Who we are
Wayward is a production company, making theatre and live performance. Meet the team behind the scenes.
Judith Dimant
Founder/Producer
Judith started Wayward in 2019 following 25 years as Executive Producer for Complicité, producing all of Simon McBurney’s work including The Encounter, The Master & Margarita, A Disappearing Number, Shun-kin, The Elephant Vanishes, Measure for Measure, The Chairs, The Causcasian Chalk Circle and many others. She also nurtured an increasingly integral Creative Learning strand and created an Associates programme supporting mid-career artists such as Bryony Kimmings and The Wardrobe Ensemble. Prior to Complicité, Judith worked as Press Officer at the Royal Court Theatre and at the Pleasance Edinbugh, where she programmed Graham Norton giving him his big break into television. She is a trustee of Emma Rice’s Wise Children and 1927 theatre. In 2022 she wrote the successful Arts Council NPO funding bid for the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith worth £3.6m and she regularly supports Intermission Youth Theatre as consultant producer. She has an MBE for services to theatre.
Lucy Williams
Finance Manager
Lucy was previously Finance Manager at Complicité, later becoming General Manager. She is a Trustee of Kandinsky Theatre Company, and is also currently working with Wise Children.
Mia Young
Assistant Producer
Mia is a theatre producer, recently completing an MA in Creative Producing at Central School of Speech and Drama. Her producing work includes Thatcher‑Rite (National Tour), Wodehouse in Wonderland (National Tour), Dare You Say Please (King’s Head), Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios and Assembly Festival 2022) and Recipe for a Baby (Theatre Deli, Sheffield). She has also worked for the Pleasance in Edinburgh and London, as well as PW Productions. Mia joined the Wayward team in September 2023.
Associate Producers
Include
Jessie Anand
Philippa Barr
Hannah Smith
Keerthi Kollimada
Trustee
Keerthi Kollimada (Kiki) started her career as a Finance Manager for a large NHS Trust, before moving to London to work in theatre. She loves the industry and is especially passionate about inclusion, and how we create opportunities for access and representation in theatre and our communities. Keerthi is Executive Director & joint CEO of NSDF, as well as Finance Manager at Headlong Theatre and she also freelances as a consultant for other organisations. Keerthi has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre including Head of Finance at Mark Rubinstein Ltd, and at Complicité before that, where she first worked with Judith Dimant. She has worked on West End musicals and plays, festivals, immersive theatre and touring – both in the UK and internationally. Keerthi is a trustee of the Bush Theatre, is a Samaritan and also a facilitator for Talk For Health, an enterprise that supports peer-to-peer counselling groups in her local community.
Elizabeth Loudon
Trustee
Elizabeth Loudon’s first work in the arts was devising street theatre for children in Bradford in the 1970s followed by teaching stints in Baghdad and a summer in Beirut. Her commitment to creativity, boundary-crossing, and a little personal sacrifice has never wavered since. After reading English at Cambridge, she spent 25 years in the US, eventually taking citizenship. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts, published work in a number of literary journals in the US, and was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. She taught writing to college students, then worked to help charities and Universities to meet ambitious campaign goals. In 2008 Elizabeth founded Prospero Partners, to consult on fundraising and writing for major cultural organisations including the Barbican, Complicité and the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme. She is now an author, with her debut novel to be published in May 2023.
Prof Marcus du Sautoy OBE FRS
Trustee
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is author of seven books most recently Thinking Better: the Art of the Shortcut and author of two plays; I is a Strange Loop was seen at the Barbican in which he also performed. He has presented numerous radio and TV series including a series for BBCTV – The Story of Maths. He works extensively with a range of arts organisations bringing science alive for the public from The Royal Opera House to Glastonbury Festival. He has an OBE for services to science and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
