Hackett, Jane
Jane Hackett is Director of Creative Learning for Sadler’s Wells Theatre and also
works a dance consultant and writer. Jane was Director of Central School of Ballet
(1999–2005) and English National Ballet School (2006–2009). Prior to this, she led
the education departments at Sadler’s Wells, Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal
Ballet, promoting collaborative cross-arts projects, initiating the Dancers Degree
Course for BRB and ‘Chance To Dance’ for the Royal Opera House to provide
wider access to ballet training and performance. Jane’s early career was as a
dancer and choreographer, working with companies in England, Germany, Austria,
Italy and Mexico (under the auspices of the National Ballet of Cuba). Jane has an
MA in Dance Studies and is Vice-Chair of Dance UK. She was previously a
member of the Arts Council Dance Panel and the Council for Dance Education
and Training’s assessment panel.
Hardman, Yvonne
Yvonne Hardman is Art Gallery Officer at Touchstones Rochdale, the museum,
gallery and local studies centre in Rochdale, where she is responsible for the fine
art collection and gallery exhibition programming, both historic and contemporary.
Yvonne has worked in museums and galleries in the North West since 2000, after
gaining an MA in Museum Studies. From 2003 to 2009, Yvonne served on the
board of directors at Manchester Craft & Design Centre and has a particular
interest in contemporary craft. Since 2008 she has been involved in 'the shape of
things', a major national initiative to expand the diversity of artists, audiences and
collectors in relation to contemporary craft. She is committed to making visual arts
accessible to the widest possible audiences and is currently curating a programme
of contemporary art shows at Touchstones Rochdale for 2012.
Harris, Jenny
Jenny Harris is a freelance creative producer based in Yorkshire. After working as
a musician for a number of years, she joined Leeds City Council as a music
officer, where she developed and produced the inaugural FuseLeeds
contemporary music festival. As a creative producer, Jenny’s work covers music,
live literature and festivals. She is currently an associate producer for imove,
Yorkshire’s cultural programme for 2012, and the director of Morley Literature
Festival, Leeds. She is also an associate producer with the hub, where her
production credits include Fertilizer Festival, Phrased & Confused, SEAS Club and
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The Insulting Cabaret. Jenny has a particular interest in inclusive arts practice and
manages the events programme for Education Leeds’ Arts & Disability network.
Hatfield, David
David Hatfield has over 25 years’ experience in voluntary music promotion with
Leeds Jazz, where he has at various times worked in administration, funding
applications, hospitality, event management, box office and programming. He was
involved with independent promotions under the Sound at the Wardrobe banner,
which presented a broad range of minority and world music. As a member of the
management committee of the FuseLeeds festivals, alongside representatives of
Leeds International Concert Season, Leeds College of Music and Opera North,
David gained further experience in new music as well as employment as
programme consultant, project coordinator and event manager. As a former
teacher working with children and adults with learning difficulties, David was
involved with the establishment of Open Music to facilitate workshops,
performances and long-term music projects in Leeds schools. Many activities
crossed over into other artforms and his teaching experience has involved creative
collaborations involving dance, opera, visual arts and creative writing.
Hebron, Damian
Damian Hebron is the Director of London Arts in Health Forum and also runs the
arts programme at Cambridge University Hospitals, delivering a wide and varied
programme of arts activity rooted in the local community. His work is focused on
the link between creativity and wellbeing and the ways in which the arts can
challenge social and health inequalities. Prior to working in arts and health,
Damian produced touring theatre and community arts projects, working in a range
of settings from the West End to village halls. He worked for Hoipolloi, Kaos
Theatre, Polyglot Theatre and Oxford Stage Company. He was Deputy Editor of
Arts Professional, and writes for a number of publications on issues relating to
public art, wellbeing and community engagement. Damian is a board member of
Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and a member of the national Culture
Forum.
Henderson, Gill
Gill Henderson is an arts and media manager with experience ranging across
cinema, media, visual and digital arts. Gill was most recently the founding Director
of CreateKX, one of London’s most successful strategic cultural projects in a
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regeneration area, promoting creativity in King’s Cross. For five years, Gill worked
as CEO at London Film and Video Development Agency, where she
commissioned productions with UK Film Council, Carlton Television, Arts Council
England and Channel 4. She led LFVDA’s partnership with the Arts Council to
develop a joint London artists moving image strategy. Gill has been Director of
Broadway in Nottingham and FACT in Liverpool and programmer and director of
Birmingham Film Festival. She began her career in film and media with the British
Council as a films officer. Gill has at various times has been a cinema and festival
programmer, producer, lecturer, researcher and media consultant. She is Chair of
Lux and on the board of Camberwell Arts.
Hesketh, Sarah
Sarah Hesketh is Assistant Director of the writers' charity English PEN. She holds
a BA in English Literature from Merton College Oxford and an MA in Creative
Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her first collection of poetry, Napoleon's
Travelling Bookshelf, was published in 2009 by Penned in the Margins. Alongside
her work for PEN, Sarah undertakes freelance project work in the literature sector
and teaches creative writing for the Open University.
Heslan, Suzanne Jayne
Suzanne Jayne Heslan is a professional librarian, writer, poet, literature critic, and
journalist. She has a background in classical and contemporary ballet, creative
writing, theatre and opera scenes. She has worked as a professional librarian
since 2009 after gaining an MA in Library and Information Management. Currently,
Suzanne is the Literature Development Officer for Rochdale Libraries. She is
responsible for a special library collection at Rochdale Central Library of English
literature and philosophy materials, left as a bequest by local couple Frank and
Annie Maskew. Suzanne coordinates arts events to ensure that classic literature is
freely accessible to the community she serves. Suzanne is a critic of romantic
literature and trained as a ballet dancer from a very early age. She is passionate
about helping others to share in the joy of reading and thinking.
