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 Thom joined Foursight in 2005 to create the role of Narrator Maggie in Thatcher, The Musical! and became co-Artistic Director in 2007. She originally trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at Exeter University and has since worked as an actor, devisor, workshop leader and director. Work to date includes the role of Associate Artist and performer with Kaos Theatre, shows included The Importance of Being Earnest, Alice, Moll Flanders and Richard lll (Riverside Studios); working as a performer and Associate Director with Trestle, including 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, for whom she is also an Associate Artist.  

Alongside Foursight, Sarah is also co-Artistic Director of the site-specifc theatre company, Angels in the Architecture , which she co-founded in 2001 with Rebecca McCutchoen. Shows as producer/ performer include Still Life at the disused Aldwych Tube Station and the acclaimed production of Dido, Queen of Carthage at The Chapel of St. Barnanbas-in-Soho and Kensington Palace State Apartments, in which Sarah played Dido. She also movement directed The Round Dance af The Round House.  

Sarah has taught and directed workshops throughout her career, for many companies including Trestle (venues include Royal Albert Hall, Dundee Rep, Oxford Playhouse), LIPA, Middlesex University MA Directing Course, YMT-UK, The Cork Fringe Festival and The MATAN Project, Israel.   She also recently wrote and directed the short film Gnomad for Straight 8, which screened at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in 2008.  

In television her passion is comedy, credits includes The Never Generation, The Cat, Australian Boyfriend (BBC Comedy Award Sketch), the new feature film, Hippie Hippie Shake and playing various characters in the new BBC2 series, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

 

Thomas Wildish – General Manager

After completing an arts management degree at Bretton Hall Thomas worked at Nottingham Playhouse for five years, initially in the Box Office and then in a marketing role. He then moved to Derby Dance, the only dedicated dance house in the East Midlands. Following his time at Derby, in early 2007, he became Director of The Y, a 300 seat receiving venue in the centre of Leicester which presents a cross-art form performance programme with a strong focus on music. Thomas sits on the board of Red Earth Theatre and Theatre Writing Partnership.

 

Abigail Prosser – Administrator

Abigail moved to the Midlands around ten years ago and instantly fell in love with the place. She got a degree in Theatre Design at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and spent the next 7 years working in theatre companies and venues throughout the region . During this time she has worked as a theatrical designer, a teacher, a wardrobe mistress, an art director and more recently as a film editor.
Abigail has a passion for all things theatre as well as a love of getting things organised and in order. Previous administration experience comes from work as an administrator for various companies, as deputy front of house manager in a theatre and through managing her own varied freelance work. In June 2009 Abigail joined Foursight Theatre as their Administrator.

 

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.