Bridget Keehan Founding Artistic Director & Co-Creative Director

Bridget left school at fifteen and worked as a waitress, chambermaid and timeshare tout before finding her way to theatre in her mid-twenties. She subsequently trained as a stage director Eugenio Barba, Elen Bowman, Katie Mitchell and Ian Rickson. The work she makes is fired by a desire to foreground stories from people who feel they have not been heard. Bridget has facilitated performance and writing projects in a wide range of settings, including prisons and young offender institutions. For several years she was Writer-in-Residence at HMP Cardiff. Here she established a prison magazine and directed several theatre productions before leaving to become Co-Director of Community Engagement for Sherman Theatre. She holds a doctorate on theatre in prisons and has taught at the University of South Wales, the University of Birmingham and Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and has been Leverhulme Artist in Residence at Swansea University.  She has directed theatre for thecpr.org.uk, shermantheatre.co.uk, nationaltheatrewales.org & theatrclwyd.com and established Papertrail in 2014. In 2022 she was selected by Literature Wales for the prestigious Representing Wales programme and is currently completing her first novel.