Evie Manning - Co-Artistic Director, Common Wealth

Evie is Co-Artistic Director of Common Wealth, a political site-specific theatre company based in Bradford and Cardiff, making work with people from their lived experience from steelworkers to Muslim car enthusiasts. With Common Wealth, Evie has toured shows around the world and directed performances with BBC4, NTW and the British Textile Biennial and received awards from Amnesty International, Scotsman Fringe First, Observer New Radicals and was named in The Stage 25 as one of the influential theatre-makers of the future. Evie was brought up in Bradford and lives in Bradford today.