About
The north is full of stories.
Some you'll have heard.
Most you won't.
We'd never heard most of them until we found them.
And we're going hunting for more, like pigs snuffling through the ginnels, snickets and alleys of time.
We believe in telling the stories that have shaped our communities, that have forged our identities, and continue to speak to us to this day.
We want to give voice to the forgotten figures of our history, shed light on lost moments in time, and bring them back to life with brave, imaginative and compelling theatre.
Because they're bloody good stories.
Ginnel Pigs is a Community Interest Company committed to supporting, growing and strengthening peoples access to, and participation in, the performing arts in the north.
The Team
Joel Phillimore was born and raised in Lancaster. He made his professional acting debut at the age of seven in The Lake (BBC) and as a child also worked with the RSC and Northern Broadsides. More recently he’s best known for leading roles in George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat (MGM) and The Bay (ITV). Experienced in workshopping and R&D, including for the National Theatre Studio, he’s excited to start developing new work.
Dr Rebecca Spence was also born and raised in Lancaster. She is a writer, literary critic and researcher with a specialism in nineteenth-century literature. Rebecca received her PhD from Lancaster University in 2023, having read English at the University of Cambridge and taken her MA at Lancaster. Rebecca’s work has appeared in journals such as Victorian Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture.