SANCHA TETLOW - Assistant Director

Sancha is 32, and works as a press officer at the Met Office. Before moving to Bracknell in November and joining CATS in February she had not been a member of an amateur theatrical society. However her links with the theatrical world are many and varied. As a youngster she studied Theatre Studies up to A level and appeared in numerous productions, including playing the female lead Jean in The Entertainer and Death in The Revenger's Tragedy. At the age of 15 she took part in a workshop with Cornwall-based professional theatre company Kneehigh and for the next seven years she occasionally worked with them, as general dogsbody, learning about the business in detail. It was seeing how it was done properly which put her off ever appearing in stage again and she now only works backstage. At 21 Sancha became a professional journalist and although she worked as news reporter and a health correspondent, she preferred working as a theatre critic (for which she was short-listed for a national award from The Stage and TMA, losing out to a leading, well-established critic). During her time as a showbiz reporter she interviewed and hob-nobbed with the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Grant and Ewan McGregor. Getting free theatre tickets is the only thing she misses about journalism.