Hobson, Philippa
Philippa Hobson is Qualifications Advisor at Creative and Cultural Skills. She
previously was Education Manager at Princes Drawing School and Public
Programmes Manager at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Philippa developed an
international series of exhibitions on Leonardo da Vinci (including Leonardo:
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Experience, Experiment and Design at the V&A), alumni exhibitions at Central
Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design (including Faber and Faber and Derek
Birdsall On Typography) as well as devising and putting on group shows in a
freelance capacity. Philippa started her career at the Art Fund, and on leaving
founded Art Happens, a series of debates on contemporary art to attract younger
members to the Art Fund. She studied Art History and Classics at University of
Kent and Marketing at University of London. She was on the Art Fund’s London
Projects Committee for over five years and has acted as consultant for various
organisations, including the Canadian charity Learning through the Arts and
Quintessentially Art.
Hocking, Catherine
Catherine Hocking is Music Officer for Lakeside Arts Centre, the University of
Nottingham’s public arts centre and museum. Catherine programmes a wideranging schedule of concerts including world, folk, roots, jazz, contemporary
classical, chamber and early music. Catherine’s professional background has
embraced academic and arts administration positions. She trained as a
musicologist, with her PhD focusing on music of the 15th century Eton Choirbook.
As an academic, Catherine has held lectureship positions at the University of
Adelaide and James Cook University, Townsville with responsibilities for teaching
music history, musicology and clarinet. Her arts administration positions have
included Education Manager for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and artist
manager for Fanfare Artist Management in Australia. Catherine has presented
concerts, pre-concert talks, written programme notes and CD liner notes as well as
presented classical music programmes on radio. She has been a member of the
national advisory committee of the UK’s Early Music Network.
Holmes, Anna
Anna Holmes has a background as a dance practitioner and teacher. She holds an
MA in Dance Studies and has been active for many years as an arts producer and
strategic manager. Anna was Dance Officer with Northern Arts, was Lead Officer
for Dance and Drama with Arts Council Wales, and has undertaken many
freelance contracts. For the past five years, she has worked as Development
Director for Bombastic (dance-theatre and animation productions for young
people), a company co-founded with Artistic Director Sean Tuan John. Anna has
also worked as a journalist and is involved with film making. Through her
company, Spanish Steps Film, she recently directed and produced a feature
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documentary, Spanish Steps: flamenco in a foreign land, celebrating the early
days of Flamenco dance in the UK, and set up Mundi Productions to produce
feature films, with a first project in the early stages of development.
Hopps, Stuart
Stuart Hopps is a choreographer, director, teacher and educator. He has worked
on numerous major productions, with leading directors and producers including
Peter Hall, Kenneth Branagh, Trevor Nunn, Ang Lee and Derek Jarman. He has
choreographed for the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish
Opera. He was Associate Director at Scottish Ballet in the 1970s, where he
founded the Moveable Workshop, a pioneering educational dance unit. Stuart has
served on many arts institutions boards, including Janet Smith and Dancers and
Diversions Dance Company. He was a member of the Arts Council of Great
Britain’s Dance Panel, a founder Chairman of the Dance Panel for Greater London
Arts and a founder member of British Association of Choreographers, and has
been a judge for numerous choreographic awards. In 2007 Stuart received an
Honorary Doctorate from City University and in 2009 a citation of Honour for
Lifetime Achievement from Sarah Lawrence College, New York.
Horne, Xenia
Xenia Horne is a harpist, actress, writer and composer, and an examiner for Trinity
Guildhall in speech and drama subjects. She is on the Ofsted team inspecting
DaDa Colleges and on the board of SoundSense. Xenia trained in Cambridge
(harp, piano and voice) before studying theatre at Dartington College of Arts. Upon
graduation, she started her freelance theatre career, and in 1990 founded
Musicmakers UK. Xenia has taught at Suffolk College and in 1992 founded Struts
& Frets Theatre Company. Xenia toured an original production of Canterbury
Tales to France and the Czech Republic, and has written three musical plays for
children. In 2004 she founded AndAction Projects to create new work and deliver
workshops and courses in East Anglia. Xenia has worked with Aldeburgh Music,
and with the Newmarket Can Sing Project she ran workshops with schools and
community groups leading to the formation of the Newmarket Community Choir.
Hoskins, Paul
Paul Hoskins is a conductor of international standing who has worked with many
orchestras in concert halls, opera houses and theatres in Europe and the USA. He
is Music Director of Rambert Dance Company, with whom he has recently
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launched the Rambert Orchestra and the Rambert Music Fellowship, as well as a
major programme of music commissioning. In 2004 Paul won a Time Out award
for outstanding contribution to dance. As Principal Conductor of Cambridge New
Music Players in the 1990s, he gave many world premieres and broadcasts. In all
his work – which spans opera, ballet, choral, ensemble and orchestral music, Paul
continues to champion a broad range of living composers. He is an advocate of
engaging with audiences young and old, and can regularly be seen talking (and
writing) about music and dance for Rambert.
Hoult, David
Professor David Hoult was Principal of Leeds College of Music from 1993 until his
retirement in 2008. Before that he worked as an orchestral musician, singer and
conductor, and also in schools and higher education institutions. As a horn player,
David appeared with many UK orchestras, including the Hallé Orchestra and the
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. From 1975 until 1990 he was a member of
the BBC Northern Singers, a professional chamber choir giving concerts and
broadcasts throughout the UK and Europe, as well as in Australia, Hong Kong and
south-east Asia. He has performed at most of the major British festivals, including
the Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham. David was for some years a
regular writer and presenter of music programmes on BBC Radios 3 and 4.
Hutera, Donald
Donald Hutera writes regularly about dance, theatre, live performance and the arts
for The Times of London, Dance Europe, Animated and many other publications
and websites (including Dance Umbrella and The Dance Constortium) both
nationally and internationally. Born in the United States but now resident in the UK,
he has been a journalist since 1977. He is the co-author (with Allen Robertson) of
The Dance Handbook and has contributed to or edited other dance-related
reference books such as Fifty Contemporary Choreographers and The Rough
Guide to Choreography. Among his commissioned works are Scary Grant and
Choreographus Interruptus (both under the auspices of the Guardians of Doubt)
and the research project Finger Dances (part of Choreodrome at The Place). He is
also a guest lecturer on dance writing and arts criticism generally.
