About Me:
I have spent 15 years working in the Creative Industries and the last 9 in senior leadership roles. I am currently an independent Creative Consultant, Executive Producer and Coach and a Non-Exec Director for Rising Arts Agency
I am based in Bristol but work nationally and internationally, I care deeply about the creative industries and champion and advocate for best practice, always. I believe that by placing care at the centre of any work; brilliant, bold, ambitious ideas, projects and organisations can emerge and thrive.
I was CEO of Theatre Bristol (2020-23) where I led the organisation through a period of immense change and delivered programmes of work designed to develop and support the sector; providing opportunities, networks, resilience and lobbying for better conditions, particularly for those most underserved in our industry.
I hold Level 1 BSL and am Mental Health First Aid Trained. In 2014 I was selected for the Clore Emerging Leaders and am accredited by RD1st as a Coach.
I was Executive Director of Situations where I led the business operations. From 2011 – 2015 I was a founding member and Executive Producer at Kaleider. I also co-founded and co-directed Wide Awake Devon, a sector development organisation for the performance sector in Devon. I started my career as Creative Producer of the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth.
Along with coaching and short term consultancies/faciliation I am currently working with:
Action Hero - Executive Producer - From Ashes
Beyond Face - Executive Consultant (Company Development, Fundraising & Recruitment)
o-region - Development Producer, White Horse
Radical Ritual - Executive Producer - Consequences & Executive Director - Radical Ritual
Invisible Threads 2.0 - Leading one the development of Feasibility Study in the response to the findings of Invisible Threads 1.0
I am also leading a piece of research investigating and considering the state of producing in the South West. I am currently developing a Feasibility Study with support from Arts Council England. You can read more about this here.
Facilitation, Chairing, Panel Speaker, Workshops and Talks include; Unlimited, Can’t Sit Still, Cheltenham Culture Board, Creative UK, Cheltenham Culture Board, Goldsmiths, Gather Up, Gloucester Culture Trust, Watershed, University of Exeter Drama dept, Theatre Bristol, In Good Company, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Roustabout.
2017-2020
Honeyscribe - Producer | Ad Infinitum - Senior Producer | Libraries Unlimited - Cultural Connector & Project Manager | Raucous - Executive Producer (Producer Ice Road) | Paraorchestra - Producer, The Nature of Why | Molly Naylor - Producer, Lights! Planets! People! | Kit Hall - Producer | Ira Brand - Producing support, Ways to Submit | Impermanence - Business Strategy & Fundraising | Katie Villa and Laura Mugridge - Producer, WILD | David Lane - Producer/Dramaturg, Hefted | Chris Harrison - Producer, The North! The North!