We are Low Fat Productions.
At Low Fat Productions, we are light on limits and heavy on creativity.
We are a Manchester-based theatre company, focused on creating original entertainment, offering engaging events, workshops, and sharing practical skills to inspire creativity and exploration.
We believe in getting straight to what matters: creativity that entertains, resonates, and leaves an impact.
Our Original Productions prioritise atmosphere, talent, and craft—light, sound, music, and story all working together to create compelling entertainment. Theatre should feel like a gig—electric, accessible, and unapologetically alive. Where audiences see their own vulnerabilities reflected and leave feeling moved, entertained, and connected.
Our Ideas Studio uses the same boiled-down approach to creativity, ensuring that ideas can remain simple, understandable, and useful to the business they exist within.
Our Events bring people together through creativity, collaboration, and storytelling. Whether it's crafting a full film concept in Let’s Write a Movie*, developing performance skills at our Weekend Drama School, or finding inspiration and discipline in our Writers’ Cabin, our events are designed to be engaging, practical, and fun. We strip away the unnecessary and focus on what matters—helping participants explore, create, and grow in a supportive and energising environment.
Our Drama School once more embodies our ‘low fat’ ethos of ‘cutting the unnecessary’ and delivers the key skills that drama school may teach you, but without the academic pressure or requirement. Skills that can be easily taken and used practically in performances at any level.
With Low Fat Productions, you should always feel excited, and creative, and understand what and why you are doing something - with ownership and pride.
Meet The Team
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Creative Director, Writer, Composer, Director
The reason why we are all here… Hywel is the founder of Low Fat Productions.
Hywel has immersed himself in various creative endeavours throughout his career, including being an award-winning theatre director, radio presenter, screenwriter, business advisor, rabbit hotel owner, prolific traveller, and production company director. Some would say he’s a professional at avoiding ‘proper’ work. However, as a rare ‘Advocate’ personality type he actually is compelled to make the maximum impact doing things he feels are useful to the world. Which often appear to be ‘different’ - therefore ‘not a proper job’.
Hywel’s innovative and unique approach to teaching creative skills and his theoretical and practical knowledge of storytelling have made him an excellent writer.
Spraywatch the Musical, his first original musical debuted in Manchester in October 2024 to rave reviews. As well as taking Spraywatch to the next level, he is currently working on several other new musicals.
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Executive Producer, Event Manager, Actor
Abbie has a deep passion for live theatre and events.
Her Event Management career has taken her around the globe. Aside from being a lynchpin in the creation of the Manchester Pride festival for three years, she has worked across multiple and various industries, including live music, retail, finance, international development and education. She even managed an event at the United Nations.
Her experience in theatre has taken her to the Edinburgh Fringe and National Theatre Festival. Local to Manchester she has performed roles such as Kate Monster in Avenue Q and Claire in Ordinary days.
In the Low Fat Productions original cast of Spraywatch, she was our Pam.
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Creative Director, Composer, Musical Director
Having trained as an actor and musician, Tom has had a career in the performing arts for the past two decades. He has worked as an actor, singer, pianist, choir leader, teacher and conductor.
His real achievement, which will be confirmed by hundreds of people, is he is a trusted, brilliant, and lovely human being who has taken many casts, choirs, and individuals through musical journeys from ‘ok’ to ‘excellent.’
Contact us.
abbie.lowfatproductions@gmail.com
+447738218677
Manchester, UK