Huxley, Chris
Chris Huxley is a Director of West Mead Creative – an independent arts
development company based in Bridport, West Dorset. West Mead provides
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training, project management and leadership development for creative
organisations and businesses across the south-west. He is also a Senior Lecturer
at the Arts University College Bournemouth, where he teaches on the Arts and
Event Management BA Hons degree course. His 27 years in arts management
began in the early 1980s at Battersea Arts Centre, followed by a variety of roles
including Community Arts Officer for the London Borough of Camden and Outdoor
and Foyer Events Manager at the Southbank Centre. Following a five-year stint as
a freelancer working on festivals and tours, Chris took over the reins at Bridport
Arts Centre in 1996 before leaving to set up West Mead Creative with Ros Fry in
2007.
Jackson, Paul
Paul Jackson trained in dance and music and has worked internationally in both
areas. He is currently Programme Leader for Choreography and Dance at the
University of Winchester. Before this, he was Head of Music and Dance at
Northumbria University, having worked previously at the Arts Educational Schools,
Islington Arts Factory, Central School of Ballet and the CFPD in Poitiers, France.
Throughout the 1980s Paul was a member of the education teams of London
Contemporary Dance Theatre, Extemporary Dance Theatre and Ballet Rambert.
He has written extensively on dance and music and in 1997 was awarded the
Chris de Marigny Dance Writers. Paul is the author of The Life and Music of Sir
Malcolm Arnold: The Brilliant and the Dark and has recently completed The Last
Guru: The Authorised Biography of Robert Cohan, which will be published by
Dance Books in 2012.
Jackson, Phillip
Phil Jackson is a musician, radio presenter, tour manager and events organiser.
He began working on-air with BBC in 2002 on a weekly guide to local music
events in Brighton. This developed into a specialist music programme called
South:Live, which Phil has produced from music festivals. He is a regular guest on
Radio 3’s Jazz Line-Up and music consultant for several BBC-Southern Counties
Radio’s music-based initiatives, including their annual Brighton Festival
programme. He worked with Arts Council England to develop the careers of 14
UK-based artists originating from as far afield as Zimbabwe. In 2006, in
association with the BBC’s inaugural Electric Proms Festival, Phil produced and
managed a tour featuring emerging bands from across the UK. Other productions
have included concert series at The Great Escape festival and Brighton Live
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Festival, concerts featuring saxophonist Bukky Leo (Brighton Festival), Martha
Tilston (Komedia) and Jambience (Komedia, Brighton Festival Fringe).
James, Alan
Alan James became a pioneer of world music working on the inaugural WOMAD
Festival in 1982 as tour manager for The Drummers of Burundi. The 1980s saw
him hosting the first-ever world music radio show on regional radio, coprogramming the groundbreaking Mersea Island WOMAD Festival, touring with
The Smiths, setting up the Yu Fe Danse Sound System in Bristol and providing the
pre-show music for Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Tour. In the 1990s, Alan spent six
years as Head of Performances at the Midland Arts Centre in Birmingham. In 2000
he was Programme Manager for Birmingham City Council’s Forward Festival and
from 2001 until 2006 he was Head of Contemporary Music at Arts Council
England. Since then he has owned Hold Tight, a management, production and
consultancy company working with The Imagined Village, Spiro, The Bays and the
Heritage Orchestra and Chris Wood’s Handmade Life.
Johnson, Diana
Diana Johnson runs an arts consultancy business advising local government,
artists and arts organisations throughout the UK. Recent work includes facilitating
a new strategic plan for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus, and
organisational reviews of the three Youth Music Action Zones in the West
Midlands. She has held senior positions with the British Council in Germany and
Arts Council of Australia. As Director of the Beaford Centre in North Devon, she
pioneered much of the rural arts development and participatory practice that is
common today. Diana has a commitment to the involvement of children and young
people in the arts. Formerly a governor of Dartington College of Arts, she is an
Artsmark validator and a Youth Music external assessor. She is a trustee of the
Wiltshire Music Centre, Upstream healthy living centre in Devon and Elmley
Foundation in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and sings with the Exeter
Festival Chorus.
Johnson, Judith
Judith is a playwright, teacher and dramaturge. She has been writing plays for
over 25 years and has been produced in diverse venues, from the Royal National
Theatre to young offender’s institutes and prisons. Judith is an Advisory Board
member for Y-Touring Theatre Company, which produces plays and educational
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programmes exploring issues of health and science for schools. She is also patron
of Razed Roof Inclusive Theatre Company, which works with people with severe
learning difficulties alongside ‘mainstream’ teenagers. Judith was dramaturge on
two projects for Recorded Delivery verbatim theatre company and has advised a
number of companies and writers over the years on issues of new writing,
including Arcola Theatre and Y-Touring. She has extensive experience as a tutor
and workshop leader. Judith has written two musicals with composer Karl
Lewkowicz, and has a particular interest in the process of developing new
musicals.
Jones, Penny
Penny Jones is a visual arts and education specialist with experience of working in
galleries, museums and healthcare sites. She has worked in the formal and
informal learning sectors with people of all ages and abilities. As Programme
Director of Watch this Space (2004–11), Penny worked with galleries across
England to embed learning about contemporary art in the school curriculum, and
to support the professional development of early career artists and gallery
educators. Penny’s commissions in arts in health include photography with Steve
Pyke and participatory projects with Grennan and Sperandio and Anna Dumitriu.
She has special expertise in the history of craft and contemporary craft practice.
Penny has edited and coordinated publications for engage and has contributed
articles to the arts and education press.
Kemp, Lindsay
Lindsay Kemp is a Senior Producer in the BBC Radio 3 Music Department, where
the many programmes he has made include Music Restored, Spirit of the Age, CD
Review, Late Junction and Words and Music. He is currently responsible for
producing the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Lindsay has also worked
as a freelance recording producer and written widely on music, not only as a
regular reviewer for Gramophone but also for publications such as The Guardian,
BBC Music Magazine, Musical Times and Early Music. He has been an Artistic
Adviser to the York Early Music Festival for the past seven years, and since 2007
has been appointed Artistic Director of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.
