Welcome to AKT Productions - AKT Productions

AKT Productions is one of the country’s foremost Learning and Development organisations which uses theatre-based techniques in order to create high impact, interactive, facilitated workshops.

We specialise in Safety, Security, Leadership and Behavioural Skills for Business and work across the UK and internationally. In safety we help our clients look at all areas of Safety Culture, Safety Behaviours, Safety Conversations and Human Factors.

We believe that structured engagement sessions are the most effective way of learning, either face to face or online. Stories can stir up powerful emotions in people, in a way that no other training medium can achieve. AKT Productions ability to create recognisable parallel worlds, where difficult and challenging issues can be safely explored, is what makes our experiential learning so successful at engaging an audience and staying with them long after the session has ended.

Skillful facilitation helps the audience to reflect on their own behaviours and culture, with the scenarios moving from being a prompt for discussion to becoming a mirror which can reveal some uncomfortable truths. We are used by our clients as a stimulus to help groups reflect and plan, and ultimately go home unharmed at the end of every day.

Marc Bolton, Managing Director

AKT Productions

Meet the AKT team

Established in 1996, the reputation of AKT Productions is built on a foundation of unrivalled quality, reliability and innovation for delivering high impact, sensitively balanced, bespoke workshops using theatre-based learning. Pioneers in this area of experiential learning, we have long been recognised as market leaders who operate at the highest and most challenging levels of private and public sector activity, right through to the front line. Working alongside our clients, we consistently design and deliver programmes which are impactful, engaging and thought provoking, and which stay in the memory for a long time

Commercial Operations and Finance Manager

Jo Nauman

I joined the company in 2018 as Company Accountant and have since grown into a wider leadership role supporting the Managing Director across many areas of the business. Today, I oversee finance and commercial operations while also contributing to strategic planning, HR, marketing oversight, and business development initiatives.
Working in a small and dynamic organisation means no two days are the same. I enjoy collaborating across our team, solving problems, improving processes, and helping turn ideas into practical outcomes that support both our people and our clients.
Being involved in so many aspects of the business gives me a unique perspective on how the organisation operates and enables me to contribute to its continued growth and success.

Head of Operations

Kate Dooley

Kate graduated with a BA (hons) degree in Historical Studies from the University of Leicester. She started working with AKT in 2011 as a stage manager and joined the core team in 2018. Before life at AKT, Kate worked on a range of theatre productions and theatre-based learning and also spent some time in television filming and post production. Now that she is Head of Operations at AKT, Kate looks after casting and logistics for all AKT events. Employing her exceptional organisational skills she is the central hub of the office, ensuring all things happen as they should.

Senior Account Manager

Rachel Nott

Rachel began working with AKT Productions as an associate actor / facilitator in early 2015 facilitating and acting in a broad variety of programmes. In 2017, she was delighted to join the team permanently as a Senior Project Manager. Since then, she has been lucky enough to travel the UK and the world, working with global clients and delivering workshops throughout numerous industries. Prior to working at AKT Productions, Rachel trained as an actress at the Poor School, and throughout her acting career took on several stage and television roles. Though she enjoys acting, she much prefers her current role, which affords her the privilege of meeting and working with a huge variety of people. From clients to delegates to actors, it means that no two days are ever the same. She loves her job.

Managing Director

Marc Bolton

Marc has been with AKT since 2004. Initially joining as an actor, he soon added stage managing, writing, directing and facilitating to his CV, before joining the team full time in 2013 as Head of Production, then later as Artistic Director. When co-founder, Andy Powrie, retired in 2019, Marc was proud to take up the reins, becoming owner and Managing Director of AKT. Working with a fantastic team, he relishes the challenges which each new job brings, and knows that no matter what the next challenge might be, AKT will always deliver to the highest possible standard.

Business Development Manager

Craig Dowding

Craig brings over a decade of experience in experiential learning and behaviour change. Starting his career as an actor, he moved into facilitation before focusing on supporting large organisations through cultural change.
With a strong understanding of high-risk industries, he takes a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach that helps ensure clients receive the highest quality experience.

Senior Account Manager

David McCaffrey

David started working with AKT Productions in 2008 as an associate actor, progressed to facilitating in 2015 and was invited to become a core member of the AKT Productions Team in June 2019. As a Senior Project Manager his responsibilities include liaising with clients, running workshops, writing scripts and, when the need arises, stepping back into an acting role. David is proud to be part of AKT Productions and the dedicated team that runs such diverse, inspiring and thought provoking sessions.