The Committee oversees the running of the EUTC and Bedlam Theatre. The Committee consists of positions that run and manage everything from finances, to building maintenance, to shows coordination, to making parties awesome!
If you want to know more about what each role does, click each title below or go to the EUTC Wiki here.
Presidents (joint) - [email protected]
Dia Hunter đŠ (she/they, 4th year History of Art and English Literature) - Facebook
Dia played Mr Bingley in Halfbakedâs Pride and Prejudice last year and, honestly, thatâs all you need to know about her. She is from Middlesbrough in the North East of England and her father is actually a steelworker - you canât get more stereotypical than that! If you see her wandering around Bedlam, please feel free to give her a task. She needs to feel useful at all times.
Fact: Diaâs favourite show is BBCâs âGhostsâ. She dressed as Julian for Halloween last year and met Matthew Baynton during his brief RSC stint. Donât ask her about it, she will never shut up.
Em Leites McPherson đŠ (they/them, 4th Year English Language and Literature) - Facebook
First-mate of the H.M.S. Bedlam, butler to two cats, and reveller in all things theatrical, Em is delighted to be spending their fourth year exactly how they spent their first three: freezing off their extremities and getting covered in paint. They are from Yorkshire, and they like sheep, cheese, science fiction, and cool haze effects.
Fact: Em has cats. Did they mention? Em has cats. Two of them. Two cats. They are called Pangur BĂĄn (âPanâ) and Ceridwen (âGwenâ).
Secretary - Veronica Yung đȘ© (she/her, 2nd Year English Literature) - Facebook
Veronica is from Macau, and if youâre staring blankly at the screen because youâve never heard of Macau before, itâs near Hong Kong. She has also lived in Brighton for about 5 years. Because she can touch type, Veronica is this yearâs secretary. She enjoys attempting to (and usually succeeding at) sleeping in various spaces in Bedlam at late night get-ins or lock-ins.
Fact: She can (and will) talk about Glee hours.
Business Manager - Luke Hardwick đ¶âđ«ïž (he/him, 2nd Year Mathematics) - Facebook
Luke is this yearâs Business Manager but more importantly has inherited the role as resident ginger and Welsh on committee. He is also a self proclaimed âharlot for spreadsheetsâ (talk to him about Excel esports). He is cool (he promises) even tho he sounds boring so talk to him if you have any business questions :)
Fact: Luke had a massive overwhelming rivalry with Leon Lee last year which he lost by only doing 14 shows whereas Leon did 19.
Theatre Managers (joint) - [email protected] - Facebook
Fiona Connor 𩩠(any/all, 3rd Year Physics)
Fiona is one of Edi Uniâs many English people - from the South East no less (they thoroughly apologise for this fact). They own a hard hat and high vis jacket so are well equipped to be a theatre manager. As Fiona loves Physics, they continuously try force it onto people in theatre and in using their vast knowledge they say they will eventually figure out how the Bedlam time blackhole works.
Fact: Fiona has now adopted Bedlamâs resident stuffed frog, Jeremy - they love him dearly.
Atalanta Lewis đ· (any/all, 3rd Year Sociology and Politics)
Atalantaâs name derives from Greek mythology, though is often confused with a âlostâ ancient civilisation, or the result of someone falling asleep on a keyboard. After taking care of the leak in the Asbestos Hole (we promise no asbestos is present), and attempting to prevent a flood after it rained on stage during The Show That Must Not Be Named, Atalanta hopes that water-related incidents can be kept to a minimum this year.
Fact: Atalanta once amassed over 300 hours in The Sims 4 in about 3 weeks.
Front-of-House Managers (joint) - [email protected]
Moses Brzeski-Reilly đ„Ș (any/all, 2nd Year History of Art and Music)
Mosesâ only personality trait is being gay, in fact, on a completely unrelated note, they have dyed their hair 5 different colours in 3 years. Having worked one shift in the bedlam cafĂ© during which their OCD prompted them to deep clean they decided maybe theyâd be pretty good at front of house, and anyway, âpresident of yap-villeâ isnât an official post yet.
