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.
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.
Lily Ross-Millard (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.
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