Not Your Circus Dog Collective!
Crip Queer Punk Cabaret-Theatre
NOT YOUR CIRCUS DOG
COLLECTIVE
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Steph Newman
Actor, Dancer & Theatre-Maker
http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/stephanienewmanartist
I am one of the co-founders of Not Your Circus Dog Collective, making cutting-edge crip queer performance: I co-devised and performed in Not F**kin’ Sorry!, premiered at Soho Theatre, London, Nov 2019, 2022, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 2022
Steph is a professional performer in dance and theatre. She performed in Stephanie Martin’s play called Joy at Theatre Stratford East Theatre, London in 2018, whereby she played a younger Victorian sister, Mabel. Stephanie is a co-founding member of Not Your Circus Dog Collective and has performed and co-created Not F**kin’ Sorry!At The Electric Brixton, RVT, Soho Theatre, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Royal Court Theatre, & at Southbank Centre for Women of the World (WoW) Wickedly Wild Cabaret. Steph graduated from RCSSD gaining a diploma in Performance Making, created by Access All Areas in 2015. Steph is also a member of the professional company at Access All Areas.
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(Director, Researcher, Writer, Deviser, Performer)
I am a neuro-divergent socially-engaged performing arts teacher lecturer, researcher, director, performer and facilitator. I am an Associate Professor in Performance at University of East London. My research informs my teaching, and its impacts are intertwined and cumulative.
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I am one of the co-founders of Not Your Circus Dog Collective, making cutting-edge crip queer performance: I devised, co-wrote and directed Not F**kin’ Sorry!, premiered at Soho Theatre, London, Nov 2019 & 2022, Purcell Room, Southbank, 2022 "Terret ...for (her) meticulous work, curating highly emotive and provocative content, balancing the show’s sorrows and joys with such finesse.” (Disability Arts Online 2020).
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My practice-based-research disrupts theatrical norms through a radical Crip, Queer, collaborative and feminist approach across my solo work (as Doris La Trine), mentoring, consultancy, teaching, writing and directing. My research practice is in the form of theatre-making and is further extended and documented by writing grounded in the ethic of care and collaboration, to bring the lived experience of learning disabled and autistic artists to the centre for emancipatory self-representation.
Housni (DJ) Hassan
Dancer, Actor & Deviser
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http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/housni-hassan-dj
I am one of the co-founders of Not Your Circus Dog Collective, making cutting-edge crip queer performance: I co-devised and performed in Not F**kin’ Sorry!, premiered at Soho Theatre, London, Nov 2019, 2022,
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 2022.
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DJ is a professional choreographer, dancer and actor & Core Member and Co-Founder of Not Your Circus Dog Collective. Dj is also an Artistic Associate with Corali, and has recently worked with Thick & Tight. Dj Graduated from Performance Making Diploma at RCSSD back in 2015. He has performed with Access All Areas in a number of shows, including immersive show Madhouse Re:exit and presented the Free To Be Me intervention as part of Unlimited Symposium at Unicorn Theatre.
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DJ was the first person with a learning disability to get a personal development grant from Arts Council England. With this, he embarked on his Silver Arts Award journey overseen by Corali Dance Company. DJ then secured three placements with Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, Jonzi D Productions and New Adventures. DJ has been a Support Artist for Corali and Whippersnappers, as well as a Performer for Spare Tyre, Access all Areas, CandoCo 2, Oily Carte Theatre Company, Greenwich Dance Agency, Corali Dance Company and State of Emergency.
Xandri/Emma Selwyn
Actor, Performance Artist, Director,
Writer, Facilitator
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http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/emmaselwynartist
I am one of the co-founders of Not Your Circus Dog Collective, making cutting-edge crip queer performance: I co-devised and performed in Not F**kin’ Sorry!, premiered at Soho Theatre, London, Nov 2019, 2022, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 2022.
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Xandri / Emma is a professional performance artist and actor and is a core member and co-founder of Not Your Circus Dog Collective. Since graduating from the Access All Areas’ 2016 Performance Making Diplomaat the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2016 Emma has performed 2 solo shows:
My Hands and Feet are Wiggling - commissioned as part of Steakhouse Live at Rich Mix in 2016; & performed in Norway and at the Aespia festival.
#Binariesbegone - performed in 2019 as part of the Battersea Arts Centre Occupy festival, as part of the GLYPT pride festival and the Autism Arts festival at the University of Kent.
Emma is a performer in cabaret group Not Your Circus Dog Collective!. In 2019 they performed Not F**kin’ Sorry at Soho Theatre. Previous iterations of the show were staged at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Duckie, WOW festival and the Royal Court Theatre.
They are a member of the Access All Areas Performance Company and in 2020 performed in unReal City at the Battersea Arts Centre with Access All Areas and dreamthinkspeak.
Adam Smith
Actor, Performance Artist, Director,
Writer, Facilitator
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I am one of the co-founders of Not Your Circus Dog Collective, making cutting-edge crip queer performance: I co-devised and performed in Not F**kin’ Sorry!, premiered at Soho Theatre, London, Nov 2019, 2022, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 2022
Adam is a Professional Actor, Cabaret Performer, Musician, Composer, Director & Facilitator. Adam is a Core Member and Co-Founder of NYCD. Graduated from Performance Making Diploma at RCSSD back in 2015, and also has a BA and MA in Music Performance. Public performance of NFS! for Duckie’s at the Electric Brixton to 1500 people, also at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and Soho Theatre. He has also performed at Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Condagan Hall, the Old Vic. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The Waterman’s. Adam is a trainee Director on Transforming Leadership with Access All Areas. His first production co-directed production was Still, Here An audio exhibition across Hackney exploring learning disabled life in lockdown and beyond. (Still, Here was commissioned by Chats Palace) Adam is also a regular MC for s Tramtastic Nights at Tramshed Theatre, 2018, 2019; Drunken Chorus at Stanley Halls 2018, 2019; Drag Syndrome at Vogue Fabrics, Dalton, 2018; What’s Going On In Your Head Neurodiversity Cabaret, 2020. Adam was invited to host Imagine Children’s Festival at the Southbank Centre back in Feb. 2020. Adam has most recently worked with Prime Theatre Back with teenagers, teaching them Protest Theatre. http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/access-all-areas-artists
