Terminal 1
Glastonbury festival
ROLE: Performance DIRECTOR / Creative consultant
Terminal 1 is a re-purposed airport celebrating migration, a walk-through situationist artwork disguised as an international terminal.
In a world where the lines drawn on a map by our ancestors continue to define and divide us, Terminal 1 becomes a place without borders, unified by the simple message: no one is illegal. It’s slippery by design, staffed by actors but not quite theatre, playing films but not a cinema, activist but not a protest, and somewhere between a club, a checkpoint, and a provocation. It’s angry. But it serves its politics with a side of slapstick.
I’ve been a core collaborator on Terminal 1 for two consecutive years, bringing my background in immersive theatre, film, and interactive performance to shape its evolving world. My role has included show-directing the immersive walk-through experience, casting and managing 18 performers, developing characters, crafting audience interactions, and devising walkabout sketches woven into the narrative. In 2025, I also wrote and directed a short film featured in Cabin 2, blending poetic imagery with a sharp political message.
Terminal 1 photos by: © Cesar Garcia Photography
Terminal 1 - Manifesto
None of us can take credit for where we were born. None of us have the moral right to deprive our fellow humans of resources and opportunities just because they happened to start life somewhere else. And that's it. To hold this feeling in our hearts - whenever we talk about migration it should be from a position of kindness, humility and good grace.
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Miguel Umba (Umba Arts)
Creative Consultant & Performance Director
Writer / Director Shadow Play Cabin 2
Kamanzi Ndori Yannick
Assistant Performance Director
Co - writer Shadow Play Cabin 2
Sam Beale
Pat Welsh
Performance Consultants
CAST 2025
Amarnah Ufuoma Cleopatra
Coral Bevan
Caroline Mgata
Carlos Ossa Valencia
Julia Testas
Kossim Osseni
Masumi Saito
Michela Di Felice
Samantha Agneta Manzur Aranda
Sama Rantisi
Sammy Louis Attalah
Sayen Sanchez
Timothy O'Hara
Ola Oreb:/i
Lucia Chocarro
Vanessa Guevara Flores
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ARTISTS
Adrian Paci
Centro di permanenza temporanea, 2007
Armando Mesias
Textile Installation, 2025
Dimension Studio
Surveillance Board Cabin 4, 2025
La Linterna
Sudamerican print collective
Mark Wallinger
Jungle Gym, 2025
Nienke Jongsma-Vandertas
Art Direction Cabin 2, 2025
Ugur Gallenkus
Parallel Universes, 2022
For Terminal 1
Paula Clark | Producer
Oriana Garzon | Curator
Georgie Bradley | Production Manager
PCArt Productions