About
Studio HEFT is a collective of senior creatives building interactive work with weight.
We make things that last – in memory, in meaning, and in impact.
Our team brings decades of cross-sector experience to bear on each project, blending artistic integrity with commercial insight. We work across genres, platforms, and audiences – but every piece of work shares the same values: high quality, low ego, culturally aware, and built to connect.
Kate Booth
CEO
Formerly COO of Unreal specialists Cooperative Innovations and pioneering ‘Play with Purpose®’ studio Preloaded, Kate is a strategic operations leader with over two decades of experience across digital and games.
Passionate about building sustainable creative teams, Kate has served on the Ukie Board of Directors, was named in MCV’s Top 100 Women in Games and currently resides on the Develop Conference Advisory Board.
Mairi Nolan
Director of Play
Mairi is a senior puzzle game designer working across digital, tabletop, and immersive formats, with clients including BBC, Netflix, Wizards of the Coast and the Mysterious Package Company.
She is Editor-in-Chief of The Escape Industry Newsletter and The Escape Roomer, and serves as UK Ambassador for the TERPECAs and World Escape Room Championship.
Rowan Bishop
Director of Sound
Rowan is an award-winning audio designer and composer working across games, film, TV, podcasts, and live experiences. His work includes projects for the BBC, Audible, Spotify, Yoto, and Universal.
A British Podcast Award and ARIA winner, Rowan combines technical craft with creative vision to build immersive sonic worlds. Now based in Bristol, he collaborates widely across creative industries.
Sharna Jackson
Director of Story
Sharna is a best-selling award-winning author and curator focused on socially-engaged work for young audiences.
Her debut High-Rise Mystery won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she has delivered major projects with Tate, Southbank Centre, and Die Gute Fabrik. Formerly Artistic Director of Site Gallery, she works across publishing, games, and contemporary art.
Collaborators
Ray Wyse
Illustrator & Animator
Alex Fleetwood
Executive Producer
Dean Jackson
Design Direction
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We’re always up for meeting sharp minds and bold collaborators. Got something brewing? Send it our way: collaborate@heft.studio.