New Wolsey Theatre

The New Wolsey Board of Directors:
David Edwards (Chair), Dr Peter Funnell, Yvette Gallagher, Ron Gosling, Richard Jordan, Mike Smith, Andrew Staff, Frank Stone, Rob Tiffen (Vice-Chair).

The New Wolsey Board plays a vital role in the creation of policy and monitoring the affairs of the organisation. Their support is unvaluable and they receive no remuneration.

The Board meets six times a year. The above members are joined by Observers from our three major stakeholders, ACEE, SCC, IBC and by a member of the New Wolsey Young Board.

There are various 'task' groups, made up of staff and Board Members, that report to the Board Meetings.

For further information contact Theatre Administrator Eileen Kidd.

Formerly a member of the Theatrical Management Association, David served on the TMA Council for many years, and chaired a number of union negotiations for their Industrial Relations Committee.  While based in the East Midlands, David also served on several committees for the Arts Council, as well as being on the Boards of Derby Dance Centre and the Metro Cinema, and Chair of the Derby Arts Forum.

David is a former pupil of Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich, which he attended before going to Bristol University to study Drama and English, graduating in 1969.

Dr Peter Funnell

Dr Peter Funnell is Director of Enterprise and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk.  Academically he has published widely on quality in vocational education and has an international reputation in the field of e-learning having undertaken research and consultancy in Australia, the Middle East, Scandinavia and mainland Europe alongside two BT Fellowships in the field. He was a member of the Department for Education and Skills Standards Unit Expert Panel on ICT and the inaugural winner of the national ICT in Practice Award for Widening Participation sponsored by BECTA.  He is currently vice-chair of the Joint Organisational Committee of JISC, the national agency funded to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research. Peter has worked extensively with small and medium sized businesses in economic development and regeneration contexts.  He is a  member of the Executive of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and Chair of the Ipswich Central Forum. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan is a British-based theatre producer as well as managing director of Richard Jordan Productions Ltd, a busy London and international award-winning production and theatre general management company. He has produced or co-produced over one hundred productions and presented plays and musicals in London and throughout the UK, New York and across the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Iceland, Germany and South Africa.

His past productions have been the recipient of a number of awards including: The Lucille Lortel Award; The John Gassner Award for Best New American Play; The Helen Hayes Award; The Obie Award; The Fringe First Award; The Herald Angel Award, The Carol Tambor Award; The Total Theatre Award; The Spirit of the Fringe Award; The Icelandic Mask Theatre Award; The Tap Award; and The Adelaide Festival Award. Nominations for his productions include: The Stage Newspaper Awards; What’s On Stage Award; The Manchester Evening News Award; and short listed for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.

Richard is an Associate of Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions in London and an Artistic Consultant of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company. He is also Creative Consultant for Teatros.Art (Brazil’s largest chain of independently owned theatres), an Associate Artist of the Bush Theatre in London, and an Associate of the Perry Street Theatre and Primary Stages in New York City. He serves on the Boards of Directors for Youth Music Theatre UK, the Oxford Playhouse; one of the UK’s leading regional theatres, and the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich; one of the UK’s leading producing theatres. In 2000 he became one of the first recipients of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Award.

In 2008 Richard was nominated for the Theatre Managers Association (TMA)/Stage Newspaper Award for Outstanding Achievement in UK Regional Theatre. He is listed in the 2008 UK’s Stage Newspaper Top 100 British Theatre professionals and has previously been named in this list for three consecutive years. Richard is the only commercial producer to be named in the 2008 and 2009 Who’s Who editions of Britain’s Business Elite; Young Business Leaders.

Rob Tiffen

Rob has been a trustee of the New Wolsey Theatre since 2006 and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Board. He is a solicitor at Mills and Reeve LLP, and originally had a career in the theatre as a professional actor before changing career. He currently lives in Ipswich and is passionate about the diverse and high quality theatre that we make and support at the New Wolsey.

Frank Stone

Yvette Gallagher

Andrew Staff

Andrew was born and raised in Suffolk where after a local education he went on to qualify as an accountant. After working for local practices, he chose to apply his skills in industry where he is currently Financial Director of the Notcutts Group, a Garden centre retailer.

Andrew enjoys his charitable work and was previously a board member of The Mid Suffolk Light Railway. Andrew’s hobbies include The Arts, Gardening and Reading.

Ron Gosling

Mike Smith

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