Morgan Watkins is an actor, teacher and director. He trained at RADA, graduating in 2009.
He has worked extensively in Theatre, TV and Film. His screen work includes Kingsman The Secret Service, The Hour, Chicken, Small City, The Limehouse Golem, Noughts and Crosses and A Very English Scandal. He has performed in plays at the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, The Park Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith. He is represented by Eleanor Johnson at Chalcot Square.
He has taught at various institutions including The Base, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, RADA, UEL and City Academy.
In October 2023 he founded The Base with Oliver Bennett. They have staged productions of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Faust by Goethe, No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre and many more, the performances are followed by responses from exciting intellectuals. In 2025 he directed and produced his own play, Nomos for The Base.
Oliver Bennett is a writer, actor and director. He studied English Literature at Warwick University before training as an actor at RADA.
His work spans theatre and screen, with credits include Backbeat, Worst Wedding Ever, Ted Lasso, Becoming Elizabeth, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Miss Scarlett and the Duke, The Coroner. As a writer, his play Europe After the Rain won the Mercury Playwright Award. It has been translated into Russian, and performed at the Goethe Institute in Minsk. His adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been performed at festivals throughout the world to critical acclaim.
In 2023 he co-founded The Base with Morgan Watkins. His directing and producing credits with The Base include The Father by August Strindberg, Faust by Goethe and The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy. In 2025 he staged a version of his own play, The Freedom of Ghosts.
Carolina Toczycka is a strategist, founder and producer.
Carolina brings the commercial acumen and operational rigour that turns artistic vision into reality.
She has spent the past decade building, funding, and turning around mission-driven organisations — from co-founding a technology venture serving Britain’s national infrastructure to leading the turnaround of one of the UK’s leading Westminster think tanks.
Carolina leads the Base’s production strategy, business development, fundraising, and partnerships. She holds a First Class degree in Management from the University of Edinburgh and is fluent in four languages.