Our Mission
To engage everyone in shaping the future of their places and
environment through creative and immersive technologies.
Our Team
Our team is a mix of experienced creative directors, community facilitators, VR/AR artists, performers, sound designers, composers and developers. We bring over 27 years experience of participatory theatre and community facilitation, and over a decade of specialist augmented reality development expertise, having delivered over 400 successful immersive projects.
Paul Clarke
Co-director
Paul Clarke is an artist and Associate Professor of Performance and Creative Technologies at University of Bristol, where he is co-director of the Centre for Creative Technologies. Alongside his research, Paul has shown work nationally and internationally with the performance company Uninvited Guests. He curently works on creative methods of co-designing futures with the Centre for Sociodigital Futures, and was a co-investigator on Connecting Through Culture As We Age: Digital Innovation for Healthy Ageing.
Jessica Warren
Co-director
Jessica has been Co-Artistic Director of Uninvited Guests theatre company since 1998. This included roles as company manager, workshop facilitator and performer. She also works as a freelance artist on engagement projects, for example with Bristol Old Vic’s Engagement Dept on a heritage project with nursery-age children; with Bristol company Local Learning to creatively engage communities with their local heritage; and with Bristol University’s School for policy studies to research and deliver workshops on the effectiveness of peer power to get teenage girls to be more active.
Duncan Speakman
Co-director
Duncan Speakman is an artist and composer based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. He creates narrative sound led experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space. He regularly creates bespoke work internationally including installations on trains in Guangzhou, loudspeaker symphonies in New Zealand, audio walks in Saitama, and sound installations in Porto.
His current work explores how immersive sonic experiences might contribute to futures and foresight studies.
Jazz Thompson
Illustrator
Jazz is an illustrator living in Bristol. Her work is inspired by people and places, specifically stories and lived experiences. She uses art as a platform for storytelling, starting conversations, and improving representation of marginalised voices in art spaces.
Her work mostly spans live illustration, books, murals, and portraiture. Her digital work is bright and vibrant, often celebrating themes of culture, community and identity. She creates political art rooted in activism and social justice – usually in the form of large scale murals and public art exhibitions.
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Jack Norris
Co-director
Jack is the Managing Director and a founder of Zubr, a leading R&D-focused AR and VR studio. He has directed over a hundred VR and AR productions over the past decade, across the tourism, training, entertainment, and medical industries, reaching tens of thousands of people around the world. He is passionate about bringing exciting immersive experiences to new audiences. His background is in film and TV compositing and animation,which gradually evolved into real-time and specialist media formats, such as Fulldome and Stereo 3D, leading him towards immersive content. A graduate of the Bristol School of Animation and a BAFTA nominee for creating the BBC’s first mobile VR experience, he always stays on top of the latest technological developments and how they relate to creative media.
Sam Steer
Ilustrator
Sam is a London based RCA graduate specialising in illustration and animation. He shares his time between traditional art-working methods of drawing and painting and digital methods in VR and photoshop. He works with 3d modelling and has created 3d environments in unreal engine as well as having a back catalogue of traditional stop motion animated films.
Emmanuella Morsi
Facilitator
Emmanuella Morsi (she/they) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist-producer, creative researcher and production manager delivering high-impact projects across the world. Founder of Studio Morsi and former Non-Exec of Rising Arts Agency, they predominantly work across various mediums. Emmanuella is known for challenging approaches to inclusion and innovation in ways that amplifies marginalised voices – and most recently awarded 2025 Emerging Innovator at BEYOND (UKRI, British Council, Arts Council England).