The Walk 2021

Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning playwright and director. He was the founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company, an Associate Director of the Young Vic Theatre, a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement, and an alumni of The Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

Following his work on The Walk, in January 2022 he took up the role of Artistic Director of The Walk Productions Limited.

His writing and directing credits include I am Yusuf and This is my Brother, In the Penal Colony, Oh My Sweet Land The Beloved (ShiberHur/Young Vic); Three Days of Grief, West of Us The Sea, Mid Spring Musical, Dry Mud, Against A Hard Surface (ShiberHur); Last Ward, Who Killed You Asmahan, The Huta and Grey Rock (Remote Theater Project, La Mama NYC).

Directing credits include: Samson and Delilah (Flanders Opera, Antwerp); Jidarriya by Mahmoud Darwish (Edinburgh International Festival, Bouffes du Nord and world tour); Forget Herostratus, Le Mallade Imaginer, War or More, Sneeze, Deep Sorrow, Fall Tale, When The World Was Green, Lanterns Of The King Of Galilee, Taha and The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company).

David Lan is a writer and theatre producer. He was Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court 1994/1996 and Artistic Director of the Young Vic from 2000 to 2018, during which time many shows he produced played in the West End and in New York winning many major awards. He was Consulting Artistic Director at the Pearlman Performing Arts Center in NY 2014/2016 and is currently Theatre Associate at BAM where he produced Medea in early 2020. His books include Guns and Rain: guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe and a memoir As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives.

Tracey Seaward’s producer credits include  Danny Boyle’s Millions, Fernando Meirelles’ Academy winning The Constant Gardener; David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises; Steven Spielberg’s War Horse; Michael Grandage’s Genius; eight movies with Stephen Frears including BAFTA and Academy nominated Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen for which she won a BAFTA for Best British Film and a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination, Tamara Drewe, Philomena for which she received a further Golden Globe, BAFTA & Academy Award Best Film nomination, the Golden Globe nominated Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and Victoria & Abdul.

Tracey also produced  the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games, directed by Danny Boyle and The Two Popes directed by Fernando Meirelles starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce which was nominated for 4 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, 3 Academy Awards.

Tracey was Executive Producer on Pistol a six hour limited series directed by Danny Boyle for FX released in 2022.

Stephen Daldry is an award-winning Theatre, Film and Television Director & Producer. He has directed many theatre productions, with sold out runs in London’s West End & New York’s Broadway, winning multiple Olivier & Tony awards. His most recent theatre production was The Inheritance. His production of Billy Elliot the Musical has had several tours worldwide.

Stephen’s 1992 version of An Inspector Calls is the longest running production in the National Theatre’s history. His next play, The Jungle, will return to St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2022, following its successful run in London’s West End, New York, before it embarks on a US tour.

Stephen has directed 5 major feature films which have all been nominated for major film awards.  His latest film Together, written by Dennis Kelly and starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, tackles the Covid-19 pandemic and debuted on the BBC in late 2021 and is being rolled out internationally.

NETFLIX’s The Crown, which he serves as Executive Producer, is in production on its 5th season.

Naomi Webb has worked as a producer for internationally renowned theatre company Complicité (worldwide tour of The Encounter, A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer at National Theatre, The Kid Stays in the Picture at Royal Court), at the Rose Theatre Kingston and Oxford Playhouse. She first visited the Good Chance Dome in Calais in October 2015 and joined Good Chance as Executive Director in September 2017. Since then she has led the company’s growth alongside Artistic Directors Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, including over 300 presentations of award-winning production The Jungle in London and the US, the production of seven Dome theatres across the UK, France and America and the creation of the international Good Chance Ensemble. She is Trustee of Play for Progress, a charity working with unaccompanied young refugees and asylum seekers through music and the arts.

Adrian Kohler, Co-founder and Artistic Director, is considered to be one of the world’s leading masters of his medium. He gained a BA Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and then spent a year at The Space Theatre and another in Birmingham U.K. at the Canon Hill Arts Centre and Weld Community Arts Centre. Kohler then moved to Botswana to run the National Popular Theatre Programme for three years. He has had a solo retrospective at the National Gallery in South Africa, and groups of his works have been shown at The Barbican Art Gallery, London and The Museum for African Art, New York. Kohler received the Michaelis Prize, a lifetime achievement award from Tshwane University (2006) and an honorary doctorate in literature UCT (2012).