Kemp, Nikki
Nikki Kemp is a freelance arts practitioner, musician and composer. She has
worked across a broad range of artforms encompassing visual arts, music and
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dance, and also undertaken a number of international composition commissions
from music and dance companies. Nikki has studied music and dance in Cuba,
Brazil, Indonesia and Africa. As a musician, she tours regularly with groups playing
world music, flute and percussion, including the Southbank Gamelan Players, and
also performing salsa dance. She regularly facilitates workshops in schools,
colleges, community groups, businesses and prisons as well as being a creative
practitioner with Creative Partnerships. In 2009, Nikki completed the Cultural
Leadership Programme as an accredited coach and uses the arts as a tool to
develop key skills, including working with Good Vibrations Gamelan Music in
Prisons and projects in secure hospitals, young offenders and prisons.
Keys, Geof
Geof Keys is Artistic Director of Queen’s Hall Arts, based at the arts centre in
Hexham. He has over 30 years’ experience of touring and building-based work,
including stints with Orchard Theatre Company, The Stephen Joseph Theatre,
Chipping Norton Theatre and Wildcat Stage Productions. Recent directing credits
include Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and Aesop’s Fables for Mad Alice
TC, Stuff and Bottling It for the Bite Size Theatre Programme, and the
dance/visual arts collaboration Talking Without Words. As well as his
specialisation in drama, Geof has a keen interest in dance – commissioning
residencies at the Queen’s Hall, monitoring for Arts Council England (1999 to
2002) and researching international work under the Dance Xchange programme.
Geof is currently leading a number of county-wide developments in
Northumberland, including youth dance, small-scale drama and mobile cinema.
Khan, Hassina
Hassina Khan is a freelance arts manager and facilitator based in the East of
England. She began her career as a stage manager and worked primarily in
theatre in education, young people’s theatre and community theatre, before
moving into running education and community departments in theatre venues.
Hassina has worked with companies up and down the country from Forest Forge
to M6 and from Watford Palace to Salisbury Playhouse. In 2001 she took up a
post in Arts Council England’s education department and from there went to the
national office of Creative Partnerships, but never lost her enthusiasm for, or
interest in, theatre for children and young people. Hassina was a board member at
Trestle Theatre Company for four years and recently contributed to the
consultation on the Drama, Theatre and Young People Manifesto.
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Kiernan, Anna
Anna Kiernan is Head of the Department of Writing at University College
Falmouth. Previously, she was Course Leader of the MA in Publishing at Kingston
University. She is a writer and editor with research expertise in contemporary
publishing and reading practices, life writing and arts journalism. Anna has worked
as an editor at publishers such as André Deutsch and Simon & Schuster. Her
publications include the anti-war anthology Voices for Peace (Scribner 2001) and
Bit on the Side: Work, Sex, Love, Loss and Own Goals (Parthian 2007), as well a
book about literary drinkers. She has also contributed to academic books and
journals and to publications such as The Guardian and The Times Literary
Supplement. Anna was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded oral history project
Museum Lives at the Natural History Museum, where her work included directing a
short film that can be viewed on the Natural History Museum website.
Kinley, Susan
Susan Kinley has an established career as a visual artist working in glass, textiles
and mixed media, with a practice that crosses fine art, craft and design. She has
completed many commissions and worked with consultants, agencies and
community groups on public art projects. Recent clients have included Crawley
Borough Council, for whom she designed and fabricated laminated architectural
glass and textile installations for the Bewbush Centre in Crawley. Other major
commissions have included flooring design for the children’s centre at the new
Gloucester Royal Hospital. Her work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally, most recently in On The Edge, a glass exhibition touring England
and Ireland and Overview, a solo show at Walford Mill in Dorset. Awards have
included project and research grants from Arts Council England, The Crafts
Council, Anglo Diawa, Japan Foundation and the David Cantor Memorial Award.
In 2010 Susan was used as a case study in ‘Making Value’, a research paper for
the Crafts Council by Mary Schwarz and Dr Karen Yair. Susan moved her practice
from London to Cornwall in the 1990s to take up a fellowship at Falmouth College
of Art. She has held lecturing posts at several arts institutions, including
Bournemouth University and University College Falmouth.
Kleiman, Gillie
Gillie Kleiman is a dance maker and doer based in Newcastle upon Tyne and
London. Her work includes the production of performances, texts and events. Her
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solo and collaborative work has been presented throughout the UK and across
Europe. For a number of years Gillie lectured in further and higher education
institutions, alongside teaching in community dance contexts. More recently, she
has begun to develop a curatorial practice, presenting the work of international
artists in London and the North East of England. Gillie received a first class BA
(Hons) from the University of Surrey, was a recipient of the 2008 danceWEB
scholarship, and held an AHRC studentship to undertake an MA in Performance
and Creative Research at Roehampton University, which she completed with
distinction in 2011.
Krishanu, Matthew
Matthew Krishanu is a painter and artist-curator. He was artist in residence at
Whitechapel Gallery from 2006 to 2008 and at Croydon Higher Education College
from 2009 to 2010. He has curated collaborative exhibitions for Iniva and for
English Heritage, and was exhibition organiser for the Royal Institute of British
Architects. Matthew has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work selected
for exhibitions by Kate MacGarry, Jenni Lomax and Victoria Miro. He has
undertaken commissions for Camden Arts Centre and Whitechapel Gallery. In
2010, Matthew made a British Council-funded visit to India. He completed an MA
in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2009.
Laird, Kate
Kate Laird is a freelance creative producer and arts consultant who has worked
across many artistic disciplines in the last 16 years, developing a specialism in
combined arts and theatre. Currently, Kate is a Director of Brighton Carnival
Association, Creative Producer for site-specific digital artists Shared Space and
Light and has a development and producer role with immersive theatre company
Copperdollar. She has worked on The London Mela, The European Mela Network,
Rochdale Mega Mela, the Stockwell Festival and Rotozaza and Arts Agenda in a
consultancy and development capacity. Kate has an in-depth knowledge of the
combined arts and carnival sector, having worked at regional and national level
within combined arts and theatre for Arts Council England, developing policy in
these areas and assessing work of the combined arts portfolio.
