Introducing our director for ‘Mary Anning – the mad woman of Lyme’, Marta Vella who hails from Malta, and is resident in the UK. Marta is RADA trained, and has recently returned from New York where she attended SITI Company Summer Theatre Workshop studying under Anne Bogart. She has worked extensively with TOI the National Theatre of Malta and co-founded FROLIC theatre Company. She assisted Director/writer Vikesh Godhwani with Malta’s first, unique, Panto In the Dark last Christmas; and this year co-wrote and produced a second successful Panto in the Dark. AsOne fell in love with Marta when she helped book their last tour, and assisted our writer/director, Peter John Cooper during AsOne’s 2019 production, Escaping the Storm.