Adair, Christy
Christy Adair is Professor of Dance Studies at York St John University. She has
been involved in dance since the 1980s and her writing has received international
acclaim, particularly Women and Dance: sylphs and sirens (Macmillan, 1992) and
Dancing the Black Question: the Phoenix Dance Company Phenomenon (Dance
Books, 2007), which offers a significant critique of issues related to contemporary
performance. She continues to focus on gender and ethnicity in relation to dance
studies and performance and has conducted research into contemporary dance in
East Africa. She has also been part of a British Council funded team from York St
John University delivering a programme for a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic
Practice in Kenya. Christy is currently working on an Arts and Humanities
Research Council project British Dance and the African Diaspora 1946-2005 and
is on the editorial board of Choreographic Practices and Dancelines: Research in
Dance Education.
Akerman, Jeremy
Jeremy Akerman is an artist and freelance curator; he is co-director of
akermandaly.com; an organisation that specialises in commissioning and
publishing writing by artists. He is guest curator for HSBC’s art collection at Canary
Wharf and teaches ‘An Introduction to Curating at Central St Martins’ college.
Akerman Daly website hosts artist’s residencies and a library, runs courses
teaching writing skills for artists and regularly posts out text based artworks free to
subscribers. Akerman’s own artwork is painting and photographic collages, which
he shows periodically; he also takes a keen interest in the work of other artists and
anything to do with artist’s books. For his many curatorial projects he has included
paintings, sculptures, photography, installation and performance art making
exhibitions held both in the UK and in South Korea.
Allen, Paul
Paul Allen was the first non-London-based Critic of the Year in the British Press
awards and has written on theatre for Morning Telegraph (Sheffield), The
Guardian, Plays and Players, The Stage, Country Life and the New Statesman. He
presented the BBC Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope until 1998 and
subsequently Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 until 2006, when he became the first
Fellow in Creativity and Performance at the CAPITAL Centre of the University of
Warwick. Paul has chaired the Arts Council of England Drama Panel and Theatre
Writing Committee. He has had some two dozen radio and stage plays produced
professionally, including an adaptation of ‘Brassed Off’ seen at the National
Theatre and from Norway to New Zealand. He currently chairs Music in the Round
and is deputy chairman of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
Arthur, Jane
Jane Arthur is a freelance consultant for the museums and heritage sector. She
has over 30 years’ experience of working in museums with a background in
standards, collections development and audience engagement. She started her
career as Curator & Librarian of the Wisbech & Fenland Museum and has worked
in the West Midlands since 1985. Firstly as Keeper of Decorative Art at the
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, then as Assistant Director
(Collections) at the West Midlands Regional Museums Council. From 1997 to
2007 she was Head of Collections and Deputy Director for Birmingham Museums
& Art Gallery. She is a member of the Museum Accreditation Committee and a
Mentor for the Heritage Lottery Fund. As a Trustee of the Birmingham
Conservation Trust she is involved in the development of Newman Brothers Coffin
Fitting Factory in Birmingham as a heritage attraction. She is currently developing
her own creative practice through textile art and poetry.
Attwood, Vince
Vince is a co-director at Soft Touch Arts a participatory arts company based in the
east midlands after an early career as an artist/ designer /performer in visual
theatre in the North West, Holland and Belgium. Vince returned to England in the
80’s and co-founded Soft Touch as a co-operative. With Soft Touch he has been
instrumental in developing the practice of participatory work particularly with
disadvantaged young people both as a practitioner and strategically through
national and regional working groups and networks. Vince has also developed
work within youth justice and health settings often working beyond the arts to
improve services for young people, for example sitting on the board of
Healthwatch Leicestershire and the Leicester Childrens Trust board. Vince has
also spent the past 30years being a pyrotechnician and a street musician just for
the fun of it.
Baptiste, Philip
Phil Baptiste has, for the past 20 years, worked in the arts in various incarnations
from: working on personnel art projects (photography, live sculptural and crafts);
the music industry; co-curating tattoo and band ephemera exhibitions, that have
toured Europe, and; worked in local authority, national, community, voluntary
museums and galleries. Phil has worked on award winning projects, (for content
and audience engagement), such as the 'One Family, One Tribe', and 'Tattoo You'
with renowned artists, Justin Sullivan and Ian Beardsley. Phil has been asked to
sit on several art and cultural steering groups, championing access for all, and has
developed a professional reputation for matching creativity with practical design
and execution. In addition, as a fully qualified and chartered Health and Safety
professional, Phil has been asked to advise on the setup of music festivals,
exhibitions, live shows etc. examples of this include: working on the international
transportation and curation of an art exhibition, about the music industry, which
was displayed in a giant glass elephant.
