LJ Findlay-Walsh / Artistic Director (She/Her)

LJ became Artistic Director of Take Me Somewhere festival in June 2017 having acted as Associate Programmer since September 2016. She worked as Producer and Programmer of renowned Glasgow venue The Arches from 2005 – 2015 working on festivals that included Arches Live for emergent practitioners, and international performance festival Behaviour. She has worked across Europe, including co-curator of an edition of Plateaux live art festival in Frankfurt. She is Senior Performance Curator of Glasgow contemporary arts venue Tramway, working on year-round activity that includes DIG (Dance International Glasgow). She is a Board Member of Articulation, (Scotland's advocacy organisation for physical performance) and has held various advisory roles through the Federation of Scottish Theatre, including arts mentor and panel member for their Producer's Award. She has worked on various award panels including the Fringe Brick Award and Adrian Howells Award and is an ISPA fellow (International Society for the Performing Arts).

Caroline Winn / Executive Producer (She/Her)

Caroline is a successful leader of arts organisations with a track record as producer, project manager and strategic thinker. She worked most recently as Director of Research and Development for Skye based ATLAS Arts, and prior to this produced the 2018 edition of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art. She was the first Chief Executive of Mull’s Comar, from 2012-15, and was responsible for the strategic management, development, promotion and operation of this new multi art-form, island-based organisation. She has also held senior roles with Festivals Edinburgh and Hebrides Ensemble, and was Youth Music Officer at the Scottish Arts Council and Project Manager for Soma Records. Caroline has also held non-executive positions at the Scottish Music Industry Association and The Touring Network and currently serves on the steering group for AC Projects/Counterflows Festival. She has a degree in Music and History of Art from the University of Glasgow.

Amy Lawrence / Producer (She/Her)

Amy Lawrence is a producer, artist and curator with an all encompassing approach to her artistic and producing practice. As an artist she creates social commentaries via performative and visual projects using experimental choreography and visual arts with ensembles of collaborators.

Amy has also worked independently as a cultural organiser with organisations and artists such as Live Art UK, Siobhan Davies Dance,Contact Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, Quarantine Theatre, Dance4, British Council and as a board member with Manchester International Festival from 2018-2022.

Amy joined Take Me Somewhere in 2021

Karl Taylor / Producer ( He/Him)

Karl is a producer and curator for live art and contemporary performance. He undertook the Artsadmin Producing Traineeship in 2014, and has subsequently worked with arts organisations around the world, including Liberty Festival of Disability Arts & Mons European Capital of Culture. He has also produced the work of independent artists such as Lucy McCormick, Tania El Khoury & Scottee. He currently works as director of BUZZCUT, an organisation supporting the development and presentation of radical performance in Scotland, through their annual festival, artist development opportunities and monthly performance night Double Thrills.  

Karl joined Take Me Somewhere in 2017.

Sarah Wishart / Marketing (She/Her)

Sarah’s most recent role was as an award-winning Creative Director with a human rights strategic communications charity and has over 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, web, film and digital media in education, charities, think tanks, publishing and the cultural sector. She is obsessed about co-production and most recently her film about school exclusion ‘Excluded’ that only features young people was nominated for Best Educational Film for the Learning On Screen Awards in 2023. She went freelance in 2023 as a film producer/maker, trainer and consultant. She has a PhD in the documentation of live art and audiences from Leeds University and is on the board of the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Sarah joined Take Me Somewhere in 2023