Basil Jones, Co-founder and Executive Producer, completed his BFA at UCT. In 1990, Jones set up a not for profit NGO Handspring Trust, which produced the award winning Spider’s Place, an innovative, multi-media science education series for TV, radio an comic aimed at young learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Handspring Trust is involved in a number of projects in urban township and rural areas, using puppetry as a means to educate and empower youth and bring communities together through street parades and performance. He received the Naledi Executive Directors Award (2012), a lifetime achievement award from Tshwane University (2006) and an honorary doctorate in literature from UCT (2012).

Kevin Fitzmaurice was Lead Producer at the RSC from 2012 to 2018.  He was Executive Director at the Young Vic for the first nine years of David Lan’s tenure, including the award-winning redevelopment of the building in 2005/06, and worked on over 100 productions. In the late nineties he was Producer for the Almeida Theatre. Before joining The Walk, Kevin spent a year as Creative Producer for Secret Cinema. He is a former trustee of LAMDA, amongst others, the drama school that he graduated from as a Stage Manager in 1992.

Sarah Loader was the General Manager for The Walk 2021 and became Executive Producer for the company in early 2022.  Before walking with Amal, Sarah was a commercial theatre producer and General Manager working on productions as The Convert by Danai Gurira and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Young Vic), Company (West End), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End) and Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour), Teddy (The Vaults / UK Tour), Toast (UK Tour, 59E59 New York, Park Theatre).

She is proud to have started her early career under the mentorship of Neil McPherson at the Finborough Theatre and went on to learn from Mark Rubinstein, Bill Kenwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Despina Tsatsas. Between 2009 and 2016, she was creative associate to Simon McBurney.

Recep Tuna started his career in civil society with fundraising activities for a variety of social events in 2002. He was involved in the participatory democracy, rule of law and human rights projects. He also initiated campaigns on citizenship rights with Umut Foundation. In 2005, he became the policy officer for press, cultural affairs and human rights at the Consulate General of the Netherlands in İstanbul. He moved to İzmir in 2017. Currently, he is the city coordinator for Spaces of Culture in Izmir and the consultant to ‘daire’ artist in residency program of K2 Contemporary Arts Association.

Recep Tuna, sivil toplum alanındaki kariyerine 2002 senesinde, çeşitli sosyal etkinlikler için fon geliştirme çalışmaları ile başladı. Katılımcı demokrasi, hukukun üstünlüğü ve insan haklarına odaklanan projelere dahil oldu. Umut Vakfı çatısı altında vatandaşlık hakları üzerine kampanyalar yürüttü. 2005 yılında İstanbul’daki Hollanda Başkonsolosluğu’nda basın, kültürel işler ve insan hakları sorumlusu oldu. 2017’de İzmir’e taşındı. Halen Kültür için Alan projesinin İzmir koordinatörlüğü ve K2 Çağdaş Sanat Derneği’nce uygulanan ‘daire’ konuk sanatçı programının danışmanlığı görevlerini yürütüyor.

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is a non-profit cultural institution. Since 1973, the Foundation continues its efforts to enrich Istanbul’s cultural and artistic life. İKSV regularly organises the Istanbul Festivals of Music, Film, Theatre and Jazz, the Istanbul Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennial, Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, autumn film week Filmekimi and realises one-off events throughout the year. The Foundation hosts cultural and artistic events from various disciplines at its performance venue Salon İKSV, located at the Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building, and offers creative events programme for children and youngsters at İKSV Alt Kat.

İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı (İKSV), kâr amacı gütmeyen ve kamu yararına çalışan bir kültür kurumu. 1973 yılından bu yana İstanbul’un kültür-sanat yaşamını zenginleştiren çalışmalar yürütüyor. Düzenli olarak İstanbul Müzik, Film, Tiyatro ve Caz Festivalleri, İstanbul Bienali, İstanbul Tasarım Bienali, Leyla Gencer Şan Yarışması ve Filmekimi’ni düzenleyen, yıl boyunca özel etkinlikler gerçekleştiren vakıf, Nejat Eczacıbaşı Binası’nda yer alan Salon İKSV’de farklı disiplinlerdeki etkinliklere ev sahipliği yapıyor ve İKSV Alt Kat’ta çocuklara ve gençlere yönelik yaratıcı bir etkinlik programı sunuyor.