Landon-Smith, Kristine
Kristine Landon-Smith is a director and writer. She is joint founder and Artistic
Director of Tamasha and has directed all of the company’s shows. Her 1996
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production, East is East, was nominated for an Olivier award, and Fourteen
Songs, and Two Weddings and A Funeral won the Barclays Theatre Award for
Best New Musical. Kristine has directed at Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic
and Royal Danish Theatre, and taught at the National Institute of Dramatic Art
(Sydney) and L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier (Paris). Her film Midnight Feast was
screened at the 11th Raindance Film Festival and radio credits include A
Yearning; Women of the Dust and an adaptation of Lysistrata by Ranjit Bolt.
Recently, Kristine directed The Trouble with Asian Men, A Fine Balance, Child of
the Divide, Lyrical MC, Sweet Cider and the musical Wuthering Heights. Kristine
was joint winner of the 2005 Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts and
Culture.
Lane, David
David Lane is a dramaturg, playwright and lecturer with a particular interest in new
writing and theatre for young people. He was Head Reader for the Gate Theatre in
2002 before working as the Literary Assistant at Soho Theatre and Writers’ Centre
until 2004. Since moving to Bristol, David has worked as a dramaturg with Exeter
Northcott, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre West and Theatre Royal Bath – where he
facilitates the Ustinov Writers’ Forum. He also teaches playwriting and dramaturgy
at Goldsmiths, City University and Exeter University. David’s work for young
people has been commissioned by Immediate Theatre, Half Moon Young People’s
Theatre and 3YT (Salisbury Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman and Sixth Sense in
Swindon). In 2008 he was awarded the Michael Meyer Award by the Society of
Authors and has a book on Contemporary British Drama due for publication by
Edinburgh University Press in 2010.
Lane, Hilary
Hilary Lane is the Cultural Strategy Manager for a county authority and an
independent curator. She has worked as a gallery director and writer on the visual
arts. Hilary has devised and selected a number of exhibitions based on the Arts
Council and other collections, most recently (2009) Paintings Unwrapped at
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. As a senior Arts Officer at Arts Council
England, Hilary worked with galleries and artist-led organisations nationally.
Law, Peter
Peter Law is a creative producer of interactive and playful experiences that
combine digital, live, face-to-face and off-screen components. He has worked on a
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series of award-winning games with Hide&Seek and Somethin' Else, including
Papa Sangre and the latest versions of Tate Trumps, and he designs and
facilitates games for Hide&Seek's Sandpit live games events. Peter has also
worked with Tate Kids, Artangel, Coney, ITV, BBC, Samsung, Royal Opera
House, National Maritime Museum, Random House and Art of Digital London, and
is games editor of digital publishing website TheLiteraryPlaform. In the past he has
organised literary events and made programmes for BBC Radio 4.
Lee, Richard
Richard Lee trained in drama at Bretton Hall and subsequently taught in schools
and the Open University. He led the Outreach Department of the Towngate
Theatre before moving on to run the Holborn Centre for the Performing Arts and its
Link Theatre. After a spell as the Essex County Council Arts Officer, Richard was
appointed Director of Jerwood Space, a unique theatre/dance rehearsal facility
with a contemporary art gallery, where he has worked since 1998, supporting and
advising a wide variety of theatre, dance and visual art practitioners. Richard has
been a trustee of essexdance, Pan Intercultural Arts and is currently a trustee of
Stagetext, responsible for captioning technologies and enhancing the theatre
experience.
Lewis-Crosby, Antony
Antony Lewis-Crosby recently retired as Managing Director of the London Mozart
Players, having previously been Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Society and Arts Director of the Barbican Centre. Antony began his
career as a concert agent and Deputy Entertainments Manager of Greenwich. He
has acted as consultant to the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields
Church, The Royal Society, RTE in Dublin and the Association of British Concert
Halls. He was a board member of the Association of British Orchestras and
recently chaired its Chamber Orchestras group. Currently, Antony is General
Manager of St Luke’s Music Society, Project Manager of the Festival Chorus and
Chairman of the Taylor Art Trust for the Visual Arts in Dublin. Antony’s artistic
interests are broad and, beyond music, considers theatre, the visual arts and
cinema important to him. He is particularly interested in the development of artistic
life in small and disadvantaged communities.
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Little, Henry
Henry Little is Chief Executive of Orchestras Live, the development agency for
professional orchestral music in England. He has worked extensively in opera,
initially as a freelance director with the English National Opera, Royal Opera,
Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Tour and Opera 80. Henry was General
Manager of British Youth Opera and worked as an Artist Manager with the Athole
Still International Artists Management. Between 1998 and 2008, he worked at Arts
Council in a variety of roles: Touring Officer for Opera and Music, Head of Opera
and Music Theatre and Interim Director of Music Strategy, leading the Council’s
2009–12 investment strategy for music. Henry is Chairman of the National Opera
Co-ordinating Committee, has worked as an adviser on opera strategy for the Arts
Council of Ireland and is a regular collaborator with Opera Europa, the industry
body for European opera for whom he has given speeches and written several
articles.
Logan, Brian
Brian Logan is a writer and theatre-maker. He is co-director of Camden People's
Theatre in London. He is a regular arts writer and comedy critic for The Guardian,
and was Assistant Theatre Editor of Time Out London from 2000 to 2004. Brian
writes about theatre and the arts for The Times, The Independent on Sunday and
the New Statesman. He is a founder member and associate director of the theatre
company Cartoon de Salvo, with whom he has created 10 major London and
international touring shows, including Meat & Two Veg (BAC and tour), the
allotment-set event The Sunflower Plot; and the impro-theatre show Hard Hearted
Hannah and Other Stories (Lyric Hammersmith, British Council Showcase and
tour). Brian writes plays, including David Hume’s Kilt (developed at the National
Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse, Edinburgh). He is a freelance theatre
director and leads workshops in theatre practice and criticism.
