The BCO Team
Circles of Engagement - The BCO Core Team
At BCO, we want a powerful world where people can use their will to negotiate the world around them successfully. We started as a group of 3. Wayne and Louris moved to St. Lucia in 2000 and started working with Ellen. Ellen had moved to St Lucia in the 90's and started a theatre group. Wayne and Louris joined and the rest is history!
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20 years later we still work together under Brown Cotton Outreach.
Louris Martin Lee-Sing
Producer: Film and Theatre
Workshop Design and Facilitation
She began her career in 1995 as an Actor Facilitator.
On completion of her degree in Psychology at UWI, she applied for and was awarded the prestigious Allan Lee Hughes Fellowship in Community Outreach and Educational Theatre by the Arena Stage Theatre in Washington D.C in 2000. She successfully completed this master’s level programme the following year.
In 2001 she immigrated to St. Lucia where she became a founding member of the Téyat Toutafé Theatre Company.
In 2003 she returned to Trinidad and Tobago and co-founded Brown Cotton Outreach a Theatre based outreach and education Not-for-Profit company with Ellen and Wayne. She is an experienced Actor, Locations Manager, Casting Manager, Fixer and Unit Production Manager. You can see more info about her film production work here.
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In 2014 she collaborated with 2 other female film producers to create T&T’s first-ever family feature film ‘Sally’s Way’. Seen in 9 countries in 15 cities, Sally’s Way has won 6 International Awards. Over 5,000. Children have seen Sally’s Way in Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2018 she began performing as a stand-up comedian. In 2019 she collaborated with Lisa Allen Agostini to create and produce comedy shows and video sketches as Fem Com TT.
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Wayne Lee-Sing
Writer, Carnival of Theatre Playwright, Screenwriter, Copywriter and Actor
Education:
• BA (Hons) Media Studies - Sheffield-Hallam University (UK) (1993)
• Post Grad Dip. Mediation Studies - University of the West Indies (2005)
Theatre Experience:
• Co-founder Brown Cotton Outreach (BCO) - Director, Actor, Photographer, Videographer & Theatre of Carnival Playwright)
• BCO/Max. Security Prison Film & Theatre Programme - Technical Director, Facilitator, Photographer, Videographer
• Extensive stage experience over the past 32
• Co-founder Téyat Toutafé Theatre Group (St. Lucia)
Currently an actor and writer for stage and screen and have written and co-written extensively for Brown Cotton Outreach. Apart from theatre, I have had wide-ranging experience within local and regional media and advertising industries, as well as being a freelance photographer, writer, video-maker, songwriter and calypsonian.
Ellen O'Malley Camps
Director, Artistic Director
Counsellor and Therapist
Ellen O’Malley Camps BA, MA, (Helen Camps) is a Theatre Practitioner (actor, producer/director, writer), with a background in teaching (Teacher’s Training College, Dublin) and theology (University of Dublin).
She has been in the theatre since 1967 when she joined Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Trinidad Theatre Workshop and worked as an actor, adapter (Stage, T.V, Radio), script/continuity & costumes (Film)
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In the eighties, she inaugurated the experimental Trinidad Tent Theatre Company, which attempted to create a style and theatrical form suited to the resources and the realities of the Caribbean. In Ireland, she co-founded the Irish Goodwill & Right Relationship Centre.
She led the participants at the World Conference on New Psychologies & Psychotherapies (Findhorn, Scotland) in an exploration of national symbols, celebrations and rituals – the aim – to make conscious the possibilities for re-visioning, for personal development and transformation inherent in ritual, theatre and performance art.
In 2000 she founded and became the first artistic director of St. Lucia’s Téyat Toutafé and in 2004 she co-founded and became artistic director of Trinidad’s Brown Cotton Tent Theatre Ensemble.
Both St. Lucia’s Téyat Toutafé and Trinidad’s Brown Cotton Tent Theatre Ensemble worked and trained out of a tent with aims and objectives akin to the Trinidad Tent Theatre Company.
All her work is geared towards the development of a more creative and expressive mode of being and for better interpersonal relationships – right relationship through best communication practices.
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She most recently directed and co-produced, The Revenge pf King Jab Jab: Play Mas With Shakespeare through Brown Cotton Outreach (incorporated as a not-for-profit NGO). You can contact her to book a one on one session here.