About Us

We met working Front of House at a London theatre in 2025, and after many excitable conversations whilst supposedly working, we decided it would be best for us all to take it outside and combine our skills and love of storytelling to create a female-led theatre company. 

Our main focus is to platform stories of the women who have continued to slip through the cracks of our society, by telling stories that incorporate historical and modern tales of both real and imagined characters to highlight where change is still needed today, in our signature witty, hopeful and gently absurd way.

As a duo, we are utterly committed to bringing to life the seeds of each other’s imaginations, we artfully fill in each other's gaps, provide a warm and honest sounding board and ceremoniously blow each other's trumpets.  

We know that the correct saying is ‘two for joy’, but it felt somewhat exclusive. Whilst we each take the role of a magpie, the third ‘for joy’ is the collaborator(s) we’re working with, the project we’re working on and the entity we’re wanting to nurture. It’s the egg and all the possibilities it holds. And as it’s ’three for a girl’, it also works, as that’s what we’re all about: telling the stories we wish we’d grown up watching, so that girls and women of the future get to experience seeing women be playful, bold, wise, courageous, vulnerable, soft, witty, intelligent and at the centre of their own stories.   

We want to work with people who salute magpies, thrive off the magic and absurdity of life, and who, in a tribe, would be found around a campfire, telling or listening to stories, painting on the caves or making a flute out of an old stick.

What We Offer:

• Dramaturgical advice 
• Script development for new writing 
• One or two writers for commissioned projects 
• Director (Charley)
• Actor* (Liv) 
• Workshop facilitation:  Acting, Shakespeare, Improvisation, Creative Writing and Directing 

Play
Charley is a queer, neurodivergent writer, director and artist who has lived most of her life in London, now in an art-filled house near Crystal Palace.

She is the queen of making soups, pickling things, remembering historical facts is a dab-hand with anything creative. She can speak fluent French and draw just about anything, but cannot keep a houseplant alive.

Work

Charley has extensive experience directing new writing, classics such as Shakespeare and Strindberg, and staging work in both site specific and traditional venues including the V&A, The London Symphony Orchestra and The Roundhouse Camden. She  won The Phoebe-Waller Bridge Fringe First Award for Best Director

Writing

Charley wrote and directed At Once Before and After (Riverside Studios) The White House, What You Risk (Bunker & Greenwich), No Lone Zone (Site-specific) This Could Be The Last Time, and Unacknowledged Acts of Desire, a commissioned piece for the V&A.  

Her writing is poetic, lyrical, sharp and evocative and focuses on bringing historical stories from untold perspectives to a modern audience. A natural storyteller, Charley works to platform stories inspired by her own lived experience as a queer neurodivergent woman.

Directing

Charley has been Offie-nominated for Best Director for her version of Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata at The Rose Playhouse.  

She won the Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fringe First for Best Director with her sold-out, five-star run of 30 & Out at with Prentice Productions, that transferred from the Pleasance Courtyard to Soho Theatre for another sold-out, five-star run.

She received ACE funding for her adaptation of Richard III at The Rose Playhouse.

She has also directed The Shape of Things, DNA and Anna Weiss for Backpocket Productions.  Charlotte was Assistant Director on The Taming of the Shrew for Immersion Theatre Ltd and on Olly’s Prison at The Cock Tavern Kilburn for Good Night Out Productions.

Whilst being Assistant Artistic Director at Putney Arts Theatre, Charlotte directed Airswimming by Charlotte Jones, Mammals by Amelia Bullmore, The Last Resort devised by PTC, Wonder of the World by David Lindsey Abaire, Death and the Maiden by Arial Dorfman, Knives in Hens by David Harrower and The Magic Stone of Saturnalia, which she co-wrote.  

Workshop Facilitating

Charley has worked as a facilitator for Southwark Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral, many London schools and has taught in private art studios.

Play

Liv is an actor, writer and marble-collector living in Aldgate East. She has lived in 20+ houses in 30+ years, is a stained-glass enthusiast and loves Dick Van Dyke and Julia Roberts.

She can whistle through her teeth, looks great with a moustache and does a frighteningly good Jennifer Coolidge impression. 

Work

Liv took a leap of faith and left her corporate job in 2019 after an incident where the staff coat-stand was moved in front of her only view of the outside world. She went to train as an actor at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and discovered her love of writing after being selected as one of the writers to assist the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage with the creation of their second year show. At LIPA, Liv also discovered skills for script developing, comedy improv and a talent for subtlety on screen (but not in life).

 Liv especially loves working with new writers and on new productions as a development performer to help take scripts to the next level. She is a skilled site-reader and deviser. 

Acting

Since graduating with a BA in Acting in 2023, Liv has worked solidly in a variety of exciting roles, from Lucifer in the 2023 World Theatre Olympics in Budapest, to Development and Principal Cast Member for a major, multi-million pound show in London, to lead in a dark comedy with a successful two week Edinburgh run, and various short films.

Liv was selected for an exclusive comedy workshop with Rowan Atkinson and poetry workshop with Dame Harriet Walter. 

Writing/Script Developing

Liv has worked as a freelance dramaturg, script reader and developer for the past few years. In 2024, she was selected as one of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse 2024 new playwrights, where wrote her first play, Tinned Pineapple.

Liv’s writing strengths are witty dialogue, and getting straight to the heart through naturalistic, human, relatable, gently absurd and eccentric characters.

Directing/Workshop Facilitating

Liv has worked creatively with young people; running acting and improvisation workshops for LIPA, and as a visiting dramaturg for GCSE drama students at secondary schools across Liverpool.