Graeae Theatre Company

Jenny Sealey MBE has been artistic director and CEO since 1997, and Amit Sharma joined as associate director in 2011. Sharma's first involvement with Graeae was as a participant on an actor training course, set up by Sealey, addressing the lack of deaf and disabled people in theatre. Sealey began her career as a deaf actor but made the transition to directing after applying for a Trainee Director position with the company Interplay. ==Repertoire==

Actors who have appeared with the company include Nadia Albina, Genevieve Barr, Laurence Clark, Mat Fraser, Beth Hinton-Lever, Arthur Hughes, Cherylee Houston, Aaron Virdee, Melissa Johns, John Kelly, Garry Robson, Kiruna Stamell and co-founder Nabil Shaban. Graeae has produced plays by Jack Thorne, Sarah Kane, Jackie Hagan, Jo Clifford, David Ireland, Kaite O'Reilly, Lorca, Paul Sirett, Glyn Cannon and Sam Boardman-Jacobs. Graeae has performed at the National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Derby Theatre and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. == Productions ==

• Deck the Stalls - 2013 • The Limbless Knight - A Tale of Rights Reignited - 2013 • Signs of a Diva - 2014 • The Threepenny Opera - 2014 • Cosmic Scallies by Jackie Hagan - 2015 • ''Graeae's The Rollettes Christmas Show'' - 2016 • The Solid Life of Sugar Water by Jack Thorne - 2016 • The Garden - 2016 • Reasons To Be Cheerful by Paul Sirett - 201 • The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca - 2017 • ''Graeae's Midwich Cuckoos'' - 2017 • Aruna and the Raging Sun - 2018 • ''Graeae's Ensemble 2018 - Hurricane Protest Songs''- 2018 • Courage Everywhere: And Others - 2018 • This Is Not For You - 2018 • Amy Dorrit - 2018 • Blasted by Sarah Kane - 2019 • One Under - 2019 • Three Sisters Rewired by Polly Thomas and Jenny Sealey - 2019 • Bartholomew Abominations by Paul Sirett - 2020 • 10 Nights by Shahid Iqbal Khan - 2021 • Night of the Living Flatpacks by Shahid Iqbal Khan, Michael Southan, Kathryn Golding, Anita Karla Kelly and Leanne Allen - 2021 • Kerbs by Michael Southan - 2022 • The Paradis Files - 2022 • This Woven O by Oliver Macdonald - 2022 • The Chatterleys by Mike Kenny - 2023 • The Festival of Rights: work in progress - 2023 • High Times and Dirty Monsters - 2023 • Self Raising by Jenny Sealey - 2024 • Bad Lads by Mike Kenny - 2025 == Awards ==

In 1984 the Graeae Theatre Company won a Special Award in the Evening Standard Awards, and has since won numerous awards, including the Promotion of Diversity Award at the UK Theatre Awards 2012. It also won the Euan's Guide Most Accessible Production for Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ==See also==