Misc

I am a director and founder (with Charles Rifkind) of the Visitors’ Arts Foundation. We have been campaigning for a London-wide hotel tax to provide additional funding for free entry museums, galleries, libraries and parks. We have had numerous meetings with the Mayor’s Office, Hotel Groups and Museums & Galleries. We hope this scheme will become a reality

Commissioned Tim Foster Architects for the ACE Lottery Funded/Brent Council & Public subscription funded 300 seat Tricycle Cinema completed and winner of a Royal Institute of British Architects award.

Initiated the first British “Pay what you can” ticket scheme, which was then championed by the Mark Fisher, the then Minister for the Arts, in a House of Commons debate on future theatre practice.

Co-writing with Denys Hodson and recording an audio-guide to the stained glass windows in St Mary’s Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire. With recordings from: Marcel Berlins, Ron Cook, Jeremy Clyde, Michael Cochrane, Frances de la Tour, Lindsay Duncan, Nabil Elouahabi, Paul Freeman, Celia Imrie, Belinda Lang, Joanna Lumley, Hayley Mills, Bill Nighy, Tim Piggott-Smith, Alan Rickman, Anne

Directed a reading of my translation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s NO, I JUST DON’T BELIEVE IT with Michael Gambon & Frances de la Tour at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Download script →

Co-produced James Earl-Jones & Vanessa Redgrave in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING directed by Mark Rylance at the Old Vic, London.

Guardian Masterclass on Verbatim Theatre with Richard Norton-Taylor in July 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/verbatim-and-political-theatre-course