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Dateline:
6th March, 2008
Welsh English Language NT Board Announced
The Arts Council of Wales has announced the membership of the Board
of the new English Language National Theatre for Wales. Joinig the already
announced Chair, Phil George, will be:
- Chris Ryde - Vice Chair
Equity's National Organiser for Wales, Chair of the Wales Association
for the Performing Arts, Chair of Audiences Wales (the Arts Council
of Wales's audience development agency) and a Fellow of the Royal
Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Steve Blandford
Associate Dean and Professor of Theatre, Film and Television at the
University of Glamorgan's new Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural
Industries at the Atrium, the Co-founder of The Centre for the Study
of Media and Culture in Small Nations and has over 20 years experience
in working in Theatre
- Jon Gower
Writer, broadcaster and radio producer associated with Boomerang in
Cardiff, former BBC Wales' arts and media correspondent, writer of
three books, editor of four, and writer of one play for the stage
and two for radio
- Richard Hogger
Director of Creu Cymru - the Development Agency for Theatres and Arts
Centres across Wales, first posts involved developing theatre practice
across communities in Norfolk and Darlington, five years as Director,
Performing Arts at Eastern Arts Board, six years as Chief Executive
of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
- Gemma McAvoy
Theatrical Agent for Emptage Hallett Talent and Literary Agency, previously
worked at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and as the Education
Co-ordinator at the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Deborah Martell Powell
Worked in a professional services environment for nearly 20 years
in business consulting and internal leadership roles, currently a
director working with the international audit, tax and advisory firm,
KPMG, previously lectured in business strategy at the University of
Wales, Cardiff
- Judi Richards
Currently works Arts Manager for Cardiff Council. Has had an extensive
career in the theatre, arts and media: with the Mid-Western Theatre
Company in the US, the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Daily Express
in London, and then Manager of the Sherman Theatre and General Manager
of the New Theatre Cardiff
- Peter Stead
Freelance writer and broadcaster, previously a Visiting Professor
at the University of Glamorgan, author of Film and the Working
Class:The Feature Film in British and American Society, biographical
studies of Richard Burton and Dennis Potter and Acting Wales,
an analysis of the Welsh acting tradition.
The Board will have its first meeting on 17th March when, said Phil
George, "We now face the hugely important task of finding the right
artistic leader for the company."
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