About Fish and Bicycle Theatre Company
Fish and Bicycle Theatre Company is a dynamic collective dedicated to innovative storytelling on stage. We have produced two full-length productions and a couple of short plays. Each production reflects our commitment to engaging, thought-provoking theatre that resonates with authenticity and imagination.Our mission is to bring together and collaborate with practitioners across disciplines to create exciting and innovative theatre that supports storytelling for live performance. We believe that great theatre arises from collaboration, and we have worked with many brilliant creatives and practitioners along the way. Through this interdisciplinary approach, we aim to inspire and enable more stories to be told and shared, all while entertaining our audiences.
“A keen eye for the messy realities of modern motherhood, Fish and Bicycle Theatre prove they know how to entertain. After all, what’s a British holiday without a little chaos?”
— Everything Theatre
Associate Creatives
Our company is supported by a core group of talented associate creatives:
Tania Black
Founder, The Fish and Bicycle Theatre Company
Tania Black founded The Fish and Bicycle Theatre Company after completing her Master’s in Text and Performance (with Distinction) at RADA and Birkbeck. Driven by a passion for collaboration and new work, she created a platform where writers, performers, designers, and technicians could collaborate to make bold, exciting theatre.
Tania trained at RADA and worked extensively as an actor through the 1990s and early 2000s, with credits including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Gate Theatre, and various TV, radio, and film roles.
Alongside her artistic practice, Tania has held leadership roles across the theatre industry—as a board member at the Royal Exchange Manchester and Hampstead Theatre, and as a trustee of the National Youth Theatre. At the NYT, she directed on the Playing Up inclusion programme and continues to support emerging artists, often inviting former students into professional work.
The Fish and Bicycle Theatre Company believes that theatre should be collaborative, inclusive, and transformative—bringing together the creative team, from movement directors to sound engineers, to tell stories that inspire and connect.
Roli Okorodudu
Writer / Performer
She is currently part of Criterion Theatre New Writing 2025 cohort; A member of The Distilled Writers Collective and an active member of The Black Writers Collective at Southwark Playhouse. Recent work includes HOLIDAY (Drayton Arms); DISPARITY 2.0 (Drayton Arms / Distilled Writers Collective); scratch reading of DUST (Slackline/Omnibus Theatre); UNICORN SLIPPERS (Churchill Bromley/ Yellowcoat TC); SHE, HE & HIM, (rehearsed reading Page to Stage/The Water Rats); GOLDEN (rehearsed reading Southwark Playhouse);
BLEND. SHARE. MIX. (Theatre 503) Her audio adapted versions of GOLDEN and UNICORN SLIPPERS – FROM BRIXTON TO BROMLEY are available to listen with Evcol productions on YouTube.
Roli is actor for over 30 years working on stage, in award winning and nominated films and shorts, commercials and TV. She was nominated for best actress for Blinkers at the Paris Art and Movies Awards 2022.
Amanda Chennell
Performer
Amanda originally trained as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, her early career was mostly in West End musicals including Out of The Blue (Shaftesbury Theatre), Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum Theatre). Her time in the West End also led to various cast recordings, and performances at The Royal Albert Hall and the O2 arena with the 10th and 25th Anniversaries of Les Miserables respectively.
She took time out to raise her kids then returned to the industry via a degree in Performance Studies at Arts Ed and then a Masters in Text and Performance from R.A.D.A/Birkbeck.
Recent work as an actor includes: Holiday (Drayton Arms), Holiday rehearsed reading (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Pram Talk (Hope Theatre), The Only Way Out (NDT Broadgate).
As a director and dramaturg, Amanda has recently worked on a short film called The Armchair, examining memory, metaphor and objects through a female lens. She worked as both dramaturg and director for the workshop of a new musical called Anna and The Sting for which she is still working as a dramaturg as the project moves forward.
Amanda also works as an Associate Lecturer in Acting at various Universities and drama schools and is a certified Life coach and mentor for professional creatives. She also works in the corporate sector as a public speaking and confidence coach.
Amanda combines her creative skills to incorporate working as an actor, director, writer, theatre maker, lecturer and coach bringing all her lived experience to her work.
Amanda is delighted to be an Associate Artist for Fish and a Bicycle Theatre Company.
Noah Cox
Stage Manager & Director
Noah Cox is a theatre maker from the West Midlands. After completing a BA and a Master’s degree in Film & Theatre at the University of Reading, Noah now works with numerous venues and companies in and around Reading and London in a variety of roles; from writing and directing to managing and tech, and even to the occasional performance role. He is very excited to be continuing his collaboration with Fish and Bicycle Theatre as an associons and looks forward to all the work to come.