Bear, Griselda
Griselda Bear is an independent curator and arts consultant guiding arts
organisations with development strategy and funding. Her curatorial work over 10
years at Canada House Gallery in London involved all aspects of exhibition
organisation from writing and editing catalogues to selecting, mounting and then
touring exhibitions in the UK and Europe. Recently she curated selections of
contemporary work from India and Singapore for the STRARTA Art Fair at the
Saatchi Gallery in 2013 and Conflicts in Time, a collaborative exhibition between
artists and anthropologists held at Hastings Arts Forum galleries. Griselda has
been a university external examiner, served as a Trustee of the British Museum
Friends, sat on the board of many cultural organisations and in recent years
served as a Trustee of the Hastings Arts Forum and Farley Arts Trust (Roland
Penrose and LeeMiller trust). She has held senior management posts at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, Royal Academy of Arts, and Sadler’s Wells. Clients have included
Artangel, Public Art Development Trust, Crafts Council, Craft Potters Association,
Cove Park in Scotland, Frederick Parker Foundation, Hand Engravers Association,
Public Art Development Trust, London Film School, The Lecture List, Metropolitan
Works and the Tern Project in Morecambe Bay.
Bedford, Suzannah
Suzannah Bedford is creative director of the Renewal Trust, a regeneration charity
working with communities in Nottingham’s eastside. Beginning as administrator
with Out of Joint Theatre Company, she has been general manager with Talawa
Theatre Company, and with Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre.
She also worked as dance officer with Arts Council East Midlands. With expertise
in literature and visual arts, Suzannah worked with Backlit Studios through a
period of change that saw them win Matt Collishaw as part of Connect 10. Her
work has moved towards producing arts projects and opportunities of the highest
calibre with communities. Recent projects include Nott Ballet with Birmingham
Royal Ballet and 60 young people performing at Theatre Royal Nottingham as part
of U.Dance2014, turning a community centre The Chase into a venue for the
NEAT14 festival, and producing Rankin on St Ann’s Allotments, featured in the
BBC2’s Museums at Night programme.
Beecham, Richard
Richard is a freelance theatre director. He works across the country and across
the repertoire including classics (Henry IV, Theatre Royal Bath, Rutherford & Son,
Northern Stage), modern classics (Dancing at Lughnasa, In Praise of Love, Royal
& Derngate), new writing (Strivers, Long Project at LAMDA) and international
theatre (UK Premieres of new American plays at Ustinov Studio, Bath). Richard
also regularly directs and teaches at drama schools including RADA, LAMDA,
Central and Arts Ed. He is an Artistic Associate of the new writing company
HighTide Festival Theatre, a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme and a
Facilitator on the Clore Short Course programme.
Ben-Tovim, Ruth
Ruth has worked as a professional artist and consultant for 25 years, using the
transformational power of the arts to work creatively with thousands of people in
the arts, public, private, education and voluntary sectors. She was the founder and
Artistic Director of Louder than Words productions in London 89-99, working
closely with the Young Vic theatre, creating award-winning, multi-media
performances, touring nationally. She now specialises in participation; devising,
delivering and managing site specific participatory arts projects and programmes
within regeneration and place-making contexts across the country. Since 2004 she
has been the Creative Director of Encounters Arts creating opportunities for people
to work together in creative dialogue and exchange, in order to build resilient
communities and a more interconnected and sustainable world-view. Encounters
create imaginative spaces and processes for people to explore their relationship
with themselves, each other, where they live and the natural world. They co-author
evolving artworks with people of all ages and cultures, mapping and collecting
stories, ideas, experiences which are then retold to a wider community through,
installations, exhibitions, public art, performance, publications and uniquely tailor
made events. Working with different communities across the country Ruth has
delivered over 40 projects working closely with local councils and third sector
initiatives. This includes creative projects for Liverpool Capital of Culture, the RSA
in Peterborough, Regen South West and representing the UK at the Venice
Bienale of Architecture. Encounters have a physical base in South Devon, with
work taking place locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Ruth also works
as a dramaturg for Vincent Dance Theatre.
