Who We Are
P Burton-Morgan (they/them)
Artistic Director
P founded Metta Theatre in 2005. Credits as writer and director include Sherlock Holmes and The PoisonWood (Watermill) The Rhythmics (Southwark Playhouse) In The Willows (Exeter Northcott & UK tour) for which they won the WGGB Musical Theatre Bookwriting award 2020, Little Mermaid (Theatre By The Lake & UK tour), Jungle Book (Theatre Royal Windsor, UK and Int. tours), Roles (V&A), Alice (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & UK tour), Sexing The Cherry (Southbank Centre, Purcell Room) The Man With the Flower in His Mouth (Greenwich Theatre & UK tour), Waiting (Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, starring Juliet Stevenson), Blood Wedding, (Southwark Playhouse) & The Elephant’s Child (Trafalgar Studios & Arcola Theatre).
Other directing credits for Metta include Pixel Dust (Edinburgh Festival) Mouthful (Trafalgar Studios), Cosi fan tutte (New Theatre, Oxford), Arab Nights (Soho Theatre & UK tour), and Otieno, (Southwark Playhouse). Freelance directing credits include Cosi fan tutte (Wild Arts, UK tour) , Forgiveness (Bath Ustinov & UK tour), Madam Butterfly (Belgrade, Coventry & UK tour) Comedy of Errors (Exeter Northcott Theatre), As You Like It and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Wirksworth Festival), Gotcha (Riverside Studios), La Boheme (Palestine National Theatre & tour) and J’attendrais (English Touring Opera).
William Reynolds (he/him)
Artistic Director & Resident Designer
William trained at the Motley Theatre Design School.
He has designed and lit over 30 productions for Metta Theatre. Freelance set & lighting designs include The Turn of The Screw (Aldeburgh), Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre & 59E59), La Cenerentola (Bury Court Opera), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre), Moonfleece (National Tour), La Boheme (Palestinian Tour), and Weimar Cabaret (Barbican).
Lighting designs include The Blinding Light (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dances of Death (The Gate), Daredevas (Southbank Centre), Nuit d’Electronique et d’Opera (Theatre Royal de Wallonie, Belgium), The Magic Flute (Palestinian Tour), The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre), Black-i (Oval House Theatre),Pulse (The Place), and Trying It On (RSC, Royal Court & UK tour).
Projection designs include Prima Donna (Sadlers Wells), The Gambler(Royal Opera House), Das Rheingold (National Reisopera, Holland) and Home (Theatre Royal Bath).
Board Members
Sandra Eismann (NHS England)
Fumi Gomez (Film & Theatre Director)
Ed Lane (Solicitor, Harbottle & Lewis)
William Reynolds (Designer & Environmental Consultant)
Alayna Sumar (Trainee Accountant)