The Tower Theatre’s management team is responsible for the success of the charity, its productions, and creating a dynamic artistic space for the Company’s Members and Friends, and for the local community.
Bella Cavicchi – Chair of the Management Committee
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!

Artistic Director – Amanda Waggott

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.
Nick Insley – Finance Director

Nick has been a member of the Tower Theatre for over 30 years. He generally works backstage, particularly designing the lighting for many shows, although he was once known to utter a few lines on tour at the Minack Theatre.
Outside the Tower he has lit many shows over the years including productions directed by Kenneth Branagh and Katie Mitchell and featuring Pete Postlethwaite. He has lit venues including the Almeida Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and the Minack Theatre.
He has been Company Manager of the Oxford Theatre Group, Technical Director of the OUDS and was a member of the National Youth Theatre.
During the daytime he is a management consultant and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.
Other Company Officers
Board Governance | Ann Watchorn |
Membership and Auditions
Membership Secretary | Stephen Brasher |
Social Group Co-ordinator | Matthew Ibbotson |
Safeguarding Officers | Chaachi Deane and Nick Edwards |
Finance and Administration
Theatre Manager | Nick Insley (Acting) |
Building Group Co-ordinator | David Taylor |
Front-of-House Co-ordinator | Jude Chalk |
Bar Managers | Harry Reeder and Anna Kidd |
200 Club | Peter Westbury |
Little Theatre Guild representative | Patrice North |
Publicity and Marketing
Marketing Manager | Ruth Sullivan (Acting) |
Printed Publicity | Roanne Insley |
Social Media | Miranda Cheesman |
Newsletter (“Noises Off”) | Laurence Tuerk |
Photography Manager | David Sprecher |
Web Site | Laurence Tuerk |
Press Liaison | Joyce Terry |
Reviews and Programmes Co-ordinator | Ruth Sullivan |
Graphic Design Manager | Max Batty |
Technical Management
Technical Group Co-ordinator | Jude Chalk |