Thea Woodrow

Experience

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  Bristol School of Dancing

  Sept 2010 - Oct 2015

  Pianist

  I accompanied pre-school through to grade 7 Royal Academy of Dance syllabus ballet classes and exams.

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  Aardman Animations

  Nov 2010 - Apr 2011

  Storyboard and Production Assistant

  The Tate Movie Project. I was privileged to work on a half hour animated film in collaboration with TATE. Children from all over the UK contributed drawings, stories, ideas, music, sounds and voices, which we put together to make a BAFTA award winning film titled, ‘The Itch of the Golden Nit’.I collated timesheets and holiday records; maintained freelance staff records and contact details; dealt with incoming and outgoing post, phone calls and emails; arranged couriers; scheduled and prepared meeting rooms; met taxi, train, flight and hotel requirements; greeted and looked after guests; organised merchandise; website data entry and transcription; liaised with other departments; monitored and ordered stationary; liaised between storyboard artists and editor; scanned storyboard drawings into Photoshop; composited images for the editor; and helped to compile and organise pre-production material. Show less

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  Self-employed

  May 2012 - Apr 2022

  Piano Teacher
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  Bristol Food Connections, Bestival & Camp Bestival

  Mar 2015 - May 2015

  Intern - Assistant to Event Manager/Producer

  I assisted the Community Events Producer with administrative support, and worked on community events such as the St. Mark’s Road Spice Festival and 'Cook 'n' Converse'. - Budget management on TTS crew system, balancing figures and processing invoices - Bookkeeping, logging expenses and receipts using Microsoft Excel - Transcribing sound recordings and taking notes at Cook ‘n' Converse events - Artist liaison and Stage Manager for Spice Festival demo kitchen and outdoor stage - Collecting assets from arts contributors for Bestival’s new Slow Motion field website Show less

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  Cirque Bijou Ltd

  Oct 2015 - Sept 2020

  From 2015 to 2020 I worked at the international circus production company Cirque Bijou. Cirque Bijou is one half of the partnership that makes Extraordinary Bodies – the UK’s leading, professional, integrated circus company. Producing credits include performances for Light Night Leeds (2017-2019), Great British Bake Off, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Alexandra Palace Fireworks Festival, and community projects The Umbrella Project and Kitchen Circus Project.Producing:• Responded to show enquiries within the parameters of a creative brief, designing visual proposals to best represent Cirque Bijou’s artistic vision and branding, and assembling case-by-case quotations• Built and maintained client, partner, and community relationships• Negotiated client, partnership, artist, and crew contracts• Worked closely with artists to realise a show's vision and intention• Led on community and participatory work, and ensured that young people and vulnerable adults were protected in accordance with safeguarding legislation and our policies• Ensured access needs for the cast, crew and creative team were met• Onsite management – site visits, client meetings and liaison, stage management, artist liaison, scheduling, implementing health & safety, and team briefings• Pre-production, show logistics and artist liaison to support the Directors and Senior ProducersFinance:· Managed company finances· Managed company Xero account – data inputting, bank reconciliation, year-end procedures, running reports, journals etc· Managed Arts Administrator to support with data inputting and invoicing customers· Delivered management accounts on a quarterly basis to support Business Development Manager· Produced financial reports including cash flow forecasting as necessary to support Directors and company meetings Show less

  • Producer & Finance Manager

    Oct 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Production & Finance

    Jul 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Arts & Finance Administrator

    Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
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  The Green House

  Dec 2020 - now

  Beyond Therapy - a festival of activism against child sexual abuse (CSA). Our first festival took place at Watershed Bristol in May 2022, and the second in February 2024 funded by the Home Office as part of the Up Front Survivors project (SARSAS, Viv Gordon Company, Coventry University & The Green House), and Arts Council England. Our third festival will take place on Tuesday 18th March 2025 at our venue partner Watershed Bristol.I lead the festival team in programming workshops, panels, and performances; commissioning artworks by CSA survivors; and delivering a safe, accessible, and sustainable event. Show less Project Manager of Bluestar Project - a national research and innovation project funded by the Home Office's Child Sexual Abuse Support Services Transformation Fund 2020-22, awarded to The Green House charity in Bristol. The Bluestar Project is an exploratory research study designed to understand how access to therapy services for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse can be improved. I managed the £400k project budget; led the visual identity of the project, website, podcast & festival; led the delivery of engaging, creative research outputs, delivered internal and external financial and KPI reporting; managed cross-sector stakeholders and partnerships; and managed freelance staff and subcontractors. Show less

