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Dateline: 31st May, 2009
Gate Gets £254,000 Award Notting Hill's Gate Theatre has received an award of £254,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Breakthrough Fund. The Breakthrough Fund was established by Paul Hamlyn Foundation in 2007 to support cultural entrepreneurs - those individuals who manage the creative process behind great art to develop their careers and the organisations they work for. A panel of 14 experts from across the arts sector made anonymous nominations, which led to over forty invited applications. Each of the selected recipients showed the vision, drive and track record of making things happen to secure the backing of the Foundation. Régis Cochefert, PHF Arts Programme Manager, said, "The Breakthrough Fund follows an unusual model of arts funding, because it provides support early in the lifecycle of a project, often before detailed plans are formed for how the work will deliver its objectives or indeed what those objectives might be. We look forward to working with these recipients as they shape their work over the coming years, as we continue to work with last year's group." The Gate's joint artistic directors, Natalie Abrahami and Carrie Cracknell, said, "The Breakthrough Fund will help us to further develop the 'Gate Elsewhere' brand that will see work from the Gate starting to tour both nationally and internationally and will allow us to seek out and commission emerging international theatre makers. We are thrilled to have been offered such an extraordinary development opportunity at this stage in our careers, as it will increase the scope and ambition of our programming at the Gate while enabling us to develop as directors in our own right. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s backing represents an incredible commitment to the experimental work we are creating at the Gate. We can't wait to see what possibilities the next three years will hold." Having started their directing careers in 2002, Abrahami and Cracknell met in 2004 when attending the National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course. They were struck by a mutual interest in international theatre practice, and in 2006 they decided to apply together for the Artistic Directorship of the Gate Theatre, where they became the first Joint Artistic Directors in January 2007. Their vision for the theatre has been cross-disciplinary and has resulted in exploration of non-textual theatrical languages. This Breakthrough Fund grant will enable the recruitment of a fixed-term Associate Producer and Assistant Producer – matching the joint-directorship with a two-producer model – with a view to developing stronger relationships with regional and international co-producers and to increase the reach of the work initiated at the Gate through touring, revivals, co-productions and more site-specific productions beyond the boundaries of the existing theatre space.
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