Core Team

Frances Land - Co-Artistic Director

Frances apprenticed with Footsbarn Theatre and performed with their offshoot company The Barneys during the late seventies. She has toured Europe and the UK extensively with various companies including Eastern Angles, Friends Roadshow, Pentabus, and New Perspectives. Frances has worked with Black Country Touring as Joint Artistic Director for four years, bringing professional dance and theatre to the West Midlands. Work with Foursight Theatre includes performing in Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry!, Medea, The Snow Queen and Thatcher The Musical!, producing and performing in Reans Girls, and co-directing Apna Ghar. Frances was previously Special Projects Co-ordinator with Foursight Theatre, overseeing the education programme of the company as well as facilitating special projects, and became Co-Artistic Director in October 2007.

Sarah Thom – Co-Artistic Director

Sarah became Co-Artistic Director of Foursight in October 2007. She is also co-Artistic Director of the site-specific theatre company, angels in the architecture, whose shows include Still Life at the disused Aldwych Tube Station and the acclaimed production of Dido, Queen of Carthage, at The Chapel of St. Barnabas-in-Soho and Kensington Palace State Apartments, in which Sarah played Dido.

She originally trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at Exeter University, and has performed in professional theatre since 1995. Work to date includes the role of Associate Artist and performer with Kaos Theatre (The Importance of Being Earnest, Alice, Moll Flanders and Richard lll (Riverside Studios)); working as a performer and Associate Director with Trestle (shows include The Adventures of The Stoneheads (NT), Window Dressing, Island and Bitter Fruit (QEH)) and touring nationally and abroad with companies such as Ophaboom and Platform 4.

Sarah first worked with Foursight in 2006 to create the role of Narrator Maggie in Thatcher The Musical!. In television her passion is comedy: work includes The Never Generation, The Cat, Australian Boyfriend (BBC Comedy Award Sketch) and the new feature film, Hippie Hippie Shake.

Sarah has taught and directed workshops throughout her career for many companies including Trestle (at The Royal Albert Hall, Dundee Rep, Cyprus Schools Programme), LIPA, Middlesex University MA Directing Course, YMT-UK, The Cork Fringe Festival and The MATAN Project, Israel.

Michelle Knight – General Manager

Michelle originally trained as a violinist at the Royal Northern College of Music before reading English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. Her first foray into arts management was as Festival Assistant at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, after which she worked as Assistant Administrator at English Symphony Orchestra. In 2004 she joined UK Arts International, an international theatre presenter and producer with a particular interest in South African theatre, first as a tourbooker and then as Associate Director. She worked with Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe, Benji Reid, Jonzi D, Company of Angels, Pentabus and Danny Hoch; managed tours of The Island from the Market Theatre Johannesburg (2005, 2006), Township Stories from the State Theatre South Africa (2006), and Nothing But The Truth by John Kani (2007); and co-produced work with theatres such as Hampstead Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Traverse in Edinburgh and Live Theatre in Newcastle. Michelle also worked to set up the Africa Consortium, a network of UK-based artists, venues and companies interested in engaging with performing arts from Africa and the African Diaspora, along with partners at ITC, Visiting Arts and Wimbledon College of Art. Michelle joined Foursight Theatre in October 2007 in the newly created role of General Manager.

Hannah Nicklin – Administrator

Hannah joined the Foursight team in early May 2008 as part-time administrator. In 2007 she graduated with a first class degree in Drama at Loughborough University, followed in 2008 with Birmingham University's Mphil(b) in Playwriting Studies. Previous theatre administrative experience includes work at Loughborough Town Hall Theatre, as well as with her own company Lincoln New Drama Group set up in her gap year (2002-3). She is a published poet and a performed playwright (previous work with Nottingham Playhouse and Watch This! theatre company) and combines her Foursight position with establishing herself as a fully paid-up writer. Most recently BBC radio drama has shown an interest in developing her work, and a fringe venue in London has requested a meeting regarding her more recent works. As well as an enthusiasm for organisation and everything that is ‘computers' (see her home-made website here)  she is passionate about contemporary theatre, and in particular the theatrical aims of Foursight. Other interests include feminism in video games and advocating the significance of new and old theatrical forms (Science Fiction, ‘Speculative-Verbatim' and TIE) as invaluable to the future of story-telling in theatre.

Lisa Harrison - Education and Outreach Co-ordinator

Since her degree in Drama and German at Goldsmiths, University of London, the bulk of Lisa's work as a performer has been as a devisor with companies committed to working collaboratively as an ensemble and to creating new work - such as Foursight, I.O.U., and Horse and Bamboo. She has toured extensively in the UK, Europe and Canada.  She first performed with Foursight in 1994 in Frankenstein's Mothers. This was the beginning of a growing relationship with the company. Since then she has become an Associate Artist of the company and has been seen in Hitler's Women, Pushing Daisies, Medea, Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry and Thatcher The Musical! In more recent years she has worked extensively in schools, colleges, universities and with community groups. In October 2007 she became Foursight's Education and Outreach Co-ordinator.