Creative Team

Our creative team is the heart of BitterSuite. Founded and led by lead aritst, Stephanie Singer, this brilliant group of artists devised the unique BitterSuite format. Since 2014, our core founding creatives have continued to collaborate, shaping the company’s direction alongside new voices who have joined us over the years. Our team works on a project-by-project basis, ensuring every experience is fresh, innovative, and deeply immersive.

Associate Producers

Our incredible associate producers bring expertise, vision, and precision to each project. They help carry and deliver our work, ensuring every detail is realized to its fullest potential.

Deborah Bankole
Associate Producer

Eleni Kyriacou
Associate producer

Lucy Atkinson
Associate Producer

Mimi Poskitt

Associate Artists

We collaborate with an extraordinary network of associate artists, each bringing their own expertise—whether in food, movement, music, creative direction, design, illustration, or psychology. This ever-expanding pool of talent fuels our creativity, helping us dream up groundbreaking experiences.

Adam Thomason

Chelsea Okley

Clem Telesfort

David Andrew Reid

Dr. Clare Jonas

Gideon Berger

Julian Wharton
Associate Artist

Kayo Chingonyi

Nick Hart

Naala Lartey

Nwando Ebizie

Philip Grannel

Shelley James

Smart Banda

Sensory Alliance

The Sensory Alliance is at the forefront of innovation at BitterSuite. This collective of creatives, and practitioners collaborates with us to push the boundaries of sensory experience. They focus on designing work that embraces neurodivergence, sensory sensitivities, and complex sensory needs—ensuring our experiences are as inclusive as they are immersive.

Trustees

Our trustees keep us going, inspire and challenge us to be bold and to help us grow.

 

Josh McNorton
Chair

Josh McNorton is the Cultural Director of Wembley Park, North West London’s internationally renowned destination for music and sporting events. Josh leads on the cultural activities across the 85-acre neighbourhood, including bespoke art commissions and free, outdoor festivals, live performances, and film screenings. Prior to Wembley Park, highlights of Josh’s career included producing international festivals and cultural events, collaborating with institutions such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Nesta, King’s College London, The Roundhouse, and The Barbican. Josh moved to the UK from his native Canada in 2012 to deliver the Olympic Park entertainment programme for the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

 

Stephanie Tyrell
Trustee

Stephanie Tyrrell is currently ‘Head of Arts’ for the national disability charity Sense. Sense supports people with complex disabilities, including deaf blindness and believes that arts should be at heart of great care. Stephanie oversees a diverse national programme, supporting a range of artists & care staff to deliver work rooted in access for all. Prior to this role Stephanie worked as an inclusive theatre practitioner and manager for nine years, delivering and developing innovative arts projects and theatre for young people and adults with complex disabilities including those with Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities and Autistic spectrum disorder. During this time Stephanie managed, programmed, and collaborated on projects in a wide range of community settings, including museums, art galleries, schools, theatres, day care centres, academic institutions, and hospitals. Stephanie has an MA in Inclusive Arts Practice from Brighton University and enjoys yoga and true crime documentaries in her spare time.

 

Ash Patel
Trustee

Ash is the Community Engagement Manager of Wembley Park and he manages The Yellow, a community space in NW London. Ash has a proven track record of engaging with communities on large regeneration projects within local authorities. He has created robust and balanced events programmes, run stakeholder consultation events, and built a neighbourhood plan to guide the future development for Wembley, the area he has lived in for many years. The success of Ash’s approach is based on being proactive, energetic, and personable. In his spare time, Ash is crazy about live music in intimate venues, loves new experiences, and he’s still trying to play football.

 

Fleur Chaffe
Trustee

Fleur’s work enables organisations and individuals in the arts industry to both establish and grow through publicity, marketing, securing partnerships and more. Having worked as a consultant with BitterSuite in their embryonic stages, it was a natural step for Fleur to become a Trustee of the organisation at the end of 2022. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, her work has organically moved towards supporting charities, bringing creative and new ideas of how to continue growth in such a diminishing time, most recently for the National Children’s Orchestras of GB and City Music Foundation. Fleur’s freelance career has led her to consult with organisations and individuals on their PR & marketing campaigns to help raise awareness and reach national & international audiences. She has worked in the music and arts industry since graduating and her energy and determination has led her to progress rapidly throughout her time working for agencies and then for herself since 2016. Fleur is excited to be a part of the BitterSuite team, ensuring it receives the recognition it deserves.