Bennett, Jude
Jude Bennett is a freelance curator, specialising in commissioning new works. She
holds a MA in Curatorial Practice and has worked in various art organisations
throughout the U.K and Ireland for the past decade such as Florence Trust, aspex,
Tate St Ives and Catalyst Arts. In 2012 Jude initiated Anarch, a roaming
commissioning gallery that has taken up residence in Deptford and most recently
Warren Street for Colony. Colony was a 16 day art festival with over 35 artists and
rarely seen letters from the Estate of Gordon Matta Clark. Jude is interested in
utilising underused spaces and the intersection between art and architecture and
has led various public art projects. She also currently works as curator for
Collective, a cultural high street regeneration project in Camden.
Bernstein, Daniel
Daniel Bernstein is a creative producer working in arts, education and event
management. His primary artistic experience is with carnival and outdoor festivals.
He spent 10 years performing in and developing Carnival Collective into one of the
country’s leading carnival bands. He has established a number of successful
Brazilian-inspired carnival events (Brighton Samba Encounter and Luton
International Encounter), helped set up Carnival Network South East (the country’s
first regional network) and chairs Brighton Carnival. As well as arts organisations,
Daniel has worked in many different types of organisations, including commercial
(International Franchising for The Body Shop) and public sector (Arts Council
England). He has also worked with Emergency Exit Arts, Kinetika, Gunwharf
Quays and Creative Partnerships.
Bettridge, Emma
Emma Bettridge is a Producer, Dramaturg and Festival director. She is the
Producer for Bristol Old Vic Ferment and Consultant producer for Hunt & Darton.
Prior to this she ran Pulse festival at the New Wolsey Theatre for three years and
was part of the curatorial group for Caravan2014 (Farnham Maltings/Brighton
Festival). She was an associate reader for the Soho Theatre, a consultant for East
to Edinburgh (ACE East initiative) and a peer reviewer for the Wellcome Trust from
2010-2013. In 2010 she managed Gecko's international tour of The Overcoat
(China & UK), produced the national tour of My Name is Sue (Northern Stage,
Queer Up North, Soho theatre) and worked on the NSDF festival in Scarborough.
Between 2004 and 2009 she ran the Pleasance London and Edinburgh
Programmes. Her passion lies in developing and commissioning new work. With a
focus on creating and enabling artists to make the best work they can. Examples
of this type of process are demonstrated in Stillhouse's Ours Was the Fen Country,
The Bullet and the Bass Trombone (Sleepdogs), Exposure (Jo Bannon), Sue the
Second Coming (Dafydd James & Co) and Hoke's Bluff (Action Hero).
Birksted-Breen, Noah
Noah Birksted-Breen is a freelance director, translator and playwright. As a
director, Noah has staged eight productions in fringe and professional venues in
London including In Blood: The Bacchae by Francis Viner at the Arcola Theatre
(2009) which featured classical actor Greg Hicks and capoeira Master Carlao. The
recipient of a Channel 4 Theatre Directors’ Award, Noah was on attachment to
Hampstead Theatre between 2006 and 2008. He has worked as an assistant
director at the Royal Court and Hampstead and as a Reader at the Bush, Royal
Court, Hampstead and iceandfire theatre company. In 2011, Noah co-authored his
first play, On The Record, with Christine Bacon, produced by iceandfire theatre
company at the Arcola. Noah is Artistic Director of Sputnik Theatre Company,
which has premiered eight new Russian plays in the UK at Soho, the Battersea
Arts Centre and the Old Red Lion. Noah started a PhD in 2012 on contemporary
Russian playwriting at Queen Mary (UL), in partnership with Theatre Royal
Plymouth.
Bradley, Jack
Jack Bradley began work as a playwright in 1975 (Stepping Stones, Royal Court,
Young Writers’ Festival) and continued to do so throughout the 1980s and early
1990s, with 20 productions to his name. Over time, he became more involved in
play development and literary management and worked at the Soho Theatre
(1989-94) before joining the Royal National Theatre, where he was Literary
Manager for 12 years, advising on the repertoire for Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn
and Nicholas Hytner, spearheading their new play policy. He has run workshops
from Belfast to Buenos Aires, Oslo to Soweto and lectured on creative courses
throughout Britain. He is now a freelance dramaturge and has resumed work as a
playwright and translator. Jack is Literary Associate to Sonia Friedman
Productions, Associate of the Tricycle Theatre, and adviser to the Scottish Arts
Council. Earlier this year, he was Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle University and is
currently writing a book on playwriting.
