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About Us
What we do
Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation run by Alison Burnley and Ellie Davies. Together we have decades of experience in arts and engagement both in the UK and Australia.
As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their families, believing that if we invest in main caregivers,
it has ripple effects.
From the intimate to the spectacular, we create spaces, performances and participatory experiences that celebrate and bring together families and communities in all their forms, with our head-turning, heart-warming,
multi-artform projects.
Our values
We believe that arts and wellbeing are inherently linked, and that creating beautiful objects, spaces and participatory experiences gifts people an opportunity to feel valued and feel part of a community.
Our aim is to improve wellbeing and connect communities, particularly main caregivers and their dependents through access to, and participation in, high quality, experiential arts and wellbeing experiences.
The way we work responds to nature and the seasons, bringing together artists who love to tell stories, use fire and light, work outdoors, create fabulous feasts and excite all the senses.
Our work seeks to bring people together through family-friendly working practices, building in additional time to allow for connection and conversation and creating spaces and schedules that align with the needs of staff, artists and participants.
Who We Are
Co-Exec Producer, Ellie Davies
Co-Exec Producer, Alison Burnley
Co-Exec Producer, Alison Burnley
Ellie trained as a contemporary dancer and has worked as both an arts marketer and producer for projects which focus both on performance and community participation.
At Streetwise Opera she worked on projects involving homeless participants and professional singers, developing successful marketing strategies to increase participation in wo
Ellie trained as a contemporary dancer and has worked as both an arts marketer and producer for projects which focus both on performance and community participation.
At Streetwise Opera she worked on projects involving homeless participants and professional singers, developing successful marketing strategies to increase participation in workshops and attract new audiences to performances. She assisted with the creation of new, informal performances to both develop the participant’s skills and maintain audiences across multiple regions between the cycle of larger shows.
As Communications Officer at Dance North Scotland, she was responsible for developing audiences for RISE Festival 2019, marketing the three-day festival, running the social media campaign and responded to local audiences needs by introducing a pop-up box office, online brochure and other innovations.
As a freelancer Ellie was both co-producer, company manager and stage manager for Dance North Youth Company’s outdoor, site-responsive piece SAVAGE in 2022.
Co-Exec Producer, Alison Burnley
Co-Exec Producer, Alison Burnley
Co-Exec Producer, Alison Burnley
Alison has worked in numerous producing roles throughout her twenty-year career, including co-founding a not-for-profit community arts organisation in Merseyside, freelancing with the BBC delivering participatory events for young people, as Communities Producer at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as well as producing numerous projects as
Alison has worked in numerous producing roles throughout her twenty-year career, including co-founding a not-for-profit community arts organisation in Merseyside, freelancing with the BBC delivering participatory events for young people, as Communities Producer at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as well as producing numerous projects as a freelancer.
Her practice includes productions in traditional performance venues, site specific performance and community spaces. She is passionate about work created in unexpected places and placing communities at the heart of the work.
Spending eight years in Australia, she worked at State Library of Queensland and as a freelance producer on independent projects as well as producing work for Woodford Folk Festival, BrisAsia Festival and Dog Spoon Theatre.
She returned to the UK in 2021, working in freelance contracts for Dance North Scotland and Findhorn Bay Arts alongside other freelance work before forming Riff Raff with Ellie in January 2023.