Vici Wreford-Sinnott
(she/her)Director, Writer and Disability Activist
For me art and culture is about truth. Creating vital, passionate stories where disabled women are front and centre is part of my being. Seeing our intersectional selves platformed is emboldening, and is an act of resistance in a world which still tries to erase us. If we're not telling the stories of disabled women, we're not telling the truth about who we are as a society.
Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a leading figure in the UK Disability Arts Movement, passionately campaigning for the cultural equity of disabled people for over 30 years. She is the founding Artistic Director of internationally acclaimed North East based Little Cog which is a disabled-led production company. Vici is a disabled theatre and TV writer and director, and in 2021 she was commissioned by the BBC to write and make her short film Hen Night. It is one of the first pieces of broadcast television drama by a disabled women-led team in the UK, and has been seen by over one million people worldwide. Vici is regularly commissioned as a playwright and her work has toured internationally.
Vici is currently concluding a practice-based PhD researching Radical Acts of Representation: Creating Disabled Women-led Practice in Theatre and Television and is a world-leading expert on the subject of representation, radical performance and disability. Vici is a highly respected disability equity strategist and has shared her model of disabled-led art in mainstream cultural settings, Cultural Shift, across the world. She recently returned to performance in touring theatre show UNRULY, celebrating and telling a story of older disabled women from the disability rights and arts movements and activism. She is a recipient of the North East Art and Culture Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts.