WHO WE ARE

CO-FOUNDED BY OLIVIA DOWD AND CHLOE CHRISTIAN, MIRRORBALL is a multidisciplinary theatre company; interested in documentary, resistance, and space

“The mirrored ball is a beautiful sight in a dark club.”

– Donna Summer

“A disco ball is a reflection of you and everyone around you.”

– Nile Rodgers

We take research and oral histories and create performances.

We are interested in creating a circular structure with our work:

  1. ‘Page to stage (research to theatrical imagining)

  2. Stage to forum (theatrical imagining to forum-like interaction with themes)

  3. Forum to page (forum-like interaction with themes to documentation stage - either codifying the process for a tour or sharing processes and learnings or feeding into next work, allowing for evolution)

“A thought-provoking piece brought to the stage with love and energy”

★★★★

— LouReviews on GRILLS

“mix of ironic self-awareness and heartfelt emotion”

★★★★

— Everything Theatre on GRILLS

  • CHLOE CHRISTIAN

    CO-FOUNDER

    Chloe (They/She) is an award-winning multidisciplinary director and creative producer interested in queerness, community, ensemble, and documentary.

    Credits as Director include The Lion In Love (Almeida Theatre, rehearsed reading), Treasure Island (Mountview), GRILLS (Camden People’s Theatre), Without That Certain Thing (VAULT Fest), Child’s Play (Zoo & New Diorama).

    Chloe has worked as Associate Director to Matthew Warchus, Atri Banerjee, and Marianne Elliott, for Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the West End.

    They were New Diorama Emerging Company Director 2018, English National Opera Studio Live Commissioned Artist 2020 and longlisted for VAULT 5 2021.

  • OLIVIA DOWD

    CO-FOUNDER

    Liv is an actor, facilitator and maker with a degree in Human Geography (UCL). Having trained with the NYT Rep company in 2018/19, she has performed in a number of theatres (Garrick, Soho, Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida, Camden Roundhouse, CPT, CAA Toronto) and narrated over 80 audiobooks.

    As a facilitator, Liv is interested in collaborative, ensemble based practices, highly influenced by their training with SCOT and SITI Company. They are an Emerging Associate at NYT and a tutor on the Foundation course at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

    Their experimental short films, Minutes and Messenger have screened at LSFF, BFI Flare, Outfest L.A and in 2023 they received the Best Director award at the British Short Film Awards.