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Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001. History The company is now based at York Guildhall. It tours work in the UK and internationally. As of July 2016, the company's artistic direction is led by Esther Richardson. The previous artistic director, Marcus Romer, who has written, directed, and shaped the identity of the company since 1995, recently moved on to establish Arts Beacon. In 1998, Pilot Theatre embarked on their first mid-scale UK tour with their production of ''Lord of the Flies'', which went on to win the company numerous awards and great critical acclaim. Since then the company has developed links with theatres around the country, in particular York Theatre Royal where they were residents. They were part of the EU Culture 2000 funded programme called Magic-Net along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Richardson
Esther Richardson (born 1974) is a British theatre director and script editor. She directed an adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's ''Breaking the Silence'', and ''A Pair of Pinters.'' In 2016, she was appointed the artistic director of Pilot Theatre. Biography Richardson was born in Manchester. She attended Bristol University, where she studied English. She earned her master's in theatre arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. She began working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a literary assistant in 2000. She began working on the Theatre Writing Partnership (TWP), which allowed her to discover new play writers. TWP won the Peggy Ramsay award for Momentum in 2004. In 2007, she quit working with TWP, and began working with Derby LIVE, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal and Derngate, the Soho Theatre and the Cast Theater in Doncaster, directing its first show, '' The Glee Club'' in 2013. In 2011, Richardson and Andy Barrett created ''Skybus'', which is a play that took plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation. Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform the building stock of arts organisations and to create much additional high-quality arts activity. On 1 October 2011 the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was subsumed into the Arts Council in England and they assumed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |