Our team
David Mumeni (he/him)
Artistic Director, Founder & CEO
Actor, writer, and acting teacher, David Mumeni trained at Drama Centre London. His acting credits include work with The Royal Court, The Donmar, Hampstead Theatre, The Bush and Cheek by Jowl. Television credits include: BAFTA award-winning Stath Lets Flats (Ch4), No Return (ITV), Dead Pixels (E4), Sliced (Dave), I Am Hannah (Ch4), Fearless (ITV), Fresh Meat (Ch4) and PhoneShop (E4). Film credits include; Barbie, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, Mission Impossible 6, The Inbetweeners Movie, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Lost In London and Last Christmas. Alongside his acting, David has worked regularly as a facilitator for over 17 years, specialising in work with young people. This includes positions with Dream Arts and The National Youth Theatre (NYT). Over many of these years, David has delivered audition technique classes and private tuition to hundreds of young people, many from low-income backgrounds. Students tutored by David have received places at actor training institutions such as RADA, LAMDA, Guildhall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Rich Neale (he/him)
Managing Director
Rich trained as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has worked as an actor, teacher, facilitator and director since graduating.
Rich has worked closely with Open Door as a tutor, panellist and facilitator since 2017. His extensive work as a tutor, director and audition panellist in drama schools covers LAMDA, Drama Centre, ArtsEd, Guildford School of Acting and Mountview.
He is an associate director for Actors From the London Stage, and has worked as a director for Scaffold State Theatre and Guildford Shakespeare Company
Sophie Hack (she/her)
Producer & Project Manager
Sophie has supported a range of multidisciplinary artists and has made strong connections and relationships with various arts organisations and independent theatre-makers across the Midlands and London. She has produced on large and small scale festivals with both national and international artists across all art forms. Festivals include Birmingham International Dance festival, Departure Lounge, Check In and U.Dance collaborating with a variety of arts organisations including, Dance4, DanceXchange, In Good Company, One Dance UK & Second Hand Dance.
Most recently, Sophie has completed an MA in Creative Producing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Additionally, over the past years, she has provided producing support to both Camden Peoples Theatre and Leading Light Collective. Sophie has also freelance produced a Midlands and London tour of Holly Clark’s production FLAPPY. Sophie has also been awarded the position of one of the producers selected for Stage One’s Bridge the Gap programme.
Rebecca Kendall (she/her)
Development Associate
Rebecca is Development Associate at Open Door and joined in Summer 2021. Rebecca runs partnership consultancy Rosendale Partnerships where for the past 5 years she has supported nearly 50 arts organisations and charities to develop and deliver promotional, in kind and 5, 6 and 7 figure creative partnerships with the corporate sector. She specialises in creative strategy, partnership development and relationship building. Before going freelance, she held senior fundraising positions in four of London’s leading arts institutions – the V&A, Southbank Centre, the Old Vic Theatre and for 5 years as Development Director at the Royal Court Theatre.
As a parent in the performing arts and advocate for flexible working, Rebecca continues to see as much theatre and art as possible whilst also managing two small people at home and at school.
Anne-Marie Reid (she/her)
Therapist & Staff Supervisor
Anne-Marie is a qualified Integrative Arts Child Counsellor, Systemic Practitioner and Creative Supervisor who trained at the Institute for Arts Therapy and Education (IATE), the Chiron Institute and the London Centre for Psychodrama. She is currently reading a Masters in Family Therapy and Systemic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Institute.
In her private practice, Cocoon Arts Therapy, she offers individual, parent-child and family psychotherapeutic counselling. This means that she provides a confidential safe space and supports children, young people and their families to make decisions about what they need to ease distress, with the optional offer of the use of creative arts, action-methods and play. She also initiates and manages therapeutic services in inner-London schools, charities and statutory provisions.
She is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and her varied professional roles working with children, young people and families over the last 20 years include: Residential Social Worker, Family Assessment Officer, Youth Worker, Resettlement worker, Youth Arts facilitator, Creative and Therapeutic Arts Programme Manager and Director.
She practices African, Caribbean and Contemporary Dance, and likes to go to the theatre, watch films and travel.
Freya Proudlock
Participant Support and Welfare Officer
Freya originally comes from a creative background having worked for many years in the textile industries. More recently she has worked in supporting vulnerable adults and children with a focus on arts and wellbeing. She has experience working in a women’s refuge with young women and children fleeing domestic violence as well as in mental health services. She has a person-centred approach to the care and support she provides and has worked with individuals with a variety of mental health conditions. These range from anxiety and depression to schizophrenia and personality disorders.
Freya has received training in safeguarding adults & children, person centred thinking, diversity & inclusion, de-escalation, emergency first aid, psychology of mental health, domestic violence awareness, art therapy (foundation) & psychodynamic counselling (foundation).