Yolanda Markopoulou is a director and creative producer. She runs Polyplanity Productions, a company for theatre, film and interdisciplinary projects. She has directed over twenty performances, short and VR films.

In 2007, she founded SYNERGY-O, an experimental performance space in the center of Athens, which housed the refugee and immigrant theatre project Station Athens a year later. Her performance We Are the Persians! (Athens Festival, ISPA – NYC, International Theatre of Finland, mind the fact festival) was presented internationally, while the site-specific walking performance I_LEFT became part of the Elevsis 2023 — European Capital of Culture Cultural programme; she remains a regular artistic collaborator of the initiative.

She was the Greek creative producer for Good Chance Theatre’s new international production The Walk (2020-2021). She is also the co-founder and curator of mind the fact, a cultural initiative aiming to present “true stories by the people who have experienced them”.  She studied film at Boston University’s College of Communication.

Roberto Roberto, producer, and Ludovica Tinghi, actress, founded in 2016 in Naples, together with other partners, the “Centro delle Arti della Scena e dell’Audiovisivo” giving life to a new space for performing arts and cinema in a building of the 17th century in Naples that belonged to the painter Edgar Degas.

Ludovica and Roberto have produced events in Naples and Italy for several seasons with directors, writers and actors such as Peter Brook, Daniel Pennac, Marcello Magni, Jos Houben, Yoshi Oida. They have also produced performances by young neapolitan companies and numerous theatrical workshops and advanced training courses for young artists.

Roberto Roberto, produttore, e Ludovica Tinghi, attrice, nel 2016 hanno fondato a Napoli, con altri partners, il Centro delle Arti della Scena e dell’Audiovisivo, dando vita ad un nuovo spazio per le performing arts e il cinema in un palazzo del XVII sec. a Napoli appartenuto al pittore Edgar Degas.

Ludovica e Roberto hanno prodotto a Napoli ed in Italia per più stagioni eventi con registi, scrittori e attori quali Peter Brook, Daniel Pennac, Marcello Magni, Jos Houben, Yoshi Oida. Hanno inoltre prodotto spettacoli di giovani compagnie napoletane e numerosi workshop teatrali e corsi di alta formazione per giovani artisti.

Claire Béjanin is an international performing arts Producer for contemporary music, theatre, dance and opera.

During the last 25 years, she has been the Executive Director of MC93 Bobigny, the International Festival d’Aix en Provence, Artistic Director of La Carnavalcade, a big scale event involving 20 cities in the department of Seine St Denis, the Artistic Curator of the Ortigia Festival in Sicily, the International Producer of BAM for the Bridge Project and of Martin Zimmermann. Since 2016 she has been the producer of the South African company Isango Ensemble. In 2017 Claire set up Good Chance Theatre France alongside Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and is now the President.

Amaya Jeyarajah Dent is a Creative Producer working across the arts and cultural sectors.  Amaya has worked extensively devising and producing cultural events and large scale spectacle with a broad range of communities and organisations nationally. Her specialism is in producing work for the outdoors and for public space, where the unpredictable is the norm.

AZ Celtic Films was established in 2010 and in September 2020 reached an important milestone, celebrating their 10^th Anniversary. AZ Celtic is known within the industry to run a harmonious tight knit team, led by Zeynep and Alex. They have produced some of the most prestigious film, TV and commercial productions in Turkey including the Oscar winner Argo, BAFTA winner Tinker Tailor Solider Spy and The Two Faces of January (both for Working Title), the Oscar award nominated A War, Ridley Scott’s Turkish Airlines commercial The Journey, numerous Nike and Apple campaigns, and the Heineken UEFA Champions League Commercial The Match, which was shot on a container ship across seven days.

Alex Sutherland filmed in Turkey in 1995 for the first time with a major British film company. There was a decided lack of local backup for foreign film crews at the time and Alex saw the potential to make a difference. The locations in Turkey were rich in culture and diversity and the local team ambitious and hard-working. This saw Alex take the initiative in marketing the potential of Turkey to foreign film producers as a great place to film and since the late 1990s, he could offer services that were not previously available. In 2018 Alex produced the two seasons of the first Netflix Turkish original series “The Protector”, he’s currently producing two series for Netflix.

