Our Artists

Mooncup Theatre (Ltd) is a grassroots performance collective founded in 2017. It’s core members Rebecca Clarke, Isobel Balchin and Martyna Puciato create both theatrical productions and community-focused projects designed to engage audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Their work champions open conversation and connectivity between communities, with a particular emphasis on empowering women and LGBTQ+ people.

Other projects include: Genderland Festival (2021) with Metal Culture; Off Your Bonnet (2023) at Shakespeare North Playhouse; Room Service (2024), developed in collaboration with Dr. Eloise Moss at The University of Manchester; Bring Back Old Billy (2024) for Warrington Arts Festival; A-Void for the On The Verge Festival (2017); The Glamournauts (2019) in partnership with Wirral Council; and performances as their Drag King alter-egos, The Spice Boys.

Mooncup Theatre worked with St. Brides to develop a theatrical production that was showcased in October 2025.

Ali Harwood is an artist, poet and educator.

As a poet, Ali often headlines poetry events including appearances at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Chester Poets and The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum. He also hosts Liver Bards in Liverpool, Itch in Prescot, is a member of the Wirral Poetry Festival organising team, and relished his role as host and poet at Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Wychwood Festival.

As an artist, Ali was recently Artist in Residence at Kingsley & Co children’s bookshop in Bootle, Liverpool City Region Artist/Creative of the Year and his canvases have been exhibited in locations including Liverpool Town Hall, Western Approaches HQ and Birkenhead Priory.

As an Educator, Ali has worked recently with the National Literacy Trust, the Southport Learning Trust, Virtual School Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Trust, the Reading Agency, Savera UK and Bristol Refugee Festival. Ali used to be a primary deputy head and continues to visit schools as a creative practitioner. He also currently tutors cared for and excluded children aged 8-15.

Ali worked with St James in the City to create a poetry anthology.  

Martyna Puciato is a Polish Female theatre maker based in Northwest, England. She is a bold director, an anarchic performer and a passionate community maker. The theatre she creates is radical, joyous and unapologetic.

It bursts with movement, clown, comedy and extravagant costumes. Her work draws on her own experience of being an outsider/insider. An outsider as a woman, a migrant and/or a working-class person and an insider as an established artist and a researcher in higher education.

She seeks to tell particular outsider stories and relate them to the universally human. She takes the audience on collective journeys to cathartic liberation, promoting interconnectivity and opening up space for conversations.

Since 2019 she has been letting her creative ambitions flow with Mooncup Theatre – a queer, female led theatre collective. Together they create radical feminist theatre that pops with dance, movement, song, comedy and a lot of improvisation. As a company they make stories and characters that challenge the status quo and engage audiences of all ages and backgrounds in order to build bridges and interconnectivity between communities.

Martyna, who is part of the Mooncup Theatre collective, worked with St Brides in October 2025.

Bea Freeman is a filmmaker, director and producer working across TV and film in Liverpool, the UK and internationally for the past 25 years.

Her ‘Daughters of the Windrush’ film/documentary is one of many from her vast media portfolio of films and documentaries. She has won many awards for her work nationally and internationally and most recently she was awarded the Liverpool City Region Culture & Creativity Judges Inspiration Award.

Bea worked with Liverpool Cathedral to create a short documentary which discusses its connections to African Enslavement.