ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
We are delighted to work with the following Associate Companies who call The Lion & Unicorn Theatre their home. Find out more about them right here!
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Proforça Theatre Company are an Offie-Nominated critically acclaimed theatre company based in London. Our mission is to challenge, entertain, and confront our audiences with great storytelling and quality fringe theatre experiences.
Previous productions include “If I Go”, Saucy Jack & The Space Vixens (2016), The Importance of Being Earnest & Reading Gaol (2017-18), the critically acclaimed “Feel” and “Feel More” (2018-2020) and the OffComm & London Pub Theatre nominated “At Last” [2019], AAAAA [FiveA] (2021) and the Offie-Nominated “Lately” [2021]
Proforca has previously performed at the Lion & Unicorn, King’s Head Theatre, Theatre N16, Hertford Theatre, The Space, The Albany Theatre Coventry, & Upstairs at the Western, Leicester. Proforca Theatre Company is the managing theatre company of the Lion & Unicorn Theatre and it’s Artistic Director is David Brady. Their new production "Flashbang" written by James Lewis will premiere in Autumn 2022 at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.
Twitter: @ProforcaTheatre
Website: www.proforca.co.uk
ChewBoy Productions is a multi-arts production company specialising in theatre, film, digital and working with emerging artists. We create surrealist work which gives you something to chew on long after you’ve experienced it; with each project being unique in utilising the skills of creatives from different backgrounds and specialities.
Founders Georgie Bailey and Hal Darling began making bits and bobs of work for fun for Fringes before eventually turning into a partnership in 2018. Since setting up, we’ve been pretty busy in producing two short film trilogies as well as touring our ‘Best of Brighton Fringe Theatre Award’ winning, madcap play EUAN to several corners of the UK from Kingston to the Isle of Wight.
Our projects have been produced at venues such as the Tristan Bates, Hen and Chickens, Whirled Cinema, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre and the wonderful Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Twitter: @ChewBoyProds
Website: www.chewboyproductions.com
Fantastic Garlands was founded by Suzy Catliff and Olivia Thompson and creates new exciting shows with women’s stories at the heart of all their work.
Using a combination of theatre, music and film, the company creates bold, anarchic shows with a strong comedic leaning. The company was, fittingly, set up on a Mother’s Day, and so far has produced both devised and scripted new work, that has been seen at the Lion and Unicorn, Pleasance Studio and the Old Red Lion Theatre.
The next twelve months will see the company performing at the Brighton fringe, developing new projects whilst continuing to work towards the premiere of their latest work, a folk punk musical.
Twitter: @Fantasticgnds
Website: www.fantasticgarlands.com
Fight or Flight Productions like to play pretend. We make believe, and we tell stories. We believe in fear, and fairytales; unleashing our demons and dream worlds onto the stage.
Founded in Brighton in 2012, Fight or Flight Productions began over a cup of coffee with the aim to create thought provocative, and sensually gripping theatre by exploring the dark spaces of the mind - stepping into the black, confronting the scary, reflecting the uncomfortable, and making it home. Inspired by the instinctual desires to question and play, we embrace relinquishing control to fear, and battling convention through performance.
Previous work includes "Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons" by Sam Steiner & "Like You Hate Me" by TE Lodge, which made its debut at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in 2019. Fight or Flight Productions are currently in R&D for their new show in autumn 2020.
Twitter: @_fightorflight
Website: www.fightorflightproductions.co.uk
HiddenViewz, are a collective of creatives from the global majority with a burning passion for social change. We aim to bring different perspectives to the arts and provide a platform for those who are often overlooked in society; these stories are introduced through theatre, film, music and photography.
We aspire to push the limiting boundaries that Western Theatre creates by altering the way the audience experiences a show. Our shows are heavily immersive with a focus on movement and music. Our work explores surrealist theatre techniques amplified in a realistic setting.
The company was formed in 2017 by Andrea Lungay, Rachel Mervis and Crawford Kalu. Since the founding, we opened a creative hub in North London to create the opportunity for other like-minded people to explore their own creative journeys. Within this new space, we produce original music in our recording studio and work tirelessly in our creative studios to provide the best experiences for our audiences and guests alike.
Some of our previous work have been produced at notable venues in London such as Lion and Unicorn Theatre, The Cockpit Theatre and The Barbican as well as The Edinburgh Fringe Festival & The Ventnor Fringe in the Isle of Wight.
Twitter: @HiddenViewz
www.hiddenviewz.co.uk
Hideout Theatre was founded in 2021 by a group of students training at Guildford School of Acting.
Formed at the height of the pandemic, Hideout was born at a time of creative and interpersonal restriction. This instilled in us a desire and a need to push against these constraints and tell stories brimming with ambition and scope.
Built on collaboration, playfulness and risk-taking, Hideout works primarily with new writing and bold ideas.
With ensemble at its core, Hideout aims to challenge what's expected in modern theatre, and to show that even the most universal truths and ideas can be explored in ways that invite mayhem and wonder.
Website: www.hideouttheatre.co.uk
Twitter: @TheatreHideout
Lady Garden Theatre Company are a female led company producing work through a queered lens. Their debut show ‘Shakespeare’s Mad Women’ was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Brighton Fringe Awards and then toured the UK to rave reviews of this “darkly hilarious” comedy.
Lady Garden’s work is bold and exciting, this new company aims to deliver stories with complicated, flawed and funny women.
Twitter: @LadyGardenCo
Tiny Theatre Company is a female-led company founded in 2018 by two (tiny) actors, Alex Brailsford and Olivia Roebuck. We are passionate about creating opportunities for emerging actors, playwrights, and creatives. We have produced various scratch-nights at prestigious London venues such as the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, The Kings Head Theatre and Theatre N16. We work closely with our creatives to develop as artists and produce exciting work which is current, comedic and relatable.
Our most recent project, critically acclaimed 2-woman play, “Sixty-Seven” premiered at the Lion and Unicorn in December 2021 for 4 nights. It went on to run a further 5 nights in June 2022 to rave reviews. We are thrilled to be Associate Artists of the Lion and Unicorn Theatre (London’s best fringe venue) among other talented theatre companies and creatives and feel very lucky to be part of such a supportive community.
Twitter: @TinyTheatreCo