Ava Brewster

Ava has a BA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University, and an MA in Applied Theatre from Plymouth University. Ava has facilitated theatre workshops and supported arts projects since college, which includes working in schools, adults with disabilities and socially engaged community theatre projects. Ava has assisted on projects with companies like UCAN Productions in Wales, Stans Cafe Theatre Company, Midlands Actors Theatre, and Calico Dance, all in Birmingham, as well as assisting with work at the Barbican Theatre and Animate CIC in Plymouth. Ava is the project lead for the Cultural Education Partnerships at Questors Theatre, encouraging children and young people in the arts, making sure that these opportunities are inclusive for all.

Ava is passionate about community and socially engaged Arts and as an LGBT, blind practitioner, who’s had a long journey to this point in her career, cares about inclusivity for disabled and queer people, as well as supporting anyone from a minority background, and advocating for mental health and wellbeing. Ava loves making work that tells people’s stories, educates, and inspires creativity and learning. Ava has facilitated work with nursery children up to people in retirement communities, project assisted large scale community arts events, and for her degree, wrote a play named “Through the Dark”, which explored mental health at university, with comedic and fairytale elements.