Creative Industries Event at Macready Theatre

Theatre experts at Macready Theatre. Photo courtesy of Macready Theatre.

If you’re a young creative interested in learning more about the theatre industry then book your free place at a special evening at Macready Theatre, Rugby, on Thursday 9 January 2025 to hear from creative industry experts. 

This fascinating event features a panel of professional artists working in the theatre and creative fields. During the evening, conversation will focus on ways into the creative industries and how to maintain a successful and fulfilling career.

Come primed with questions for the panel of theatre makers, Producers and other industry experts. After the event, it is hoped to  accommodate a brief meet and greet with the panellists.

The exciting line-up for this year’s event feature:

Anna Simpson who is a director and playwright trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the founder and Artistic Director of Quintessence Theatre in Louth, Ireland, and recently appointed the new Schools and Young People Associate at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton. She fuses choreography and mime with text to exploit the shared imagination between actor and audience and create exciting, challenging, expressionistic work that both entertains and provokes.

Some UK directing credits include The Wasp (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Dorian Gray & Government Inspector (Incognito Theatre, Pleasance London & Edinburgh, Ed Fringe); Welcome to Thebes & Spring Awakening (South Hill Arts Centre, Reading), Close to You (Southwark Playhouse), and Disco Pigs (Tristan Bates, London).

Namron OBE is a British Dance Pioneer, a recent recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from this year’s Black British Theatre Awards and was honoured with an OBE in 2014 for services to British Dance. He was founder member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1969 and a founder figure of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, working there for eighteen years. Namron trained at the Rambert School (winning a scholarship there in 1965) and then at (as it was then called) the London School of Contemporary Dance at The Place in 1967; from 1969, he danced with the new London Contemporary Dance Theatre in choreography by Robert Cohan, Robert North, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, and others.

Katherine Burton started her career as a playwright, then moved into television. She has written for the Netflix hit Sex Education, as well as for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She is currently working on a new project with HBO and is writing her first novel.

This event is free and open to young people curious to learn more about pathways into creative careers, their parents, and supporters of the arts who might be interested in what goes on behind the scenes.

Book your seat for this FREE event which takes place at Macready Theatre, Rugby, on Thursday 9 January 2025:   https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/venueplan/vzonbpredwgn