Bonnie Greer Chair
Playwright, poet and critic. Bonnie Greer was born in America and studied theatre in Chicago with David Mamet, and in New York with Elia Kazan. She has lived in Britain since 1986, where she has worked mainly in theatre. She has had numerous plays produced for both stage and radio, and was winner of the Verity Bargate Award. Bonnie has been Arts Council Playwright in Residence for the Soho Theatre and for the Black Theatre Co-operative, and Arts Council of England Playwright in Residence for the Pascal Theatre Company. She was a theatre critic for Time Out and is a frequent contributor to TV, Radio and newspaper reviews. She has played Joan Of Arc on the Paris stage. She has had many plays produced by BBC Radio, including a translation of The Little Prince, and her play Jitterbug was presented in London at the Arcola in 2001. Most recently her play Ella, Meet Marilyn sold out at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006 at The Pleasance. Her second novel, Riding The 903, will be published next year. Bonnie is Chair of writernet, and a trustee of the Theatre Royal Stratford East, British Museum and the Serpentine Gallery.
Nicholas McInerny
Nicholas has written for Stage, Screen, TV and Radio. Stage work includes plays produced by Red Shift, Soho Theatre, the ICA and The Orange Tree. Screen work includes a screenplay for BBC Scotland. TV work inclcudes over thirty episodes of popular series like The Bill and Always & Everyone. Radio work includes over twenty plays for Radio 4, several of which have been nominated for the Prix Italia and the Peter Tinniswood Award. Nicholas was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College from 1997 to 2000 and currently teaches on the Oxford University Mst and Diploma courses in Creative Writing. Although Nicholas joined from the Subscriber base he has recently been elected Chair of Script, the organisation for dramatic writers in the West Midlands. His special concern is not about discovering new writers, but helping those who have been discovered build viable careers.
Sara Clifford Company Secretary
Sara is a playwright, with recent work including Head Over Heels, for Oxfordshire Touring Theatre company, researched through intergenerational dance workshops; A Special Relationship ( York Theatre Royal and national tour); and A Thousand Days ( finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize 98/99). Her recent work for young people includes Wedding Story for Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout/AJTC, and Breaking the Ice for Pop Up.
She has also worked as a dramaturg for the London Bubble, and was a Literary Associate for Clean Break and Pop Up Theatre, as well as a script reader for the Soho Theatre, Paines Plough, the Red Room and New Writing South, and a judge for the Arts Council Children’s Theatre Award in 2001.
She has a strong interest in working in the third sector, and several years experience writing, teaching and directing in education, health and criminal justice settings, including work for the National Theatre, Spare Tyre and Clean Break. She is co-author of Making a Leap, a drama handbook for working with young people, and has recently been made an Education Associate at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre.
She is also Director of Inroads, delivering participatory arts projects, as well as the CPD programme for artists for Creative Partnerships in the South East alongside developing a Foundation Degree with Brighton University in Creative Practice and Learning.
Rhiannon Tise Vice Chair
Rhiannon graduated from The University of Glasgow with an MA in Theatre, Film and Television Studies in 1998, since then she has written for theatre, television and radio. Her theatre work includes Headstone (Y Touring/Arcola Theatre); Upfront, Wasted (Y Touring); Chasing Angels (Complete, Scottish Tour); 24 Hours (7:84 Scottish Tour) Distil (The Focus Group at the Soho Theatre). Her radio plays include the award winning The Waltzer (Society of Authors Richard Imision Award), Pier, My Life in Boxes and Missing (all for BBC R4, afternoon play) and Iona (BBC R3, The Wire). Rhiannon’s TV work includes cult Granda series Night and Day, the CBBC series Intergalactic Kitchen and the BBC soap Doctors. She is currently working on new ideas for TV and radio and writing her first screenplay.
Professor Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon is a Professor in Drama. Before joining Goldsmiths in 1990, he was Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway College. He has been Adjunct Professor at Duke University and SUNY Binghampton in the USA and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He was for eight years Director of the University of London International Graduate Summer School.
Robert has taught classes for actors at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Actors' Centre, the Drama Studio, the Acting Company and the Natal Playhouse, South Africa, and for directors at the British Theatre Association. He has worked in the UK, South Africa, Italy, the USA and Ireland as an actor, playwright and director.
His play about South Africa, Red Earth, was presented at the Richard Steele Theatre, and Waterloo Road at the Young Vic. His scholarly research includes critical writing on modern British theatre (Pinter, Gray, Orton, and Rattigan), Wilde, Strindberg and Pirandello, and South African theatre. His monograph, Stoppard: Text and Performance was published by Macmillan in 1991. His book The Purpose of Playing: Modern Perspectives on Acting Theory, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2004.
Current research includes 'Whose Contemporary Shakespeare: London stage productions in the 1990s', 'Harold Pinter's Party Times and the aesthetics of TV Drama', and 'The Producers: the Broadway musical strikes back?' His practice-based research on 'Space, Place and Performance' is a joint ongoing project with the School of Architecture, University of Genoa, involving the creation of a series of site-specific works for the Rapallo Festival.
Eleanor Clow Treasurer
Eleanor Clow is a qualified chartered accountant who until recently worked for KPMG in their Corporate Finance division. Prior to working in the City she obtained a philosophy degree from Lancaster University. Eleanor is currently Deal Leader with Livingstone Partners - an international investment banking boutique specialising in company sales, acquisitions and private equity transactions
Richard Shannon
Richard is currently Associate Director at Polka Theatre for Children, and a playwright, director, experienced radio drama producer and dramaturg
Philippa Shire
Philippa is a Real Estate Solicitor with Lawrence Graham LLP
Previous board members include
Susan Croft, Paul Sirett, Lloyd Trott, Chrissie Tiller, Mark Johnson, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Jeffrey D'Souza, Caroline Summerfield, Alison Combes, Kara Miller, Lucy Hannah, Lynn Maxwell, Ted Townsend, Elyse Dodgson, Jenny Sealey, Kadija George, Afia Nkrumah, Jo Carter, Nayesh Radia, Julian Stanley, Chris Preston, Paul Bater, Deborah Lavin, Olwen Wymark, Peggy Paterson, Joan Anne Maynard |
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