Commissioned artist Rutie Borthwick for a mural installed in St Mary’s A & E mental health assessment room.
Category: Misc
Executive producer on GROOMED a film by Nancy Meckler of Patrick Sandford’s play.
★★★★ The Guardian
Available from Soho Theatre On Demand until 27th August
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 before too long.
Negotiated with Transport for London for a free TFL scheme for School students to travel free by tube and bus to all arts events in the capital – during Ken Livingstone’s first term as Mayor.
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.
Arranged the commission of the Cloud railway bridge by Ralph Koltai over the Kilburn High Road.
Commissioned bronze statue by Allan Sly, “GETTING BACK ON THE RIGHT FOOT”, outside St Mary’s Hospital – main entrance of Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Wing. In honour of my parents Henry & Mary Kent.
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.
I was very proud to sit on the Board of Directors of UK Friends of Healing Focus, an orphanage school in Uganda. We are always extremely grateful for financial help to support the school’s 250 pupils. You can find out more about donating on their website.
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 Robinson, Mark Rylance, Jon Snow, Zoe Wanamaker & Richard Wilson.
Here is a visual link to the windows.
And here is a sound link from BBC Radio 4:
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.