Cath has been a driving force behind In Your Space Circus since 2012, providing strategic leadership and guiding the organisation’s growth, sustainability, and vision. While often working behind the scenes, she plays a key role in empowering the team, building partnerships, and creating opportunities for the company to thrive.

After graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in English Literature, Cath built a career in youth development with organisations including Raleigh International and Belfast Activity Centre. She joined Belfast Circus School as Senior Fundraiser in 2008, beginning a lifelong passion for the circus sector.

Today, Cath leads on organisational strategic development, ensuring In Your Space Circus has the resources and resilience to create meaningful impact. Her ambition is to see the company continue spreading creativity, connection, and joy across Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and beyond.

Email: cath@inyourspaceni.org

Rachel is the Creative Director at In Your Space Circus (IYSC) and a performer herself. Her passion has always been in physical theatre, clowning, performance and creating new worlds for audiences to enjoy. Rachel has 10+ years performing experience both onstage and in street theatre contexts across Ireland and the UK. She is passionate about creating fresh, innovative work on the streets, which sparks conversation and allows audiences to escape their daily life, if only for a second!

Rachel is responsible for conceptualising, directing, and producing IYSC’s most ambitious productions and she has a keen eye for programming, having directed IYSC’s flagship festival 'Carnival of Colours' since 2019. She loves collaborative working, devising and typically works across multiple artforms, connecting with, providing opportunities for (and advocating for) artists across the NW and NI. 

Email: rachel@inyourspaceni.org

Meet Anna Kelly, our Finance & Admin Manager. Anna is an absolute wizz with a spreadsheet and keeps everyone organised around the office. 
Anna graduated from the University of Ulster with a degree in Business and Human Resource Management and since she joined us she has become a qualified Accounts Technician. Her background is in retail and hospitality, but she made the big leap into the arts when she joined us in January 2019...and we are so lucky to have her!
In her spare time (which is minimal!!) she enjoys true crime series. She is also a dedicated mum to her boys Adam and Fionn who keep her busy when she's not balancing our books! 

Email: anna@inyourspaceni.org 

Ciara Canning is the Heritage Project Manager for the Cathedral School project. Her role ensures that the project to create a new home for the Circus School is coproduced with its communities. She is excited to work with such an iconic building which is dearly loved in Derry/ Londonderry.
Ciara originally studied architecture before moving into arts and heritage management. She previously worked as a Community History Curator in England and has delivered cultural heritage outreach programmes in the Middle East.
In her spare time, Ciara can be found scavenging charity shops for her next upcycling challenge or surrounded by puppies as a volunteer for Irish Guide Dogs. Ciara is new to Circus but after years of metaphorically spinning plates, she’s excited to be working on some circus skills so she can finally learn to spin plates for real!

Email: ciara@inyourspaceni.org 

Email: ciaran@inyourspaceni.org 

Eimear has been working with IYSC since Carnival of Colours early days! Starting as a volunteer, coming on board as a technician and crew member and now joining the team as Assistant Producer!

A lover of all things festivals & events - she works alongside Rach to deliver our own productions, send animation to other peoples events and look after all things techy. 

Email: eimear@inyourspaceni.org 

Luke is our Circus Trainer & Performer. He specialises in our early years, Seedlings Circus programme, working tirelessly to bring joy to the hearts of children.  Luke also teaches across our full range of programmes, ensuring noone misses out on the Lukey Luke experience!
In fact sometimes you may see him late at night jumping down from the roof tops teaching circus out on the streets like a vigilante crime fighter.  Where ever there is a need for circus he'll be there.  POW!!! Circus in your face!! BANG!!! Circus in the air like you just don't care!!  CRASH!!! A circus sandwich, with a unicycle side salad..  Also Luke works in the office behind the scenes, making sure that our projects are well organised and delivered.  Some say Admin is his middle name, others say it's Danger (None of which are true)...

 Email: luke@inyourspaceni.org