Associate Artists
Each year we aim to invite a small number of artists to develop their ongoing relationship with Exeter Phoenix as Associate Artists across a variety of disciplines. We aim to offer them a bespoke package of support, such as access to mentoring, rehearsal space, and platforms to share work, asking them in turn to offer something back to us and our creative community.
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Our 2025 Associate ArtistS
Sam Gilroy
Sam's developing her comedy-dance-theatre practice. Her work is often myth-busting and taboo breaking, in order to laugh and celebrate the everyday failures. Past shows and workshops have amplified female voices and underserved communities, including m/others, adults with dementia, and young people and children, using real-life stories and autobiographical experiences. Sam is drawn to ask questions about ageing, feminism, equality, periods, and since becoming a mother in 2023, matrescence. Sam creates intimate and humorous classes, workshops and performances that build a sense of belonging and acceptance, using movement, writing, voice work, and inviting people to play and reconnect with their own bodies, and with those around them.
"I am excited to be an Associate Artist with Exeter Phoenix. I will be able to develop my one woman show Belly Flop, and accompanying workshops for adults and children, to reach wider communities and utilise this supportive environment."
Our ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
LIZZY HUMBER | 2023 - 2026
Lizzy Humber has worked as an actor and producer for over 15 years. Since becoming a mother she realised that evening gigs and theatre trips were now few and far in between, and the only groups she could attend were aimed at children. “I dreamed of art classes I could bring my children to, or watching comedy with the baby in the sling. I craved creative conversation and community that didn’t focus only on tantrums, teething and toileting. And I longed to have supportive working practices that didn’t require me to work like I didn’t have children.”
Since 2018 Lizzy has been holding spaces for creative m/others to meet, attend workshops and amplify their voices on the mic. She is a passionate champion of people sustaining their confidence and connection to their creative identity alongside parenthood. “I am determined that children should not be perceived as barriers to accessing arts and culture. Instead, I believe happy parents equals happy children, and that sharing the arts we love with our children allows them to see us as whole people and feel included in a variety of art and culture from a young age.
Keep an eye out for Lizzy’s events in our programme, including M/others on the Mic and Daylight Collective workshops.
OUR CORE ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
After being Associate Artists for a year, associates join our cohort of Core Associate Artists.
As their practice develops we maintain strong relationships with our associates, continuing to provide ongoing support, advice and opportunities to promote and further their artistic output.
- Charlotte Bill - film (2024)
- Eliza Fraser - theatre (2024)
- Charice Bhardwaj - theatre maker, performer, poet (2023)
- Charlotte Evans - stand-up comedy (2022)
- Cine Sisters - film, video, moving image (2021)
- Lucy Bell - playwright, theatre maker (2020 artist in residence)
- Kay Crook - dance artist, founder of Chhya Collective (2020)
- Filmmakers Lab – filmmaking talent development (2019)
- Hitchhiker Collective – theatre makers (2019)
- Four Of Swords – theatre, film and education (2019)
- The Young Pretenders / Flip The Bird – theatre makers (2019)
- Preston Street Union – Art collective (2019)
- Brendan Barry – photographer (2019)
- Vast Productions – Filmmakers (2018)
- Jane Mason – choreographer (2018)
- Willy Hudson – theatre maker (2018)
- EncounterTT – theatre and therapy (2017)
- Ashley Thorpe – filmmaker (2017)
- Scratchworks Theatre – theatre company (2017)
- 2.Times Do – creative technology (2017)
- PaddleBoat – theatre company (2016)
- Laura Loft – songwriter/educator (2016)
- Gabrielle Hoad – visual artist (2016)
- Luke Jeffery – filmmaker (2016)
- Laura Reeves – visual artist (2016)
- Vanessa Miles – photographer (2016)
- Amanda Whittington – filmmaker (2015)
- David Salas – filmmaker (2015)
- Nick Davies – visual artist (2015)
- Volkhardt Müller – visual artist (2015)
- Le Navet Bete – theatre company (2015)
- Dreadnought South West – arts organisation (2015)