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Amber Massie-Blomfield is an arts consultant, producer and non-fiction author. Her most recent role was as Executive Director of internationally renowned theatre company Complicité, where she was recognised on The Stage 100 Power List in 2024. During her tenure, she oversaw major projects including Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican and International Tour, 2022 – 23); Figures in Extinction (Nederlands Dans Theater and International Tour, 2022-24); The Dark is Rising (BBC World Service & Radio Four, 2022-23) and Can I Live? (online & grassroots screening events, 2021-24).

 

She has worked for clients including Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council), the Barbican, ATC, China Plate, Free Word and Pen International. She was Executive Director of Camden People’s Theatre from 2014-2018, receiving a Special Achievement Award at the 2018 Off West End Awards in recognition of her work. As an author, she has written Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die (winner of a Society of Authors Michael Meyer Award, Gladstone Library’s Politics Prize and shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2018). Her forthcoming book Acts of Resistance, about the political power of art, is published by Footnote Press (UK) and W.W.Norton (US) in June 2024.

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