Polyplanity Productions is an independent production company, established in the performing arts, video and interdisciplinary events fields and thriving on the creative challenge of fusing art with production.

Established in Venice, Italy, in 1986, Mestiere Cinema is an Italian film production and service company with offices in Venice and Rome for feature films, television series and movies, commercials, documentaries and insitutions, photo shoots, private and public events.

Mestiere Cinema has the experience and skills to be at your side in every aspect and every step of the process, providing everything that is needed, from local liaison through to logistical and organisational support all over Italy.

Raphaël Benoliel and his partner, Dimitri Veret, founded the production company FIRSTEP in 2000 to produce their own projects and assist the filming of foreign productions in France.

Benoliel’s Co-Producer/Line Producer credits include Richard Curtis’ Love Actually, Stephen Frears’ The Queen, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables and Working Title Films’ Mr Bean’s Holiday.  His more recent credits include Killing Eve, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Mission Impossible – Fall Out and 1917. His next productions will be Darren Star’s Emily and Paris and Tom McCarthy’ Stillwater starring Matt Damon.

A board member of Film France, Benoliel helped to create the TRIP (Tax Credit for International Production).

Philip Cowell has focused on arts, philanthropy and creativity throughout his career. Starting at the creative writing charity, the Arvon Foundation, where he was Marketing & Development Officer, Philip then became Head of Programmes at English PEN, creating outreach work in prisons, refugee centres and schools with leading UK-based writers. In the corporate sector as a writer he worked on branding projects for ethical businesses including Abel & Cole, C&A Foundation, Redemption Roasters, A Good Dinner, and Rainforest Alliance. For The Walk, Philip loves engaging new donors in Little Amal’s story, bringing them along the whole journey from initial interest to devoted supporter!

Shaun Evelyn is a communications specialist for arts and cultural events, he is passionate about connecting audiences with life affirming projects and brands. He has worked with The Stage Awards Fringe Theatre of the Year nominee Omnibus Theatre on campaigns for their programme and in-house productions including The Little Prince (2019) and Rice! (2020). He has led on campaigns for the national tour of Nouveau Riche’s Queens of Sheba (2018), A Younger Theatre (2018), and See Tickets (2017). He has contributed to Miro Magazine and Volt Magazine and worked with Matthew Josephs and Gary Card on projects for clients including W Magazine, London Fashion Week, London Collections Men, Dover Street Market and Selfridges.

Medea Manaz takes a multidisciplinary approach to creating in the arts. Since graduating from King’s College London in 2019 with a degree in Classics, where she specialised in the study of Greek and Roman theatre, she has been involved in live performance, whether that be acting, producing or marketing.

Alice Evans is a community and engagement Producer that has worked with many arts organisations across the UK and internationally. She began her career working at Shakespeare’s Globe on the South Bank London, within the Theatre and Education Events team, which then led to an exciting opportunity in Barcelona working with  Theatre Education. Alice then returned back to Shakespeare’s Globe as a Co-ordinator for the Learning Outreach team. Amongst other projects she has worked with the creative engagement department at York Theatre Royal and their community programming group. Alice is also a frequent Programmer at the family festival, Deer Shed. Most recently, and one of her most rewarding roles was spent as a Community Producer at Theatr Clwyd in North Wales. Alice helped orchestrate their first community led professional production; Mold Riots. Alongside this she also led the work on the Theatre of Sanctuary programme.

Layla Madanat is an interdisciplinary artist and activist. Whatever the sector and form the work takes, she is driven to tell stories centred around social justice. Since graduating from an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, she has worked as a director, researcher, project coordinator and more. Recently, Layla has worked with CEASE UK, Spark and Co, The Benedetti Foundation, Westminster PA and Rosendale Partnerships, and her artistic work has toured venues from theatres to shipping containers across the UK.

