Meet the hopeless ones 





Anna-Maria Nabirye

Executive Producer/Performer/

Writer 

Anna-Maria is co-founder of Hopeless Productions 

and a professionally trained actor. Hailing from 

the mean streets of Mill Hill (aka The Green

Belt) Anna-Maria has had to arm herself with a

witty, self-assured arsenal from growing up in a

migrant family in a posh middle class area. She

first trained at The Brit School "where everyone

made their clothes from bin liners in order to

express their creativity and individuality" then

at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts(in Wood

Green) "where it wasn't so cool to dress in bin 

bags" Between the two she worked as a MacDonalds 

2 Star server, an outdoor activity instructor in

Cornwall, a clown, a London Eye Capsule host to 

mention a few, so therefore made the natural

progression to performance and production. At 

present she is working with co-founder Dan

Carter-Hope (what is it with these hyphenated

names?) on writing,producing, performing and

thankfully Not Directing Strong & Wrong...yet


 

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Daniel Carter-Hope

Writer/Performer/Musical/Director


Dan was born in Kent, but grew up in Lancashire,

and neither northerners nor southerners accept

him as one of their own. This abandonment has led

him to seek solace in invented personas. He spent

some time as an American in New Mexico, and tried

being Brazilian while at Liverpool University. To

achieve this he genuinely lived in Rio and earned

a pathetic living selling barbecued cheese on the

beaches of Ipanema. Dan has worked as a haunted

house ghost, English teacher, and travelled the

world on cruise ships trying to sell overpriced

tours to old people. He has also backpacked

enough to be extremely boring about more than

fifty countries. Dan is a self-taught musician

who forgot to teach himself some of the important

bits, but has nevertheless accumulated a large

collection of weird and wonderful stringed

instruments. He is happiest on electric bass and

guitar.

Dan writes and performs for Punk Science, as well

as performing music and comedy here and there.



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