brolly M I S S I O N
Brolly develop new roles for under-represented artists and engage diverse participants and audiences for the Arts and Heritage. We create partnerships nationally to make visible the hidden and sensitive histories of minority communities in contemporary Britain.
“By working in an operatic form, with a diverse cast, in a black led company, Brolly are an essential part of redefining opera: whose stories are represented on the opera stage; who creates and tells them.”
Jo Nockels, Opera North
RACHANA JADHAV Co-Artistic Director
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Designer/Illustrator
TRAINED: As an architect at Edinburgh College of Art, MA in Scenography at Central St Martin’s College.
DOMINIC HINGORANI Co-Artistic Director
​Writer/Director
Dominic is a Professor of Performing Arts at the University of East London. Dominic is also the Creative Director of The Source acommunity Arts venue in East London that houses a partnership between the university and Newham Youth Empowerment Services. He publishes regularly onperformance, representation and inclusion in the Arts. Dominic also leads a major Place partnership project to create 46 diverse cultural producers in the Newham overthree years.
TRAINED: As an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and worked professionally in theatre, film, television and radio.
Rachana is an award-winning British South Asian Theatre Designer and Illustrator, and has been practising design for theatre, dance and opera for more than 20 years, during which time she has created a diverse portfolio of work incorporating illustration, animation and film with spatial design and live performance. Her production design works include collaborations with prominent artists such as Tim Crouch’s ‘Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation’ a play presented through the parallel worlds of stage action and illustrated text (Royal Court/ National Theatre of Scotland); Clare Cunningham’s ‘Menage a Trois’ a contemporary dance piece (National Theatre Scotland); Seeta Patel’s ‘Shree’ a solo dance complimenting ‘The Rite of Spring’ (Sadler’s Wells/ The Lowry), Emma Rice‘s adaptation of ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ (RSC/Barbican).
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Thank you to our generous partners:
Newham Music Education Hub University of East London
The Wiener Holocaust Library
Roma Support Group
Newham Libraries
London Borough of Newham
Opera North
Hackney Empire
CAST Doncaster
Half Moon Theatre
Chatham Historical Dockyards
National Maritime Museum Greenwich
British Museum
Hackney Museum
Doncaster Museum
Bristol Beacon
War Child
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Stratford Circus
And continued support from our funders:
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Arts Council England
Cockayne Community Foundation
The Kaye Pemberton Charitable Trust
Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
Royal Victoria Hall Foundation
Unity Theatre Trust
PRSF Talent Development Fund
Ambache Trust
The Fidelio Trust
Bernarr Raimbow Trust