The Core Team
Thea Melton
Associate Producer - The Rising Artist Talk Podcast
Thea is a multidisciplinary creative working mainly within producing, acting, research and photography. She trained at Mountview in MA Acting and previously studied Human Social and Political Science at The University of Cambridge. Blending these two backgrounds Thea is passionate about developing artistic work that explores and dissects socio-political theory and lived experiences.
Thea is currently a Young Associate at The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and on the Youth Panel for Creative Youth Charity. Thea has worked on projects across creative mediums including screen, theatre, visual arts. She has been part of the Young Producers programme at Theatre Peckham, The Royal Court’s Methods of Writing group and has worked on projects at The Lyric, Southbank Centre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Nutopia and CamFM. She is currently preparing for a project at Bread and Roses Theatre with Daughters of Artemis.
Basheba Baptiste
Consulting Producer
Bashiie is a producer and Multi-creative artist, specialising in artists development.
A Stage One Alumni Bashiie has been an Associate Producer on two West End transfers, Best of Enemies, by James Graham and Shifters by Benedict Lombe and has since used the knowledge gained to make and create work in a way that challenges conventional theatre making.
Bashiie has worked as a producer, facilitator and artist with theatres, venues and creative spaces and government run organisations across London and the wider UK including: The Bush Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Tom Thumb Theatre, the Young Vic, Talawa Theatre Company, Zooco Theatre Company, Peer Power UK and Company Three.
As the Artistic Director of Care to Culture C.I.C, Bashiie works with care experienced young people and those without a primary care giver, offering paid training, learning and development opportunities to artists that are otherwise ignored because of the perception of others.
Kieton Saunders-Browne
Artistic Director of Wooden Arrow
Kieton is a graduate from the Young Actors Theatre Islington and LAMDA (BA).
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)
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).
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)
Elijah Lifton
Associate Producer - The Rising Artist Talk Podcast
Elijah is a young creative - an actor, writer, and producer. He is the co-director of Marigold Productions, and is excited to work alongside Kieton at Wooden Arrow Productions. Recent projects include 2.36 and Soultide at the Camden Fringe, Falling Berries, and a range of short films.
Writing credits include original works for the LAMDA MishMash Festival, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Etcetera Theatre and The Libra Theatre Café, as well as short films and a miniseries.
Elijah speaks Mandarin, and is currently creating a pilot for 大鼻子在北京 (Big Nose in Beijing), a Chinese / English comedy series following a Westerner in China on a homestay and his mishaps.
Elijah is a graduate from LAMDA 2024, and is studying Theatre & Performance Studies at Bristol University.
Elijah has also assisted on the production teams at plays such as The Wanderers at the Marylebone Theatre, and as a director / actor, Elijah has observed Ola Ince at The Globe & assisted the company with The Crucible.
As a musician, Elijah achieved a Distinction in Grade 8 piano aged 13, and now holds a Diploma. Elijah is also a jazz saxophonist. In his spare time, Elijah is a competitive slalom-mono waterskier.
Represented by Smile Casting as an actor.
Alissia Di Cosmo
Marketing Manager and Administration
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.