Ian Pringle
Director

Ian Pringle is an actor, facilitator and mask maker. He trained as an actor in 2001 at the Academy Drama School in London. Since leaving drama school, Ian has worked for a number of different companies - most notably, he spent 5 years working for the award winning mask company, Geese Theatre, based in Birmingham. During his time with Geese, Ian developed skills as a group work facilitator, working with some of the most difficult and hard to reach groups in the UK. This ranged from adult offenders in prison settings to looked after children in the community.

Ian started Face Up in 2009 after recognising that there was potential in using these approaches in more mainstream environments such as schools and businesses.

Face Up programmes and workshops are delivered by Ian or other facilitators with similar experience. All facilitators hold an up to date enhanced CRB disclosure.

Hilary Dawson
Face Up Associate

Hilary Dawson is an actress, theatre practitioner, group worker and facilitator. She received her theatre training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in South East London in 1992. Since leaving drama school she has worked extensively within the Criminal Justice System and associated areas and was employed by the award winning Geese Theatre Company for 8 years. Here she developed her skills of using applied drama with a range of groups and individuals with often extreme and difficult life experiences.

Over the past 10 years she has worked freelance within a wide variety of groups. Her most recent work includes: male perpetrators of domestic abuse; the elderly; the mentally ill (MIND); young people - in school and excluded, in young offender institutions and on career development programmes. Her approach is motivational, and uses interactive theatre and active methods. By creating a safe but challenging environment, people are invited to engage in stimulating discussion and are motivated to confront their own destructive behaviour patterns.

Hilary has worked with Face up theatre since its foundation delivering a number of themed workshops in secondary schools in London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham.

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