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 Director (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.
Karl Taylor / Festival Manager ( He/Him)
Karl is a producer and curator for Live Art and contemporary performance who has worked with arts organisations around the world, including Artsadmin, Live Art Development Agency, Duckie, 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.
From 2017 - 2025 he was director of BUZZCUT, having worked there since 2015. BUZZCUT is an organisation supporting the development and presentation of radical performance in Scotland. In his time there he transformed the organisation from a DIY collective into a permanent fixture of the Scottish cultural landscape, mentoring, advocating & supporting hundreds of artists in the development of their projects and international networks.
He has a degree in Performance from Queen Mary University of London and is on the board of Wunderbar (Gateshead). Karl joined Take Me Somewhere in 2017.
Alex Misick / Event Producer ( He/Him)
Alex is a multidisciplinary producer for performance, visual art, residencies and other cross arts projects who takes an artist-centred approach. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art’s Environmental Art course, he worked in the programme team of the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow for over 8 years as both Programme Coordinator and Projects Producer across events, exhibitions and in developing a new online space; CCA Annex.
Prior to this he worked with other emerging and established arts organisations from the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton to the redevelopment of The Pipe Factory in Glasgow’s East End. He has been invited to speak at Kunsthal Ghent and to mentor on Cove Park’s Youth Arts Bursary programme.
Alongside Take Me Somewhere, he currently works on a variety of freelance arts and active travel projects.
Lily Ross-Millard / Administrator (She/Her)
Lily is an artist and freelance arts administrator working in live art and performance. Originally from Toronto, she moved to Glasgow in 2018 for the MFA programme at the Glasgow School of Art. She has a foundation in collectively devised theatre, and often makes performance-for-camera work as well as participatory works. She's thrilled to bring these experiences to her role as assistant producer with Take Me Somewhere, and looks forward to deepening her relationship with Scotland's contemporary performance community through the position.
Jessie McGoff / Marketing Manager (She/Her)
Jessie is a communications and marketing specialist with a background in contemporary art and cultural programming.
In their role as Communications Manager at CCA Glasgow, they led strategic communications, developed inclusive marketing practices and worked with a range of cultural organisations in the city. They’ve also worked with organisations such as Bloody Scotland, Glasgow Short Film Festival, HippFest and Creative Glasgow.
Jessie is an independent video essayist and writer. Their work has been commissioned by the BFI, MUBI, and Arbelos Films, and screened at venues including the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. They have spoken at international festivals and universities, and regularly mentor emerging critics through the European Network of Discourse programme.
Conner Milliken / Producer (He/Him)
Conner is an interdisciplinary artist and producer from Glasgow. He is Co-Director of Hacks, a creative producing duo supporting the work of early career artists in contemporary performance, theatre and dance. Hacks has produced work that has shown at BUZZCUT: Double Thrills, Tramway, Tron Theatre, Summerhall, The Lemon Tree, Camden People's Theatre and as part of the 'Made in Scotland Showcase' at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025 with Mark Bleakley's Stepping in | Spilling out.
His collaboration with lead artist Craig Manson, GAYBOYS, was in the ‘Made In Scotland Showcase’ in 2022 and completed a two-week run at Summerhall. He has also performed at Tramway, CCA, The Southbank Centre, Queer Theory and DICE Festival. His first solo commission, i am no longer listening, was part of the From Here A Home Was Imagined film programme as part of CCA Annex.
He completed a Doctorate of Fine Art in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow in 2023. His writing has been published in ‘MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture’ and the ‘Mechanics Institute Review’. He is delighted to be supporting the work of TMS for the 2025 festival.
Grahame Coyle / Production Manager (He/Him)
Over the past 30 years, Grahame has worked for a great many Scottish theatre, dance and music companies, including the National Theatre of Scotland, NVA, New Moves International, Dance Base, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera, Vox Motus, and Vanishing Point amongst others.
Grahame joined Take Me Somewhere at the beginning of 2025 having spent several years as Head of Production at Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre Ltd, and prior to that living for eight years in the middle east working on projects with the Abu Dhabi Education Council, New York University Abu Dhabi, and at the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Centre, Kuwait amongst others.
Having worked with Take Me Somewhere briefly in 2023, Grahame is delighted to be joining the team again for the 2025 festival.
Amr / Assistant Producer (He/Him)
Amr is a Syrian-born, Scotland-based multidisciplinary artist and a student at the Glasgow School of Art, where he studies Sculpture and Environmental Art. In 2024, he was selected for the Mophradat Artists Fellowship, joining (TMS) as an Assistant Producer, supporting artist-led projects through the Studio Somewhere programme.
In 2025, Amr rejoined TMS, supporting the delivery of the 2025 festival programme as Assistant Producer. Alongside this, he independently produces events within Scotland’s underground club scene, blending performance, sound, and visual culture. His practice sits at the intersection of politics and nightlife, creating inclusive, community-focused.
Laura Fisher / Access Coordinator (She/They)
Laura Fisher (they/she) is a disabled dance artist and producer based in Glasgow. She is interested in centring sustainable approaches to working, which are grounded in access, care and disability justice, and brings a holistic and embodied approach to all her work. They work as a choreographer, producer, access consultant, and venue & events manager, and has previously held roles with NTS, SWG3, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland & Sub Club. As a local Glaswegian, Laura has attended every TMS since the festival began and premiered their Unlimited Commission performance installation FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) at the 2023 festival. She is delighted to join the TMS team in the role of Access Producer for the 2025 Festival. Alongside TMS, Laura is also the Artists Programme Producer for The Work Room
Molly M. Whawell / Producer (She/They)
Molly is a Glasgow-based artist and producer working across visual art and interdisciplinary performance. As a producer Molly has worked with organisations including Take Me Somewhere, Jupiter Artland, Glasgow International; on projects with artist run organisations including Market Gallery, Transmission, Rosie’s Disobedient Press; and with artists including Lauren Gault, Mina Heydari-Waite and Leo Robinson.
Molly has a degree in Fine Art, Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art and works across installation, sculpture, moving image and performance. In November Molly will be on residency for a month at Scottish Sculpture Workshop; and in 2026 they will be presenting a new performance in progress at the Movement Research Programme at the Judson Memorial Church in New York.
Informed by their grounding in spatial and material practice, Molly also does set and production design for performance. Recent projects includes Kirstin Halliday’s ‘Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards’ and Produced Moon’s ‘Glory Mold’. In 2026 Molly will work on Hanna Tuulikki’s ‘Deer Dancer’.
Alongside this, Molly runs floristry project @flower.s____._
BOARD
Stephen Greer, Professor of Theatre and Performance (Theatre, Film & Television Studies), University of Glasgow
Anita Clark, Director, The Workroom
LJ Findlay-Walsh, Artistic Director, Take Me Somewhere
Isabel Moura-Mendes, Creative and Cultural Manager
Shona Wardrop, Chartered Accountant/Auditor, Chariot House