Longhurst, Michael
Michael Longhurst is a freelance theatre director specialising in developing and
staging new plays. He trained in directing at Mountview and as an assistant
director at the Young Vic, Old Vic, Royal Court and RSC. Michael has directed
critically acclaimed world premieres and contemporary plays at venues including
The Royal Court, Young Vic, Bush Theatre, Arcola and Theatre503, as well as at
the Edinburgh, Latitude and HighTide Festivals. His production of Guardians
received a Fringe First in 2005. He received the Jerwood Directors Award in 2007
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for dirty butterfly at the Young Vic. He co-directed The Contingency Plan at the
Bush Theatre (shortlisted for the John Whiting Award 2009). His promenade
production of Stovepipe for HighTide with the National Theatre and Bush Theatre
featured in The Sunday Times Top 10 Theatre Events of the Decade list. Michael
is also a script reader for the Royal Court.
Lord, Frances
Frances Lord is a consultant and curator with a background in the applied arts.
She specialises in developing and managing public art and commissioning
projects, and clients include local authorities, healthcare trusts, environmental and
regeneration agencies, museums and galleries. Recent projects include: Combe
Down Public Art Project, 2009; Public Art Strategies and Policies for Woking
Borough Council and Chichester District Council; and mentoring on Design Maker
West Midland’s FF1 and FF2 programmes. Published material includes
Transformation and Change, a catalogue essay on silversmith Chien-Wei Chang;
The Stabilisation of Combe Down village: the saving of a village, 2010; and Artists’
profiles 2 for a-n. Frances received a Spark Plug Craft Curators award with
jeweller Cynthia Cousens for Making Dialogues in 2009 and lectured on public art
at Meiji University, Tokyo in 2008. She was an Executive member of Public Art
Forum (now Ixia) 1999–2002.
Lowe, Martin
Martin Lowe is a freelance musical director. He began as faculty member of
Central School of Speech and Drama for its Musical Theatre course in 1991, and
has taught at LIPA, RSAMD and the Royal Academy of Music.
Martin has worked in both the commercial and subsidized sector as Musical
Director on shows including Mamma Mia!, Jerry Springer-The Opera, Cats,
Caroline or Change, The Wolves in the Walls and The Full Monty.
As part of the 2009 LIFT festival in Barking Martin formed and ran Vintage Voices,
which was a choir made up of over 50s singing a repertoire of pop, standard and
classic songs. He was recently Musical Director/ Arranger for YMTUK’s
production of Loserville, Martin was Musical Director for Mamma Mia- The Movie!
and was nominated for a 2009 Helpmann Award for his work on Jerry SpringerThe Opera at the Sydney Opera House. Upcoming projects include Once- New
YorkTheatre Workshop 2011, and the new Tori Amos musical opening at the NT in
2012.
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MacFarlane, Eleanor
Eleanor MacFarlane is an artist, making and exhibiting moving image. Writing is a
major part of her practice, and this has recently evolved into writing novels about
movies and time, music and existence. She has reviewed books on art, culture
and music for The Good Book Guide since 1997. Originally trained as a classical
musician, Eleanor studied viola at the Royal College of Music, then played bass
viol in early music ensembles. She has a wide experience of various arts and
crafts, having worked as a freelance designer/maker. Since gaining a first in fine
art at Middlesex University in 2006, she has been exhibiting and screening work.
Eleanor makes moving image, animations and low-tech contraptions, distilling
scientific notions into beautiful insights. Also a fine art tutor, she has created
school projects, mentored and lectured.
Malcolm, Tamara
Tamara Malcolm is a theatre production consultant. From 2002 to 2009 she was
Project Executive Producer, Casting Adviser and Fundraiser to the London-based
Collective Artistes, a black theatre ensemble from the African diaspora. Her sevenyear regime of black theatre visits nationally informs all her work. Out of the Box
Productions and The African Consortium were beneficiaries of Tamara’s
fundraising, and she has been consulted by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. She
is committed to advancing the career of playwright Rex Obano. Founder Director
of The Theatre, Chipping Norton, Tamara was among the first to promote theatre
companies Cheek by Jowl and ATC. As producer, she commissioned such writers
and composers as Henry Livings, Sarah Travis, Biyi Bandele, Femi Osofisan, Jeff
Clarke and Graeme Garden. Prior to management, Tamara was an actor, most
memorably in Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade for the RSC. She was awarded an MBE
for services to theatre in 2001.
Martinez, Eva
Eva Martinez is a dance and performance curator and producer, originating from
France with a Spanish heritage. She is the recipient of the Clore Fellowship for
2010/11 supported by the Cultural Leadership Programme. Eva is interested in
experimental forms of performance practice and the development of dance and
choreography for today’s audiences. Since 2009, she has been working as Dance
and Performance Programmer at Southbank Centre, London co-curating 5 Days in
May: New dance in London with Nicky Napier and the South Asian performing arts
festival Alchemy with Artistic Director Jude Kelly, and contributing to a major
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programme at Hayward Gallery entitled MOVE: Choreographing You. Eva worked
at Laban from 2002 to 2006 and with Nottingham-based Dance4 as Artistic
Programme Manager from 2006 to 2009, increasing audiences and profile for
nottdance, its annual international festival of experimental dance and performance.
Eva is a member of the Royal Society of Arts and the Bonnie Bird Choreography
fund selection committee.
Martlew, Zoë
Zoë Martlew studied at the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music, Clare
College, Cambridge and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She performs and
records around the world as a soloist and with contemporary rock, pop,
improvisation and electronica artists including Ensemble Modern, London
Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sir Paul McCartney,
Radiohead, Butch Morris, Super Furry Animals, Ceramic Dog, Plaid and Katie
Melua. Zoë has worked extensively in dance and theatre as a composer and
performer, including collaborations with Ballet Black, Ballet Boyz and Almeida
Theatre. Recent projects include her one-woman cabaret show Z Unleashed and
the improvisation comedy group Impropera. She has been a judge on BBC2’s
Maestro, a commentator for BBC TV Proms, BBC2 Newsnight Review and Radio
3 Here and Now, and a jury member for Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Zoë does
educational work in prisons, universities and music colleges and with disabled and
autistic children, and drug users.
