Team
Debo Adebayo
Deputy Artistic Director (Maternity Cover)
Debo Adebayo has been the Deputy Artistic Director for Paines Plough since 2025 returning after previously filling the role in 2023/24. He is also the Executive Producer at Tangled Feet and before that was the interim Head of Youth Programming at Battersea Arts Centre,
Previously, Debo was the Creative Associate at Tamasha 2024/25, their Lead Producer between 2018 and 2023 and their Developing Artist Producer and Marketing Manager from 2015 and 2018. He also worked with Tangle Theatre Company as their Communications Director, as well as with Nitrobeat (formerly Nitro Black Theatre/The Black Theatre Co-Operative), and The Red Room.
Alongside theatre and performance, Debo also has also worked in music; he founded a music publisher Mix ‘n’ Sync in 2012, representing largely independent electronic artists, and co-founded record label Native City.
Theatre credits include: STARS by Mojisola Adebayo (2025/2023), A STRANGER IN A STRANGE PLACE by Mel Pennant (2022), 10 NIGHTS by Shahid Iqbal Khan (2021), UNDER THE MASK by Shaan Sahota (2021), APPROACHING EMPTY by Ishy Din (2019), DOES MY BOMB LOOK BIG IN THIS? by Nyla Levy (2019), I WANNA BE YOURS? by Zia Ahmed (2019) (all for Tamasha as Producer), SCREENSHOT (as Scheme Producer for Sister/South of the River, 2021), I STAND CORRECTED (producer and music supervisor, Oval House/London, 2012, Artscape/Cape Town, 2012), MUHAMMAD ALI and ME (producer and music supervisor, Oval House/London 2008, Albany/London, 2016), MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC (Assistant Composer, Oval House/London 2008, British Council Tour of Afrcia, 2008, Lyric Hammersmith/London, 2007).
TV: INVISIBLE (Music Supervisor, Random Acts, Channel 4, 2012).
TV: INVISIBLE (Music Supervisor, Random Acts, Channel 4, 2012).