Vicky Featherstone

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Full Name	Vicky Featherstone
Occupation	Artistic Director
Date Of Birth	Apr 5, 1967(1967-04-05)
Age	57
Birthplace	Redhill
Country	Australia
Birth City	South Australia
Horoscope	Aries

Vicky Featherstone Biography

Vicky Featherstone is one of the most popular and richest Artistic Director who was born on April 5, 1967 in Redhill, South Australia, Australia. Vicky Featherstone (born 5 April 1967) is a stage and artistic director. She has been the artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre in London Royal Court Theatre since April 2013, when she was appointed artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre. Before that, she was the founder artistic director at the National Theatre of Scotland, and prior to that, the as artistic director for the UK new touring theatre firm Paines Plough. Her professional career has been marked by a significant engagement with the latest writing.

Following Scottish the devolution of 1997 in the long-discussed proposals for the creation of a nationwide stage for Scotland began to take shape and came to realization. In 2000 Scotland’s Scottish Executive invited the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) to carry out a feasibility study for the possibility of a Scottish national theatre. the SAC independently-run working group presented its findings on May 1, 2001. The concept for the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) which was agreed on was a commissioning theater that was that is, a “theatre without walls”, without the need for an entirely new theatre or a permanent troupe of actors, however making use of existing theatres as well as actors and technical personnel in order to create new productions that could be staged in locations across Scotland and around the world.

Featherstone is married to Danny Brown, a TV scriptwriter and former stand-up comedian. They have two children, a son (born around 1999) and a daughter (born around 2001).

Featherstone began building a team. This included John Tiffany, who had worked with her at Paines Plough and prior to that was Literary Director of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, as Associate Director of New Work; Neil Murray, since 1999 executive producer of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre, as the NTS’s Executive Director; playwright David Greig, as dramaturg (“He will be discussing plays, suggesting plays, working with international writers, helping set up translations and looking at ways we can work on existing Scottish plays,” Featherstone said); playwright and poet Liz Lochhead as an artistic associate; and Simon Sharkey, then artistic director of Cumbernauld Theatre, as associate director of NTS Learn (set up to foster and support a culture of creative learning throughout Scotland embedded in all areas of the NTS’s work and programme, to “open up great theatre experiences to as many people as possible across Scotland”).

Featherstone’s first professional experience in theatre was as Assistant Director at The Royal Court in 1990 for Martin Crimp’s film No One Notices the Video. She was accepted onto the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme and was there for two years from 1992 until 1994. She was first Assistant Director and later Associate Director with the West Yorkshire Playhouse, then under the artistic direction under the direction of Jude Kelly. She was then the director of The Octagon Theatre Bolton between 1994 and 1996. She also worked for Northern Stage, then became Literary Associate at The Bush Theatre from 1996 to 1997.

Vicky Featherstone Net Worth

Vicky Featherstone is one of the richest Artistic Director from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vicky Featherstone 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Prior to Her appointment business was not doing well. At the beginning of her tenure, Featherstone appointed writers Mark Ravenhill as literary manager, and Sarah Kane as writer-in-residence, and established an atmosphere that was viewed as accommodating for writers. Within two years following their appointment, the business has increased its audience by more than 100 percent. Premieres in the world of Anna Weiss, a study of false memory syndrome written by Mike Cullen, Crave, written by Kane on loss and love and sleep Around which was a 1990s remake on La Ronde, and The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Girl He Loved during the Former Soviet Union by David Greig contributed to the growth of Paines Plough’s repute.

In the late 1990s, Featherstone returned to television writing and editing scripts and programmes after some time working as script editors at Central TV immediately after University. While working as a script editor for United Productions, Featherstone conceived following a visit to a friend’s wedding in Yorkshire together alongside the writer Ashley Pharoah, the series Where the Heart Is, that revolves around the lives of district nurses within an intimate Yorkshire community. The show premiered in 1997. She also was involved in the creation of the drama about a pathologist called Silent Witness, first broadcast in 1996. she was acknowledged as the director of scripts for initial two episodes.

Featherstone was artistic director of Paines Plough, a theatre company based in the UK that specialises in new plays and touring, from 1997 to 2004.

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Featherstone read the advertisement for the post. “I thought the vocabulary of the board was fascinating. I thought they spoke the language of true creativity. It was radical, it was challenging. I applied,” she recalled in August 2004. From an initial 30 applications for the post to run the NTS, a short-list of six directors was interviewed.

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By the time of Featherstone’s departure from Paines Plough in 2004, the company was being described as “a major force for new writing” and “a national and international force in British theatre”, staff had doubled from four to eight, she had turned round the company’s deficit and turnover had risen to £0.5m per year.