The Founder

shereener browne ~ founder/Artistic Director

Shereener is a barrister-turned actor who started her acting career in 2017. Since then she has played Miss Julie & Lady Macbeth at the London Theatre in New Cross Gate; Mariam Sankara in Sankara at the Cockpit Theatre; and Antonio in an all female The Tempest at the Brockley Jack Theatre. In October 2020 shereener completed a three-week run in debbie tucker green’s three playing the title role.

Her screen credits include the multi-award winning short, BAiL; and the multi-award winning feature, Dead on the Vine which saw shereener winning best actress at the 2023 Unrestricted View Festival. Shereener is also a film producer and in 2024 completed and starred in Candles a short film co-staring Paterson Joseph. Shereener won best actress for her role in Candles at the 2025 Real Time International Film Festival. Shereener is executive producer of short film The Backway.

More recent credits include: The Effect for The National & the Jamie Lloyd Company (understudy); The Importance of being Earnest for The National, directed by Max Webster (understudy & ensemble) and The Government Inspector at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Sir Greg Doran (Fevronya & the Charity Commissioner’s wife).

Called to the Bar in 1996, shereener is associate tenant of Garden Court chambers. She won the Sidney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award in 2011 for her unpaid work in employment & discrimination law. Until 2021, she was a night lawyer with a national newspaper.

Former chair of the New Cross Gate Trust, founding chair of Friends of Eckington Gardens, a board member of Goldsmith’s University Equity Awards, a former trustee of The Albany, and now trustee at The Somerville Youth & Play Provision, shereener is a fearless advocate for equality and change. She is married with three children.