Rachel Pedley is a disabled working class creative producer. Her work focuses on working with collaboration with community and freelancers. Many of the collaborators have faced barriers to the arts because of access, finance and discrimination.

Rachel trained at London Studio Centre and has performed on stage and screen. She is the founding director of Avant Cymru, starting the company to create a space for unheard voices, initially tackling her own journey of recurrent miscarriages.