Reece McMahon (he/him)
Executive Director
Reece is an interdisciplinary arts producer specializing in theatre, dance, live, and outdoor arts. He became Executive Director of CDS in 2022.
Previously, he was a Producer at New Diorama Theatre (NDT), where he helped plan and deliver NDT Broadgate, a rehearsal and artist development complex in the City of London. He also oversaw a season that contributed to NDT winning Fringe Theatre of the Year 2022, including the Royal Court and West End transfers of “For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy.”
From 2020 to 2023, Reece co-founded The REcreate Agency with Emily Beecher, raising £1 million for arts projects and supporting over 550 creatives.
Reece began his career as an Assistant Producer at The Place after graduating from London Contemporary Dance School. He has worked with Avant Garde Dance Company, Rural Touring Dance Initiative, Outdoor Arts UK, and Museum of Homelessness. He is currently a Trustee at Seven Dials Playhouse.
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Frances Morgan (she/her)
Artist Community Producer
Frances is a producer, facilitator and artist from East Yorkshire, living in London. She has been an artist-Member of CDS since 2015, and have worked as part of the staff team since 2018. Her role has recently focussed on working with members to develop artist leadership at the organisation, experimenting with more equitable selection processes, and advocating for marginalised artists.
Collaboration is at the heart of Frances’ artistic practice, and she has co-led participatory, curatorial and discursive projects in response to diverse interests: queer and post-work futures, nightlife, magic, improvisation, and trans experience. As a self-producing artist she has performed and exhibited her work across the UK and internationally, including The Place, Wellcome Collection, The Yard Theatre (London), Yorkshire Dance (Leeds), Dance4 (Nottingham), Vivid Projects (Birmingham), and La Fete du Slip (Switzerland).
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Jasmine Andrews (she/her)
Associate Artist Community Producer
Jasmine is an independent freelance artist whose interest and work spans producing, choreographic practice and technical production. She is currently producing for The Place across their Producing/Touring, Theatre & Artist Development programmes, Chisenhale Dance Space for their Artist Community events and is in consultation with Treacle Holasz under Treacle Makes producing for two international dance artists. She is Artistic Director & Choreographer of Sketch Dance Company, a project based collective, who create contemporary dance theatre work focusing on socio-cultural themes aiming to viscerally engage audiences. She continues to work casually as a dance teacher, technician and duty manager.
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Michael Picknett (he/him)
Lead Technician
Michael is a composer, technician and performer specialising in music for dance, stage and film. As a composer, Michael’s work explores tactility and presence in performance, and this is reflected in his sound design – often using sounds on the edge of perception, or creating moving sound through multi-speaker set-ups.
As a technician he has worked extensively in the UK and Belgium, creating and relighting works for theatre makers, as well as running shows for scratch nights. He is the lead technician for TripSpace as well as Chisenhale. He is also a specialist in audio for film. Especially cleaning audio, composition and mixing.
He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama gaining both a masters and a doctorate in music composition. More information can be found at: www.michaelpicknett.com
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Image Credit: ‘Dance of the Bow Magpie’ by Quang Kien Van, Encounter Bow, June 2021. Photo by Zbigniew Kotkiewicz