The Team

Stewart Aitken
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Stewart Aitken

Stewart is a Director of Ten Feet Tall company where he has produced and directed on productions of “Crush” & “A Perfect Child” as well as appearing as Peter Quince and Egeus in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Aberdeen Arts Centre and being part of the writing team for “See You in Court” for Granite Noir 2020.

He has enjoyed a career of over 35 years in the arts ranging from performing with Wildcat and The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews to being Artistic Director with First Base Theatre, Borders Youth Theatre, Wigan Pier Theatre Company and Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

He has recently taken on the role of Coordinator for the North East Culture Collective working with artists in north east communities and looks forward to many more projects with Ten Feet Tall.

Annabel Lunney
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Annabel Lunney

Annabel is an Associate Artist of Ten Feet Tall and is a community-based theatre-maker from Aberdeen. A graduate from the University of York with a first class honours degree in Theatre, she has an interest new Scottish writing, socially engaged theatre and how co-design projects can encourage new voices into theatres both onstage and in the audience.

Her producing and facilitation practice focuses on stories and artists from out-with the central belt, and how opportunity can be distributed more widely across Scotland.

As an Associate with Ten Feet Tall, Annabel is a facilitator on our CRE8 programme in schools and is facilitator of FUSE, our drama group for 14- 18 year olds.

Assistant Producer credits: Aberdeen Performing Arts, Wonder Fools and Dogstar Theatre Company.

Freelance Youth Theatre Practitioner: Traverse Theatre, Aberdeen Performing Arts and Scottish Youth Theatre.

Cate MacPherson
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Cate MacPherson

Cate is an accomplished theatre practitioner, singer, and arts professional with a degree in Theatre and Drama from Perth, Western Australia. Born in Australia, she has built a diverse career across the UK and Australia, spanning performance, directing, education, and arts leadership.

Her career has included senior roles such as Education Manager with Aberdeen Performing Arts and Artistic Director of The Lemon Tree, as well as Education Officer at Hull Truck Theatre Company. She has also delivered countless workshops and creative projects with organisations including Aberdeen Arts Centre, Cornerstone, Aberdeen City Council Creative Learning, and drama initiatives for deaf young people.

Cate’s creative practice extends to directing and producing, with credits such as Stray Theatre Company’s tour of Columcille by Iain Crichton Smith, Director of Young Hearts by John Godber at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Founder of the Sydney Short Theatre Festival. She has also contributed to large-scale cultural events, including her role as Performance Co-ordinator for the First People Exhibition as part of the UN Year of Indigenous People in Western Australia.

Passionate about accessibility and community engagement, Cate has worked extensively with adults with learning disabilities, collaborated with Headway Theatre and the North East Culture Collective, and supported freelance artists through FINE (Freelance Independents North East). Alongside her artistic work, she contributes to healthcare engagement in her role with the Public Involvement Team at NHS Grampian.



Cameron Mowat
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Cameron Mowat

Cameron is a director, actor, and project manager. He trained as an actor at Queen Margaret University and soon after became a graduate member of the Dundee Rep Ensemble. Over 10 years, he then performed with most of Scotland’s national and regional theatres including National Theatre of Scotland, The Citz, the Lyceum, The Traverse, Perth Theatre, HMT, Eden Court, as well as at The Globe and The Barbican in London.

As Co-founder and Director of Ten Feet Tall, Cameron oversees all the work carried out by the company including planning and project managing productions, coordinating our schools projects, running the Participate Aberdeen programme and administrating the companies roleplay, forum theatre and filming contracts.

For Ten Feet Tall, he has directed a variety of productions, including new writing, devised work, site-specific performances, and classical texts. His approach to making theatre is focused on collaboration and enhancing the connection between performer and audience.

He is a guest lecturer on Encounters with Shakespeare for MA English programme at University of Aberdeen and a tutor at Aberdeen College of Performing Arts.

Cameron is committed to promoting engagement with both community theatre and professional theatre in the North East of Scotland, believing in the mutual benefits that each can offer the other. He is dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity, quality and collaboration in the region’s arts scene, and to ensuring all people get to experience the benefit of the theatre, whether they are in the audience, behind the scenes or on stage.