Lizzy Jankowski has been traversing the arts and theatre circuit since she stumbled upon on Punchdrunk’s Faust in 2006. She has since thrived as a producer, coordinator and immersive circus performer for theatre runs, festivals and performance events throughout Europe and UK with a range of companies including Punchdrunk, Tate Britain, Bompas & Parr and Kimatica Studio.

As well as directing & producing her own large-scale multidisciplinary shows as a performance artist, she fuses this with third-sector activism, developing campaigns, producing events, creating platforms that supports and connects marginalised voices and has worked on various projects of this kind with a variety of charitable organisations including Refugee Action & Turn2Us.  She is currently undertaking an MSc in Medical Anthropology at University of Edinburgh alongside her creative work.

Annie Symons studied Fine Art at Hornsey School of Art and cut her teeth in Film & Costume Design at the National Film & TV School. Annie then designed several shorts and features for the British Film Institute, as well as commercials, music videos and designs for the fashion industry including for her own label “Manifest”.

Annie’s work in film and television includes Worried About A Boy (BAFTA TV Award for Best Costume Design), Crimson Petal & The White (RTS Award for Best Costume Design), Great Expectations (Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes), The Hollow Crown, Da Vinci’s Demons, The Terrors, The Woman in Black 2, Angel of Death, King Arthur and The Third Day.

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson are writers and founding co-artistic directors of Good Chance. Their debut play, The Jungle, grew out of the seven months they spent running a theatre in the refugee and migrant camp in Calais, and was presented at the Young Vic and Playhouse Theatre in London, St Ann’s Warehouse in New York and the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. Their work with Good Chance centres around the building of theatres across the world, using art to give a platform to newly arrived refugees and migrants, and creating spaces of welcome and introduction with local communities. They were the recipients of the Genesis Prize 2018 and are currently working on new projects for theatre and film.

Umut Kurç started his career as a stage manager at a theater company. Later on, he was appointed as the manager of the production department of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and acted as the production manager of many major festivals in Turkey. He then founded his own company, Faprika Festival and Event Management where he consults and manages various events and activities.

Esra Dogruyol was born and raised in Antakya, a Turkish city  on the Syrian border, famous for its fine cuisine and where people from many different religions and backgrounds live in peace. After graduating with a BS degree in Industrial Engineering, she moved to the US to receive an MBA degree. She then returned to Turkey and started working in event management and production in Istanbul. Besides providing services in a wide range, from sports competitions, corporate meetings, cultural events to roadshows, she regularly participates in volunteer work of various charity organisations.

Vicky Strataki was born and raised in Evros. She holds a degree in Communication and Mass Media from the University of Athens and a Master of Arts in Film Theory from the Queen Mary University of London. She is a PhD candidate in the field of Film Theory. She has worked for several non-profit organisations and is a regular contributor to cultural magazines, mainly online. She has been a member of the Polyplanity team since 2017 and works as a production manager in the projects she undertakes.

Nikos Charalampidis was born in Berlin and raised in Athens. After graduating with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering he moved to Ireland to pursue an MSc in Advanced Engineering. He has worked as an engineer in the high precision manufacturing sector and provided technical support and quality control management services for various companies. From 2018 he has worked with Polyplanity Productions in a number of theatrical productions, with the latest being his participation in The Walk in Greece.

Born in Chios, Aristeidis Kreatsoulas studied history at the National University of Athens and classical piano at the National Conservatory (Athens). Since 2019 he is postgraduate student at the literature department of the Free University of Berlin. He has worked at the front of house of the National Theatre (Greece), the Athens and Epidaurus Festival and other cultural institutions in Greece. Since 2017 he has been working at the Chios Music Festival production team.

Carla Guardascione was born and raised in Naples,  she has a bachelor in DAMS – Drama, Art and Music Studies – University of Bologna

She applies a multidisciplinary approach to the theatre and the audiovisual products: she works in theatre, film and TV productions in Naples since 2013, she is an actress and theatre trainer since 2016 .

She is involved in social theatre (her biggest passion). She edits and participates to theatre projects for children, disadvantaged communities and minors, patients with transplanted heart and their families.

Glyn Peregrine is a French based Lighting Designer and Production Manager.

