Shoot First Theatre

Roberta  was recently commissioned to create puppets for a large scale outdoor production touring three Cornish theatres. She trained the company and also conducted workshops with schools and community groups. In 2019 she designed, created and operated puppets for Dolls In Amber’s acclaimed Villain Interrupted at the Ecetera Theatre, London. This followed an extensive tour in David Walliam’s Awful Auntie playing the West End and major theatres throughout the UK. Prior to that she appeared in a one-woman musical, No Finer Life, (The Pleasance and touring, also BBC Radio 4 and World Service), written by The Archers’ Graham Harvey. Her other credits include Miranda in The Tempest and in productions of Animal Farm, Waiting for Godot, One Way, a play she also wrote, and as Grace in Vaughn Williams, for BBC Radio 3. She is a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe with her one-woman show, Last Petal Falling. A member of several improvisation companies, she is also a qualified stage combat fighter.