Further Than The Edge creates, produces and performs theatre plays.

Our focus is on new work and how tales of hope and possibility can be told in different spaces and contexts, with and for different people. We aim to do this by pushing the boundaries of our work’s originality and raising the theatrical value of what we do. 

To make this happen we are committed to building an artistic practice with a sustainable momentum, so we can work collaboratively with other artists and the wider community. 

So, if you’d like to be involved or want to introduce yourself as an artist or performer, then please get in touch via the Hullo page. We’d love to hear from you.

Rowenna Mortimer – Director, Writer

Rowenna trained at CSSD and London University, and began writing as a performer with the Teatro Experimental de Cali, Colombia, as part of a collective creation process for La Femme Douce, a site specific performance at Plessis Theatre, France. Work includes: ‘The Morphea’, selected as part of the New Wave Theatre Programme, Bloomsbury Festival 2023; ‘Here, a two-hander stage play shortlisted for the Radius Festival of Drama, 2022; ‘Walking Right Into It‘ and ‘Rehearsal Notes to Self on the Morphea‘ – articles for Movement, Dance & Drama April 2022; ‘Mary, Mary’… Bloomsbury Festival 2018 and Wollstonecraft conference event 2019; ‘I Am Not Freda’ – a dramatic monologue for House Letters 2020; ‘Morphea‘, for Anima Theatre Company’s ‘Place to Be: The Canal’ 2017. Rowenna also directs and teaches acting.

Caroline Maldonado – Director

Caroline is a poet and translator who has given readings at various events and poetry festivals. She has had seven books of poetry published. Four translated from Italian include ‘Liminal’ (PEN Translates award 2019) and ‘Isabella’ (commended in Warwick University’s international competition ‘Women in Translation’ 2022).  Her own work can be found in many journals and in anthologies, such as in ‘The Cry of the Poor, an anthology of radical writing about poverty’ (Culture Matters 2021).  Her poems are collected in ‘What they say in Avenale’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing 2014), ‘Faultlines‘ (Vole Books 2014) and ‘Mirror and Stone’ (GVart 2024), a collaboration with artist Garry Kennard, that will appear in The Royal Academy of Arts’ bookshop for the forthcoming exhibition ‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael’. For seven years she chaired the Board of Trustees of the prestigious journal ‘Modern Poetry in Translation‘.

Jacqueline Marsh  – Director, Prop and Costume Sorceress, Safeguarding Lead

Jacqueline is English and Hungarian and started out as an actor. After completing a BA (Hons) in History with associated Drama in Winchester, Jacqueline focused on her drama training at ALRA (South) with a Postgraduate in acting, The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, London. After graduating, she toured with several theatre companies including the UK and Hungary and with Star Dome (Interaction London.) This was later followed by a PGCE in Drama at CSSD. She has extensive experience in education and drama, all topped by running a drama department! Her first love is for all things prop and costume, wherein she weaves her magic.

Tasha Coupland Eve – Green Advisor

Tasha has spent her professional life using her many talents in education, interpreting and project management, whilst at the same time developing her skills in all things green! She has a background in forest gardening and permaculture and currently coordinates a community garden project for environmental education charity ecoActive. Tasha also knows how to use a camera pretty well and was production photographer for ‘Mary, Mary…‘ and ‘The Morphea‘.

Victor Maldonado – Co-Producer

Victor trained in theatre with La Mama theatre company in Bogota, Colombia, before spending most of his life involved in politics and as a community worker in both Colombia and the UK.