Having started lighting at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester he has worked on a wide variety of events around the world, from lighting up Battersea Power station and the Louvre Abu Dhabi, to concerts with Andrea Bocelli and Ronan Keating, Fashion Shows for Philip Treacy and Laura Ashley, Sons et Lumières, Exhibitions, events and product launches for companies such as MacLaren, Google and Lego, a Bollywood Film Dhoom 3, theatre with Theatre du Soleil,  as well as stadium Operas in London, Sydney, Frankfurt and Hatshepsut’s Temple in Luxor.

None of that experience prepared him for a walk around Europe with Amal.

Away from work he spends his time playing the violin with a Celtic music group and a Symphony orchestra, and improving his knowledge of the wines of the world.

Fiorella Lecoutteux joined Good Chance France in 2019. Before that, she worked in various film companies in London. She is also a freelance researcher and book reviewer. She is currently project managing The Walk in four territories: France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.

When not looking after Amal, Sam Moore can be found creating magical events and transforming spaces for people to explore, discover and enjoy. With over a decade of experience in live events, he takes any challenge in his stride and revels in solving whatever problems you throw at him.

Matilda Glen has over 4 years’ experience working as an artist, engagement coordinator, facilitator, project manager and creative producer. She has delivered projects, events, workshops, exhibitions, talks and performances at a variety of indoor and outdoor venues across England.

Matilda has worked for and with a number of partners and stakeholders, such as: Good Chance Theatre, The Whitworth, HOME MRC, Journeys Festival International, Manchester International Festival, The British Council, The University of Manchester and Arts Council England; as well as a variety of charities and youth clubs such as Rainbow Haven Advice Centre for Refugees, Kashmiri Youth Project, Youth on Solid Ground, Hideaway and Care4Calais.

Diyo Mulopo Bopengo is a Congolese from the DRC who grew up in South Africa. He fell in love with music, drama, fine art during his teenage years. He first completed his studies at art school, but later joined a business school to study a BCOM in Supply Chains and Logistics Management.

“I have roots of a Custom Chief and an African who roar mightier than a lion, I stand taller than the mountain” his words precisely, and just a few to describe the power of word to his poetry.

Diyo is a warm-hearted individual who loves people, mountain and not forgetting, beers.

Here in the UK he completes his days Volunteering at the Volunteer Action Sheffield as an Adviser for various departments. The love of art together with his personal life experience gave birth to his poetry, a hidden talent that came to life when he joined Good Chance’s Change the Word Poetry Collective last August 2019.  He has co-published 2 anthologies with collective and currently working on the 3^rd anthology.

In 2021 Diyo was part of The Walk in the UK and had just began a new position with Good Chance as the Change the Word Poetry Collective Coordinator for 2022.

Emily Webb is Head of Poetry at Good Chance, where she is proud to have founded the poetry collective of people from all over the globe: Change the Word. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Take Note, a catalyst initiative to spark and support collaboration in the arts.

She recently won first prize in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Prize 2021 and her poetry has been published in Acumen and The Missing Slate, and in Good Chance anthologies.

Mali Siloko completed her Masters in Human Rights at University College London in 2017. Before joining Good Chance as administrator and then assistant producer, Mali was a Duty Manager at the Other Palace and caseworker for the British Red Cross’ International Family Tracing Service in London. Mali runs Good Chance’s young people’s programme ‘Stage Door’, a project giving young refugees a chance to gain work experience in the creative sector and coordinates the ‘Social Club’, a group open to anyone in London to meet new people and engage with the city’s cultural landscape.

British/Iraqi Dina Mousawi works as an actor, director and theatre producer across Europe, America and the Middle East. Her work includes Terrestrial Journeys, created with Syrian women living in Beirut’s refugee camps; Intezaar (The Wait), examining the criminal justice system in Pakistan; Antigone of Syria, an Arab adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone presented at Al Hamra Theatre Beirut; and Return, a semi-autobiographical piece exploring her upbringing under Saddam Hussein’s regime and the recent occupation of Iraq.
Dina worked at Complicité as the Creative Learning Producer before joining Good Chance as Creative Producer. Dina is the co-author of the critically acclaimed Syria Recipes from Home, a collection of recipes and stories from Syria.

Hannah Harding, while a poet and a theatre-maker by craft, has worked across numerous creative disciplines throughout her studies and career so far. Graduating from Royal Holloway University in 2020 with a BA in English and Drama, Hannah was since engaged with freelance graphic design, marketing and comms, and production assistance work before taking on the role of Development Assistant at Good Chance during The Walk.

