CURATED PLACE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Andy Brydon is Creative Director and founder of international arts organisation Curated Place. A trained anthropologist specialising in Cultural Placemaking at a city, region and hyperlocal level. He is an established and experienced cultural strategist, festival and major events director as well as a seasoned curator, trainer and arts producer. Leading Creative Europe projects since 2014 he has won multiple national event awards for his work in England and Scotland.

Andy has over 20 years experience working in a senior strategic role in arts organisations specialising in international collaboration with city development teams, visual & digital artists, performers, composers and musicians to create high-impact exhibitions and experiences that transform places.

Andy was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2018/19.

EINKOFI CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Leading Icelandic arts and creative production organisation Einkofi, Ágústa is an experienced creative director and producer who works internationally connecting music, art, design, technology, literature, performance and education. She is an expert in Creative Europe and UK/Nordic Collaboration. She is able to initiate & drive funding, strategy, development and delivery of creative projects and regularly runs training and development for creative organisations and can help you shape and develop arts, heritage, music, performance and festival projects across multiple nations and cultures.

Ágústa works with the shining lights of the Nordic creative scene to create roads into the more obscure, left-field and risk-taking innovators whilst building brands and creative businesses.

Alongside her creative practice Ágústa is also an experienced Consul and trained Anthropologist.

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CREATIVE PRODUCER

Kate Wyatt works with Curated Place to deliver our Consultancy, Training and Creative Economy Development. She is Creative Producer for the Royal Opera House and a partner in our Wider Europe Creative Producer Training.

As Creative Producer at ROH she is responsible for strategic and artistic planning, commissioning and programming work, building partnerships in the UK and globally and is leading significant change management within EDI. Kate also works internationally, creating talent development programmes within the European opera sector, including for ENOA, Festival d’Aix-en-provence and LOD.

Kate has previously been Creative Producer at Snape Maltings, Concerts Director at Britten Sinfonia and Creative Producer at Spitalfields Music. As a freelance producer she has worked with a variety of organisations including The League of Pragmatic Optimists, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, NHS Barts Trust and the British Council. Kate is also a qualified and practising coach.

CURATED PLACE SENIOR PRODUCER

Ciara O’Connell is Curated Place’s senior producer in Ireland - a passionate and experienced arts profession- al. Based in Waterford she leads Curated Place’s Ireland office and has worked throughout Ireland’s cultural sector for the past fifteen years.

Ciara has extensive leadership experience through her time working in the high-end festivals, education and the creative industries and has an in depth understanding of Irish events legislation and licensing. She is at her best when she’s assembling, developing and leading extensive teams of industry professionals across complex multi-agency projects, and managing the needs and expectations of stakeholders.

Ciara specialises in festivals, music and theatre has run multiple venues as owner and proprietor, strategically led Waterford’s Summer in the City festival and Púca Festival through a step change in activity and has well-developed relationships with Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland and Fáilte Ireland.

CURATED PLACE FESTIVAL PRODUCER

Alison is an experienced creative producer, project manager and artistic programmer with over 15 years’ experience leading complex project for major venues and private clients.

Her background is in both commercial and funded experimental theatre and performance. She has extensive experience in UK touring, opera, international festivals and participatory practice. Her expertise encompasses all scales, working in traditional arts venues as well as found and public realm spaces.

She is a core member of the Prague Fringe team working across Europe to bring the best experimental performance together in the Czech capital each year and regularly works with Nordic collaborators.

Before joining Curated Place she worked with The Marlowe Theatre, Birmingham Opera Company and Curve Theatre.