Fact: Moses once met Kraftwerk, not in a ceremonious way as they walked face first into one of them coming out of a portaloo.
Alice Sikora đ (she/her, 3rd year Physics)
Alice has lived exactly equal amounts her life in Poland and the UK, and, when not in Edinburgh, she resides in Newcastle upon Tyne amongst the Geordies where the rivers flow with brun ale. Among other things, she loves to prance around on stage in the panto (a total of 3 years now), climb ladders and bake in the Bedlam kitchen, but after seeing the state of the microwave she decided enough is enough. In order to solve this problem, and many others, she is bravely advancing into the depths of Bedlam committee.
Fact: When she was about 9 years old, Alice and her sister decided to join a sumo wrestling club. They were surprisingly really good but their sumo careers were short lived.
Productions Manager - Meri Suonenlahti đȘż (she/her, 2nd Year Interdisciplinary Futures) - Facebook
Meri is originally from Finland but has lived in a bunch of random places in her lifetime. After spending so much of her first year in Bedlam her phone labelled it âworkâ on maps, Meri is excited to be this yearâs Productions Manager and to help show teams. In addition to the wonderful people in Bedlam, she enjoys finding weird things in the crypt for shows and trying to not admit how cold the building is (her Finnish pride wont allow it).
Fact: A few years ago, Meri was Europeâs #1 on the Subway Surfers leaderboard for 2 weeks.
Technical Managers (joint) - [email protected]
Leon Lee đȘŒ (he/him, 4th Year Computer Science and Mathematics) - Facebook
Leon is part of an endangered species - a Bedlamite who is actually from Edinburgh. Getting addicted to technical theatre, Leon wants nothing more than to be stuck in the building more than he already is, and climbing his favourite ladder (the spider).
Fact: Leonâs acting career started and ended with 4 consecutive halfBakedâs, and the world will never see him under the limelight again⊠unless?
Carys Hrebenar đ (they/them, 3rd Year Archaeology and Social Anthropology) - Facebook
Carys is a secret American in hiding but doesnât sound it, from the land of sweet tea and biscuits and gravy. They are very passionate about the tech store being tidy, making sure things stay functional, and will cry if a cable run is done badly. Carys loves being up a ladder and has a very specific hierarchy of the ladders within Bedlam (please ask). When not up a ladder, they can be found in one of the many hidden crevices of Bedlam.
Fact: Carys likes to collect different (decorative!) weapons and is slowly amassing a small little armoury, including a sword.
Set Managers (joint) - [email protected]
Freya White đŠ (she/her, 4th Year Psychology) - Facebook
Freya is from Glasgow. And thatâs it. She is much less interesting than her Co-Set Manager. She loves everything wood, screws, and drills, but nothing can compare to her love-hate relationship with the paint cupboard. Freya is looking forward to yet another year of long days in Bedlam and making herself too busy, but this time she kind of has a better excuse.
Fact: Freya once sat next to Paolo Nutini on a plane. She thinks Paolo is very cool.
Azalea Drace đł (she/her, 3rd Year Cognitive Science)
Azalea is from South Africa and the USA (a bit of Zimbabwe too?) but you can call her American if you like to make things simpler. She is one of the Co-Set Managers this year and is thrilled to get to spend all her time in the workshop without the chance of getting locked in/out of Bedlam because she will have keys now!
Fact: Azalea lived on a sailboat for 2 years and Martha wonât stop bringing it up.
Wardrobe Managers (joint) - [email protected]
Nhi Tran đ«Š (she/they, 4th Year English Literature) - Facebook
Nhi was born in Vietnam, but lived in Canada. You canât ask her where home is because itâs complicated but she feels pretty at home in the Bedlam wardrobe organizing some pantaloons.
Fact: Nhi can tie a cherry stem into a knot using her mouth.
