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Title: Director

Name of Organisation: Imaginate

Length of service: Six years

Address: 45a George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT

Phone: 0131 225 8050

Email: info@imaginate.org.uk

What does your organisation do?
Imaginate grew out of the Scottish International Children?s Festival. It is a year round organisation, with a portfolio of initiatives and events aimed at promoting and
developing performing arts for children in Scotland.

What does your current job involve?
As Director I am responsible for artistic, managerial, financial and staffing policies, and development.

Who did you used to work for and what did you do?
? General Manager of Visible Fictions Theatre Company
? Freelance Administrator for Rain Dog, 7:84,TAG pen name
? Psychiatric Nurse: the perfect training for a career in theatre

What do you enjoy most about your present post?
The applications, the paperwork, the low status of children and arts for children in our
society. I just love all these things.

What do you find most difficult in your present post?
Having to travel to weird and wonderful places around the world all the time. I am constantly complaining about how tough my job is.

What is your career ambition?
To score the winning goal for Hibernian in the Scottish Cup Final, obviously. Apart from that, I?m very happy where I am.

Who has influenced your career to date the most ? and why?
Too many good people to mention just one.

If you could have done any job in the world, what would you like to have done?
I?ve always been slightly envious of Postman Pat.

If you have three wishes for the future of the arts, what would they be?
? We get the resources needed to take risks and to develop our arts.
? That the proposed Scottish National Theatre is bold, radical, relevant and fun.
? That the Scottish arts scene, and Scotland, was positioned slightly nearer the equator.