Based in Central Walthamstow – With an eclectic mix of theatre, dance and performance each month will pull together the best from Waltham Forest and beyond.
If you would like to get in touch with the team, please email: productions@thecentre17.com
Creative Director
Max Peters
Producer and Programmer
Ursula Early
Director
Ruth Peters
Max Peters Creative Director of the Walthamstow Community Production since 2015 and before that a Co Director of the Telegraph Hill Arts festival and community production since 2002. Max is a digital transformation specialist and project manager with 20 + years working with some of the biggest brands and organisations in the world including, The Economist, Clarks Shoes, Kenwood, Miss Sixty, The ticket Bank, Standard Bank, Loreal, Barnardo’s, Breast Cancer Now…
Ursula Early is a theatre producer, practitioner and actress. She has been the programmer & producer at The CentrE17 for the last 6 years. Alongside CentrE17 she is the co-artistic director & producer of one of London’s biggest outdoor touring theatre companies – East London Shakespeare Festival (ELSF): https://www.elsf.uk touring 20+ London parks and outdoor community venues each summer.
She has produced all of ELSF’s productions and tours including: ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. As well as co-writing & directing ELSF’s ‘Two Metres to Shakespeare’. Ursula has also recently launched and directs ELSF’s Young Company – a youth theatre for East London 7-17 year olds – held every Thursday @ CentrE17: https://www.elsf.uk/youngcompany-1
Ursula has an extensive TV and theatre acting CV and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.Associate