I joined IdeasTap in September, two years ago.

I’d met Shaka Bunsie from OVNV and he told me all about this amazing festival called Coming Up and suggested I apply.

I left Punchdrunk four years ago after working as a performer for 18 months. I realised that I wasn’t happy as a performer because I wasn’t in control. I am a control freak. After that, I went into jobs as a production assistant, then production co-ordinator, doing the nitty gritty bits. On the other side, we had founded Heritage Arts, which wasn’t making any money, but was doing really exciting work in the Shunt vaults, at festivals, in the Proud Gallery in Camden and the Cable Street Studios.

The idea for Coming Up was that lots of people from IdeasTap would come and show their work. My initial foray into IdeasTap was as a miner, heading down in the cave of IdeasTap, in search of emerging talent. And it’s a very rich seam. Of course, we couldn’t use them all, but that lateral connection IdeasTap allows is hugely important. It’s reciprocal and it shows you that there are people out there, doing these things, making it happen.

Meeting Daisy Evans and Kindle Theatre has probably been the best thing to happen as a result of IdeasTap. I will be producing Daisy Evans’ project for the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund right through until October, and possibly beyond. I’m hopefully going to get her into some West End venues.

I’m currently working on Vault festival, which is the biggest thing I’ve ever done. Of the 25 creative groups that are part of it, easily half of them are from IdeasTap, which is an amazing thing. It feels like a really big, ambitious gamble.

It’s really hard to be a young arts company: there are charlatans in every shape and colour in the arts industry. We want to treat people with integrity and honesty, and bring all these people together in an environment where they feel nurtured and supported, administratively, creatively and financially.

As well as Vault, we are currently working on a one-man show of HG Wells’ Time Machine, to be performed in a treetop auditorium in Regent’s Park as part of the Cultural Olympiad. We’re also producing a one-hour dance narrative based on the life of a woman bullfighter from Peru. The plan is to take it on tour around Spain and through South America, eventually. I was inspired by reading her obituary in the paper – inspiration comes from all sorts of places.

The Ron Arad Curtain Call [at the Roundhouse] is a classic example of where focus can get you. I was brought onto the project without any real job spec; they just asked me to pull it all together, look at the budget and work out what tech they needed. A month in I knew more about it than anyone else, and a week before it opened I was working as the creative producer for the whole thing.

Every single project will have one electrifying moment, where you look around and you can see that the craftspeople and artists around you have made something that makes the world better, even if it’s just for a moment.

Tickets for Vault festival are available now. To find out more, visit the website. To get a special IdeasTap discount, visit our Discounts page.

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