Jonathan Holloway is an established director and playwright with a substantial record of work at the innovative end of UK theatre. His dynamic theatre-making is best summed up in four of Red Shift's keynote productions; a MORT D'ARTHUR which employed the first thorough-going integration of Capoeira (accompanied by Afro Brazilian music) seen on the professional stage in this country; a new translation by Neil Bartlett of Moliere's LE MISANTHROPE which employed the archaic Alexandrine verse form in a sumptuous version that delighted audiences here and abroad; Greg Cullen's original drama FRIDA AND DIEGO which drew on imagery from Kahlo's pictures to explore her tempestuous life; a modern brutalist rendition of the First Quarto HAMLET played in Wayne Hemingway's Red or Dead clothes against a thunderous contemporary rock score. Jonathan founded Red Shift in 1982. Under his leadership it grew from a shoestring operation to become an Arts Council RFO and a linchpin of UK national touring provision. He has directed all but one of the company's sixty plus shows. Jonathan is committed to making interdisciplinary work that marries intellectual rigor, theatrical invention and entertainment. Scripts for Red Shift include THE DOUBLE, IN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (Edinburgh Fringe First, 1987), THE HAMMER (also recorded for BBC Radio 3), DEATH IN VENICE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (also produced in Chile), LES MISERABLES (pub. Samuel French, recently in rep in Hong Kong), THE ASPERN PAPERS, NOSFERATU THE VISITOR, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY, the first stage versions of MORT D'ARTHUR, THE THIRD MAN, GET CARTER (recently revived in Sydney, Australia) and VERTIGO. Jonathan's freelance theatre writing includes DARKNESS FALLS (pub. Samuel French) for the Palace Theatre Watford, BECAUSE IT'S THERE (2000), ANGELS AMONG THE TREES (2004) and A SENSIBLE WORLD (2005), all for Nottingham Playhouse. His writing for BBC Radio Drama includes fifteen episodes of the original daily serial POSTCARDS, a five episode series celebrating the cult TV show THE MAN FROM UNCLE, adaptations of stories by George Eliot, Willa Cather, Walter de la Mare, Evelyn Waugh, Heinrich Boll, Leo Tolstoy and Andrew Motion. Recent work for the BBC includes dramatising the entirety of C P Snow's eleven novel cycle STRANGERS AND BROTHERS, Christiaan Barnard's first successful human heart transplant, Evelyn Waugh's THE LOVED ONE, Andrew Motion's THE INVENTION OF DR CAKE, Olivia Manning's LEVANT TRILOGY and Goethe's FAUST. Freelance directing has included THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD in Ireland, LE MISANTHROPE in Boston USA and co-directing Gifford's Circus for its 2008 season. His work has toured to hundreds of theatres in the British Isles and travelled to North America, South America, the Near and Far East. He has travelled to Chile to lead EU sponsored workshops, was an elected member of the Board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Advisory Panel of the National Campaign for the Arts, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2005 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's University College, London. Jonathan is regularly invited to talk about his work in universities and colleges, and has also travelled to America, S America and the Far East to do so.

Some Recent Press:

Much Ado About Nothing: "puts the brutality back into Shakespeare's comedy, creating a sense of the urgency of love in time of conflict" - The Guardian

Vertigo: "taut and wonderfully atmospheric"- The Guardian, Critic's Choice - The Independent, Critic's Choice - Time Out

James Purefoy, lead in HBO series 'Rome': "He showed me a lot that I still carry with me today; he was my big inspiration" - The Guardian

The Loved One: "Jonathan Holloway's adaptation glistened from the off and I was sorry when it ended" - The Guardian, "Bliss…*****" - The Financial Times, "a splendid production… outstanding" - The Daily Telegraph

Virginia Woolf Onstage, National Theatre Platform Event: "Thank you for a super evening much appreciated by the pleasingly large crowd" - Sarah Mowat NT

The Invention of Dr Cake: "Jonathan Holloway's impressive adaptation… dramatic poise… just right" - The Guardian

Jane Hellings
Acting General Manager and Director of ABL Consulting

Joining ABL in 1996 Jane has led cultural/arts strategies for Swindon Borough Council, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Elephant and Castle SRB, LB Croydon, Oldham MBC, Torbay District Council, and North Devon District Council. She has undertaken a number of Arts Council capital and NESTA assessments. Jane has developed successful capital Lottery bids for the Arundel Festival, Leicester City Council for the Haymarket Theatre, The Photographers' Gallery, Bristol City Council for the Museum of Bristol (HLF) and Colston Hall (ACE), Pegasus Theatre Oxford, and Philharmonia Orchestra as well as a development study (Stage 2) award for The Last Invasion Centre, Fishguard.

Jane has led many feasibility studies for a wide range of clients which include five universities, two FE colleges, at least fifteen district councils and a similar number of unitary authorities, a tourist board, two orchestras, two cultural education institutes, four arts centres, five concert halls and seven theatres.

In libraries she has worked with Swindon Borough Council, Oldham MBC, Kent County Council, Suffolk County Council, Oxfordshire County Council and Rotherham MBC on strategies to review, renew or rationalise library services, including new PFI library delivery schemes.

In the last five years she has worked on capital project development, change management and funding bids for Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Oldham Coliseum, Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Derby Playhouse, Kenneth More Theatre Ilford, Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Central School of Speech and Drama, the Suspect Culture Theatre Company, Wimbledon Theatre, and Pegasus Theatre Oxford.

Jane has worked with developers on new and replacement cultural content for mixed use commercial developments in Ilford, Croydon, Kingston, Bury St Edmunds, New Brighton Wirral, and Leeds. She worked with the Theatres' Trust and ODPM on drafting supplementary planning guidance for provision of performing arts venues in town centres.

In creative industries Jane has led feasibility and market research studies to examine the needs for incubation and workspace for Coventry University, Creative Connections Wellingborough, Newport Pagnell Academy and Dartington Hall Trust.

In the heritage sector Jane has led projects for Bristol Museums, North Hertfordshire Museums, Black Cultural Archives, the Topolski Memoir and LB Ealing. She has worked on projects to convert many listed buildings to arts or heritage use including two chapels, two churches, a church hall, an old gaol, two schools, a factory and a Manor House.

Before joining ABL worked as the Executive Director of Opera Factory of seven years, prior to which she held senior management posts with a number of theatres and theatre companies: the Royal Court Young People's Theatre, and Red Shift Theatre Company. Jane was a founder Committee Member of The Opera & Music Theatre Forum and is a former board member of the Union Chapel Arts Project, Islington and the Kosh Dance Company.

Specialisms:
" Cultural capital planning
" Feasibility studies
" Capital project development
" Performing arts

Qualifications:
BA Hons in English Literature (York University)