“On Call” is a chance for companies and individuals to meet informally with established producers and enablers, for some impartial advice and exchange about ideas and projects.
The On Call will take place at mac birmingham in the Arena Bar from 12noon-2pm on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th May. You can just turn up to take advantage of some free advice, but if you’d like to book a specific slot, please email catherine@capitalplays.co.uk
Thursday 24th May
12noon-2pm
Taking your show to Edinburgh (from an artist/producer perspective)
Pippa Frith, Independent Producer
Kindle Theatre (tbc)
Friday 25th May
12noon-2pm: Artist and company development (particularly in terms of artistic practice), developing partnerships with venues, new writing, collaborations, Grants for the Arts advice
Alison Gagen, Relationship Manager, Arts Council England
Alison’s professional experience in theatre, prior to joining ACE: she was Press Officer at the New Vic; ran the Education department at Polka Theatre for Children; was General Manager for Sphinx, a touring company specialising in new writing by women, when she worked particularly on moving the company from small to mid-scale touring and on building new coproducing relationships. In her time working in a number of theatre-focused roles at ACE over the last 10+ years she has done two secondments, one to ACE national office in 2004, looking after the then Arts Council Theatre Writing Policy, and one to Warwick Arts Centre, programming the studio, in 2007. She set up the first Bitesize festival with Paul Warwick of China Plate during that time.
Alison’s regional development work at ACE has focused particularly on ways to grow the independent theatre sector – including looking at ways in which venues can work to support that development. She has also been doing some 1-to-1 work with companies, looking at their development needs , their artistic vision and how teams of artists and/or producers work together to deliver that.
On Call: Alison will focus on advice/sharing experiences about artist and company development and on coproducing/partnerships between companies and venues – she is also interested in conversations with writers about their development needs.
Mike Kaloski-Naylor, Relationship Manager, Arts Council England
Mike worked as Projects co-ordinator at TheatreWorks, a theatre development agency covering Swindon and Wiltshire, and including support for artists and organisations in Bath and North East Somerset. TheatreWorks, which merged with Wilshire dancing in 2011 to become Creative Ecology Wiltshire (CEW) is a member of the Theatre South West network and Albow websites. They initiated our own small grants fund, provided advice and support to artists and arts organisation, and ran a number of development events. During this time, he also spent 8 months co-ordinated the South West New Writing Network.
He moved to Manchester to work as a Grants for the arts Assessor, and is now coming to the end of a six-month secondment working as a Relationship Manager in the West Midlands.
On Call: Mike will return to the Grants for the arts team at the beginning of June, and he is interested in discussing and advising on how best to make use of Grants for the arts support, and hearing people’s experience of the funding programme.
Mike Tweddle, BE Festival
Mike is a theatre director, producer, writer and performer. He lives in Birmingham where he co-directs the city’s European performing arts festival – Be Festival – founded in 2010. He is the artistic director of Babakas, a new Birmingham-based international ensemble. As joint artistic director of Temple Theatre, he has directed and co-produced the company’s four shows to date, including the multi-award winning Out of Chaos and current project UNMYTHABLE. As a freelance director, he has worked for Foster and Déchery, Jumbled, CASA Festival, the National Youth Theatre and The Globe.
On Call: Directing, devising, producing, dramaturgy, ensemble and physical theatre approaches.
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