We’re delighted to announce Ife Grillo and Tracy Gillman as our first R&D Associate Collaborators - two brilliant theatre artists and thinkers who will work with us to co-create and help realise the development of our new Associate Collaborator programme.
Following call outs in 2021 for artists based in the North East and South West, Ife and Tracy will work with us, and our partners Northern Stage and Tobacco Factory Theatres, to explore and test how our organisations, and the sector, can develop and provoke change by listening to the voices of creatives who are underrepresented in the arts.
Over the coming weeks and months we’ll talk, think and experiment, together and with other artists, to dream big and decide the future path of the programme. Tracy will also be collecting and shaping stories from working class communities with lived experience of care for older people in the North East to inform the creative development of our next major production, The Long Lie.
We’re thrilled to be working with two such exciting creatives to explore how we can create a more representative, more equitable, more inclusive cultural ecology.
Let’s get started.
