Meet the Team

Jamie is a freelance theatre producer, supported by the Stage One bursary. His production credits include Michael Rosen's one-man show Getting Through It (Touring), Roger McGough's Musicals The Sound Collector and Money-Go-Round (touring), and the plays Life With Oscar (Arcola), Sabbath (OSO Arts Centre) and Happy Hour (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).

He has formerly held venue programming positions at the OSO Arts Centre and ADC Theatre, and his experience knowing how difficult it is to get new writing staged has inspired him to create the Play Lottery.

As a playwright, his work has been nominated for and won a few awards, and lost even more.

You can contact Jamie here.

Producer and Creator – Jamie Rycroft

Director – Jessy Roberts

Jessy Roberts a director, playwright and dramaturg. She trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and studied Theatre at the University of York. Alongside working as a freelance director, she is Senior Reader at the National Theatre, was Literary Assistant at Soho Theatre, and an Associate Writer of Middle Child Theatre. She specialises in new writing, and her practice is movement based, form-breaking and multidisciplinary, interrogating subjects and themes such as equality, perspective, and seeking out joy.

She is the Artistic Director of Teastain Theatre, who collaborate with playwrights and devise work which interrogates themes including the environment, mental health, gender and sexuality. She is Associate Director of The Rondo Theatre in Bath, and an Associate Director of Bomb Factory Theatre who are the resident company of Bomb Factory Art Foundation. Recent Credits as Director include: Pak It In (Nonsuch Studios), Tap Root by Ashley Milne (Longlisted for The Women's Prize for Playwriting), Thirst (Vault Festival), BRANDED (Bloomsbury Festival/Bomb Factory Theatre), Period Dramas (The Other Palace & Pleasance), Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play (Omnibus Theatre) Girls With Wings & Trauma (Bomb Factory Theatre), Hitchhiker (Rondo Theatre), I Hate Alone (The Wardrobe Theatre), Details of a Hurricane (BOVTV), When They Go Low (the egg, Theatre Royal Bath), Messy Eaters (York Theatre Royal Studio) and lovely special best and most important (York Theatre Royal Studio).