Amy Ewbank - Artistic Director
Amy established Doll's Eye Theatre in May 2015, and co-founded Doll’s Eye Trust in 2020. It was alongside her work interning as a prevention officer at Rape Crisis in South London in 2010 working on devising a Consent education pack and assisting attending focus groups with young people, that Amy turned her attention to gender equality and representation in theatre.
Directing credits for Doll’s Eye Theatre include Birth Right (2019), Might Never Happen (2017/18) and The Forbidden (2016). Other recent directing credits include Diary of a Teenage Girl at The Southwark Playhouse, One of Those at The Tristan Bates Theatre, Philip Ridley New Writing Premiers at The Old Red Lion and Assistant Director on Fault Lines at Hampstead Theatre.
As a playwright, Amy wrote Birth Right for Doll’s Eye in 2018 then in 2019, Amy was commissioned by The University of West London in association with the Criterion Theatre Trust, to write Hooves and Wings, an inaugural play for a cast of seven, performed by third year graduates. Prior to becoming a director and writer, Amy trained for three years at LAMDA, and worked as a professional actor, performing on radio and stage across the UK.
In 2023, Amy founded the Joy of Writing to support new writers with 1-1 writing coaching and online courses.
Maddy Berry - Producer
Maddy has worked within the charity sector throughout her career and has a range of experience in project management and income generation. She is currently Head of Trusts and Foundations at the financial education charity, MyBnk, working to fund the organisation and enabling the impact at the core of its values. She began working with Amy as Producer for Dolls Eye's Might Never Happen Education Tour in 2017, facilitating and coordinating the delivery of the piece and workshop to 1,300 young people. She then went on to produce Birth Right the following year. In January 2020, Maddy co-founded Dolls Eye Trust with Artistic Director Amy Ewbank with the aim of leveraging powerful and emotive theatre for positive social change.
Kate Cowans - Trustee
Kate has worked in family law for over 14 years, having trained at a national firm, and is now a Senior Associate Solicitor at Vaitilingam Kay, a boutique firm in London specialising in Family Law. Kate has previously undertaken pro bono work for clients who were unable to afford private representation in cases involving private Children Act proceedings. Kate became interested in Doll's Eye after seeing a number of their productions and wished to become more involved with the organisation to promote and support their worthy cause.
Sharan is an Educator, Facilitator & Changemaker passionate about social justice, education and the empowerment of young people and marginalised groups. She has over 15 years experience in designing, delivering and scaling education programmes globally.
She has worked directly with a diverse range of young people aged 7 - 25 years in schools, colleges, leaving care teams & prisons. Her education programmes have won awards for their social impact with the Guardian Public Service and Centre for Social Justice Poverty Prevention.
Alongside her youth education work Sharan works in anti-oppression, supporting individuals, teams and leaders to create equitable spaces through training, strategy development and coaching. This work includes her being the Head of Training at Beyond Equality (a positive masculinities charity), a race equity advisor at Social Finance, and an associate at the What If Experiment (working in the creative sector).
In her free time, she helps to run #POC Impact (a network supporting people of colour in social impact), facilitates Google #IamRemarkable workshops and ‘Sister Stories’ circles for women, and co-founded The People Protest (organising community solidarity events).
Alice Williams- Trustee
Alice is a project manager, producer, facilitator and strategic thinker. Her most recent work with the Belgrade Theatre and Coventry City of Culture Trust has focussed on developing strategic relationships to set up a Creative Health Alliance for Coventry and Warwickshire, working with councils, public health, arts organisations and creatives across the region. She believes in the power that theatre and creative arts has to change lives, develop skills and improve health and wellbeing.
Nicola McKenzie: Trustee
Nicola brings valuable experience of the education, charity and finance sectors, at both a strategic and grass-roots level. A recently qualified Primary School Teacher, Nicola is passionate about educating and empowering the future generation.
As Business Development Director of an education charity, Nicola helped to shape and deliver the overall strategy. She developed innovative projects that had a significant impact on the lives of thousands of disadvantaged young people. Nicola has significant experience in developing fundraising strategies and secured large, multi-year, strategic partnerships multinational companies, trusts and foundations. As a member of the charity’s Finance Committee, she was also responsible for cashflow forecasting and monitoring.