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Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway Steps Down

28 January 2021 Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Founder and Artistic Director/CEO of Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF) is to step down from her role in March 2021. Founded in 2014 and awarded charitable status in 2016, ADF has been a forerunner in empowering and celebrating the Black, Asian, Middle Eastern and Ethnic Minority talent in the […]

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AD Lab: In Conversation with Young Vic’s Kwame Kwei-Armah

POSTPONED. DATE TBC (Online via Zoom) What does it truly mean to be an Artistic Director of a theatre building? ADF invites its members to a discussion and Q & A with British actor, playwright, director, broadcaster and Artistic Director of Young Vic, Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwame will discuss the first year of leading iconic buildings, […]

Winner of Innovation Award 2020

The Stage Awards winners have officially been announced! ADF took home the Innovation Award for our work on diversifying boards. In 2018 we launched an inaugural ADF Board Shadowing Programme: Yorkshire Edition, in partnership with five Yorkshire theatres: Sheffield Theatres, Leeds Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, Stephen Joseph Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre. In 2019 we […]