Keisha Thompson

Co-Chair of the Independent Theatre Council, a trustee of Olympias Music Foundation and recipient of the DARE Art Prize 2024 from Opera North and the University of Leeds in association with National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley. Formerly, the Artistic Director and CEO of Contact Manchester (2022-2024), Chair of radical arts funding body, Future’s Venture Foundation and was the first recipient of The Arts Foundation Theatre Makers Award in 2021. Currently, Programme Manager for The Guardian's Legacies of Enslavement Programme.