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Avita Jay talk about her work as an actor and her experiences of stroke, her father dying of a stroke when Avita was fifteen.

Theatre includes: The Empress, Falkland Sound, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale (RSC); Jinnistan (Òran Mór, Traverse); Favour (Bush Theatre); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep); Billionaire Boy (NST Theatre/UK tour); The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal); The Jungle Book (national tour); Bottled Up (Lyric Hammersmith); Bring on the Bollywood (national tour); We’re Stuck (Shoreditch Town Hall/national tour); Rapunzel, Warde Street (Park Theatre); Pioneer (Sheffield Crucible/tour); Unsung (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Merry Wives of Windsor (national tour); Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (Southwark Playhouse).

Television includes: Casualty; Doctors; The Good Ship Murder; Emmerdale; Silent Witness; Coronation Street; L8R.

Film includes: By Any Other Name; The Rezort, London, Paris, New York; Twenty8K.

Other: Avita also narrates audiobooks for Audible and works for the charity, InterAct Stroke Support

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Originally from Portsmouth, Adam trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting. He has worked in many shows across the West End and UK including Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard, The Prince of Egypt, Sweeney Todd to name a few.

With surviving at stroke at the age of 38, Adam is incredibly proud of his 'journey'
so far, which finds him back at the Sondheim Theatre in Les Miserables.

@adampearceuk

@lesmizofficial

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Sarah manages the Greater Manchester Neurorehabilitation & Integrated Stroke Delivery Network, which she helped establish in 2015. Previously, Sarah spent much of her career within the NIHR Clinical Research Networks in senior management roles both in Greater Manchester and in London.

Cillian is a qualified Occupational Therapist with experience of working in several inpatient stroke and neurorehabilitation settings across GM. He joined the network in April 2022 as a Facilitator as part of a larger service improvement team. The team work in collaboration with local stroke and neurorehabilitation teams into support quality improvement projects which currently include: vocational rehabilitation, motor neurone disease care pathway and discharge processes.

You can find out more about the network at www.gmnisdn.org.uk or on X (Twitter) @GMNISDN

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Edmund Hubbard is an independent arts consultant and a trustee for InterAct Stroke Support. He talks about his life and the circumstances of his stroke with Nirjay Mahindru. Details about his consultancy work can be found at
www.hubbardartconsultancy.com

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In 2016, after 10 years working frontline as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Major Trauma, Dr Bahl decided to pursue her interest in Exercise and Physical activity and retrain formally in Sports and Exercise medicine. She now shares her working hours between being a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Kings College London, working as an Adult and Paediatric SEM Consultant at the National Centre in Loughborough and for UHL, working as a Clinical champion for Physical Activity for the Department of Health and Social care and as a Medical Examiner. Her specialist interests include Corporate and Conference Health, Performing Arts Medicine, Post Covid recovery and Focused Ultrasound. She delivers webinars on wellbeing and personal sustainability for a number of clients, including HEEM and L’Oreal. She is a Level four personal trainer. In her non-work time she runs with her dog, dances, does yoga, escapes to her garden and is an Ambassador for InterAct, a charity that brightens up the lives of Stroke patients via live reading. She spends as much time as possible around her teenagers, getting soundly beaten at any activities they do together, cooking dairy-free, nutritionally punchy meals and making the most of living in London.

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Jenny Benson is the Fundraising and Project Officer at Read for Good, a UK charity with the aim of motivating all children to read for fun, because loving reading changes lives. With a background in fundraising and communications, and in young people's mental health and activism, Jenny delights in sharing her love of literature and inspiring children and young people to embrace the power of stories

For more details about Read for Good visit https://readforgood.org/about-us/

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Ségolène is a Performer and Vocal Empowerment Coach combining voice, language, breathwork and energy therapy to help creatives find their voice in life and in art.She's taken what she's learned from the worlds of wellness, coaching and performance to help people fuel their expression, release limiting beliefs, stagnant emotions and unlock their vocal power.

Instagram: @artfulsego // @theartfulathlete

Find out more about my journey: https://theartfulathlete.co.uk/about-me

The Artful Athlete Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EtigHRBHSlcKvlEr6eTQV

The Artful Athlete Podcast on ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-artful-athlete/id1526058139

Books and methods mentioned:
- The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckeown
You can sign up to courses and find out more about the science used to improve breath on his website: https://oxygenadvantage.com/about/
- Breathe by James Nestor
- I would also recommend Exhale by Richie Bostock who was my introduction to Breathwork outside of performance

Jacko's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/jacko.david.jackson

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