A new team - and a new way of working.

We are putting permanent, salaried roles for artists and collaborative leadership at the heart of a new staff structure at Company Three.

As we begin a new term, we’re excited to announce some big changes in the way we work.

From now on, our artistic work will be led collaboratively by a team of artists, made up of Nuna Sandy, our new Associate Artistic Director, Amber Evans and Philip Morris, our two new Associate Artists, and Ned Glasier, our Artistic Director.

They will work together to design and deliver our programme over the next three years, supported by Angie Peña Arenas, who steps up to become our new Project Manager, and Becky Martin, who returns as Executive Director following her maternity leave.

Nuna takes on her new role following two years as our Producer. Her role will have a specific focus on supporting all our artists to thrive — whether they are established professionals or just joining the company as eleven-year-olds.

Amber and Philip have been our freelance Project Associates for the last year and now join on permanent contracts, giving them consistent and supported space to create new plays with our members and contribute to the strategic direction of the company.

As a team, they will work together to collectively design and deliver our programme. We are exploring ways to make this genuinely collaborative and innovative, including twice-weekly ‘Practice Labs’ — artistic workshops in which we will plan together, interrogate our practice, experiment, train and challenge our approach to equity and inclusion.

These Practice Labs will also help us consolidate how we share our practice. We aim to record and share everything we learn through a series of freely-available Blueprints on everything from specific session plans, to project structures and administrative processes.

The two Associate Artist roles, and our new way of working, have been supported by a generous three-year grant from Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

This new structure has created space that will allow Ned to take a period of parental and sabbatical leave in 2022.

During this time, Nuna, Amber and Philip will take overall responsibility for the programme, which will include at least three new first-stage plays and the development of a major new project that we’ve been running for the last year called Black Is Safe, celebrating the identity of our Black members.

Towards the end of the year we’ll say a sad farewell to Joe Bibby, who has supported our work wonderfully as our interim Executive Director, and Penny Babakhani, who has brilliantly produced our When This Is Over project.

As we emerge from the pandemic, we know how important consistency, representation, trust and understanding are going to be to the young people we work with. We hope this new way of working will create more space for our young people to be themselves, tell their stories and make change.

We’ll be reviewing our progress as we go and sharing everything we learn on the way.