Matthews, Steven
Steven Matthews is Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Centre at
Oxford Brookes University. The Centre is involved with various community
projects, including poetry and the environment, and poetry and science. Steven is
the author of seven books relating to modern and contemporary poetry, as well as
editor of several series on the contextual background of major literary periods.
Steven is also a published poet himself, and his collection, Skying, will be
published by Waterloo Press in spring 2012.
McAllister, Ron
Ron McAllister became Head of Music at South Hill Park Arts Centre in 1983,
commissioning new work, promoting festival activity and serving on the Music
Panel of Southern Arts. In 1989 he opened The Maltings Arts Centre in the
Borders, where he established an orchestral season, folk festival and producing
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base for community productions and professional touring. In 1991 he launched
Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre. Ron launched tours with Theatre de
Complicite, The Featherstonehaughs, Benji Reid and Faulty Optic, and was on the
Board of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for ten years. In 2001 Ron
returned to South Hill Park as Chief Executive. Since then he has worked on
projects across all artforms – Wildefire, Bracknell Festival, SWALK, the CIAO
Festival and Big Day Out, co-commissioned work from dreamthinkspeak and
Protein Dance, developed projects with emerging companies, composed music for
touring productions and advised on Arts Council England’s Dance Panel.
McCarthy, Shaun
Shaun McCarthy has been a professional playwright and author for over 25 years.
Stage productions include A Christmas Carol, Smoke and Mirrors, Circus
Britannica and Beanfield (all Bike Shed Theatre), Safe (Mokita-Grit Productions),
London Isn’t Venice (Mutiny Arts), and Honest: untouchable, See His Face and A
Frail Light in the Desert (all Bristol Old Vic). Radio dramas include The Aran Isles
(R4 Classic Serial) and Fireworks (R4 Saturday Play). Shaun has written over 20
study guides to English literature and a series of ‘how to’ creative writing guides.
He has held a couple of dozen writer-in-residence posts, in every form of
institution from festivals to prisons, boarding schools to hostels for the homeless.
Shaun teaches short courses and master classes in writing for performance at
Oxford and Bristol universities.
McMillan, Andrew
Andrew McMillan is a poet and freelance writer. According to the seminal new
anthology the Salt Book of Younger Poets, he is one of the poets who will
‘dominate UK poetry in years to come’. Andrew has completed numerous
residencies and commissions, including Heritage Lottery and Arts Council
residencies nationwide and a poetry commission for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
His work, collected most recently in the pamphlet The moon is a supported player,
has been published widely and featured on Radio 4’s Today programme. Andrew
has organised events for numerous festivals and organisations, including the Ilkley
Literature Festival and The Hepworth Wakefield gallery. He edits Cake magazine
and is a poetry editor for the highly acclaimed online literary magazine for young
people, The Cadaverine. Andrew has also advised museum services on how to
delivery poetry as part of their education packages and has worked extensively in
community settings.
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Mead, Steve
Steve Mead is co-founder and Artistic Director of Manchester Jazz Festival. He is
also one of the directors of NWJazzworks, the jazz development agency appointed
by Arts Council England in 2005 to assist musicians, promoters and audiences in
the north-west. Steve studied Combined Arts (classical guitar, composition,
printmaking and writing) at Crewe & Alsager College, then went on to co-found
and compose for the Glee Club Performance Company, devising and touring
comic visual theatre pieces. He has composed music for the alternative Christmas
pantomimes at Manchester’s greenroom as well as for several performance
projects (Whalley Range All-Stars, North East Wales Dance, MMU, New Breed
Disabled People’s Theatre Co, etc). He also composed for, led and toured with his
own band, Whirl, collaborated with writer Kavyashiddi on Excerpt from a Dog’s
Ear, an afternoon play for BBC Radio 4, and managed a number of special needs
projects for children.
Metcalfe, Carol
Carol Metcalfe was the founder of the Bridewell Theatre and its Artistic Director for
nine years. The theatre’s aim was to develop musical theatre that would reconnect
with developments in modern theatre practice. At the Bridewell and elsewhere,
Carol has directed opera, drama and many musicals, including nine new works.
The Bridewell introduced new American writers to the UK including Jason Robert
Brown and Adam Guettel and produced the world premiere of Stephen
Sondheim’s unperformed first work, Saturday Night. Carol now works as a
freelance director, producer and dramaturge, working chiefly with writers of
musical theatre. Among other things, she was a judge and subsequently the
producer of the Mackintosh-supported show Sundowe – which opened Inverness’s
new Eden Court Theatre, directed Greyfriars Twisted Tales – an award winning
show at the Edinburgh fringe festival, and produced two London tours of a new
music theatre piece, Drive Ride Walk.
Minns, Nick
After obtaining a BA in architecture at Cambridge University, Nick Minns studied
classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Rambert School for three years. He
then moved to the US, where he performed in ballet companies in Louisville and
Atlanta, then spent nine years as soloist with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in
Montreal. Nick has been general manager of a dance company, has produced
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tours in North America and has 12 years’ experience in writing and editing.
Recently returned to England, Nick is an independent dance manager in
contemporary dance, seeking opportunities for exchanges between Canada and
the UK. He is also studying to teach classical dance from a holistic angle.
Molitor, Claudia
Claudia Molitor is a composer, festival director and lecturer. Her compositional
work is regularly performed and broadcast throughout Europe – including at Wien
Modern, the West Deutscher Rundfunk Cologne, Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival, Ecat, the VI Festival de Musica Contemporania de Girona, the
ÖBV Grabenfest, the Cutting Edge Series and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and
during Sonic Explorations at King’s Place. Recordings of Claudia’s pieces have
been released on the Jerwood Series, NMC Recordings and Sub Rosa. She has
recently been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, BBC Radio 3, Sound and
Music and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Claudia is co-founder and festival
director of Soundwaves Festival, which takes place in Brighton in July. She is
currently a Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University and the University of Brighton.
