Experience

SICK! Festival

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Producer

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  The Creative Producer (Community) is responsible for the development and delivery of all Community Engagement and Social Prescribing activities. Responsible for establishing strong and inclusive engagement with our local communities, working closely with Health and social care organisation, charities, community groups, educational institutions and other arts organisations. Working closely with the Artistic Director / CEO and the Creative Producer (Commissions), they will contribute to the development and delivery of commissions and our biennial festival programme.



Contact Theatre

• United Kingdom
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Agency Project Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Jul 2019

  The Agency aims to empower hard to reach young people to affect positive change in their own communities through an innovative new model developed in Brazil. The project will empower and facilitate young people throughout England / Britain to create opportunities, programmes and events which are of benefit to their communities; that people in those communities identify as vital, using the creative process developed by our two organisations (Battersea Arts Centre and Contact Theatre). This will revitalise wider social engagement and also debate about how we tackle poverty and social inclusion in England.We hope to connect with the local communities in which we will be working and add to the make-up of offers already available to young people in the area, finding the gaps where youth engagement falls and developing solutions with the young people and community members. Project OverviewBattersea Arts Centre and Contact, in collaboration with People’s Palace Projects, have been awarded the Gulbenkian Prize to deliver this ground-breaking and ambitious national project.Over two years, the project will work with young people from eight under-served communities nationally starting this year in Moston, Manchester and Winstanley Estate, London. Participants with inventive ideas about how to improve their community will be supported by successful figures in society and local people to realise their projects. The project will aim to work with 300 young people and will culminate in a Festival of Ideas in Easter 2015The project will be designed with a young steering group who are local to the areas to ensure young people’s voices are at the heart of the project. There will be a research panel made up of key figures in society who will be able to guide the young people and also open with networks to them that were previously closed.

• Project Manager

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2013

  Project Manager for the core participatory projects at Contact including Contact Young Actors Company (CYAC), Monday Drop & Technique. In addition to managing commissions from the Manchester Science Festival in 2012 & 2013 and The Stephen Lawrence enquiry. Whilst managing CYAC I guided them through their first engagement with the international theatre project Contacting the World where they collaborated with Trinidad and Tobago's Arts in Action Wordsmiths over a 6 month period with the artistic direction of Unfinished Business's Leo Kay. 0Over the 12 shows produced for Contact with CYAC I was lucky enough to have worked with artists and companies such as Benji Reid, Tassos Steven's (Agency of Coney), Dende Collective, Fink On Theatre and Walk the Plank.