Our Team

Tracy Holsinger
Artistic Director

Tracy is an award-winning director and teacher and a founding member of Mind Adventures. She is a graduate in Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London and is a Drama Examiner for Trinity College, London (UK). Tracy is the recipient of the BUNKA Award for Special Achievement in Theatre and the Sunethra Bandaranaike Trust grant for new theatre-making, amongst other awards. She has worked in several capacities both in Sri Lanka and the UK for companies such as Stoll Moss Theatres, Adventures In Motion Pictures, BBC Radio 4, Stages Theatre Group, Joint Effort, StageLight&Magic Inc, The Workshop Players, The Performing Arts Company and the Jana Karaliya Troupe. Over the years, she has taught Drama and Theatre for IB Diploma Theatre, Edexcel A Level Theatre, Cambridge IGCSE Drama, and has also worked as a visiting lecturer in Theatre at universities and secondary schools in Sri Lanka. Tracy served as curator of the Children’s Programme of the Galle Literary Festival from 2017 - 2019.

Andre Howson
Executive Director

Andre is an actor, and a writer. He has performed on stage with Mind Adventures, The Workshop Players, Stagelight & Magic, and Ananda Drama. With Mind Adventures, Andre has worked on original devised theatre, physical theatre, and Forum Theatre. Andre currently works as a Creative Director, voice-over artist, and presenter, leading projects ranging from documentaries to commercial productions.

Jonathan Anthony
Company Manager

Jonathan is a singer/songwriter and self-taught musician from Colombo. He holds a graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Bedfordshire and has worked in stage management on a number of local theater productions over the last few years. His work with Mind Adventures includes working backstage on our forum play 'Consent and Complicity', and running Front of House on 'Strangers in the Night'.

Maanasi Jayawardena
Intern

Neha Holsinger-Tennekoon
Design and Sales Admin

Neha is an actor, writer, and stage manager currently completing her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Alongside her academics, she remains actively involved in theatre, stage managing productions with her university’s theatre group. Having acted and sung from a young age, she has taken part in numerous plays, acting with the Workshop Players and doing backstage work for StageLight&Magic Inc and Mind Adventures in Sri lanka and Stray Theatre in New Zealand. Neha has continued to explore different aspects of performance-making throughout her life. She began her journey with Mind Adventures through photography, videography, editing, backstage work, props, and front-of-house support, and now oversees our social media and box office.