Meet the DG Unlimited Team
Tabitha (Tabi) Mudaliar
Creative Director, since 2023
Tabi is proud to be the Creative Director of DG Unlimited. She started working with the Board and team in 2018 as the charity’s Creative Producer and was appointed by the Board as Creative Director in 2023. Tabi’s focus is on developing, supporting and showcasing the creative sector in this region. Dumfries and Galloway has been her home for over forty years and she has worked in and served the third and public sectors for thirty-five years beginning in the D&G Council Museums and Libraries service. Her impressive career to date includes senior executive and leadership roles in Community and Economic Development for Dumfries and Galloway Council, Campaign, Brand and Marketing for VisitScotland across the south of Scotland, and Tourism and Economic Development leading a cross-border strategic partnership with The Southern Upland Partnership and Scottish Borders Council on behalf of Dumfries and Galloway Council. She has also led for various third and private sector organisations in the UK, Australia, and Europe. Tabi is an engaging and popular radio broadcast journalist and public speaker, often asked to host cultural events and interview authors and special guests. She has broadcast for BBC Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland, South of Scotland and her weekly show, TotallyTabi on Alive 107.3 fm in Dumfries is popular around town and beyond! Tabi is a published Writer and a credited Producer of art, feature and documentary film. She is proud to be a Trustee and Secretary for Alchemy Film & Arts in Hawick in the Scottish Borders, and is an active participant in the creative cultural community right across the South of Scotland, and in Scotland. Tabi has an extensive network of contacts and colleagues in culture, literature, film, and media. She is passionate about widening access to the arts for all, especially for underrepresented people, not only members of ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities, but those who are economically, geographically, and socially excluded. In everything she does, Tabi demonstrates how important it is that her work, and the work of DG Unlimited, actively leads and helps break down the barriers preventing people from experiencing and participating in arts and culture in our region and in Scotland. Tabi is a warm, approachable and dynamic leader who is leading DG Unlimited in a vibrant, exciting, innovative and positive direction and into the next phase of its work strategically supporting and advocating for the creative sector in our region, in Scotland and beyond.
Contact Tabi – comms.dgu@gmail.com
Ellie Jay Stevens
Creative Producer, since 2025
Ellie Jay Stevens is a theatre director, dramaturg, and creative producer from Dumfries and Galloway. She joined DG Unlimited in 2025, bringing her experience as an artist and producer to help champion and connect the region’s creative community.
Originally from Castle Douglas, Ellie holds an MA in Drama Directing from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and a BA in Drama and Performance from Queen Margaret University. Her work focuses on new writing, feminist theatre, and striking visual storytelling. Directing credits include The Strongest Girl in the World (sold-out Off-Broadway run and winner of Entertainment Now’s WOW Award), A Trio of Tennessee Williams (which completed a full UK tour), How You Died (winner of Everything Theatre’s Best of Camden Fringe Award), and Hindsight, performed at the Scottish Parliament in 2024.
Ellie is the founder of Dark Skies Ensemble, a company of early-career artists creating bold, thought-provoking theatre, and Associate Director of Fox and Hound Theatre Company. She was previously Theatre Coordinator at the Redgrave Theatre, has worked across venues throughout the UK, and led two year-long Actor Development programmes at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
With a background spanning directing, producing, and arts education, Ellie brings a collaborative and inclusive approach to all her work. She is passionate about making creativity accessible to everyone and continues to advocate for artists and organisations that shape Dumfries and Galloway’s vibrant cultural landscape.
David Wright
Financial Administration Officer, since 2022
David’s previous career was based in London and Bristol in Supply Chain Management and the safe movement of high security goods for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice, UK Government. In the noughties David moved back home to Dumfries and Galloway to enjoy a quieter life and live rurally. David is now semi-retired and enjoys using his business, project management and financial skills to support arts organisations and charities in Dumfries and Galloway. David works with our Treasurer and the management team. He has been instrumental in updating and fully maintains our financial, qualitative and quantitative data recording and reporting. David is a popular member of the team, always welcoming and helpful to DG Unlimited members and the public. He is DG Unlimited’s business and financial advisor and a support to the Board of Trustees and the entire team but he is also our resident book, film, and music enthusiast and is a friend to all of us. David does not like the limelight but we did manange to get him to share some thoughts on his role for DG Unlimited, “I’m proud to be part of the DG Unlimited team, and to be serving the creative sector in our beautiful region. We have so much creativity around us and within our communities – we need to keep supporting it.” David lives in the glorious Southern Uplands, where he walks and cycles every day.
Contact David – dgu.financial@gmail.com
Cerys Cooper
Creative Communications Assistant, since 2026
Cerys Cooper is a creative professional based in Dumfries and Galloway.
With a background in music business, achieving an honours degree at University of
the West of Scotland, Cerys has a keen interest and rich skillset covering many aspects
of the creative industries. These range from gig photography, visual art, artist management and Dumfries-based music festival, Hidden Gem Festival, which Cerys founded and continues to direct and produce. Hidden Gem Festival was an idea born out of a love for the local art scene in D&G and a love for the pubs. These places are the heartbeat of the community and artists are the voice of that heartbeat. Hidden Gem Festival celebrates what the region has to offer – the places and people who create and drive the scene. Cerys loves live music and working alongside the many incredible and talented people who help bring her crearive ideas to life.
Alycia Pirmohamed
DG Unlimited is delighted to welcome Alycia Pirmohamed to the wider team for a year as she takes up her role as the Gavin Wallace Fellow. The Fellowship is an annual residencey formed and suported by Creative Scotland, to honour the late Dr Gavin Wallace. We are delighted to have Alycia spend a year focussing on Dumfries and Galloway and spending time with us in the region as she explores the themes of UNFOLDING Scotland during her year as fellow.
Alycia Pirmohamed shared recently, “It’s an absolute honour to have been selected as The Dr Gavin Wallace fellow and I very much look forward to exploring the theme, UNFOLDING Scotland. My proposed project, tentatively titled Even Now the Waterline Wavers, is a cross-genre collection that explores hybridity both as a subject and in form. It considers the connections between homeland – with all of its slippery definitions – ecology, and the Anthropocene, and is guided by questions of how embodiment and the legacies of colonialism and capitalism affect how we interact with the natural world.”
A little about Alycia…
Alycia is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut Shorelines, forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water. In 2026, Alycia received the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship with Creative Scotland and DG Unlimited.
She is part of ‘field notes collective’, a nature writing project alongside Jessica J. Lee, Nina Mingya Powles and Pratyusha. this too is a glistening, their collaborative pamphlet, was published by Bitter Melon 苦瓜 in 2024. Her other works include the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.
If you would like to reach out to Alycia please email comms.dgu@gmail.com
Could this be you?
Would you like to join our team? Keep an eye out for vacancies and opportunities to join our team.
Check our Opportunities page for information and how to apply when a commission comes available. In the mean time, we warmy invite you to join us as a DG Unlimited Member here if you have not already, and join our Talent Pool to hear about creative commissions.