Staff
David Mabbott
Co-Artistic Director
David Mabbott
Co-Artistic Director
David is a theatre practitioner and musician. His experience in community arts settings has included running a performing arts group for young people with a learning disability, at Centre 404, and working with people of all ages with additional learning needs as a workshop leader with Music Making SENse. As well as writing original scripts and songs for theatre, David has composed for instrumental ensembles and film, while work as Musical Director encompasses pantomimes, off-west-end shows and youth projects across the UK. As a multi-instrumentalist, David performs regularly in theatre productions and bands, with current projects including KYOTI. David grew up in East London and has been working in and around Islington for over seven years. Inclusivity is central to his work and he is dedicated to ensuring full access to, and participation in, the arts for all.
Natalie Sloth Richter
Co-Artistic Director
Natalie Sloth Richter
Co-Artistic Director
Natalie is a dance artist, choreographer, and movement director. Her work has included performing for multi-sensory company Bittersuite at venues like Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), Royal Opera House (UK) and Roundhouse (UK) as well as producing and touring her own choreographic work both nationally and internationally. Alongside working for Angel Shed, Natalie has facilitated inclusive movement workshops for organisations such as The Wellcome Hub, Institute of Imagination, Vault Festival and Jackson’s Lane and has worked with senior dancers and people with dementia at Green Candle Dance Company. She is currently leading the artistic production of a UK tour of the show SMACK & Spektakel, created specifically for young audiences. Natalie has extensive experience in making the performing arts accessible and passionately promotes a collaborative and inclusive practice.
Dawn Davis
Executive Director
Dawn Davis
Executive Director
Dawn has 25 years’ experience in the world of the arts and entertainment, covering the management of stage to screen live performance (including leading broadcast events such as Glastonbury for the BBC) and as senior manager for a number of organisations including the National Theatre and prominent independent production companies. She volunteers for young persons’ helpline, The Mix, and sits on the board of Highbury Opera Theatre. Dawn has lived in North London for 30 years and Islington holds a place in her heart being the location of her first home in London. She joined Angel Shed in August 2020 and is passionate about supporting children and young people through inclusive arts.
Kate Yauner
Office Manager
Kate Yauner
Office Manager
Kate is a trained Secondary English Teacher and, as well as working at Angel Shed, she works part time as an English Teacher at an Autism specialist school. Kate worked for seven years at Angel Shed's neighbour Centre 404, first as a support worker for children and adults with learning difficulties and then as the Day Service Co-ordinator. Other experience includes teaching English at Lea Valley High School in Enfield, working as a Publicity Assistant at Penguin books and as a General Manager for Pitcher and Piano Bars.
Philly Rule
Assistant Dance Facilitator
Philly Rule
Assistant Dance Facilitator
Philly is a Freelance Dance Artist working with various arts organisations and institutions throughout London and the South West, which is where she is originally from. Becoming a resident artist at Creation Box London allowed her to refine and nurture her artistic voice, and establish her own creative practice and facilitation method, ‘Traces’. It is important to her as a Dance Artist to create spaces where everyone is welcome, is encouraged to express themselves creatively, and experience creativity in their own way. For this reason, Philly’s work focuses on improvisation, offering metaphors for participants to individually respond to. Philly thoroughly enjoys working with a wide variety of young people and nurturing their creative minds in relation to movement.
Maryam Shaharuddin
Assistant Theatre Facilitator
Maryam Shaharuddin
Assistant Theatre Facilitator
Maryam joined Angel Shed as a volunteer before joining the artistic staff. With a background in performing, devising and writing theatre, she has worked as a facilitator in the UK and Malaysia, delivering drama workshops to young people from marginalised communities. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Applied Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and is passionate about using theatre as a tool for social change.
Robyn Olivia
Assistant Theatre Facilitator
Robyn Olivia
Assistant Theatre Facilitator
Robyn is a theatre maker, puppeteer and facilitator. During training she specialised in devised ensemble theatre and also spent six months in Prague training as a puppeteer. A particular creative highlight for Robyn is her research into accessible puppetry training for artists with disabilities. This research included building a sensory puppet of Puck for the Primary Shakespeare Company’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Robyn’s previous theatre experience has led her to pursue a career creating sensory and immersive children’s theatre, facilitating inclusive and accessible theatre workshops and actively embedding disability activism and equality within all aspects of her creative work.
Whitney Sanchez
Assistant Music Facilitator
Whitney Sanchez
Assistant Music Facilitator
Whitney is a self-taught musician and songwriter as well as vocalist who has learned from some of the best vocal coaches in the world of Jazz and Classical music. Her musical journey began at a young age, leading her to join various gospel choirs and to sing in local music festivals and musicals. Since moving to London, Whitney has performed and written music with the Barbican and Guildhall School of Music and Drama Impossibilities Collective and is currently one of the lead vocalists for Christ Church Highbury's Jazz Vespers Choir and a local Jazz band. At the moment, Whitney is focusing on writing and producing her first EP.
Trustees
Andrew Duncan
Chair
Andrew Duncan
Chair
Jake Macan
Secretary
Jake Macan
Secretary
Caroline Rouse
Treasurer
Caroline Rouse
Treasurer
Sarah Kitteridge
Child Protection & Safeguarding
Sarah Kitteridge
Child Protection & Safeguarding
Amanda Myers
Events & Fundraising
Amanda Myers
Events & Fundraising
Richard Longworth
Volunteer Practitioner representative
Richard Longworth
Volunteer Practitioner representative
Nicky Galliers
Parent/carer representative
Nicky Galliers
Parent/carer representative
Jo Stevens
Education/schools representative
Jo Stevens
Education/schools representative
Alex Khosla
Trustee
Alex Khosla
Trustee
Rupert Taylor
Trustee