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.

  • 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

  • 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

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