Click on the images below to find out more about our JMK Assistant Directors, including their work and achievements since the bursary.
You can also find a full list of our bursary recipients by clicking here.
We are very grateful to the Leverhulme Trust, the Carne Trust (Sherman Cymru), the Victoria Wood Foundation (Leeds Playhouse & Manchester Royal Exchange) and the family of Bob Carlton (Birmingham Rep) for their support of our JMK Assistant Director bursaries.
Stephanie Kempson
Bristol Old Vic
Ben Mills
Salisbury Playhouse
Maria Crocker
Northern Stage
Miriam Battye
Bristol Old Vic
Dan Hutton
Royal & Derngate Northampton
Oliver O’Shea
Leeds Playhouse
Katherine Nesbitt
Traverse Theatre
Jac Ifan Moore
Sherman Theatre
Christa Harris
Birmingham Rep
Tom Guest
Northern Stage
Miriam Higgins
Salisbury Playhouse
Anna Ryder
Northern Stage
Jo Gleave
Birmingham Rep
Ali Pidsley
Leeds Playhouse
Michael White
HOME Manchester
Ed Madden
Bristol Old Vic
Jonluke McKie
Northern Stage
Chelsey Gillard
Sherman Theatr
Leigh Toney
Royal & Derngate Northampton
Piers Black
HOME Manchester
Sophie Jacobs-Wyburn
Bristol Old Vic
Gitika Buttoo
Leeds Playhouse
Chloe Masterton
Tobacco Factory Theatres
Paul Jenkins
Sherman Theatre
Zoe Murtagh
Northern Stage
Finley-Rose Townsend
Birmingham Rep
Gemma Aked-Priestly
Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Charlotte Marigot
Tobacco Factory Theatres
Holly Gallagher
Northern Stage
Sameena Hussain
Leeds Playhouse
Alice Wordsworth
Salisbury Playhouse
Kolbrun Sigfusdottir
Traverse Theatre
Lucy Bird
Birmingham Rep
Heather Carroll
HOME, assisted Unlimited and Rash Dash on Future Bodies
Evan Lordan
Bristol Old Vic
Nyasha Gudo
Reading Rep and touring
Marcus Bazley
Wiltshire Creative
Karen Traynor
Northern Stage
Georgia Tillery
Royal & Derngate Northampton
Shilpa T-Hyland
Traverse Theatre
Kayleigh Hawkins
HOME Manchester
Rachael Walsh
Northern Stage (Victoria Wood Bursary)
Dale Edwards
Royal Exchange Manchester (Victoria Wood bursary)
