CHRIS GRADY

CHRIS has run, built, marketed, and created theatres and festivals over 30 years. Most recently heading the marketing and fundraising for the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds for Colin Blumenau, after being General Manager for the Pleasance Theatres and Head of International Licensing for Cameron Mackintosh.  He created the first International Festival of Musicals in the UK in 1992 whilst running Buxton Opera House and subsequently focussed on new writing running the Vivian Ellis Prize, establishing Musical Futures, starting Musical Theatre Matters (now MTN).  He has worked for Society of London Theatre and the BBC. He is currently running the MA in Creative Producing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, running his coaching and mentor service CGO, hosting Producers' Pool - a gathering for freelance producers, and marketing his new book "The Anatomy of your Creativity" commissioned for the business community by Bookboon. 
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