Helen Freshwater Author

Kate Craddock is the Founder and Festival Director of GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, UK, an annual artist-led festival celebrating contemporary theatre. Since 2005, Kate has worked across academic roles and cultural sector contexts, and is regularly invited to speak as a panellist at international festivals. Kate was recipient of the Theatre Fellowship with the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme 2018/19. Helen Freshwater is Reader in Theatre & Performance at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Theatre & Audience (Methuen Drama, 2009) and Theatre Censorship in Britain: Silencing, Censure and Suppression (2009). Between 2017-2020 she was Co-I on ‘Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts’, an AHRC-funded project.