Splendid Productions
Splendid Productions are theatre makers with nearly 20 years’ experience of touring low-tech, high-impact theatre. We tour creative adaptations of classic texts to schools, colleges and theatres across the UK, and this regular audience of over 15,000 per year has given us a base for establishing a strong theatrical identity creating work that appeals far beyond the education sector. In addition we provide a range of practical drama-based workshops and provide teaching resources that are sold across the world. Splendid are also now cited as influential practitioners by WJEC/Eduqas, EdExcel and OCR exam boards at both GCSE and A’Level. Students across the UK are studying the company, performing our adaptations and creating their own work in the Splendid style.
The company has performed in schools and colleges in the UK and internationally. They have performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the National Theatre’s ‘Watch This Space’ Festival, and are programmed at numerous theatres including MAC in Birmingham, The Pleasance London and The Lowry in Salford.
Splendid have most recently collaborated with Shakespeare’s Globe to create new summer family shows: The 2025 Olivier Award Nominated ‘Rough Magic’ (2024 & 2025), The 2023 Olivier Award Nominated ‘Midsummer Mechanicals’ 2022 & 2023.
Find out more at our website https://splendidproductions.co.uk/
Kerry Frampton
Artistic Director
Kerry Frampton is Artistic Director of Splendid Productions, professional clown, theatre practitioner, director, writer and designer. Kerry specialises in work that is physical, theatrical, devised, anti-fourth wall, audience-centric, political, joy-filled, heart breaking and ensemble-based.
Kerry trained at Bretton Hall, University of Leeds. She set up Splendid Productions in 2003 and has directed, adapted and regularly performed in their annual creative adaptations of classic texts.
She is the company’s senior workshop practitioner and has over twenty years’ experience of devising and delivering high-quality, practical, theory-based drama workshops. Kerry has led sessions for students and teachers in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, Bangkok, China and Malaysia.
She devised, researched and designed Splendid Productions’ unique range of theatrical Mind Maps that have appeared on studio walls from New Zealand to the National Theatre.
Directing Credits include:
Rough Magic (The Globe), Midsummer Mechanicals (The Globe), Little Red Robin Hood (BAC), Sleeping Beauty & The Beast (BAC), Goldilocks & the Three Musketeers (BAC), Puss in Moon Boots (an online Living Room Adventure), The Legend of Moby Dick Whittington an online Living Room Adventure with Sleeping Trees
Awards
Rough Magic was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Family Show 2025. A Splendid and The Globe co-production which Kerry co-wrote, co-directed and performed in.
Midsummer Mechanicals was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Family Show 2023. A Splendid and The Globe co-production which Kerry co-wrote, co-directed and performed in.
Puss in Moon Boots won the Off West End award for Best Show for Families 2021
In 2021 Kerry was nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the Music & Drama Education Awards for her online Brecht CPD.
Kerry also works as a visiting lecturer and director at LAMDA, LIPA and Trinity Laban.
Publications
She has published articles and reviews for Teaching Drama and National Drama Magazine.
Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre Published June 2023 (Hardback) ISBN Hardback: 9781474495042 Ebook (ePub): 9781474495066 Ebook (PDF): 9781474495059
Genevieve Say
Independent dance artist, performer, choreographer and movement director
Genevieve Say is an independent dance artist, performer, choreographer and movement director based in the UK.
Her long-time association with Splendid spans from 2007 when she started as a workshop leader, going on to become a performer and movement director for the company. Performance credits with Splendid include Antigone (2013), The Odyssey (2015), Macbeth (2016) and Robin Hood (2017).
Away from Splendid, Genevieve makes ensemble pieces and solo work under her own name, often in collaboration with theatre, visual and sound artists.
Most recently she produced Le Club Social, a professional performance piece commissioned by Pavilion Dance South West. She also works with a number of dance and theatre companies taking her across the globe as a performer, choreographer and movement director. Genevieve has a particular interest in co-curation and participant-led projects.
Genevieve is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Birmingham Dance Network. She gained a place on One Dance UK’s Future Leaders mentor scheme, and received mentorship from Jude Kelly MBE. In 2019 she was a recipient of the DanceXchange Choreography Award in Birmingham and in 2021 was shortlisted for the AWA women in dance award.
She is currently on the governing council for Equity Union and prior to that was the chair of Equity’s dance committee. Genevieve graduated in 2006 from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with First class BA(Hons) in Dance and Performance.