Mind's Eye provides description for drama, opera, ballet, museums and galleries. Online or live, our description engages the listeners and ensures equality of access.
Mind’s Eye was established by Anne Hornsby
We a have team of highly qualified professionals
From ABP America and the Manchester Theatre Awards, plus nominations from RNIB and Henshaws
For 200 events per year, for over 1,000 blind and partially sighted people
Open up access to your venue or your project by ensuring equality of access for all your customers. Contact Mind’s Eye to help advise you how.
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Mind's Eye offers audio description on a wide geographic basis, as well as for online projects. International events have included working in France, Poland, America and Russia. Wherever you are based, we can help. And if there are no events scheduled near you, contact us and we will support venues nearby to expand their services.
Anne Hornsby offers an introduction to visual impairment awareness and audio description, for curators, educators, box office and front of house staff. She is an accredited trainer in audio description for the Audio Description Association.
Anne Hornsby working behind the scenes to provide Audio Description for Les Miserables (Photo by: Vincent Abbey Photography)
Drama graduate of Bristol University, & an Arts Marketer, Anne began audio-describing in 1988. Anne established Mind's Eye in 1992. Anne describes around 100 spectacles a year, from Opera to Burlesque, Fine Art to chimpanzees.
Jane worked for eight years as an audio describer for Sheffield Theatres, before branching out, with Mind's Eye and Vocaleyes, to describe art and performance across the country. She is always on the look out for the different and the difficult.
Pat has been a professional audio describer since 2005, working around the UK. She mainly does theatre work - drama, comedy, thrillers, musical theatre, pantomime, classics. She has also audio described other cultural events, for galleries and short films.
Theo has been working in audio description for around five years now. Although his main focus is on theatre, Theo has also described circus shows, TV series, feature films and even boxing matches. He loves his job due to the variety it offers from day to day, and the chance to interact with users of audio-description. He aims to adapt his description to enter into the spirit of each show, with an emphasis on vivid realism in his depiction of characters, movement and action.
Chris has worked with Mind’s Eye since 2005 describing theatre, gallery and museum exhibitions, and conferences and events around the country. Involved in acting and writing for pleasure, Chris likes describing comedy, and particularly enjoys describing thrillers such as Agatha Christie’s works and The Classic Theatre Company productions, as it gives him the opportunity to study professional acting
A musician from Liverpool Michael has been describing since 2005 in theatres, museums and galleries across the north-west of England.
Faith is a British-Ugandan working in education & refugee support in Liverpool. Since completing training with Mind’s Eye in the spring of 2023, she is thrilled to be providing audio-description at theatres & arts events around the North West. She can also be heard calling women’s regional cricket on livestream for Lancashire.
With over 20 years’ experience in theatre, Paula originally trained as an actor for stage, before going on to work in Theatre Front of House teams, Events and Box Offices.
Paula currently works as a House Manager for a leading regional theatre, alongside freelance Audio Describer work for live theatre. Paula particularly enjoys describing Musical Theatre and is passionate about making theatre accessible for all. Originally from Northern Ireland, she is now based in Yorkshire.
Davinia is currently the Artist Development Producer for Theatre at HOME Manchester and has a long history working in artist development with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme and Arts Council England. She trained in audio description with Mind’s Eye and has been providing Audio Description for performance for the last 18 months. Every show is a learning experience.
Based in the Midlands, Remy has led on Access and Community Outreach at Wolverhampton Grand since 2018, working alongside Mind’s Eye to support with audio described performances and touch tours since then. She trained to become a describer with Mind’s Eye in 2023 and has described a mixture of plays, musicals and pantomimes since then.
Maria has been describing for Mind's Eye since 2023 and is based in the North West of England. Audio description fits beautifully with her portfolio of work including continuity announcing, theatre marketing and acting.
Based in Oxfordshire, Nicola began audio describing for Mind’s Eye in 2023 with her first show being Around the World in 80 Days at Cambridge Arts Theatre. Nicola has been a qualified BSL Interpreter since 2010 and regularly interprets on stage around the UK. She is looking forward to describing more in the future.
It's like you’ve got an old fuzzy black & white television, then with the audio description it becomes sharp focus & full colour
I can’t tell you what a difference it makes, having the audio description, it just brings it alive
I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed the theatre so much, and it’s all down to your audio description
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