Bolton & Quinn, founded in London in 1981, provides strategic communications advice and implementation to the world’s leading cultural organisations, museums, arts foundations and artists.

Flint Culture is an award-winning communications consultancy that specialises in the cultural and creative industries. We deliver campaigns worldwide through offices in London, Mumbai, Delhi, Dubai and Istanbul supported by an international network of associates. Our work is driven by specialist expertise, regional insights and a belief in the value of culture.

MSCOMM is an integrated communications agency offering a wide range of services and in depth knowledge of traditional and new media, with a deep commitment in sustaining and building advocacy on behalf of its clients and organisations, products, services and issues in Greece and abroad.

Zeynep Santıroğlu Sutherland (Producer/Director) graduated with a degree in Art History and is fluent in both English and Spanish. Working closely with the ministry of culture she has been producing and directing international documentaries for channels such as BBC, Nat Geo, PBS, Channel 4, Discovery Channel. She has recently produced a Turkish Airlines commercial directed by Ridley Scott, the branded films premiered at the super bowl 2019. She has recently produced Netflix global first movie Swimmers in Turkey.

Ece Öncü has a degree from New York University in Media, Culture and Communication with a Minor in Film Production. She started her career at Film Society of Lincoln Center, then moved to Los Angeles to become a Films Trailers Producer at Ignition and Create Advertising. Since moving back to Turkey, Ece has worked in both agency and client side of commercial films and photography, finally landing in AZ Celtic Films to pursue her passion of cinema.

Mehmet Yorulmaz started his career in early 2000 for tourism and organisation business. Main aim is always to provide accessible and simple solutions to partners all over the World for whole land arrangements, hotels, flights and all related requests for production companies. He is a graduate of Kocaeli University Travel Management and has adopted and educated many tourism professionals to the tourism industry. Mehmet is still combining the tourism and production industry with a valuable time saving for whole production partners. He is co-partner at Ozyo Global DMC and presenting services, especially in all European countries, America, the Far East, the Middle East, the Balkans and CIS countries.

Tugce Aydin is an Istanbul based filmmaker, performer and art director.  In 2012, she has completed her B.Sc. degree in Biological Sciences at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. In 2015, she got a master degree in Cinema and Television from Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Isil Terzioglu received her bachelor degree in Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture in Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2004 she volunteered at Mercedes Fashion Week Istanbul. After that she interned as a costume and production assistant for various designers. Upon graduation she worked as a production design assistant. She has been a freelance photographer since 2017. She volunteered AKUT to generate projects that serve society and rescue. In The Walk With Amal, she worked as a costume assistant.

Muge Erarslan studied Theatre, Cinema and Media Sciences as her major, and Philosophy as a minor degree at the University of Vienna. During her study, she worked as an assistant teacher for immigrant children in youth centers. In 2010, she made dramaturgy and presented her video-installation for Heiner Müller play “Wolokolamsker Chaussee” which was funded by the Council of Europe. Following her return to Turkey, she kept her status as production dramaturgist as well as assistant director for several theatre companies. She went on participating in voluntary works for children. Currently, along with theatre works, she also continues to work in films both for artistic and directoral departments. In The Walk with Amal, she worked as a costume buyer.

Özgüç Özgümüş started his career in hotel management in Turkey after completing his university education in the United States. Later on, he started to work at a tourism agency, which will become the profession he will really love. He has been producing easy and sustainable solutions for its partners both inbound and outbound for about 15 years. He still continues his career as one of the founding partners of Ozyo Global DMC.

Menelaos Kyparissis was born in Athens, Greece. He is a graduate of the School of Philology (Linguistics Department) of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the Greek Art Theatre “Karolos Koun” Drama School. He has collaborated with several cultural institutions, including the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and Aton Publishing. His credits as an actor include, among others, the performances Solo, Phaedrus, Nekyia, Off-White, Life Traps — Loula Anagnostaki Mixage, The Day Gagarin Died, Shavua, Nikiratos, Gynaikokratia, and Antigone. He can next be seen in the film Wind of Freedom by Stelios Haralambopoulos.