Tania Azevedo (London and Porto)
Tania Azevedo is a Portuguese theatre maker, director and dramaturg who graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, the King’s Head Theatre and the Royal Opera House’s Opera Directors Training Programme led by Katie Mitchell. She’s currently Resident Director on & JULIET (West End). She specialises in development of new work and has worked on R&D workshops and fully staged productions with venues which include National Theatre Scotland, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Dundee Rep, The Bush, Capital Theatres, American Music Theatre Project and The Other Palace. She has been part of the UK’s leading New Musical Theatre festivals, including BEAM, From Page to Stage and MT Fest.
Most recently she directed the world premiere of BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (Turbine Theatre) based on the cult LGBT film, receiving Off-West-End Award and Broadway World award nominations for Best Director and was Assistant Director on HEATHERS (West End and UK National Tour). https://www.taniazevedo.com/
Ellie Claughton (London)
Ellie is a theatre producer specialising in company development and management of socially-engaged and participation-led touring theatre projects. She was until recently Interim Executive Producer at Paines Plough and has now moved to be Executive Director of Boundless Theatre. She is co-Director of Barrel Organ. She was previously Senior Producer for LUNG Theatre and Breach Theatre. She began her career at Headlong and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in MA Creative Producing. She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for She Productions and Zoo Co. https://boundlesstheatre.org.uk/
Erin Davey (Edinburgh and Hertfordshire)
Lewis Forman (London and Edinburgh)
Lew is an emerging producer and the creative director of theatre collective The Counterminers. They have recently been working on the NT Live team at the National Theatre, bringing professionally filmed theatre to wider audiences around the world. They have also been continuing their freelance career, recently finishing a run of a gender-neutral cast production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and working towards a new production of “Into The Woods” in Edinburgh, alongside two shows for the Edinburgh Fringe with The Counterminers. As part of his portfolio of work he undertakes Marketing and Outreach for CGO. Website www.lewisforman.com , email is talk [at] lewisforman [dot] com
Emma Martin (East Anglia)
Emma is a freelance Arts Marketing Consultant working on strategy development, tour and show marketing, online theatre, branding and digital strategy/implementation and lecturer in Arts Marketing. She has worked for producing companies including: Tara Arts; Rifco Theatre; Original Theatre; and Park Theatre alongside numerous off West End and touring productions. She is a Trustee for Metta Theatre and the co-founder of East Anglian-based theatre company The Keeper’s Daughter.
Kate Taylor (Edinburgh)
Kate is an arts producer with extensive experience in creating multi-genre work. She spent nearly a decade with Youth Music Theatre UK working with writers, composers, directors, musical directors and choreographers in a wide variety of performance spaces including festivals, theatres and fields to make new work.
Previously she has worked for English Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Hall Birmingham, City of London Festival and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She is now freelance and enjoying working with a pool of artists and organisations committed to producing high quality work and is excited to develop future projects.
Kate Reed (New York)
Kate studied at Southampton University and is British by birth, but she has spent the last 20 years teaching and filmmaking in New York City. She leads the film department at Beacon School, an arts-based public high school in Hell’s Kitchen. Together with her colleagues she leads an annual festival of arts and film, Beacon Arts Festival. In her professional filmmaking she is dedicated to supporting early career development for New York graduates.