As well as a variety of roles as Production Manager he has also worked as Technical Production Manager, Company Manager, Tour Manager, Lighting and Video Designer, Pyro Designer, Stage Manager and Parade Manager in various combinations.

The management, creation and touring of large scale events has required a high calibre of effective communication and negotiation of support from a huge range of project partners, from artists, local communities, local authority officers and statutory authorities, to national and international funding agencies and producers. He has also toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally to France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with Forced Entertainment; to Poland with Third Estate; Pakistan with Rejects Revenge; Sardinia, Portugal and Sri Lanka with Emergency Exit Arts and Singapore with Avanti Display and sailed around the British Isles as technical manager for Walk the Plank aboard the Fitzcarraldo.

More locally, Allison’s theatrical experience include stage management and technician roles for the National Theatre Studio/Shunt Vaults’ Spill Festival London, Chelsea Theatre’s Sacred: A Season of Live Theatre and the Serpentine Gallery’s Poetry Marathon.

Well versed in production management for large scale events, Allison has had a longstanding association with Sydney New Year’s Eve Lord Mayor’s Party and Lord Mayor’s Picnic in Stage Manager/Assistant Stage Manager roles over the past decade. Other notable events include Logistics Coordinator for the 2009 Chinese New Year Parade in Sydney, Stage Manager for the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Chief Electrician for the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Jonathan also works voluntarily on community initiatives such as the Mill Road Winter Fair, Cambridge and for the SIN Cru Hip Hop arts collective. Prior to becoming a freelance consultant and manager, he worked for the York Festival, then for ten years (1990 – 1999) at The Junction, Cambridge before moving on to Eastern Touring Agency and Momentum Arts. From 2003 – 2007 he set up and worked on the highly acclaimed Southend-on-Sea Being Here arts regeneration project and was co-author of the book which came out of that project about participatory arts projects, Turning the Tide (2007).

Currently Bill is the UK and International Creative Producer for 3rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future by Metis Arts. Bill is also the inaugural producer of a major new International Festival in Milton Keynes, co-Artistic Director of the Inside Out festival in Dorset and is UK producer for Dutch theatre maker Dries Verhoeven.

As an Associate Producer with Artsadmin he is regularly invited to speak, give papers and undertake strategic research projects for Arts Council England and other agencies into work in the public realm. Recently Bill was researcher and author of the ACE publication Beyond Their Walls, Dec 2009.

Operating through a combination of programming seasons or festivals and directly producing artist’s projects, whilst specialising in outdoor and public realm work, Bill continues to work with artists from a range of art forms and through the years has worked with theatre, dance, music, visual arts, live art, spoken word, participative arts, film and video. Recent projects include Nutkhut’s Movieplex and Theatre Consultant Programmer for the National Theatre’s Watch This Space.

Bill is currently the Chair of the Independent Street Arts Network and sits on the boards of both Rachel Davies Film Ltd and Inbetween Time Productions Ltd, he is also a Regional Council member for ACE, East Midlands. Previously he has been a Board Member of IOU Theatre Company, Intermedia Film and Video and sat on various ACE panels. Bill is regularly invited to speak at conferences and symposia, write articles and publications focusing on his work in the arts in the public realm and as an Independent Producer.

Bill provided consultancy on a range of projects to clients including ACE South East, Roundhouse, Greater London Authority, East Lindsey District Council, Southwark Borough Council, Boilerhouse Theatre Company, Arundel Festival, Architects of Air and The Corn Exchange. Earlier roles included Arts and Events Manager for Canary Wharf Group Plc. festival director, freelance consultant and project producer: notably responsible for initiating the NOTTDance festival and directing Barclays New Stages festival in Nottinghamshire as well as being a founding member of Touch & Go Arts Co-operative, a touring theatre company based in Loughborough.

Bill is supported by Arts Council England, London as a Regularly Funded Organisation. This enables his role as an independent producer, his advisory work to emerging and mid-career artists and his leadership role within the Outdoor sector as well as advocating for the continuing support of Independent Producers.

He is also a member of The Frequency D’ici collective whose first show Paperweight won critical acclaim and a Scotsman Fringe First Award. They are currently working on their second show, Free Time Radical.