The Core Team
Kieton Saunders-Browne
Artistic Director of Wooden Arrow
Kieton is a graduate from the Young Actors Theatre Islington and LAMDA (BA).
Acting credits include Frantic Assembly's The Unreturning (UK Tour, Anna Jordan), A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath/Theatre Royal Haymarket, Dominic West), Give Me Your Skin (Tommy Ross-Williams and Oonagh Murphy), Machinal (Orange Tree), You Me Bum Bum Train (West End), They Know Not What They Do (Che Walker and Michelle Inness), Why Am I So Single Workshop (Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow), and WW2 HOMEFRONT PARTY Immersive (Party Geek, Paul King). Film includes Lead in the Feature Film - 'Yes-Man' (Daniel Glenn-Barbour), RUNT (Jules Milan Barral), Monotropa (Jonathan Reid-Edwards and Kate Tuck), Pulling (Vicki Kisner), The Backseat (Miranda Howard-Williams) and Fuck The Boxes (Abel Rubinstein).
Writing Credits include Block'd Off (Pleasance London and Edinburgh 2022, Camden People's Theatre, Mustapha Matura Award Longlisted, Generate Fund Awarded), WoLab Actor-Writer Cohort 2019 (led by Alistair Wilkinson), All of the Lights (Kings Head Theatre), Lady and the Trap (Young Actors Theatre Islington), and Socks (Wooden Arrow Productions)
Kieton has also participated in groups such as the Young Vic’s Intro to Directing (Natalie Abrahami), Royal Court's Agitators, and is currently on the Almeida’s Youth Advisory Board.
He has a physical and stage combat background, having completed courses in Firearms, Aerial/Wire Flight, Motion Capture and various weapons, alongside practicing Tricking and Tumbling. He has also competed and won multiple WBU titles as a Semi-Professional Boxer and occasionally works as a Fight Director, revisiting LAMDA for Sucker Punch 2024 (Tramaine Trace), and on A View From The Bridge West End.
Represented by Roxane Vacca Management as an Actor
KIETON SAUNDERS-BROWNE (spotlight.com)
Alissia Di Cosmo
Production Manager at Wooden Arrow
Alissia is an alumni of Nottingham’s Television Workshop, Open Door and a graduate of LAMDA (BA).
Acting credits include You Me Bum Bum Train (West End), Regrowth (Ethan Campbell), Star Signs (Benjamin Keir), The OAAW (Haider Zafar), Cubs (Gilbert Kyem Jr and James Harkness), ODD (Ben Johnson), Fossil (Eleanor Blackman), Rumspringa (Emma Cooney) and Why Am I So Single Workshop (Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow).
Alissia assisted Block’d Off as Production Assistant at The Pleasance London and Edinburgh 2022. She has recently began creating her own work, writing a comedy pilot ‘NANNYLAND’ and a comedy short ‘The Talent’.
Represented by Kate Borde Personal Management as an actor.
Script Readers
Anthony Fletcher
Anthony has been a Script Reader for The Scratch since the first event in 2020.
Anthony originally hails from Lancashire in the North-West of England. Growing up, he was afforded the opportunity to work with local, community-led, amateur dramatic societies; namely The Fylde Coast Players and The Centenary Players. After his appearance as Bert in 'The Railway Children' at the Lowther Pavilion Theatre, he was awarded by the National Dramatic and Operatic Association (NODA) for both 'Best Youth in an Amateur Production' and 'Best Newcomer in an Amateur Production'. Soon after, he gained membership to the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and subsequently went on to complete his Foundation in Acting at Young Actors Theatre Islington. Anthony has found recent success after being cast by pre-eminent, Northern Irish film-maker Gavin Irvine for his upcoming feature film 'Little Dipper or Bust', currently set for release in 2025. He is also an active attendee of Lance Nielsen's Outcasts Creative.
Ibraheem Hussain
This is Ibraheem’s first year as a Script Reader for The Scratch.
IBRAHEEM is recent graduate of LAMDA, 3 Years BA Acting. He just made his professional stage debut, playing role of 'Mohsen' in BROWN BOYS SWIM at the Soho Theatre. He will also be featuring in Apple series SURFACE. He is the recipient of both the David Garrick Scholarship and John & Amelia Winter Scholarship 2022.
During his final year he also was a member of the Lyric Hammersmith Young Writers Programme where he continued to develop his abilities as a writer.