Seanchaí Collective Associates
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"
Our associates are experts in their field who have joined us on our journey and are offering their support to the company's vision and aims. Currently all our associates are volunteers committed to supporting the voices of lived experience experts make a difference or simply be heard.
Antonia Dixey
CEO and Founder Participation People
Participation People believe services are better when you work creatively with the people who use them. They are proud to be award-winning youth engagement, participation, and co-production experts working across the UK. Participation People’s CEO and Founder Antonia Dixey has built a solid reputation as a charismatic public speaker and expert consultant, who is passionate about giving young people a voice on services and issues that affect them. She is uniquely qualified to share her insight on how businesses and young people can work together to co-produce solutions and is driven to create a future that offers inclusive and accessible opportunities for all
Antonia will be supporting the Directors of The Seanchaí Collective with business and leadership mentoring.
Kathi Leahy
Volunteer The Seanchaí Collective Creative
Kathi has been telling stories professionally as a Theatre Maker, Artistic Director and Producer for over 35years. She founded and ran Shaskeen Irish Arts Organisation in Coventry during the ‘90s telling stories of the Irish Women in the Community who emigrated in the 50’s and ‘60’s - working as writer/ director on ‘I’ll Tell Me Ma ‘ and ‘The Wedding’ - Co-Production with Cork Opera House. She was an associated Artist of the Belgrade Theatre for 7years directing main-house shows including Fantastic Mr Fox and The Twits‘ which toured nationally and internationally and Millennium Mysteries Coventry Cathedral . Kathi restarted the Coventry Godiva Carnival and was Artistic Director / Producer of the Carnival for 14yrs from 2000 - 2014.
Kathi was one of four founders of Imagineer Productions - Outdoor Arts Organisation. Wide range of work included, 40th Opening Ceremony International Children's Games, War Bride Commemoration for Coventry Cathedral and West Midland Outdoor Tour, Culture on the Move, Powerhouse Youth Zone, Godiva Festival '23/24. Queens Platinum Jubilee Pageant London Coventry Section "The Queen's Favourites" and Milesians, the coming of the Gaels, Coventry City of Culture 2021 and Creative Explorers programme 2024.
Kathi was the volunteer director and producer for the Message to Margaret campaign.
"Stories are the fire we pass from one generation to another". Kathi believes in the power of stories that touch both our hearts and minds and make us feel. She has extensive experience of working collaboratively with communities to vision and create to tell their stories.
Kathi has been recipient of an Irish Post Award and Arts Council Fellowship.
Jamie McGough
Volunteer The Seanchaí Collective Creative
Jamie McGough is a playwright from Coventry who wrote Fighting Irish, which premiered at the Belgrade Theatre as part of Coventry’s UK City of Culture year in 2022.
Jamie also wrote and performed The Final Bell as part of a joint project between the Belgrade and Paines Plough in the Roundabout Auditorium in 2021.
Before his career in writing, Jamie was a national boxing champion and international representative. He has also produced plays here and abroad, most recently when he adapted The Proposal for a 2024 show in Valencia.
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