“Leaving Battersea – things to pass on”
BLOG – sharing some stuff I learnt (slowly) as an artistic director. My personal favourite is thing four.
“Meeting Sarah turned out to be a meeting that set a path for my 21st century”
PRESENTATION – in praise of Sarah Golding (creator of The Good Neighbour, Town Hall Cherubs and Return to Elm House) at her leaving do in April 2019
“Because President Trump is coming on the same day we re-open the Grand Hall”
BLOG – about the picture we took outside Battersea Arts Centre
“As we look towards the Phoenix Season we’ve been thinking about 5 questions”
PRESENTATION – an overview of the programme to re-open the Grand Hall at a press event on 13 Mar 2018 three years after the fire
“One by one we went round the table and each Trustee said it was terrible”
PRESENTATION – this is about Scratch, being told your idea is rubbish and the emotional process of change – at a symposium called Creative Museums at Battersea Arts Centre
“The leader of the free world is now a CEO”
ARTICLE – in preparation for a season of shows called Cash, Capitalism and Corporations this was a contribution to Run Riot
“Your knowledge and understanding of what it takes to run a theatre was second to none”
BLOG – a tribute to the late Nicola Thorold
“There are some old-fashioned hierarchies inside our cultural spaces”
ARTICLE – this was an article for The Stage a year on from the Grand Hall fire about we can rethink the role of our theatres
“the complexity of our ecology has fed in to our most interesting projects”
BLOG – which explores Battersea Arts Centre’s new purpose to inspire people to take creative risks to shape the future
“It was liberating in a first meeting with Steve Tompkins to admit that I was making it up as I went along”
PRESENTATION – about BAC’s capital redevelopment – made in partnership with Steve Tompkins at the Theatres Trust Conference at Pleasance Theatre London
“Ten, twenty, thirty men and women are running towards us, shouting, some are riding on six foot canons, all are dressed as soldiers”
CHAPTER – about the value of vulnerability – for a book called Proximo Ato published in Brazil
“When I was growing up what excited me about theatre was that I saw it as the ‘anything can happen’ art form”
PRESENTATION – responding to the theme The Epic and the Intimate at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
“I am a foreword fraud”
FOREWORD – in Cultural Leadership Reader – published in UK
“The following confession will probably mark the end of my producing career”
CHAPTER – in The Producers: Alchemists of the Impossible – published in UK
