People
SAM WOOF
(they/them)
artistic director / co-company director
Sam Woof is the artistic director of GOYA and the resident assistant director at The Orange Tree Theatre. As writer/director, credits include Sex with Friends and other tiny catastrophes (North Wall Arts Centre, Winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Edinburgh Fringe Special Award 2022), Fine Thanks: A Verbatim Musical (Savoy Theatre 2019) and Don’t Shoot the Albatross (Vaults 2023). Assistant director credits include Enron (Oxford Playhouse 2019), Something in the Air (Jermyn Street Theatre 2022), Top Hat (Mill at Sonning 2022), The Circle (Orange Tree Theatre 2023).
MRINMOYEE ROY
(she/her)
producer / co-company director
Mrin Roy (she/her) is a producer of GOYA Theatre Company. She is a recent graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. As producer, her credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Oxford Playhouse, 2020) and Smart Casual (North Wall Arts Centre, 2021). Since 2022, she has produced Sex With Friends (Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 2022), Don’t Say Macbeth! (Edinburgh Fringe ZOO Venues, 2022), and Don’t Shoot the Albatross (VAULT Festival, 2023).
Alongside GOYA, Mrin is currently an administrator at Paines Plough. Previously, she has worked in an administrative and touring role at Hofesh Shechter Company. She is also the writer of GOYA’s newsletter, where she rambles monthly.
LOWRI SPEAR
(she/her)
producer / co-company director
Lowri is a producer and arts marketer. She is a graduate of the MA Creative Producing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, having previously studied English Literature at the University of Oxford.
She joined GOYA as marketing manager for ‘Merrily Roll Along’ (Oxford Playhouse, February 2020) and has been having a great time ever since. For GOYA, she has produced ‘Smart Casual’ (Cockpit Theatre & Above the Stag – August 2021), ‘Sex with Friends (Edinburgh Fringe, Pleasance – August 2022), ‘Don’t Say Macbeth!’ (Edinburgh Fringe, ZOO Venues – August 2022) and ‘Don’t Shoot the Albatross’ (Canal Café Theatre – November 2022, VAULT Festival – March 2023).
Her day job is communications coordinator for immersive arts charity Punchdrunk Enrichment, which she has been doing since September 2022. Previously, she was a production intern for Aria Entertainment working on ‘Broken Wings’ (Charing Cross Theatre - February & March 2022). She was also a 2022 Arts Emergency mentee and Old Vic Frontline Facilitator.
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Other interests include the colour yellow, Wilfred Owen, tapirs and overly melancholic Spotify playlists. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
NATASHA MALLETT
(she/her)
marketing manager
Natasha is a recent graduate and current postgraduate at the University of Oxford. She has worked as Marketing Director/Manager for a variety of productions, credits including: ‘The Last Five Years’ (online, May 2020), ‘Smart Casual: A New Musical’ (North Wall Arts Centre, Jul 2021; Above The Stag, Aug 2021; The Cockpit, Aug 2021), and most recently, ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ (Oxford Playhouse, Feb 2022). Natasha is also the producer of GOYA’s podcast, ‘Utterly Unviable’. In May 2022, Natasha will be Marketing Advisor for ‘Carrie: The Musical’ at the Oxford Playhouse. A keen musician, Natasha trained on piano and viola at the Centre for Young Musicians London, regularly performing as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She was principal viola of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO) in 2015-2018 and Ealing Youth Orchestra (EYO) during their 2018 season, and has performed in productions of ‘Spring Awakening’ (Oxford Playhouse, Nov 2019) and ‘The Entertainer’ (O’Reilly Theatre, Feb 2020). As someone who enjoys the technical side of both music and theatre, Natasha was previously Manager of the Oxford University Sinfonietta (2019-2021) and Social Media Manager of Oxford Contemporary Opera (2020-2021), and currently works as Communications and Development Officer for Fantasia Orchestra.