About us
Our Story
We started Rocketlines with a simple goal in mind: to create a professional theatre company that provides opportunities for new and emerging artists. We wanted to draw on our extensive networks to bring high quality practitioners together to work with us alongside these new artists. Rocketlines will develop new work and create theatre and digital projects that celebrate the diversity and breadth of voices. We will deliver this work and across our region of North Yorkshire.
Diana Logan
Diana has been the Course Leader for the BA Hons Acting Degree at Coventry University Scarborough. She has also worked on a variety of theatre productions, she held the position of Associate Director (Education) at the Stephen Joseph Theatre for 13 years and has directed a number of productions during her time there, as well as creating and producing many community events. She is passionate about making performance accessible and championing emerging artists from a variety of backgrounds. She has worked in collaboration with a variety of companies on a various projects such as ‘Told By An Idiot’, ‘Sticks Theatre’ in collaboration with the ‘David Glass Ensemble’, ‘Trestle Theatre Company’ and others.
She is a passionate advocator for the voice of female artists and is the lead artist for the Young Women’s Creative Collective for ‘Arcade’. She is a member of Pilot Theatre’s Learning Advisory Board.
As an actor she has appeared in ‘The Jollies’, ‘Soul Man’, ’The Good the Bad and Gemma Clark’, ‘Illyria’, Multiplex’, ‘Colin the Caveman’, ‘The Little Alien Who Ate Christmas’, (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Various touring shows nationally with ‘Impact Theatre’.
Marcus Romer
Marcus is an award winning Theatre Director, Writer and Filmmaker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has been an Associate Artist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Artistic Director for the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, and Associate for National Theatre Wales.
He is currently Producer for Harrogate Theatre where he also programmes work that goes into the Theatre, Royal Hall and the Convention Centre. He directs the Annual Pantomime each year there too.
Prior to this he was Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre for 23 years. Here he led this Arts Council England NPO and national touring company. He directed many award-winning theatre productions including ‘Lord of the Flies’ ‘Beautiful Thing’ ‘Looking for JJ’ ‘Antigone’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
He directed ‘Loam’ at Bristol Old Vic, ‘Our Town’ ‘Two’ ‘Ghosted’ and ‘Shanty’ for Sheringham.
As a filmmaker he wrote the screenplay and directed the feature film ‘The Knife That Killed Me’ which was released by Universal Pictures and is available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
He has taught and Directed at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School between 2019 and 2022. He is now an Associate Tutor at Coventry University Scarborough for their Acting Degree course.
He is also a published playwright and his work has been translated and performed across Europe and the USA.