about
Hi, we’re Doubletake. We want to challenge the established in interesting and unexpected ways.
Doubletake Theatre is a new collaborative theatre company created by Ella Pound and Molly Byrne, focusing on the development of new writing. The company prioritises work which takes a second glance at familiar narratives and structures, offering a ‘double-take’.
Doubletake is always conscious of its relationship with an audience, playful with form, and compelled by theatre which acknowledges what it is.
We love work which is curious, witty, queer, and genre-bending.
Doubletake is always conscious of its relationship with an audience, playful with form, and compelled by theatre which acknowledges what it is.
We love work which is curious, witty, queer, and genre-bending.
THE PEOPLE
Molly Byrne, Director (she/her)
Molly Byrne (she/her) is an emerging director and writer from Gloucestershire. She is ignited by theatre which is witty, sharp, and knows what questions it wants to ask. She loves the new- whether it be a perspective she has never heard before, an innovative take on a classic, or a surprising way to tell a story. She has a particular interest in workplace dramas and plays about lesbians.
Molly has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge. She trained as a stage manager with the National Youth Theatre and was a member of their Scribers dramaturgy group
Molly once began working as Christmas temporary staff at an artisan cheese shop and accidentally stayed there for a year (she is a sucker for a sheep’s milk cheese). She also loves reading unsettling contemporary fiction and feeling like a giant in a model village.
Previous directing credits include:
The Switchboard Project | Camden People's Theatre | Nov 2024
Convenience (rehearsed reading) | The Bridge House Theatre, London | March 2024
Love After 1950 | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | Feb 2023
Varnish | The Pit, VAULT Festival | Jan - Feb 2023
The Footlights Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet? | Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe; US venues | June-October 2022
On Your Bike | theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh Fringe; Town & Gown Theatre | August-November 2021
Top Girls | ADC Theatre | October 2021
Previous assistant directing credits include:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | The Cambridge Art’s Theatre | December 2021, cancelled due to COVID
Rapunzel (the CUADC/Footlights Pantomime) | ADC Theatre | November-December 2021
Beautiful Thing | Corpus Playroom | November 2019
You can get in touch with Molly outside of Doubletake at mollyatbyrne@gmail.com
Molly has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge. She trained as a stage manager with the National Youth Theatre and was a member of their Scribers dramaturgy group
Molly once began working as Christmas temporary staff at an artisan cheese shop and accidentally stayed there for a year (she is a sucker for a sheep’s milk cheese). She also loves reading unsettling contemporary fiction and feeling like a giant in a model village.
Previous directing credits include:
The Switchboard Project | Camden People's Theatre | Nov 2024
Convenience (rehearsed reading) | The Bridge House Theatre, London | March 2024
Love After 1950 | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | Feb 2023
Varnish | The Pit, VAULT Festival | Jan - Feb 2023
The Footlights Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet? | Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe; US venues | June-October 2022
On Your Bike | theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh Fringe; Town & Gown Theatre | August-November 2021
Top Girls | ADC Theatre | October 2021
Previous assistant directing credits include:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | The Cambridge Art’s Theatre | December 2021, cancelled due to COVID
Rapunzel (the CUADC/Footlights Pantomime) | ADC Theatre | November-December 2021
Beautiful Thing | Corpus Playroom | November 2019
You can get in touch with Molly outside of Doubletake at mollyatbyrne@gmail.com
Ella Pound, Producer (she/they)
Ella is an early career theatre theatremaker and producer from London. She is interested in working on and with new writing, verbatim and documentary theatre, and anything based in the archival. Their aim is to make work that challenges preconceptions of what theatre can and should be.
She has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Arts Management, Policy & Practice from the University of Manchester, during which she wrote a dissertation on the British Library's Playscripts Collections that discussed how theatre censorship affected - and continues to affect - archival theory and practice. It won the Lorraine Lim Prize for Best Dissertation.
Outside of their theatre practice, she works in the Commercial team at Little Angel Theatre and likes walks in nice parks, eating pasta and watching The West Wing (preferably at the same time). They also love the band Bleachers.
Previous producing credits include:
The Switchboard Project | Camden People's Theatre | Nov 2024
Convenience | The Bridge House Theatre, London | March 2024
Blue & Pip | The Bridge House Theatre, London; theSpace on North Bridge (Edinburgh Fringe) | July-August 2022
On Your Bike | Town & Gown Theatre, Cambridge; theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall | August-November 2021
Juliana v. United States | Online due to COVID-19 | August-November 2020
A Woman of No Importance | tour to venues in Asia, cancelled due to COVID-19 (online version produced instead) | January-August 2020
You can get in touch with Ella outside of Doubletake at ellapound@outlook.com.
She has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Arts Management, Policy & Practice from the University of Manchester, during which she wrote a dissertation on the British Library's Playscripts Collections that discussed how theatre censorship affected - and continues to affect - archival theory and practice. It won the Lorraine Lim Prize for Best Dissertation.
Outside of their theatre practice, she works in the Commercial team at Little Angel Theatre and likes walks in nice parks, eating pasta and watching The West Wing (preferably at the same time). They also love the band Bleachers.
Previous producing credits include:
The Switchboard Project | Camden People's Theatre | Nov 2024
Convenience | The Bridge House Theatre, London | March 2024
Blue & Pip | The Bridge House Theatre, London; theSpace on North Bridge (Edinburgh Fringe) | July-August 2022
On Your Bike | Town & Gown Theatre, Cambridge; theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall | August-November 2021
Juliana v. United States | Online due to COVID-19 | August-November 2020
A Woman of No Importance | tour to venues in Asia, cancelled due to COVID-19 (online version produced instead) | January-August 2020
You can get in touch with Ella outside of Doubletake at ellapound@outlook.com.
