Brandon Webb, 20, is a writer, performer and theatre practitioner based in York. Originating from Great Yarmouth, a small seaside town in Norfolk, Brandon has witnessed the economic strains put upon his hometown by successive governments and the social anxiety this has created among the residents. Being brought up in this disillusioned environment, Brandon’s work has always had a political angle, whether to highlight corruption or fight for a cause that he believes is being ignored. Focusing on the performance styles of Stanislavski and Brecht before Higher Education, Brandon emerged as a confident performance poet and text-maker whilst at York St John University. Moreover, his time has been spent working at various festivals and theatres, including Illuminating York, Takeover Festival and Maddermarket Theatre. Brandon’s main interest resides in comedy, with a passion to create biting political satire that both subverts society and affects change within it.

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With Hand-Up Theatre, our aim is to create work that starts a political and philosophical conversation, with the process and performance leading to positive action. Collaborating with and for vulnerable people, we will give a voice to the voiceless, the citizens without citizenship, social beings casted away by society. As a company of theatre makers, we will use the tools we possess to tell the stories people need to hear and communicate our message in an accessible way. Homelessness should not exist in the in a world that has ability to stop it. To live with nowhere to be safe is to not live at all.