Breakwell, Andrew
Andrew Breakwell was Director of Roundabout & Education at Nottingham
Playhouse from 1999-2012. He was previously Associate Director (Education) at
the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and directed work for young people and adults at
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell and York Theatre Royal. Prior to that he was
an actor-teacher. Andrew is now a freelance director and theatre educator.
Recently he directed Twelve Miles from Nowhere by Kevin Dyer for Karen
Simpson Productions, and Rapunzle at Nottingham Playhouse. He directs a TIE
project each year for the students on the Acting in Community Theatre course at
East 15 Drama School and will follow that up with a production of You Can Always
Hand Them Back (by Roger Hall and Peter Skellern) for the Mercury Theatre in
Colchester in summer 2014. He has directed a module with theatre design
students at Nottingham Trent University for the last seven years and frequently
contributes to the drama programme for English undergraduates at Nottingham
University. He is particularly interested in new writing and has created the
company New Writing Nottingham with Writer/Actor Nick Wood who is currently
touring A Girl with a Book, (the story of Malala Yousafzai) to small scale venues
across the country. Andrew is on the board of Red Earth Theatre, which is based
in the East Midlands and specialises in creating productions that are accessible to
all, with a particular reference to audiences that are deaf.
Brien, Paulette
Paulette graduated from Dartington College of Arts in 1992 moving to Manchester
in the same year. Since then she has been involved in the inception and delivery
of a number of artist-led initiatives, most recently The International 3 of which she
is co-founder and co-director. Recently relocated to Salford, The International 3
presents a year-round programme of exhibitions and events both on and off-site as
well as representing artists and participating in national and international art fairs.
The International 3 also undertakes consultancy, delivers professional
development activities, is the curatorial coordinator for The Manchester
Contemporary and is an invited member of NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance).
Separately Paulette has worked part-time and freelance for organisations such as
Arts Council England and Creative Industries Development Service. She is
regularly invited to deliver presentations within education and professional
development settings, has acted as a mentor for emerging artists’, writes articles,
critical texts and catalogue essays and is an MPhil candidate at Manchester
Metropolitan University.
Brown, Helen
Helen Brown is a freelance curator and museum consultant with curatorial
expertise in fine and decorative art. She has strong interests in craft and
contemporary art and in working with artists and makers to open up historic
collections (working on projects with Neville and Joan Gabie and Edmund de Waal
to achieve this). She is also interested in working internationally: currently working
on an exhibition of contemporary Chinese ceramics and glass. Until 2013 she was
a senior manager at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum where she also developed
expertise in programming, audience development and museum interpretation.
Helen has been a board member of the South West Federation of Museums and
Art Galleries and is currently a museum mentor and member of the Arts Council
Accreditation Panel.
Bruce, Hannah
Hannah Bruce is an independent producer for a range of dance, circus, physical
theatre and non-text-based performance. She holds an MA (Distinction) from
Laban Centre London. Her particular interests are in collaborative cross-artform
work and site-specific work. Her portfolio encompasses a range of experience and
roles, including tour producing, professional development, creative producing,
research into artistic practice, and project management. Currently Hannah is
working as the Circus Producer at The Roundhouse (London). She lectured in
Event Management at Leeds Metropolitan University (2009/10), was Associate
Producer at Crying Out Loud (2004–07), and worked at Dance Touring Partnership
(2003–06). She has travelled extensively, and in 2007 spent a year in South Africa
researching festivals, artists, companies and education/community arts projects.
Other clients include Mark Murphy, Circolombia, Greenwich Dance, Candoco,
Yorkshire Festivals Network, Circelation, The Southbank Centre, Shobana
Jeyasingh Dance Company, ResCen (Middlesex University), Rosemary Lee and
Akademi.
Chambers, Janys
Janys is an experienced actor, writer, and director. So far this year she’s
adapted/directed The Secret Garden for a cast of a hundred children at Clwyd
Theatr Cymru; written/directed The Waiting Room, a play for NHS Wales (Arts in
Health); and written Sapper Dorothy for BBC R3. Next year she writes/directs
Dorothy’s War for The Harmonettes (follow-up to The Harmonettes Go into Orbit.)
Her play The Warren is currently in development with National Theatre of Wales.