Molyneux, Geoff
Geoff Molyneux is an artist based in the North West and for the past 15 years a
member of Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester. A fine art graduate from
Liverpool School of Art in the late 1970s, he became a director of the Bridewell
Studios in Liverpool and a lecturer in fine art at Mabel Fletcher Technical College.
Geoff has exhibited his works in Cuba, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, Switzerland
and the USA, and has been actively involved in a number of artists’ initiatives,
including Eight days a week Liverpool/Cologne, and both Cyfuniad and Coast
International Artists’ Workshops. He is an art educator and from 2005 to 2010 was
Course Leader for the Foundation Degree in Fine Art at Liverpool Community
College. Geoff has lectured at Stranmillis University Belfast, Hijiyama University
Hiroshima and Gettysburg College Pennsylvania. He is currently external
examiner for the foundation degree in art at both Bedfordshire and Staffordshire
universities.
Morgan, David
David Morgan is Executive Producer of Breaking Cycles, an artist-led company
dedicated to the creation and production of inclusive, highly energised, emotionally
conflicting physical theatre. David also acts as an independent producer in his own
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right. His main interests and areas of specialism are contemporary theatre work,
new writing and live art. Prior to moving to England, David spent five years as
General Manager with Suspect Culture in Glasgow. During that time, he coproduced shows with a wide range of partners including Tramway, Drum Theatre
Plymouth, The National Theatre of Scotland, Brighton Festival, Tron Theatre and
Graeae Theatre Company.
Morland, Rebecca
Rebecca Morland is a freelance arts manager and works with companies on areas
such as interim management, funding applications, capital projects and change
management. Until 2010 she was Executive Director of the Hampstead Theatre.
Most of her previous experience has been in regional producing theatre – in
particular, as Administrative Director of Bristol Old Vic and prior to that Executive
Director at Salisbury Playhouse, but also including periods in Worcester and
Colchester. Rebecca’s work has also involved co-producing and collaborations
with other producing theatres, with touring companies of varying sizes and scales,
and with the commercial sector. She has a strong interest in new writing, as well
as small-scale and site-specific work, and is on the Council of Management and
Finance Committee of the Theatrical Management Association.
Morris, Grahame
Grahame Morris works sparingly as an adviser, recruitment consultant or interim
manager for theatre companies. He was Chief Executive of Sheffield Theatres
from 1997 to 2004, following significant spells at the Theatres Royal in Newcastle
upon Tyne and later Plymouth. He has served on the boards of many arts
organisations including Rambert Dance Company, Compass Theatre Company,
the Touring Partnership and the National Theatre. From 1998 to 2006, Grahame
was Chair of Arts Council England Advisory Panel for Drama (latterly Lead Advisor
for Theatre) and in 2000/01 chaired the Theatre Committee, which allocated £25
million in new Treasury funding for theatre. He had previously been a member of
the Arts Council’s Advisory Panels for Dance and Touring. An honorary doctor of
both the universities in Sheffield, in 2006 Grahame resolved to earn a degree
properly. He graduated successfully in Russian Studies (special interest: Soviet
and Russian visual culture) from the University of Sheffield in 2010.
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Muge, Liz
Liz Muge is a freelance arts consultant specialising in music education. Since
graduating with a music degree from the University of Leeds, Liz has spent the last
13 years developing and managing music education programmes – as Education
Director for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2003–05) and as CEO
of Make Some Noise, the Youth Music Action Zone for Staffordshire and Stoke on
Trent (2005–11). Liz has also played a significant role in the development of the
music education environment through her work as Regional Co-ordinator for Youth
Music (2002–05) and as co-chair of the national network of Youth Music Action
Zones (2009–11). In addition to her current freelance role, Liz is a volunteer
trustee for Sinfonia Viva and chairperson of the board of directors of East Midlands
Jazz CiC.
Murdin, Alex
Alex Murdin is an independent artist, curator, and producer with wide experience
across the whole spectrum of the visual arts. He is also a researcher at University
College Falmouth, with specific interests in art in the public realm and the field of
craft and design. Alex has worked with diverse communities of interest, from
grassroots environmental activists to academic scientific institutions. Most
recently, he has been developing a programme of innovative rural public art
projects under the title of Wide Open Space for the Dorset Strategic Partnership.
His previous experience includes board roles with Aune Head Arts and Artsmatrix,
acting as Creative Director for arts and health consultancy Willis Newson, and a
seven-year stint as Director of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.
Murdoch, Alex
Alex Murdoch is Artistic Director of Cartoon de Salvo, whose productions include
Meat and Two Veg, Pub Rock and the allotment site-specific show The Sunflower
Plot. Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories, which pioneered long-form impro in
the UK, recently visited the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Alex trained at
École Philippe Gaulier and RNT Studio after taking her degree at the Central
School. Her credits include performing and improvising Ghosts Nets, Roger
Salmon, The Wooden Frock (all for Kneehigh Theatre), impro with the Comedy
Store Players, directing Ionesco's The New Tenant (Young Vic) and a reading of
Karpati's The Fourth Gate (RNT). Alex has taught at Middlesex, Central and East
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the Clore Short Course and BAC’s Independents programme exploring and
advocating for the role of the artist in cultural leadership.
Myers, Jodi
Jodi Myers is an independent arts consultant, working with a wide range of
organisations in both the publicly funded and commercial sectors. In 2008 Jodi,
working with Anne Millman, carried out the Theatre Assessment for Arts Council
England. Jodi also mentors and coaches managers, producers and artists, and
occasionally acts as an executive theatre producer. From 1996 to 2005 she was
Director of Performing Arts at the South Bank Centre and was Director of Warwick
Arts Centre from 1991 to 1996. Previously, she was Deputy Director of Touring,
with responsibility for drama, for the Arts Council of Great Britain, having joined as
Marketing Officer/Touring. Jodi’s early career was spent in marketing opera and
stage managing theatre. Currently she is a trustee of Graeae and Propeller theatre
companies and a governor of the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is
also independent chair of the National Dance Network.
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