Menagerie work with a variety of writers, actors, directors and other partners to help us achieve our aims (thanks to all of you by the way!); the following are people who work with the company on a day to day basis.

Paul Bourne, Artistic Director

Freelance Director, Artistic Director of Menagerie and The Hotbed Festival, Paul has directed and produced over sixty professional productions in ten different countries. His work has ranged from productions on the fringe through to major international touring. Highlights include Guignol (Tennessee Williams) in New York and The UK, The world touring production of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (out of Washington DC), and the European premieres Oleanna and The Secret Garden.

Previously Artistic Director at the Frankfurt Playhouse and Center Stage New York, his focus is on creating and developing new work for the stage, offering appropriate productions that entertain, challenge and inspire. Paul also runs the corporate training for menagerie and has delivered training and support for companies at all levels including Liverpool F.C and the BBC.

Patrick Morris, Associate Artistic Director

Patrick Morris trained at Exeter University before moving to the USA for nine years where credits include Henry VI at New York’s Public Theatre, Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways directed by Joseph Chaikin, and On the Razzle working with Tom Stoppard. Work in the UK includes site-specific projects with Wrights and Sites, and national tours with Foursight Theatre, most recently playing Jason in their production of Medea.

For Menagerie, he has appeared in The Cull by Steve Waters, Hard Sell by Craig Baxter and directed premieres of Naomi Wallace’s The Retreating World and Claire Macdonald’s Correspondence. Patrick is Associate Artistic Director of Menagerie and currently directs the Writer Attachment Programme.

Emma Bonsall, Project Manager

After working for independent cinema chain City Screen at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge, Emma joined the arts-based publishing and consultancy firm Arts Intelligence, where she specialised in market research, evaluation and project management and attained the UK Market Research Society’s Advanced Certificate in Market & Social Research Practice in 2005 to add to a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford and an MA in Arts Management from Anglia Polytechnic University. She joined Cambridge Film Festival in April 2006 as Festival Manager, leaving in April 2008 to pursue a freelance career in research and project management.  She joined Menagerie soon afterwards as Festival Manager for Hotbed, and is now working with the company on a range of projects for 2009/10, alongside work for other clients, most recently including Addenbrooke’s Arts, London Arts in Health Forum, Cambridge Film Trust and the BFI.

The Board

Lester Lloyd-Reason, Chair

Lester is Professor of International Enterprise Strategy and Director of the Centre for International Business at the Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge, UK. He has considerable experience of research in the area of entrepreneurial management of international SMEs and has more than 90 publications in this field. He has developed two research projects under the European Union Phare-ACE programme, has been in receipt of personal research grants from the British Academy and the Soros Foundation and has acted as strategic adviser to a number of organisations both within the private and public sectors.

Lester teaches Strategic Management on undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses, is a member of both the European and International Council for Small Business, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Small Business Affairs (ISBA) in the UK and serves on the Editorial Board of a number of Journals, including the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ). Regularly involved in the Arts, he is on the Arts & Business National Westminster Skills Bank and Board Bank and continues to advise a number of arts organisations on strategic matters

James Barlow

James qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton working mainly in the audit division in both the UK and Australia. More recently he has worked for small fast growing companies with particular focus on raising funds and cash management along with developing and implementing the necessary controls and systems as the companies have grown.

Sue Grace

Sue is Head of Leisure & Learning at Northamptonshire County Council and previously worked for  Essex County Council in the role of Heritage, Arts and Sports Manager with a team that includes Arts and Sports Development, the Archive Service at the Essex Record Office, a Heritage Outreach team and the Essex Museums Advisory Service.  Previously Sue was Director of Performing Arts at Eastern Arts Board and Music Officer at West Midlands Arts Board working with a wide range of performing arts companies. Sue spent ten years touring with a small-scale theatre company as a performer, administrator and latterly general manager. Sue obtained a Degree in Music and an MBA in Public Policy both from Birmingham University.

Catherine Slack

Catherine is joint founding partner of Prospect Row LLP which provides strategic project management services to deliver regeneration and renewal projects in the built environment.  Based in Cambridge, the company currently focuses on projects in the East region.