About Us
Look Left Look Right takes its inspiration from ordinary and extraordinary places, people and real-life events to vividly recreate experiences and memories in a unique theatrical medium.
Site-specific, and often intimate, audience members play their part in our work as much as the voices of the people we have met. This blend of truth and fiction, reality and fantasy, creates worlds of infinite possibility. Often Surprising, always memorable.
Look Left Look Right is an award winning site-specific theatre company making vivid, dynamic, and interactive theatre inspired by and about the contemporary world. Since being founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Mimi Poskitt, the company has received funding from Arts Council England, successfully toured their work nationally and won two Fringe First Awards (The Caravan, 2008 and You Once Said Yes, 2011) and a Total Theatre Award for Innovation and Experimentation (You Once Said Yes, 2011). The company has co-produced with The Royal Court, The Roundhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The BAC, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Southampton Nuffield. Their objective is to create intimate, poignant, truthful and relevant storytelling that gives the audience a whole new experience. Most recently LLLR created a series of site-specific performances for Cityread London in various locations all inspired by Louisa Young’s novel, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. These poignant evens took place in iconic locations such as The National Portrait Gallery, Soho Theatre, Hyde Park and St Pancras International Station. Previously as Artist in Residence at Corinthia Hotel, London, the company produced the critically successful Above and Beyond. Over a period of 4 months LLLR created a one-on-one theatrical experience within the walls of the working hotel. The company is supported by Stageone and has previously collaborated with the Environment Agency, Landmark, The Electoral Reform Society, Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The company is run by Artistic Director Mimi Poskitt and General Manager Tracky Crombie with artists, associate designers, producers and writers in Residence brought on for each project.
Artistic Director, MIMI POSKITT
Founder and Artistic Director of Look Left Look Right she has directed across a variety of projects outside of her work with LLLR including working with Coney and most recently as Associate Director on Epidemic, Old Vic New Voices. She has also worked as an assistant producer for ITV and the BBC and has won an RTS award for a documentary about 9/11.
General Manager, TRACKY CROMBIE
Tracky joined LLLR after many varied and interesting roles with companies such as Coney, Look Left Look Right, Punchdrunk, The Invisible Dot, and The Kazimier. She has worked in venues across London and the UK including London’s South Bank Centre, The Old Vic Tunnels, Glastonbury, Latitude, The National Theatre, Tate Britain, V&A, and the National Maritime Museum. Most recently Tracky produced Coney’s House of Cards at Kensington Palace in London, a large scale immersive installation.
Look Left Look Right works with numerous exciting artists, and talented writers on every project. Our current writers in residence are Morgan Lloyd Malcom and Katie Lyons.
MORGAN LLOYD MALCOLM
Theatre credits include Belongings (Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios, Whatsonstage.com Best New Play Award Nominee, Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Nominee), Above And Beyond (Corinthia Hotel Artist in Residence) You Once Said Yes (Underbelly and Roundhouse, Fringe First Winner and Total Theatre Award Winner) Jack and The Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Aladdin. Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Platform and Epidemic (Old Vic Tunnels), Health Wealth (OldVicNewVoices), Suddenlossofdignity.com and Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover (Bush). Fanny and Madge, Maybe We Could, 13 O’Clock, The Receptionists and TimeTripppers (Trippplicate; various Edinburgh and London fringe venues). Television credits include School Of Comedy (E4) and Hotel Trubble (BBC1). Current projects include The Many Whoops Of Whoopstown a Latititude and Lyric Hammersmith Commission For LookLeftLookRight, Hellscreen for Firehouse Productions, Robin Hood for Bolton Octagon, and an as yet untitled project for Clean Break in 2013/14.
KATIE LYONS
Katie is an actor and writer and formerly one third of comedy trio Trippplicate with whom she co-wrote and performed five Edinburgh shows with, winning nominations for the Dubble Act Award and The Writers Guild Best Comedy Award as well as a place on the BBC Comedy College. TV commissions included CBBC’s Hotel Trubble, E4′s School of Comedy and Scallywagga. For Look Left Look Right and with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Katie has co-written the award-winning immersive show You Once Said Yes which was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011, the Roundhouse London in 2012 as well as in Southampton and Salford. This was followed by the acclaimed Above and Beyond at the Corinthia hotel. Other Look Left Look Right shows include Not Another Musical (Latitude 2012) and The Many Whoops of Whoops Town (Latitude/Lyric 2013). Katie’s acting credits include Bluestone 42, The Crimson Petal and the White, Him & Her, Boy A, and Green Wing as well as featuring in plays at the National Theatre and The Bush Theatre.
Each project we do aims to bring the best artists together to deliver the highest quality work possible, we often work with artists we thing are great on lots of different projects, these are known as our associates.
Current Associate Artists:
JOANNA SCOTCHER – ASSOCIATE DESIGNER
Jo received the Whatsonstage ‘Best Set Designer’ Award for her site-specific design of The Railway Children, which went on to win the Olivier award for Best Entertainment in 2011. Joanna completed her design training with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As well as the theatrical stage, her design projects have taken her from sets for fashion editorials to live television. Her work now specialises in promenade and site responsive design, inhabiting spaces from the epic to the intimate. Her recent design work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum’s ‘From Gaga to Gormley’ exhibition. Her immersive series of installations ‘House of Cards’ can currently be seen at Kensington Palace having been commissioned as part of the Jubilee re-opening in 2012
MOLLY TAYLOR – ASSOCIATE ARTIST
Most recently with LLLR Molly co-wrote & directed Make We Waka at the Lagos Theatre Festival, supported by the British Council. Earlier this year she was the writer-on-attachment for an R&D project Route 101 in Sri Lanka. She has been involved with the company since 2008, Acting credits with LLLR include, The Caravan (Fringe First Winner), Counted, NOLA, and Above and Beyond. She has also lead on many of their education & participation projects, working with National Theatre Young Studio, The Roundhouse & The Brit School. Molly gained an MA in Theatre Studies from Glasgow University in 2004, and as an actor has worked with Grid Iron, Liverpool Everyman, The National Theatre of Scotland and Coney. As a writer her one-woman show Love Letters to the Public Transport System, was produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and enjoyed a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012. It was nominated for ‘Best New Play’ at the Scottish Critics Awards, and was performed at the Royal Court in June 2013.
FRANCESCA MOODY – ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Francesca is currently the Assistant Producer for Paines Plough. She is also the Producer for DryWrite and Undeb Theatre and Associate Producer at SEArED Productions. Recent credits include: Home (Arcola), Fleabag – FRINGE FIRST (Soho Theatre/Underbelly), Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated – FRINGE FIRST (Pleasance), Where The White Stops (Underbelly), Mydidae by Jack Thorne (Soho Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), JOE/BOY (The Last Refuge), You Once Said Yes (The Roundhouse/LIFT Festival/Lowry), NOLA (Underbelly/Escalator East to Edinburgh) and Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre).
BEN FREEDMAN – COMPANY CO-FOUNDER
Ben has worked with a number of theatre companies including Grid Iron on ‘Those Eyes, That Mouth’ and Out of Joint on ‘Shopping and Fucking’ and ‘Heart’s Desire’. He now works as a freelance documentary maker.