come on board, it's that peer-to-peer ethos that really hooks people in, that and the company's emphasis on setting high standards for people, encouraging them to be brave and to succeed.Through Cardboard Citizens, he collaborated with a number of other organisations, including the Royal Shakespeare Company (Pericles), English National Opera (The Beggar's Opera), London Bubble (The Lower Depths), and Formaat Theatre in Rotterdam (Home and Away). Awards and recognition Jackson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for his service in the arts. In 2017, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts elected Jackson as a companion in their teaching programme. In 2014, Jackson won an Artangel Open Award, in collaboration with Andrea Luka Zimmerman. Their project was inspired by Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves, and encourages London's diverse communities to tell their own stories through performance and film, resulting in the 2019 feature film Here For Life. Kieron Corless, from Sight & Sound, called it ‘A film of great compassion and political and aesthetic ambition, in which the idea of a collective is prioritized for a change, but without sacrificing or downplaying the individual voices and idiosyncrasies that it comprises’. The film was widely and warmly received and notably moved in its reception beyond filmgoing audiences, as evidenced in the response from the poet and writer Lemn Sissay, ‘I just wanted to share the vastness of this beautiful piece of work with people.’ Selected plays (director) Pericles (2003) In 2003, The Royal Shakespeare Company started collaborating with Cardboard Citizens, the UK’s only homeless people’s professional theatre company, to present Shakespeare’s Pericles, in a warehouse off the Old Kent Road in London. Earlier that year, a rapidly rehearsed cut-down version of Pericles was performed to audiences of asylum seekers and refugees in various unusual venues across the capital. The audience included Iraqis, Kosovo Albanians, Kurds, Turks, Colombians, Iranians and people from various African countries. After the hour long show, the audience members told their stories. The aim of the new production was to interweave some of these stories and others within a fuller version of Shakespeare’s Pericles. Timon Of Athens (2006) Timon of Athens was created for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival. Included Belfast Festival, the company’s first venture onto the international festival circuit. Cardboard Citizens love to contextualise Shakespeare. Having presented Pericles as an asylum- seekers’ fable, they