Janys also previously adapted My Family and Other Animals for York Theatre
Royal, which she first wrote as a Classic Serial for BBC R4. She’s received a
Writers’ Guild Nomination for Best Radio Play for Children; a British Soap Awards
Nomination for Best Episode in Soap; and a BAFTA nomination as Best New
Writer for Television. Her episode represented BBC’s Belonging when it won Best
Series at the Celtic Film Festival.
Clay, Malcolm
Malcolm Clay saw his first circus in 1949, which led to a life-long interest both in
circus as a performing art and in its history. He has an extensive collection of
circus programmes, posters, books and other later material recording the history of
circus in the UK. After qualifying as a solicitor, Malcolm specialised in acting for the
circus community, advising both management and artists. For over 30 years he
has been Secretary of the Association of Circus Proprietors, the circus industry
trade body, which has taken the lead on a variety of issues affecting all circus
practitioners. Malcolm is interested in the emergence of contemporary circus
seeing it as a way, through re-interpretation, of preserving traditional circus skills.
Cole, Ina
Ina Cole is a writer and the UK contributor for two US-based publications –
Sculpture magazine and Art Times. She has interviewed some of the UK’s bestknown artists including Anthony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Sir Anthony Caro,
Brian Catling, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker, David Nash, Fiona Banner, Susan
Hiller and Bill Woodrow, as well as artists involved in creating public art
commissions for the UK, such as Thomas Schütte. Ina also writes essays, artists’
texts and exhibition reviews and has a particular interest in developments in
Western art from 1914 onwards. She has 15 years’ experience of working in art
galleries and was appointed for the launch of Tate St Ives in 1993 and Compton
Verney in 2004. Ina has also worked within the Higher Education sector at the
University of Warwick and Bath Spa University. In 2013 she became co-founder of
ARTBAR; an initiative for the city of Bath based on the cafe philosophique model.
Collins, Stewart
Stewart Collins is the Artistic Director of both Henley and Petworth Festivals (UK)
and The Holders Season Barbados. A former writer and performer and a former
Chair of the British Arts Festivals Association, one of a number of voluntary roles
and positions he has enjoyed within the arts sector. Stewart has consulted for the
British Council on the performance programme for the British Pavilion at the 2010
International Expo in Shanghai and the 2014 Anglo/Russian Festival in Moscow.
Over the course of his career, he has commissioned over 100 pieces of new work
across the genres, including music, music theatre, circus, outdoor theatre, dance,
multi-media, art and sculpture and community projects, the largest of which was
the 2012 project The Tree of Light which involved significant professional forces
and1500 plus participants in series of events across the Thames Valley. Under
Stewart’s guidance, the Henley Festival has developed a large-scale year-round
programme of outreach work that has taken professional artists and companies
into schools and special schools. As a writer he has written a series of music
based plays and opera adaptations, his latest 2014 project being The Petworth
Plays a promenade style re-staging of a series of Jacobean Plays.
Crowley, Lauren
Lauren Crowley is Artistic Director of Green Shoes Arts. She co-founded the
organisation which is based in East London in 2009 after completing an MA in
Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Green Shoes Arts
creates theatre both with and for children, young people and families in community
and education settings to enable individuals to realise their personal and creative
potential. Both in her role with Green Shoes Arts and her work as a freelance
drama practitioner, Lauren specialises in devised issue-based theatre. She also
focuses on the development of inclusive creative programmes that provide access
to disabled individuals specifically those with LDD and ASD.
Davies, Maurice
Maurice Davies is a museum adviser and commentator. He's a partner in the
Museum Consultancy and a senior research fellow in the Department of
Management at King's College London, as part of Creativeworks London. He's
also a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. He regularly writes and
talks about museums and galleries in the UK and overseas. He worked for many
years at the Museums Association where he was Deputy Director and contributed
to many policy developments in UK museums. He's also edited Museums Journal
and been an art curator at Manchester Art Gallery and Tate.
Dean, Anthony
Anthony Dean is Professor of Performing Arts and Dean of Faculty of Arts at
University of Winchester. Previously, he was Head of Department at Central
School of Speech and Drama, where he played a key role in establishing the UK’s
first higher education programme in puppetry and circus (in collaboration with
Circus Space). At Winchester he recently established the UK’s first honours
degree programme in Street Arts. Anthony is Chair of the Puppet Centre, a
member of the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton board and the UK Centre for
Carnival Arts, Luton. He is Chair of the Winchester Cultural Consortium and of the
South East Cultural Industries Employer Network, and Co-artistic Director Chair of
the Steering Committee of the NEU/NOW International Festival for European arts
graduates. In addition Anthony is series editor of the User’s Guide Series of
publications. Anthony is also responsible for publication of University of
Winchester’s Total Theatre Magazine.