  • Beyond Therapy Festival Co-Founder, Producer & Director

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Project Manager

    Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
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  Green Ginger

  Jan 2021 - now

  Working with Green Ginger and the University of Bath we toured RATLab to 12 Swindon primary schools and 1 Bristol primary school in April and May 2024, with funding from Orthopaedic Research UK and Arts Council England. Engagement Producer for RATLab, an award-winning interactive show about biomechanics aimed at 7–11-year-olds created by Green Ginger in partnership with the University of Bath. I booked a tour of four primary schools over six days in the South West, attended key rehearsal and show days, and produced wraparound resources in line with the National Curriculum.

  • Producer

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Project Manager & Engagement Producer

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
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  Viv Gordon Company

  Aug 2021 - Oct 2021

  Project Manager

  I was Project Manager for Cutting Out (part show, part installation, part collective act of resistance), which toured the South West in September and October 2021. Viv Gordon Company's work is a campaign to increase visibility, voice and community with adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA). I focused on survivor engagement - working to improve access for survivor audiences to attend live Cutting Out performances; managed the delivery of rehearsals, tech, and tour to agreed schedules and budgets; ensured access needs of the team were met; and liaised with partner venues in line with contracts/deal memos. Show less

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  Chochma חוכמה

  Jan 2022 - Aug 2023

  Creative Producer

  Creative Producer for artist/contortionist Hannah Finn, working on the development of her solo autobiographical show Chochma חוכמה.Chochma חוכמה means wisdom in Hebrew. It speaks to the intuition and wisdom of Hannah Finn’s great-grandmother, who fled Poland just before the Holocaust, and her mother’s decision to leave an abusive relationship. Hannah also draws upon her lived experience of hidden disabilities. Each story is told with a distinct movement quality and weaved together by the feral, wild woman archetype from Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.Chochma has received support from Theatre Deli, Jacksons Lane, Cirko Vertigo (Italy), INAC (Portugal), Jerwood Circus residencies and Certain Blacks, and has been successful in the first round of circusnext. Show less

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  The Whale's Tale

  Sept 2022 - now

  Producer

  Producer for The Whale’s Tale - a new play by Edie Edmundson for families with puppetry, storytelling and original music. It asks: what can whales tell us about our relationship to the ocean? What can we do to protect it? Our initial phase of research and development in 2022 was funded by Arts Council England and supported by Hermitage River Projects and Ocean Conservation Trust.Our next research and development phase in 23/24 was funded by Arts Council England and supported by Ocean Conservation Trust, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Plymouth University Marine Institute, Little Angel Theatre and University of Plymouth Arts Institute. In Autumn 2024 we are funded by Arts Council England and Whale and Dolphin Conservation to finish creating the show, and to deliver workshops and performances at the National Marine Aquarium and The House, University of Plymouth. Show less

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  The Shouting Mute

  Nov 2022 - now

  Producer

  Producer for Social Media Meltdown - we have been awarded funding from Arts Council England to research and develop a new gig theatre performance co-produced with Diverse City and supported by Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts, Arts University Bournemouth, CRIPtic Arts, Activate and 1Voice

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  Handstand Arts CIO/Bristol Circus City

  Apr 2023 - now

  General & Box Office Manager
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  Limbic Cinema

  Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

  Creative Producer

  Projects include:Trip The Light Fantastic - a commission for the reopening of Bristol Beacon in collaboration with Paraorchestra, Surgeons Girl and Charles Hazlewood.The Missing Lynx Exhibition - an interactive touring exhibition for Lifescape Project, part of their public consultation on the reintroduction of lynx in England and Wales

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  Olga Kaleta's Period Drama

  Jan 2024 - now

  Producer

  Period Drama received funding from Arts Council Wales to explore an outdoor iteration of the show, and to deliver a tour in Wales.

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  Cocoon

  Sept 2024 - now

  Producer