NORTH STAR CO-DESIGN

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North Star Co-Design was established in 2023 by theatre maker Louie Ingham and writer Lee Mattinson. Based in the North of England, we co-create with people in a variety of settings and our process is a person-led approach to making ambitious new ideas happen. We are powered by a co-led idea and experiment with doing things differently in curious, bold and unmissable new ways.

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North Star Co-Design has three key strands:

- Place based Experiences & Interventions

- Place based Cultural Programmes

- Campaigns & Changemaking 

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Our work has co-created new worlds with a host of extraordinary people in unexpected places. Working with community collaborators with untold stories and unheard voices, we have and continue to make new work on stages, in fields, up mountains, on beaches and across estates. 

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We focus on illuminating the beauty and chaos of the world we live in now and believe it is the idea that binds us.

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North Star Co-Design is co-led by Louie Ingham and Lee Mattinson.

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Louie Ingham is a theatre maker and socially engaged artist with a passion for ambitious new work, modern ideas and collective processes. 

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She is former Associate Director at Northern Stage and was Associate Director at The Dukes. As a freelance theatre maker, Louie has worked on new work programmes across the UK including National Theatre, Vanishing Point Theatre Company, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, Royal Exchange, Theatre by the Lake, National Theatre of Wales, The Tron, British Council, UK Visiting Arts, Farnham Maltings, UK Arts International and York Theatre Royal. 

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Lee Mattinson is an award-winning playwright originally from West Cumbria and his short Fist (BFI Network) won the RTS Award 2023 for Best Drama Performance.

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He is Associate Artist at Theatre by the Lake and theatre credits include: Crocodiles (Winner: The Hodgkiss Award, Royal Exchange), The Season Ticket (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage), Snap (Young Vic), Gary Lineker is Gay (Paines Plough, writer and performer) and Chalet Lines (Bush Theatre). Radio credits include: 2 Clowns 1 Trumpet (I Told You I Was Ill, Contains Strong Language, BBC Radio 3), Tongue (Sonnets in the City, BBC Radio 3), Magpie (Afternoon Drama, BBC Radio 4), Glow in the Dark (Free Thinking Festival, BBC Radio 3), Me & Cilla (The Wire, BBC Radio 3). TV credits include: Coronation Street (ITV), Scallywagga (BBC 3).

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DIRECTORS

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Stephen Pritchard

Caroline Ryan

Shelley Jackson

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FUNDERS

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