Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone will feature In Conversation at the Royal Court for the second University Women in the Arts public event.
Featherstone is one of fifteen women taking part in the scheme targetted at female students studying arts subjects at universities across the UK but this free event is open to anyone.
Jennifer Tuckett, Director of University Women in the Arts, said, "this will be a chance for women to learn about Vicky’s career, the challenges she has faced and how she has overcome them, and receive advice on working in the arts.
"I think one of the problems for women in the arts has been a lack of advice for how to manage their careers—we hope this year-long scheme will provide the opportunity to get advice from 15 women leading the way in the arts in the UK and discover what they have learnt over the course of their careers.”
The scheme—which is running in partnership with the Women of the Future Programme, the MA in Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London at Central Saint Martins, Writers at Work Productions, Oberon Books and in association with Tonic Theatre—was inspired by the statistics showing that many more women than men study arts in the UK but fewer women work in the arts, particularly in artistic leadership roles.
Other mentors include Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, Jude Kelly, founder of the WOW Festivals and Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre, Joanna Prior, Managing Director of Penguin Books, Charlotte Higgins, Chief Culture Writer at The Guardian, Suzie de Rohan Willner, CEO of TOAST, Kate Bryan, art historian, presenter and former Director of The Fine Art Society, Elizabeth Freestone, Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre Company, Tanya Seghatchian, film producer, historian, columnist and presenter Amanada Foreman and Anne Edyvean, Head of BBC Writersroom.
Oberon Books will publish a companion publication at the end of the year.