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and surprise of live art. She is passionate about cross art-form collaborations, new
commissions and site-specific work, a genre that Caroline has pioneered and perfected
with over 30 years of award-winning work.

People in Lancashire and the Northwest will know her best for the company Feelgood
Theatre Productions that she founded in 1994, where she remains as their dedicated
CEO and Artistic Director continuing to push the boundaries of international touring
and grass- roots music and theatre. She innovated site-specific and immersive theatre
in the UK creating new commissions; flying aeroplanes onto airfields, performing in air-
craft hangers, on cliff tops and taking elaborate Shakespeare productions to Heaton
Park where audiences combined a walk in the park with live theatre, music and
dance. Truly immersive and multi award winning, with the prestigious Horniman
Award for ‘outstanding contribution to live theatre’, the Honorary John Thaw Fellow at
the University of Manchester and Lancashire Woman of the Year in 2007.

Returning from Cincinnati Caroline will direct the national tour of stage
production Slave: A Question of Freedom based on the true story of Sudanese born
Mende Nazer’s escape from enslavement in 2000.

Last performed in 2010/2011 a special presentation of Slave, hosted by Lord David
Alton and Nuba Mountains Solidarity Abroad was held in the House of Lords on 30th
Nov 2010. It was supported by Lord Navnit Dholakia, Baroness May Blood, Baroness
Lola Young and Baroness Nuala O’Loan. Extracts of the play was a powerful support of
key motions to encourage the British government to support the EU Resolution to
reduce trafficking and to bring attention to the continuing plight of many millions of
enslaved people around the world. The Modern Slavery Bill was passed 26 March 2015
which strengthens the law and addresses many of the issues involved in slavery and
trafficking.

Caroline is passionate that theatre and storytelling can help to influence and change
hearts and minds. She believes that art should be a right for everyone, not a
luxury. Thus, she works at multiple levels to unite professional performers and
community groups to share the joy of music and the wellbeing that it promotes. She
lectures at universities and conservatoires worldwide and in the UK at the Royal
Academy of Scotland, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the RNCM.

She approaches her work with a definite sense of risk and adventure, willing to explore
our perceptions of current societal issues through music and drama. Caroline embraces
her dance background utilising physical storytelling to create detailed dramaturgy set
within beautifully crafted intimate and epic stage pictures. She is celebrated for
creating dynamic ensemble work with a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural
approach. In this way, she has successfully fused the classical canon with a capella
singing, drumming and film techniques to create productions that offer audiences a
visceral experience within a sonic and visual matrix.

More information and tickets for the World Premiere of Sir Paul McCartney’s opera in
Cincinnati can be found here https://www.cincinnatiopera.org/liverpool-oratorio