Management and Officers of the Company

Jude joined the Tower Theatre in 1996 and since then has costumed 11 productions and designed sets for 70, at various venues.  She is currently a member of the Technical Team and has previously sat on the Management Committee. In 2003, she received the Frank Smith Award and the Harold Mellor Award in 2018. Since 2018, she has also managed the Front of House team. 
Jude retired in 2013 after 35 years teaching in special education, latterly as a Headteacher. She then trained as a Yoga teacher and now teaches Community classes. Her special interest is raising awareness of disability and inclusion. She particularly enjoys meeting new people who express an interest in joining the technical side of the Tower, and helping them to become part of the wider team behind the scenes.

Bella has been a Tower member since 2024 as a stage manager and the occasional Front of House steward. She has over eight years of stage management and producing experience; fittingly, she likes to say that her favourite artistic pursuit is helping others to make their own art. Selected recent credits as a producer include Unearthed (The Old Red Lion, 2024), Nyamakala (Theatre Peckham, 2023), and the Almeida For Free Festival, produced as a member of Almeida Theatre’s 2022 Young Producers Cohort. When she’s not in the rehearsal room or managing spreadsheets, Bella teaches drama at a secondary school just outside of London—and loves that she spends each day thinking about theatre!

Amanda has been a member of the Tower since around 2015. She has appeared in and directed several plays here. She currently works an actor, a producer, a director and a teacher; she was last seen on stage at the Playground Theatre in September playing Cornelia Scott in Something Unspoken. She recently facilitated the Trojan Women Project – a programme which supports displaced people in the UK. She is also involved with an American theatre company Playhouse Creatures. Sports fans may have spotted her promoting LV’s Multi Cover Insurance in her native Geordie accent. She was educated in the North East, followed by a BA (hons) degree from the University of Birmingham – which she thought was in the south of England at the time of going there, the mid 80s. She studied a one-year post grad diploma in performance at Drama Studio London and has an MA in Drama (writing for performance) from Goldsmiths University. Amanda was also a member of the National Youth Theatre of GB from ages 16 through to 22, when Michael Croft the founder was at the helm. She regularly attends workshops, as well as delivering them. Currently she is a member of the Park Theatre Company, the Director’s Cut acting team and a board member at the Playground Theatre in W10. As an actor Amanda is represented by Steve Nealon Associates.