Artistic Directors of the Future
Dedicated to creating change at leadership level in mainstream theatre
ADF is kindly supported by Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Aziz Foundation.
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Artistic Directors of the Future
Dedicated to creating change at leadership level in mainstream theatre
We are very pleased to receive funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation to support upcoming leadership programme we are launching this spring. We are grateful for the support for ADF and our work to provide support and development for puposeful-leaders, visionaries and changemakers. Paul Hamlyn Foundation was established by Paul Hamlyn in […]
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 […]
Eileen is currently on the ADF Board Shadowing Programme: London Edition until February 2020 At 57 I have taken the bold act to step away from a London well-being charity I co-founded and ran for 20 years. All in the pursuit of allowing my creative nature more space to flourish. I have been writing for […]
Youness Bouzinab is one of the 8 ADF Members participating in ADF’s Board Shadowing Programme: London Edition with English Touring Theatre, Complicité and Punchdrunk. So far, so good! I am a Belgian, Greek and Moroccan performer/theatre-maker and dramaturg. I graduated from the Acting, Collaborative and Devised Theatre course at Central recently, and have been working […]
Please note that these poems were written by Kate Fox as ‘Poet in Residence’ on the day – they were written in rapid response to the day and performed by Kate at the start and end of the afternoon session. www.katefox.co.uk First poem. Title: A Board as Heart Based on ADF’s morning training session by ITC […]
Artistic Directors of the Future launches their board shadowing programme in London in partnership with three leading theatre companies