Who we are

Evie Manning

Co-Artistic Director (Bradford)

For Common/Wealth, Evie has directed/co-directed  Public Interest, Fast, Fast Slow, In Common, Peaceophobia, Off the Curriculum, I Have Met the Enemy, Radical Acts, We’re Still Here, The Deal Versus The People, How to be Better, All Out, No Guts, No Heart, No Glory and Our Glass House 

For screen Evie wrote and directed her first short film SCRAPS, commissioned by BD25 and Screen Yorkshire. As a freelance director, credits include: Nicer than Orange Squash by Alice Nutter (Leeds Playhouse), From the Crowd (Manchester Histories) Ceremony (Manchester International Festival, Lead Artist Phil Collins), WANTED, (TRANSFORM festival, Leeds Playhouse), Taxi Tales by Ishy Din (Tamasha), At Night by Louise Wallwein (Royal Exchange), Worlds Apart by Aisha Zia (Chol), Everyday Heroes (Chol/Royal Exchange), Magna Carta on Trial (Freedom Studios/Mind the Gap), Photography Party (Royal Exchange).

Evie was brought up in Bradford and lives in Bradford today.