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Patrons:

Dominic Dromgoole
Indhu Rubasingham
Roy Williams
Meg Hillier MP

Artistic Director: Charlotte Gwinner

Since being invited to join the RNT studio Emerging Directors
Programme in 2001, Charlotte has worked with a range of playwrights including: Robert Holman, John Donnelly,Simon Bent. Her directing credits include: The Confederate (Trafalgar Studios), Men Should Weep (Oxford Stage Company), The Country of The Blind (The Gate Theatre), Riders to the Sea, The Shadow of the Glen, The Tinkers Wedding by JM Synge, Everything Must Go (Southwark Playhouse), The Blood of Others (The Arcola), Julius Caesar (Wandsworth Prison), Titus Andronicus (The Jerwood Space). She has led workshops and directed readings at The Young Vic, The Royal Exchange and The Royal Court Theatre and will be on attachment at the RNT studio later this year.

Trustees:

Henny Finch

Henny is Executive Producer for Headlong Theatre where she has lead
produced Rough Crossings, Angels in America (national tour and Lyric
Hammersmith), Faustus (Hampstead Theatre and national tour),
Restoration, Paradise Lost (national tours) and the forthcoming The
Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida). For Oxford Stage Company she
produced several projects on tour and in London . She was previously
Assistant Producer for Act Productions, working on many West End plays
and musicals, including Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Don
Carlos (Gielgud), The Price (Apollo and tour), Humble Boy (Gielgud and
tour), Dance of Death (Lyric), Noises Off (Piccadilly and Broadway),
The Real Thing (UK Tour and Broadway). She General Managed Singin’ in
the Rain (Sadlers Wells) and Arms and the Man ( UK tour). Before
joining Act she worked for theatrical agency London Management and at
the Almeida Theatre. She is also a trustee of Tara Arts.
www.headlongtheatre.co.uk

Esther Baker

Esther is artistic director of The Synergy Theatre Project which she co-founded in 1999 soon after winning the Butler Trust Development Award for innovative and effective work with prisoners. She has directed thirteen of Synergy’s productions including: Elmina’s Kitchen (HMP Brixton), On the Waterfront (Wimbledon Studio Theatre), Burn and Someone to Watch Over Me (Southwark Playhouse), Accidental, Death of an Anarchist (HMP Wandsworth) and short film The Rains of
Fear (BFI, LA Film Festival) as well as working for mainstream
theatres such as The Royal Court (Write Now rehearsed readings), Young
Vic (Inferno), National Theatre Studio (Antigone) and in the West End
(The Lieutenant of Inishmore).
www.synergytheatreproject.co.uk

Simon Knapp

Simon Knapp is finance and Operations Controller of GCap Charities. Simon trained as an accountant between 1998 and 2002, working on audit
clients such as Birmingham Hippodrome, The Birmingham Repertory
Theatre, and The Ikon Gallery. Between 2002 and 2005 he was Financial
Accountant at the International Planned Parenthood Federation. He now
works for GCap Charities, a network of charitable appeal funds across
the GCap Media commercial radio network, which includes Capital 95.8's
Help A London Child, Classic FM Music Makers and around 20 other
local, grant-giving funds across the country.

Advisory Board:

Graham Whybrow
Fiona Mallin-Robinson
Kerry Radden
Rosie Day
Jonathon Meth