Theatre & Touring Symposium

UK Theatre

UK Theatre's headline conference - 'A New Landscape For Theatre'

Founder & CEO, Indigo

Katy Raines

<p style="text-align:center;">Capitalise on the current opportunity to widen the appeal of our theatrical product by discussing new approaches to programming, distribution, and audience development, whilst finding the balance between creative growth and business development.</p>

<h5 style="text-align:center;">Monday 27 June 2022</h5><p style="text-align:center;">Hybrid: Online &amp; The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SA</p><p style="text-align:center;">10am - 5pm</p><p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:center;">Followed by Drinks Reception at The Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS</p><p style="text-align:center;">5pm onward</p><p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:center;">This event has now passed.</p>

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Director of Audience Insight & Research, AKA Promotions

Richard Huntrods

Business Development & Relationships Manager, Theatre Tokens

Founding Associate, The Leadership Collective

Carmel Cardona

Executive Director & Joint CEO, Talawa

Carolyn Forsyth

Head of Retail Partnerships, Tillo

Tassa Sandhu

Artistic Director & Resident Designer, Metta Theatre

Project Co-Ordinator, Chichester Festival Theatre

Operations Director, Young Vic

Rathi Kumar

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A complete ticketing, marketing and fundraising solution for a thriving cultural sector.

Spektrix

The world's most flexible and comprehensive refund protection.

Booking Protect

The UK's leading theatre and performing arts membership organisation.

SOLT & UK Theatre

Give the gift of theatre tokens.

Theatre Tokens

Building relationships & providing insurance for over 200 years.

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Executive Producer, 1927

Jo Crowley

Jamie Snelgrove

Head of UK Theatre & Workforce Development, SOLT & UK Theatre

Sebastian Cater

<p style="text-align:center;">The Theatre &amp; Touring Symposium is back for the first time in three years to bring together theatre professionals from across the UK to highlight the issues facing the sector at present, and to explore solutions to improve the landscape for theatre in 2022 and beyond.</p><p style="text-align:center;">This year the Symposium is taking place both live in-person and online to improve access and enable people from across the UK to unite and celebrate the return of live theatre.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Symposium is designed to reignite connections between industry peers, to promote best practice insights and cutting-edge approaches to operating in the new post-pandemic landscape of theatre. In exploring the current issues the industry is facing today this Symposium will unearth practical solutions to enable our members to continue to bring high-quality theatre to wider audiences across the UK.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The overarching theme for this year’s Symposium is ‘A New Landscape for Theatre’. We will explore how we can pivot from a period of huge disruption and change, and harness our entrepreneurial spirit to take advantage of the opportunities offered by our current situation to improve the future of theatre-making.</p>

Creative Producer, Ameena Hamid Productions

Founder/Director, Backstage Niche

Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng

Sales Director, YesPlan

Jeroen Snoek

Freelance Production Manager

Jennifer Taillefer

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Trafalgar Theatres

YesPlan

Silver Sponsors

Programming Director, ATG

Stuart Griffiths OBE

Executive Director, Theatre Royal Stratford East

UK Theatre Joint President

Jon Gilchrist

William Reynolds

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Co-Founder & Director, Great Leap Forward

Jennie Greene

Director of Sector Change, People Make it Work

Sandeep Mahal

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Golden Sponsors

<p style="text-align:center;">Make the case for theatre; collaborate and partner up with like-minded organisations; engage with local audiences alongside us; public affairs; city of culture; funding; levelling up.</p>

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Co-Founder & CEO, ROYO

Tom de Keyser

Ex-CEO, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich & Founder, Ramps on the Moon

Sarah Holmes

We are the Association of British Theatre Technicians, a membership organisation with backstage and theatre buildings at its heart.

Association of British Theatre Technicians

<h4 style="text-align:center;">Touring &amp; Producing</h4>

Head of Risk & Safety, SOLT & UK Theatre

Phill Brown

Technical Director, Royal Opera House

Mark Dakin

Director Touring, Arts Council England

Jon Linstrum

Artistic Director & CEO, Contact Theatre Manchester

Keisha Thompson

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About The Festival

Chief Executive, Nottingham Playhouse

Stephanie Sirr MBE

Executive Director, Hull Truck Theatre

Janthi Mills-Ward

Chief Executive, Baker Richards

Robin Cantrill-Fenwick

Director of Audiences & Communications, Birmingham Hippodrome

Chilina Madon

President, SOLT

Eleanor Lloyd

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Managing Director, Impakt

Rob Macpherson

Director for Change, Ramps on the Moon

Michèle Taylor MBE

<h4 style="text-align:center;">Workforce</h4>

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<p style="text-align:center;">Address the challenges post-Brexit, post-pandemic; the touring/producing eco-system.</p>

Director of Programming, Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

Elspeth Barron

Director, Jonathan Church Productions

Jonathan Church CBE

<p style="text-align:center;">Explore innovative solutions to recruitment and retention challenges; reach out to a new workforce; engage at a deeper level with current talent; support the health &amp; growth of our employees.</p>

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Interim Joint CEO, Eclipse Theatre / Interim Executive Director, Inc Arts

Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE

<h3 style="text-align:center;">'A New Landscape for Theatre'</h3>

Head of Marketing & Communications, SOLT & UK Theatre

Head of Technical & Production Management, Trafalgar Entertainment

Emma De Souza

<h4 style="text-align:center;">Programming &amp; Audiences</h4>

Eleanor Lang

Director of Communications & Customer Services, Royal Lyceum Theatre

Ben Jeffries

Manage your venue with peace of mind

Deputy Executive Director, Mercury Theatre

Deborah Sawyerr

Commercial Director, Live Entertainment

Dawn Farrow

CEO, Coventry City of Culture Trust

Martin Sutherland

Director, ALVA (The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions)

Bernard Donoghue OBE

Creative Director, Riverside Studios

Rachel Tackley

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