Lisa Kislova đ„ (she/her, 3rd year Linguistics) - Facebook
Lisa grew up in Russia but sheâs not going to steal your stuff and then gaslight you, promise. Lisa is the Wardrobe Manager because she loves spending her time digging through piles of dusty clothes. She canât wait to bust some more moths and hide from more pigeons!
Fact: Lisa canât do numbers in English so if you ask her for her phone number you might have to wait 3-5 business days before she can process that.
Social Events Manager - Charlie Ringrose đ« (they/them - 3rd Year Ancient History)
Charlie is a Pisces from High Wycombe, meaning they cry about chairs a lot and will take you to the chair museum on a first date. They love a themed playlist, although refuse to login to their Spotify on the Bedlam Mac. Charlie has been in the Bedlam crypt far too many times for someone who claims to be an actor.
Fact: Their one goal for the year is to overthrow Moses as the âpresident of yap-villeâ.
Marketing Manager - Cat Chapman đŠ (they/them - 2nd Year Biological Sciences) - Facebook
Cat is from the middle of nowhere, Aberdeenshire, making them one of the few Scottish people in Bedlam (something everyone seems to forget). As Marketing Manager, theyâre very excited to have an excuse to make Bedlamâs social media accounts look pretty, and to spend even more time warring with Canva than they already do.
*Fact: Cat has been the owner of various insects, including stick insects and three Madagascan hissing cockroaches (they had to part with them recently and still arenât over it). *
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Fringe Venue Manager - Julia Rahn
Subcommittees are smaller groups of members that are responsible for a particular part of running the theatre. Currently, there are six permanent subcommittees.
If you would like to know more about each subcommittee, there are a series of pages dedicated to them on the EUTC Wiki, here.
Ever wanted to dig through a pile of paper and pictures to uncover what secrets the past has? Archives is a group of people all interested in the past of the 150 year old EUTC, the 40 year old Bedlam Theatre, and anything else we find along the way. Contact us at [email protected].
We also run the longest running fully student-run library in Scotland! (Much to the pain of the librarian)
Our team:
| Archivist | Alba McGowan đŠ |
| Librarian | Yanni Chan đ |
Ever wanted experience being a system admin? No matter what your experience with computers are we will take you. Bedlam has a server rack which runs many different process to the website, phones, internal media servers, Internet, and even the doorbell. Contact us at [email protected]
| IT Systems Administrator | Lewis Eggeling đą |
The Workshops Subcommittee are responsible for creating, and coordinating all our workshops. Itâs a great way to bring new members into the society, and a particularly enjoyable and rewarding committee to be part of. [email protected]
| Workshops Coordinator | Lauryn McGuire đ§ââïž |
New for 2024, the Facilities Subcommittee is perfect for you if you want to be a large part of developments in the building, and help keep certain areas as pristine as they can be. Plans to begin building a garden, or to decide on a suitable kitchen ordering, can be taken on by this subcommittee, so if you want to make a difference in the building, get involved. If youâd like to join them (or have gardening tips), feel free to get in touch at [email protected]
| Facilities Coordinator | Lucie Benninghaus đŠ« |
Our welfare contacts are there to ensure the well-being of everyone in the EUTC. Currently, our welfare contacts are:
| General Welfare Contacts | Dia Hunter Em Leites McPherson |
[email protected] |
| Committee Welfare Contacts | Meri Suonenlahti Fiona Connor |
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| Company Welfare Contacts | Shira David, Becca Mahar, Alba McGowan, and Yanni Chan | [email protected] |
Finally, we have our liberation representatives, each responsible for a minority group, who are responsible for ensuring that the EUTC is an inclusive society and addressing concerns about representation in EUTC projects.
| Anti-Elitism Rep | Andrew More |
| Disability Rep | Lucie Benninghaus |
| LGBTQ+ Rep | Louis Handley |
| Ethnic Minorities Rep | Maysan Abdidayim |
| Trans and Non-Binary Rep | Rose Sarafilovic and Theo Moreman |
| Womenâs Rep | Atalanta Lewis and Olivia Dale |