Dave Moutrey is a manager and leadership professional of United Kingdom arts organisations. He is Director and Chief Executive of

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, the Manchester centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film which opened in 2015 formed by the merger of

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

and th
Library Theatre Company
Dave is als
Director of Culture for the City of Manchester
a role that he performs concurrently with his position as Director and CEO of HOME. In 2016 Moutrey joined the

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Arts Advisory Group and th
Board of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 2017
In early 2022 he was appointed Chair of the Theatres Trust.

Career

Moutrey was Chief Executive of Arts About Manchester from 1990-1998, before joining Cornerhouse as Chief Executive and Director; prior to these roles, Moutrey was the manager of the Abraham Moss Theatre. He is
BAFTA
member and a member of the

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. In July 2010 Moutrey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the

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in recognition of his decades of work supporting young people’s entry into the arts and socially engaged arts practice. In June 2022 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours list for services to culture especially during Covid. He is also a qualified drama teacher and a strong advocate for the importance of the arts in education and wider society. He also stated in an interview that he'd like to take theatre pioneer and

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for a pie and a pint. When asked why he does what he does, he stated that 'I do enjoy it, I believe it has a purpose ..there is no better drug than seeing an audience of one or thousands have their lives changed in some very small way by an artwork that you have helped create the space for'.

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