The Company is led by Selina, an artist and writer whose work has been shown and praised nationally and internationally. Her practice is chiefly concerned with grief, love, and the world to come, and she seeks to make work that is visually striking, and lyrical, even while grounded in politics. She has led the company since its inception in 2016, and is primarily concerned with it centring those historically excluded by the arts, without compromising on rigour or experimentation. 

Above all, she wants her work and the company to move through the world with integrity: what it says, does and thinks all in harmony.

She won the ISPA Distinguished artist award in 2023, and her credits, both with and outside of the company include  BBC4, BBC Radio 3, The Royal Court Theatre, The Public Theater and BAM as well as theatres across the UK, Europe, South and North America and Australia.

She is a Brummie, and a cat lady. 

Toni-Dee is an artist and a writer working across form, based in the UK. She has worked in a wide variety of contexts as a workshop leader, dramaturg, director, performer, facilitator, collaborator and ‘thinker-in-the room’. Their current body of work, made with ‘infectious warmth’ (Exeunt) is a series of performances & installations made for cemeteries, refugee centres, kitchens, churches and theatres. Since 2015 she has been commissioned by Fuel Theatre for the New Theatre In Your Neighbourhood project, been a contributing story group writer for climate justice project Hello X, created performance as public intervention for Queerly Departed, and presented works in SICK Festival, Queer Migrant Takeover and Works Ahead.

Currently, she’s working on ‘Doze’ a chronic-illness centred project exploring rest as resistance. Outside of her solo artistic practice, Toni is Associate Artist of award winning company One Tenth Human making intricate, intimate, and wildly entertaining live imaginative events for children and families, and also facilitates part-mutual-care-part-art-making-part-activism project Balmy Army.

Toni-Dee is also a Trustee of Leeds based international performance festival Transform.

Pippa joined STL in July 2025 from Fierce (Birmingham) where she collaboratively led the company for over 8 years as Director (Producing), producing 4 major festivals, 2 Commonwealth Games cultural projects, and toured the hit public realm project Public Trust. 

Before and alongside this she is an award-winning producer, with a track record of nurturing long-term partnerships with independent artists, venues and wider sector organisations. She also spent 6 years on Area Council (Midlands) and the Disability Advisory Group for Arts Council England, and is a Trustee for arts in criminal justice company Geese Theatre. 

Pippa is regularly invited to speak on panels, and has been a visiting lecturer with several universities. She’s particularly passionate about presenting marginalised voices, contemporary work, and working outside formal arts contexts.

Toni is an interdisciplinary artist who creates, curates and produces artworks that sit at the intersections of art, race and care, in Birmingham and the West Midlands; independently, collaboratively, and with Contemporary Other and Selina Thompson Ltd. 

Toni makes work that explores the nuances of the human experience as it relates to race, culture and identity, and is rooted in her lived experience as working class/2nd generation migrant/neurodivergent/fat/queer/woman of colour.  As such, the work she makes examines ‘race’ and culture, intersectional feminism, identity and the body politic and mental health. 

Often transgressive, subversive, humorous & quietly activist, Toni works through an afrofuturist lens for the absolute liberation and celebration of people of colour and their histories; to create for herself and others permission and frameworks in which belonging, in our bodies, in ANY context is possible.

Hilary joined STL as Interim GM in 2023 on a 9 month contract, but gradually the ‘interim’ bit got forgotten, so she’s still here. 

She previously worked with another artist-led organisation for over 20 years, as administrator, GM, and Exec Producer, with the occasional voice-over thrown in, so she has extensive experience of everything that makes performance happen, audiences turn up, and a company function.

Hilary will always 'start with the art', and loves spreadsheets only because they facilitate great things. She's passionate about nurturing the next generation of theatre makers (and those in the back office supporting them), particularly those repeatedly excluded, and enjoys passing on that hard-won experience as a ‘theatre auntie’ or mentor. 

Hilary will (finally) be moving on from STL in the spring of 2026, when the company’s restructure will be complete and she will feel her work here is done!

Stacey has been working in the arts for over 30 years, starting in technical at green room, Manchester and stage management and production for venues and touring companies including Ockham’s Razor (touring), MAC (Birmingham),  ZENDEH and AIK Productions (touring). 

More recently, she’s swapped lighting desk for office desk, wrangling finance and administration for companies such as Can’t Sit Still and Create Gloucester. 

Away from spreadsheets, Stacey is the dedicated servant of Dolly thebichon frise.