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 previously worked as Producer and Programmer at renowned Glasgow venue The Arches from 2005-2015, contributing to festivals including Arches Live for emergent practitioners and the international performance festival Behaviour. From 2016-2025, she was Senior Performance Curator at Glasgow contemporary arts venue Tramway, leading year-round activity including the curation of dance biennial DIG (Dance International Glasgow). She has worked across Europe, including as co-curator of an edition of Plateaux live art festival in Frankfurt. She has worked on various award panels including the Fringe Brick Award, Adrian Howells Award and New Dimensions Award. She was an ISPA fellow (International Society for the Performing Arts) and 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 is currently on the advisory board for BUZZCUT Glasgow, co-Chair of the UK Directors Network and member of the Imagining Futures Network in association with the Goethe Institute.

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.