Award winning Rolemop Arts started life in sunny (well sometimes!) Brighton. Creatives Kerri McLean and Alex Buckley came up with the collectives' ethos… to explore imaginative new ways to tell stories. Since then we've toured, surprised, enlightened and captured the imagination through our collaborations. For each of our unique projects we always seek out the best talent and most creative minds to collaborate with to ensure each production has that wow factor and special Rolemop touch.

Kerri McLean - artistic director

Kerri McLean is a multifaceted interdisciplinary creative artist working in the film, TV, theatre and audio industries as an actor, director, writer and voice artist. Starting her career as a stage actress, Kerri has gone on to perform within a vast range of award winning, TV, theatre, radio and live art productions around the world (Poldark, Bodyguard, The Ritual, Electric Dreams, Small Island to name a few). She set up Rolemop Arts production company in 2006, leading as Artistic Director which has seen her develop, produce and direct several theatre productions, tours and audio-visual projects (incl. Snakes and Ladders Tour, Broken Loops, Fine Line Between Laughter and Loathing, The Secret Agent). She was winner of the New York International Festival’s ‘Overall Excellence Award’ for her production of ‘Kemble’s Riot’, which she produced and directed in 2013. Along with theatre, Kerri continues to direct for screen, audio, and immersive projects (incl. Formula 1 films, Glimmers, Lockdown Town).

Passionate about sound and music, Kerri, a trained audio producer, started out dj’ing and recording bands and musicians. Currently, she creates sound designs for theatre and film, and records radio, voice, and audio projects with a range of companies (incl. Amazon, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, BBC).

Kerri wrote her first play ‘Memories of Mermaids’ in 2014, which she went on to stage and direct. Her following script ‘Reality Check’ won Faith Drama’s ‘Writer/Director Theatre Madness Festival Award’ and ‘Writer/Director Theatre Madness Audience Choice Award’ in 2016. Kerri continues writing commissions and new projects, and to date she has written several scripts for stage, screen and radio. Kerri Loves to laugh!

Alex Buckley - Creative Director

Alex studied for a BA in English Literature and Film Studies at Brunel, where he forged a working relationship with fellow Rolemopper Kerri McLean, and completed an MA in Dramatic Writing at Sussex University. He is a Writer, Filmmaker and Producer and has worked on theatrical productions, interactive installations and animations. Alex also edits films for commercial clients (BBC, Sky Arts, Sigur Ros). His writing and production credits include 'Glimmers' an iPhone app based narrative for Brighton Digital Festival 2013, 'Broken Loops' at the Old Vic Tunnels in 2012, 'If the Walls Could Talk' a large scale projection mapping extravaganza in 2012, and 'A Fine Line Between Laughter and Loathing' which ran during The Brighton Festival and was well received by the Royal Court’s new writer’s program in 2007. Alex has a deep love of storytelling, he loves a challenge and finding answers to production problems…. he's a creative techie at heart!!