imitating the dog (ITD) have been creating and touring original and ground-breaking performance work for theatres and other spaces since 1998. The company are currently celebrating 25 years of ITD.

Pete Brooks (director), Andrew Quick (writer) and Simon Wainwright (video design) are our Artistic Directors, and their creative work has built a company with a popular and critical reputation in the UK, Europe and internationally.

imitating the dog is a National Portfolio Organisation.

What we do 

Our work at ITD has been seen on stages (and screens) across the world, and we have made installations for outdoor festivals and events, seen by hundreds of thousands of people. We’re recognised for our originality, our exploration of screen and projection technologies in live performance, accessible site responsive work and collaborations with artists and organisations. We like to challenge audiences to see things from a new perspective – stories, theatre, the world around them. You can get a flavour of this in our SHOWREEL.

Creative Learning is also at the heart of what we do. We enjoy testing and sharing creative processes and tech knowledge with students, practitioners and community groups through programmes, projects and toolkits - online, in schools, in venues, wherever. 

Working with Others 

ITD loves working partnership with others – ethically, collaboratively and inclusively – and supporting the work of our sector, whether that’s through creative practice, community engagement or cultural experience. We have created work with Leeds Playhouse, National Theatre of Greece, Oldham Coliseum, Raisin and Willow, The Singapore Repertory Theatre, the Georgian National Theatre, The Dukes Lancaster, Marche Teatro, Italy and Pinwheel.

In 2022, our creative team worked alongside Parisian haute couture house Maison Margiela, and their creative director John Galliano, to create Cinema Inferno – a unique staging of their Artisanal Collection 2022 at Paris Haute Couture Week. The work was considered a groundbreaking hybrid of fashion and theatre. Our most recent works include our 2023 theatre tour Macbeth, video-exhibition installation The City Off the Map for The GREAT Project in Cali, Colombia and Follow Me Into, a collection of multi-building projection installations commissioned by the City of London for Bartholomew Fair 2023.