Unlikely Tangent Studios
About Us
The Team at Unlikely Tangent Studios
Meg Fozzard
Founder (she/her)
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Meg Fozzard is a South London based disabled freelance producer and journalist. Her career as a producer began back in 2018 when she studied Creative Producing for Digital Platforms at the National Film and Television School. There, she learnt how to produce for AR, VR, podcasts, smart home devices and social media. She graduated in February 2019 and became disabled in April 2019, drastically altering her career.
Her career highlights include working as a Producer on the Museum of Austerity XR experience with Sacha Wares, The National Theatre and the English Touring Theatre.
This inspired her to work on her own project, Cripping Up, a VR experience about her life as a wheelchair user in London, which has received R&D funding from the BFI and CreaTech Frontiers Fund and was part of the CPH:DOX lab 2024/2025, Sheffield Doc Festival’s Alternative Realities Forum 2025 and the IDFA Forum 2025. She is also currently consulting on Intercultural Roots for Public Health’s XR project Extending Nature.
Amy Crighton
Director (she/they)
Amy Crighton is a theatre director and dramaturg moving into XR with a focus on developing new work in conjunction with writers and working with new technologies. Inspired by the storytelling methods of video games, Amy began to integrate technology in their theatre work with their show CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER which utilised silent disco headphones, and since she has been pursuing the ways in which technology can create intimacy between audiences and performers.
They are the Co-Artistic Director of Votive Theatre who were selected for the Barrel Organ & Company development scheme 2022. Amy was the recipient of the Jerwood New Work Fund in 2023. They were an associate of Nottingham theatre company New Perspectives in 2022/23 and have had work showcased at the Curve Theatre as part of the National Student Drama Festival.
Amy spent 2 years as Literary Assistant at the Bush Theatre working as a dramaturg and supporting on the Bush's artist development schemes. She is a reader for the George Devine Award and Royal Shakespeare Company.
Amy was the recipient of Rose Theatre's 2023 Peter Hall Emerging Artists Fellowship where they assisted directors Jeff James (Shooting Hedda Gabler) and Monique Touko (The Boy at the Back of the Class – UK tour).
Joel Le Clercq
Access Support (he/they)
Joel Le Clercq is a disabled artist, activist and access worker/co-ordinator/consultant
As well as being an artist and activist in their own right, Joel has been supporting Meg as her access worker since the Spring of 2023 and became involved in Cripping Up the Autumn of that year. Joel supports Meg by sense and tone checking her work, reminding her to take breaks, body doubling to decrease Meg’s workload, attending meetings and being on stage with Meg in the UK and abroad and contributing their access consultancy and expertise as an artist the development of Cripping Up.
