About Us
The White Knight Theatre Company was founded in 2008 by writer, researcher and actor Alison Porter at the University of East Anglia. Working with a director, a visual artist and a group of actors she developed the script for Late Bus, a black comedy about suicide. Since then Alison has worked with a number of other collaborators including dancers and musicians to create plays, monologues and short films about social justice.
As a company we want to:
Expose hidden social justice problems
Work across the disciplines of writing, acting, dance and music
Group, ungroup and regroup as the subject matter requires
We:
Value the modern European literary tradition particularly Brecht, Sartre, Kafka and Beckett
Enjoy the influence of a wide range of music from Bowie to Philip Glass
Create work collaboratively using devised, verbatim and 'found' material
Creative Director, Alison Porter
Alison has a passion for bringing together artists from diverse disciplines to collaborate on creative projects. Originally from Birmingham, she studied modern languages at Leeds University, creative writing at the University of East Anglia and has recently completed a PhD in verbatim theatre and social justice at Warwick University.
As a performer she specialises in movement roles, credits include ; Primary School Teacher in The Messiah directed by Deborah Warner at the ENO, Magazine Woman in Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's Human Zoo, a tv producer in Plan B's music video Love Goes Down and a refugee in How to Hold Your Breath at The Royal Court. She was long-listed for the National Poetry Prize in 2015 and 2019.
She is a trustee for theatre companies ThickSkin and The Synergy Project and former trustee of Out of Joint (now Stockroom) and Told by an Idiot. Before moving to the arts Alison had a business career with BT, The Crown Prosecution Service and The National Crime Agency.
