film Studies, she got really hooked on playing traditional music, and also became the President of the university's Performing Arts Society and took part in a number of theatre productions. She discovered that she really enjoyed organising events, and decided to pursue a career in the arts.

Since completing an MA in European Cultural Policy and Administration at the University of Warwick Louisa has worked for Birmingham Rep, artSites Birmingham and mac. She is currently part of the small team planning the reopening of mac. Her main art form interests at work are physical and experimental theatre, work for young people and live literature. These days she sings in a choir, and plays fiddle and sings in two folk bands. She is delighted to be part of Foursight Theatre.

 

Kate Hale (director)

Kate is one of Foursight Theatre's Associate Artists and a founder member of the company. She trained at the University of Exeter and subsequently with Philippe Gaulier in London. She was an Artistic Director of Foursight for 11 years and involved as a director on Pink Smoke in the Vatican, Slap!, Shoot The Women First, Boadicea, and The Trout Sisters. She performed in Hitler's Women, Shoot The Women First and Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen . In her capacity as Education Director of Foursight (1998-2002), Kate created and directed several plays for schools, youth theatres and universities. As an Associate Artist since 2002, Kate has continued to work with the company as a director, a tutor on the Serious Play actor training courses and, during research and development projects, as a devising actor. She most recently worked with the company as dramaturg for Thatcher the Musical!. Kate also works as a freelance artist for other arts organisations and is a senior lecturer in Drama at the University of Wolverhampton, where her teaching focuses on Applied Drama, Theatre of the Oppressed and devising techniques. She is currently working towards a Practice as Research MA at the University of Warwick which asks the question, "What systems are needed to ensure that collective, actor -centric devising processes remain truly democratic?”