Meet Good Chance’s Advisory Board
About the Good Chance Advisory Board
Since the birth of Good Chance, authentic voice has been at the heart of everything we do. Working closely with displaced artists across all our work has shaped our creative identity, our artistic choices and the way we collaborate and share stories with the world. Through these relationships, we have built a community of artists and collaborators with rich, diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. That community continues to inspire us, challenge us and push us to grow.
As part of our commitment to a participatory, lived-experience-led approach, our Advisory Board is a key strand of Good Chance’s work and governance. It brings together people from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise including theatre, art, advocacy, policy-making, communications and community development, all with lived experience of displacement, migration and diaspora, to help inform Good Chance’s decisions, direction and vision.
The Advisory Board is built with our community and will evolve in response to the board’s reflections and recommendations. It reflects our belief that meaningful participation and co-creation require trust, transparency and collaboration. It exists to ensure that the voices at the centre of our work continue to shape our organisation now and for the future.
The Advisory Board in practice
The Advisory Board meets six times a year. The board’s engagement covers a range of areas, sharing perspectives on Good Chance’s work including our organisational objectives and values, our approach to evaluation, inclusivity and sustainability, and on specific projects or productions. Its members offer insights into the wider cultural, social and political contexts in which Good Chance operates.
They help to ensure our programmes are appropriately designed for and with people with different lived experiences, particularly the communities we engage with most closely. And they advise on how best to communicate Good Chance's work to different audiences and partners.
Beyond our organisation, we see this model as a tangible opportunity to build on the growing momentum across the sector towards more inclusive, participatory practice, where the meaningful participation of people with lived experience of displacement and migration is embedded at its heart.
Soria Hamidi is a playwright, screenwriter and director. She was selected for the Kiln Theatre Writers Programme, the Vineyard Theatre Literary Programme and Kali Theatre Workshops. She completed the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Her play, A Burst of Light, was shortlisted and commended by the Woven Voices Prize for Playwriting 2025.
Soria was part of Good Chance’s Stage Door 10 cohort in 2025.
“I’m excited to join the board because supporting artists and displaced people through collaboration feels both urgent and inspiring. It's important to establish this board because the input and experiences of everyone selected can help add new voices to the decision-making of Good Chance's projects.”
Atta Khaled is a Palestinian communications practitioner and researcher from Gaza, currently based in the UK. He survived and was displaced during the genocide on Gaza, later evacuating to Cairo before continuing his academic and professional work abroad. He completed his MA in Global Conflicts and Cooperation from the University of Birmingham, focusing on reconstruction and narrative power. His work bridges lived experience, storytelling, and peacebuilding. As part of the Gaza Voices Advisory Group for A Grain of Sand, he contributes to grounding the work in lived reality, ethical representation, and the dignity of those whose stories are told.
“I’m excited to be part of Good Chance’s Advisory Board because it creates a space where lived experience is not an afterthought, but a foundation. As a Palestinian who survived four wars and a genocide in 24 years, this work is deeply personal, and contributing to it means helping ensure that stories are told with honesty, dignity, and care. I believe the Advisory Board is essential because it brings accountability into the creative process—making sure that representation is shaped with, not just about, the people whose realities are being portrayed.”
Rasha Obaid is a Yemeni sculptor, stone carver and researcher based in London. Her work focuses on cultural heritage, material traditions to explore memory and belonging. Alongside her artistic practice, she works across research and policy, focusing on conflict, political economy, climate change and women’s rights especially in rural areas. She has contributed to initiatives supporting journalists, refugees and cultural production, bringing together art and research as tools for storytelling and change. Rasha serves on a number of boards with organisations in the UK. Her relationship with Good Chance started with her joining the Stage Door programme in 2022, she worked in lighting, sound, and set building in London theatres including the Apollo Theatre.
“Good Chance took their work around the world and what they never lost along the way is the ability to make people feel genuinely part of the story. Travelling storytelling is rare and difficult, and they do it well and beautifully. Theatre has always been one of humanity's most powerful ways of being heard, and the UK carries a deep tradition which makes it even more powerful here. I joined Good Chance through Stage Door Programme in 2022 and I'm proud to now sit on their Advisory Board.”
Aryan Sanghrajka is an award-winning leader bringing experience in public and development policy, partnership building and strategic leadership. He has with governments, the private sector and civil society to advance impactful change for sustainable development and vulnerable communities at a domestic and global level.
“The Good Chance Advisory Board presents a real opportunity to bring community and marginalized voices into the spotlight and to the heart of Good Chance's incredible work.”
Sule Selin Cicek is a writer, director and performer based in London. With a background in literature, her work draws on experiences of displacement to explore identity, belonging and memory. Her debut play CLOUDS, presented at Lambeth Fringe, examines migration, gender roles and social marginalisation. She has trained with the National Youth Theatre, the Old Vic and the Young Vic.
Sule was part of Good Chance’s From Here On young cast in 2024.
“I’m excited to be part of Good Chance’s Advisory Board because they centre work directly connected to lived realities. My work is rooted in displacement, and I care about how migrant stories are told. I believe these stories should be shaped by those who have lived them; otherwise representation risks becoming distant or incomplete. An Advisory Board creates space for lived experience within the process. Migrant communities are often othered, and that distance can lead to fear. I want to contribute to work that challenges this and to be part of a structure that takes this responsibility seriously.”
