MAKE SPACE 2026

MAKE SPACE PANEL:

Imy Wyatt Corner

Imy Wyatt Corner is a theatre director who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has just finished working as the Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director at Kiln Theatre, where she assisted on four shows and observed rehearsals for Phantom of the Opera and Hamilton. Other assisting includes Private Lives in the West End and Theatre Royal Bath touring productions. Selected directing credits include Fringe First Award Winning show 'BEASTS' (ZOO), Charlie Hartill Award Winning Show 'Duck' (Arcola Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard, South East Tour), Asian Media Award nominated 'Passing' (Park Theatre) and 'Happy Yet?' (International Theatre, Frankfurt). She was a 2025/6 recipient of the Nicole Kidman Bursary from Michael Grandage and is using it to develop her new play 'Raymond'. She was an Artistic Associate at Arcola Theatre 2023/4 and a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre 2022/3. 

AJ Turner

AJ Turner is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist working across contemporary theatre, live art and experimental music based in London. Their practice centres on the raw, visceral affectivity of sound in performance, creating and collaborating on interdisciplinary projects through an intersectional feminist, disabled, queer lens.

Their work in critically acclaimed theatre productions has toured internationally and across the UK, seen at venues including The Almeida, Schaubühne, Battersea Arts Centre, Carriageworks (Sydney), Frascati (Amsterdam), Arken (Copenhagen), and Soho Playhouse (New York). In their experimental music work they have been commissioned by organisations including the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra and Spitalfields Music, and they were a Bang on a Can (New York) Composer Fellow in 2018, and a London Sinfonietta Writing the Future Composer from 2020 - 2022. 

Christina Deinsberger

Christina Deinsberger is a Berlin based director, co-founder of fish in a dress and Complicité associate artist.

After stuDying Law and Criminology she was a resident assistant director at the Schaubühne Berlin. Previous work includes Undine geht (@Schaubühne, invited to the Summer Up Festival, director), Genesis (@Schaubühne, co-director), Mnemonic (@National Theatre, London, associate director) as well as extensive international touring experience. Christina’s artistic strength lies in psychologically detailed, physically challenging, formally experimental work. Her first show with fish in a dress, The City for Incurable Women, played a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Camden Peoples Theatre and will tour the UK in 2026. Their second work bush (a lesbian romcom for two people and a plant) is part of the Dream Big Festival at The Pleasance.

Rea Dennhardt

Rea is a British/Indian/German playwright who has been through the playwrights’ programs at The Royal Court, The Criterion and Soho Theatre. She has written for the RSC and Barbican Labs and been shortlisted for Tony Craze, Tara Nova, Tamasha, Snoo Wilson and Retzhofer Playwrighting Awards. Her work has been performed at Soho Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal, The Old Red Lion, The Arcola and at the Dramatiker:innen Festival in Austria. She has published several prize-winning short stories.