Delgado, Maria M
Maria M Delgado is Professor of Theatre and Screen Arts at Queen Mary,
University of London and co-editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. She has
published widely in the area of European theatre, including Federico García Lorca
(Routledge 2008), ‘Other’ Spanish Theatres (MUP 2003), Contemporary European
Theatre Directors (Routledge 2010), and six co-edited volumes. A co-edited
volume, A History of the Theatre in Spain, will be published in 2012. For 14 years
Maria was a programme adviser on Spanish and Spanish-American cinema to the
London Film Festival. She has curated work for Ciné Lumière and BFI Southbank.
She writes on film and theatre for a range of publications including Sight and
Sound and Plays International, and is a regular contributor to BBC radio. Maria
has served on a range of juries and panels, including the Rolex 2001–02 Mentor
and Protégé Nominating Panel, and is currently Chair of the ATC Board.
Dorney, Kate
Kate Dorney is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the
Victoria and Albert Museum and curated the re-display of the theatre and
performance collections there. She is responsible for the overall development,
research, interpretation and care of the post-1945 performance collections and for
overseeing the documentation of contemporary performance, including the
National Video Archive of Performance, which makes high-quality live recordings
of contemporary performance. Kate is editor of the journal Studies in Theatre &
Performance and the author of The Changing Language of Modern English Drama
1945–2005. She is also the director of a five-year Arts and Humanities Research
Council project researching the relationship between subsidy, policy and practice
in British theatre.
Drace-Francis, Teresa
Teresa Drace-Francis has over 10 years’ experience in the visual arts sector. She
has worked in museums, galleries and auction houses, running international
residencies and exchanges at Visiting Arts, and at Arts Council England, London
as Visual Arts Officer for four and a half years. During this time, Teresa initiated a
London-wide audience benchmarking programme for galleries, led on issues
facing the studios sector, initiated partnerships with Argent, facilitated projects with
London Thames Gateway Development Authority, helped develop the Bank of
America art prize, and was lead officer for over 16 regularly funded organisations
in the visual arts portfolio. She currently manages Cubitt Gallery in London, part of
an artist-led organisation incorporating a curatorial bursary, 32 artists’ studios and
an education programme. A specialist in fine art, photography, artists’ film and
moving image, and public art, Teresa studied Art History at Cambridge University.
Dyer, Kevin
Kevin Dyer is the Associate Writer for Action Transport Theatre. He writes plays,
hosts writing sessions, works as a dramaturg and runs collective-writing
processes. He is an Associate Artist at The Dukes in Lancaster and also Artistic
Associate at Farnham Maltings. For both these companies he writes and directs.
He has been commissioned to write over 50 plays for theatre companies and has
worked as a professional theatre director for over 20 years, working on main
stages, in studios and young people’s theatre, and in participation and live
literature. Kevin leads writing sessions for many organisations, and has been chair
of judges for the Anne Pierson Award, a published poet, an ex-journalist and an
actor. He received a Writers’ Guild Encouragement Award in 2009. Kevin’s plays
The Bomb (based on meetings with Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the
Brighton bombing, and Pat Magee, who planted the bomb) and The Monster
Under the Bed are published by Aurora books. He has won the Writers Guild
Award for ‘Best Play for Children and Young People’ and been shortlisted for
awards 5 other times.
Edwardes, Jane
Jane Edwardes reviews theatre for The Sunday Times and Time Out. From 1986
until 2008 she was the Theatre Editor of Time Out – writing reviews, features and
a weekly column covering all aspects of London theatre, from big musicals to
fringe theatre. Jane has written about theatre practitioners in many countries
including Russia, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Venezuela and Trinidad. She was
invited by the New Zealand Arts Council in 2005 to give a talk to New Zealand arts
journalists on criticism. She edited the Faber Books of Monologues for Men and
Women in 2005. Jane lectures on theatre to students from Carleton College in
America. She has sat on the panels of the Evening Standard Drama, the Verity
Bargate, Sony Radio Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn and Time Out awards. She
was Chair of the Drama Section of the Critics’ Circle 1995–1999 and President of
the Critics’ Circle 2001–2003.