Who we are

James Erskine

Creative Producer and Chief Executive

James was born in Dundee and raised in East Fife. He set up Hush Productions in 2000, with the director Carrie Cracknell, whilst studying Psychology at The University of Nottingham. Their first production The Hush (2000), which starred the actress Ruth Wilson, toured to The Ohio Theatre, New York before transferring to Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) in London. After graduating James and Carrie started working in Scotland, staging work at The Tron Theatre in Glasgow and at The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. They picked up a Fringe First and Herald Angel in consecutive Edinburgh Fringe Festivals for their pioneering site-specific double-bill, A MOBILE THRILLER / BROKEN ROAD which they later toured to UK venues and to Toronto. In 2006, James started working for Shakespeare’s Globe where he was responsible for founding ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour’, an open-air, stripped-down touring arm of the world renowned theatre. Over the next three years he toured six productions to over 70 venues in 10 different countries. Alongside this James teamed up with Carrie again to co-produce DOLLS with the National Theatre of Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow in January 2009. In September 2009 James was appointed as producer at The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill where he has co-produced and presented work with theatres as diverse as The National Theatre, Opera Holland Park and Münchner Volkstheater.

Charlotte Conquest

Associate Director

Charlotte graduated from Middlesex University in 1994 with a First Class Honours degree in Performing Arts. She has directed 12 shows for Creation Theatre Company including last year’s Christmas show, Rapunzel or The Magic Pig.

Charlottes’ freelance theatre credits as Director include work for Hampstead Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal, Salisbury Playhouse, Northcott Theatre, New End, Churchill Theatre, and Gulidford Shakespeare Company. Charlotte was Staff Director on the UK tour of The London Cuckolds directed by Terry Johnson (RNT), Assistant Director for Michael Attenborough on Othello (RSC), and Staff Director for Trevor Nunn on South Pacific (RNT).

Charlotte’s choreography credits include work for Oxford Stage Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Northcott Theatre, Arts Educational, Royal Academy of Music, Kent Opera tour and Southwark Playhouse. Charlotte’s next project is directing A Spring Awakening for Guildford School of Acting.

Lucy Askew

Commercial Director

Lucy started the millennium with two weeks work experience at Creation Theatre Company. She left with happy memories of making masks with children, learning stage combat and the art of lighting a barbeque. Little did she know that 8 years later she would find herself pulled back to that crazy world to take on the role of Education Development Manager. Whilst the excitement of working with the children of Oxford never waned the lure of Creation’s sparkly marketing team beckoned and Lucy clambered to the top of the Creation career ladder to become Commercial Director in 2011.

Rebecca de la Bedoyere

Fundraising Manager

A long time ago Rebecca went to Warwick to read lots of books. After three years they gave her a degree in English & American Literature, which was all very lovely but not especially practical, so she also studied for a certificate in Marketing. She worked for Cherwell District Council for a few years as Marketing Manager for the leisure centres, but her inner dramatis personae was scratching to be let out, so she headed off to the charming Chipping Norton Theatre to oversee press and marketing there. In her spare time she also managed PR for a national tour of Kathakali South Asian dance.

Just as she was starting to get itchy feet she read in the paper that her very favourite theatre company in the whole world was seeking a Marketing & Sales Manager. Coincidence? Serendipity? Either way, she applied, and is very glad she did too! Rebecca joined the team in 2006 before leaving in 2008 to explore England on her narrow boat with her husband Dan. She had a beautiful baby girl, Freya, in 2009 and returned part-time in 2010 as Fundraising Manager.

When she isn’t working, playing with Freya or messing about on boats, she does border Morris dancing.

Cheryl Pearce

Marketing and Sales Manager

After university, Cheryl assisted at various arts organisations gaining diverse experiences, from writing press releases to clearing a way through the crowd for a giant insect. Discovering a love of spreading the word to audiences about amazing performances, she moved to Oxford to work in marketing whilst running local music events, and joined Creation in 2007.

Helen Morley

Assistant Marketing and Sales Manager

Daniel Gilbert

Education Manager

Katie Catling

Administration Manager

Katie’s first theatre experience was playing a circus pony in ‘Sago the Clown’ at Whitley Bay Playhouse aged 7. Since then she has graduated from The University of Manchester with a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature where, as a permanent member of the production team for the annual university pantomime, she acted as producer and designer making various things out of cardboard and egg boxes, and her cast up to look like the members of Kiss. She was also the producer and designer for an original work performed at the Manchester InFringe Festival involving a couple of live fish. After receiving a piece of paper to say she was clever, Katie left Manchester and lived in Canada working and travelling for a year, acquiring a love of large open spaces, bears, moose and maple syrup. On her return to England she worked as a restaurant manager in her native land of Northumberland before moving to Oxford to work for Creation in 2008. Katie acclimatised to the strange southern land quickly while her colleagues enjoy speaking to her in ‘Northern’ to make her feel at home.

Georgina Grant

Publicity Coordinator

Charlie Morley

Marketing and Sales Assistant