We are guided and motivated by 5 core goals — some are core founding principles and some are ambitions that we’re striving for.

Every Ten Feet Tall project vividly reflects them, on-stage and off.

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Celebrate place by promoting the creativity within the North East of Scotland.

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Connect people and communities through a range of participatory programmes.

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Ensure sustainability and diversity are part of the fabric of the company’s structure, advocacy and artistic output.

4.

Tell more stories in accessible and innovative ways across multiple platforms to grow audiences.

5.

Increase education and development opportunities for emerging talent in Aberdeen and the wider North East.

We believe every person should have an outlet to engage their imagination and creativity. Our mission is to empower people, fuse connections and inspire a more creative world.

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Partners and Funders

Since our formation we have collaborated with numerous local and national organisations on a wide array of productions and projects.

We’re always open to discussing new partnership and collaboration opportunities.

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Our History


2016 - 2018

It began in 2016 in the basement of Brewdog Castlegate. Chekhov Shorts opened to packed-out crowds across a 2 week run. With three brilliant one act farces, our company was born.

We then touredVideotape, a masterful mystery-play about love that chased around the City Centre of Aberdeen. (***** from Wee Review)

Continuing the legacy of the National Theatre of Scotland's Granite, we ran a development night The Granite Mile showcasing the work of local writers celebrating Aberdeen's best known street.

A North east tour of The Deep a harrowing tale of fisherman lost at sea.

Secret Staging is a new way of framing theatre, the audience don't know what they're coming to see until the curtain comes up.

We launched a creative learning programme called An Actor's Toolkit.

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Secret Staging Two took over a new city centre venue, the Anatomy Rooms

Our first ever pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk

2016 - 2018

2019 - 2021

We extended our engagement offering with An Actor's Toolkit which worked up to a public sharing.

A Midsummer Nights Dream played for two weeks, selling out the two programmed School performances - the rapturous laughter of kids engaging with Shakespeare will stay with us for a long time. This project included a creative learning programme around the City, including workshops and lectures with MA English students at University of Aberdeen.

We took a brand new Secret Staging Three on tour to community venues around the City, launching our first ever 'Pay What You Can' scheme.

The Ten Feet Tall Academy was launched for kids from 7 - 17, taking up residency at International School Aberdeen on Sundays.

APA commissioned us to produce See You in Court at Granite Noir, a crime writing festival. We took over the Sheriff Court to share a historical murder trial that had taken place in that very room.

Lockdown came along and we collaborated with our pals at Frozen Charlotte, Wee Tales Online was an urgent zoom call into a class by two of Santa's Elves. They were in desperate need of the classes help to complete some essential tasks (..or games) in order to save Christmas.

2019 - 2021

2021 - 2022

Adapting to lockdowns and social distancing, Living In Splendid Isolation was an online professional development, mentoring 4 local writers to create a new piece of writing for performance.

We were commissioned by Haddo Arts to produce Chekhov's The Proposal into a film, set in the amazing location of the Breakfast room in Haddo House

For young people in the School holidays (but still not allowed out to play unfortunately) we ran Fit's a Dee Podcast a magazine programme made by young people to celebrate everything North East and the mother tongue of Doric.

We started the year with Witch Hunt for Granite Noir, sharing true stories of women who were persecuted in the North East during the witch trials in Scotland 1590 - 1730

We got back on the road with our Pay What You Can scheme for a fun tour of The 39 Steps: A Radio Play

An Aberdeen Christmas Carol was a radio production at Christmas that aimed to get inside every home at Christmas via the airwaves.

2021 - 2022

2023 - 2024

A development project supporting local writer Laura Miller in writing her first full length play The Last Fish in the Sea

Wee Tales 2023 and Wee Tales 2024played to audiences in Lossiemouth, Haddo Arts Festival 2023 and Light The Blue Festival 2024.

Participate Aberdeen, our engagement programme became a strong feature, with creative groups for anyone aged 14 - 94 to join, running in numerous community settings around Aberdeen. In autumn, we launched Ensemble Productions, our Community Production company with their first production of the hilarious comedy The Odd Couple, Female Version coming to audiences in Spring 2025.

Scared To Death was a brand new piece of writing made for APA's Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival.

2023 - 2024