About Us

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David’s leadership roles include Chief Executive of Audiences UK, Executive Director of UK Theatre, Founding Director of the Family Arts Campaign and Managing Director of Purple Seven.  

His early career was in arts marketing and fundraising before moving into Local Government as Head of Arts & Entertainment for the London Borough of Lewisham and then on to Arts Council England where he held one regional and two National Director roles. At ACE he was responsible for devising the A Night Less Ordinary free ticket programme for young people and commissioning the research on local cultural engagement that led to the Creative People and Places programme.    

As a data analyst, his clients have included the BBC, the DCMS and the Ambassador Theatre Group, the world’s largest theatre company. 

His many publications include four editions of the National Campaign for the Arts’ Arts Index, two editions of the British Theatre Repertoire Report, and ten Insight Reports tracking the impact of the COVID pandemic on the performing arts in the UK, Republic of Ireland, United States and Canada. 

In a voluntary capacity, he was actively involved in the campaign to establish an Audience Development Agency in London and subsequently served as the Vice Chair of Audiences London. He has also served on the Board of the National Campaign for the Arts and Nottingham Playhouse.

He is a frequent contributor to industry journal The Stage and a visiting lecturer at the Rome Business School.

Over a twenty-year period, Helen's career in ticketing progressed from running the box office at the Crewe Lyceum to managing all aspects of the world's largest theatre ticketing business. She established the ATG Tickets brand and led a worldwide staff team of over 200. Her responsibilities included managing ATG's digital team and building one of world's most popular cultural websites (24 million unique visitors a year). She also established ATG's CRM team and managed the world's biggest theatre membership scheme (120,000 TheatreCard members).

Helen was a Board Member of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers for over a decade.

Since leaving ATG, Helen's consulting clients have included HQ Theatres, BH Live, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Hall for Cornwall.

James is a researcher, writer and consultant based in London. He was in the research team at Arts Council England before establishing his freelance practice. His clients have included Wellcome Trust, the British Council, League of American Orchestras, and Canada Council for the Arts. He is the author of Research to Support a New Vision for Higher Education and Cultural Sector Partnership (Culture Forum North, 2021) and The Art of Soft Power (King’s College London, 2017). He is the founding editor of CultureCase.org from King's College London and his journalism regularly appears in The Stage and The Art Newspaper.

Thanh is a talented strategic thinker, skilled in organisational dynamics and partnership development for equality, diversity and inclusion. 

Her practice and interests have evolved through over 15 years of experience working across the third sector on community-focused initiatives, as well as in local government and the cultural sector. Her experiences range from co-creating services, participatory practice, arts and health strategic commissioning to audience development. 

Thanh’s work focuses on social purpose projects and initiatives that advance equity between groups and celebrate and respect our diversity for a more inclusive world. 

photo: Monica Mochaupt

Charlotte is a highly experienced researcher with a history of working across a number of industries delivering insightful and impactful research and insights.  

During 14 years at Culture Republic, she was responsible for providing strategic and operational insight on customers, attenders, visitors and participants to cultural, leisure and tourism organisations across Scotland including Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow’s Concert Halls, Creative Scotland, National Museums of Scotland, and the National Galleries. She also led economic impact research projects for a number of festivals and events and was the project manager of the Source project which focused on the extraction, analysis and reporting of box office data from over 40 Scottish venues to produce the first ever Scottish arts data benchmark.  

Charlotte is a Member of the Market Research Society and registered with the ICO.

Anita is a sought-after coach and strategist. Her background includes more than 25 years of multi-cultural leadership experience across the United States and Canada in the areas of organisational change, leadership development, philanthropy, marketing, sales, and communications.

As an executive coach trained through the Townsend Institute at Concordia University, Irvine, Anita brings experience and mastery in helping coaching and consulting clients develop their potential through both skill and personal growth. She is also a skilled facilitator for both small and large groups.  

Nyasha is an artist, producer, multi-passionate entrepreneur and passionate non-executive director.  She is a positive, proactive activist for positive change, using words as her weapon of choice. 

In 2019, she was acknowledged as one of 50 professionals working within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as part of PwC's national Stonewall 50th anniversary celebrations. Nyasha is one of 15 Cultural Leaders, selected for development as part of Coventry City of Culture Trust's legacy programme, and is the founder of IDent Festival - an annual celebration of artists from the Black diaspora. 

She is currently under commission from Coventry Pride for Black, Queer & Done - a feature film exploring the way that Black, queer artists are portrayed within the UK and global media and arts sectors. She is also working on her first musical and publishing her first poetry chapbook.

photo: Trevor Price