Kirin Saeed - Founder

Kirin Saeed has over 30 years’ experience of working in the disability sector as a disability consultant. She focuses on access to museums, galleries, heritage sites and theatres through the use of audio description and access audits. In 1999 she obtained an MA in Human Resources at Northumbria University. She is also a professional actor trained through Graeae Theatre Company and London Metropolitan University through Missing Piece Program in 2003. She has toured with Extant, Britain’s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired people, both in the UK and Europe. She has recently obtained a grant from Creative Scotland, Create: Inclusion Fund program, which enables her to perform and workshop her first play as an emerging playwright. Through a secondary grant from Creative Scotland Kirin is now setting up VICS - a theatre company for visually impaired performers. Kirin is an avid user of audio description in theatres, cinemas and leisure facilities and hopes that one day access provision will be the norm for all blind and partially sighted people.

Kirin has recently joined the National Theatre of Scotland Board as a Non-Executive Director and Trustee.