OUR TEAM
Josephine Burton
Artistic Director and Chief Executive
Josephine Burton is a director and creator of over 80 new pieces of award-winning cross art-form work nationally and internationally over the last 18 years.
In 2022, Josephine directed Dido’s Bar, co-produced with The Royal Docks Team, Journeys Festival and Oxford Contemporary Music, The Great Middlemarch Mystery, part of Coventry City of Culture and the international Songs for Babyn Yar.
Other recent highlights include new work with Hofesh Shechter and Olivier-Award-winning Babel by Sidi Larbi Cherkoaui; the installation Lyrical Alliance, an ensemble of rappers from across the Arabic speaking region and Renegade Orchestra with an ensemble of musicians and performers from across the Post-Soviet States.
She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Dash Arts, a music adviser for PRS Foundation, a professional vocalist and a mum of 3.
MOYA MAXWELL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Moya has over 25 years’ experience of working in a business capacity across arts and commercial venues, both here in the UK and overseas. She has a background in venue management and event organisation, most notably at Royal Opera House, RIBA and Sadler’s Wells, and has organised events such as BAFTA Film awards, BP Summer Big Screens, Olivier Awards and the Stirling Prize.
Latterly, Moya has been working as ED for arts organisations across the dance sector. Moya is responsible for the business administration of Dash Arts and is passionate about sharing her business acumen with independent arts producers to put the sector on a more sustainable financial footing.
When not working, Moya is a keen tennis player and gardener.
Cristina Catalina
SENIOR Producer
Cristina is a theatre and multi-disciplinary arts producer, translator and performer. She has been working with Dash since 2013, first as a performer, and since 2017 as producer.
In-house shows: Songs for Babyn Yar, The Great Middlemarch Mystery, Dash Cafés, Dash Arts Forum, Eurosquat, Euro2020 Gigs.
Previous production work includes productions and festivals for the Lyric Hammersmith, New Diorama Theatre, VAULT Festival, and touring theatre from Romania to the Barbican, Theatre Royal Stratford East and LIFT. She co-founded and ran All Change Festival with Firehouse Creative Productions and produced a season of Romanian theatre featuring Elevator (**** Critics Choice, Time Out).
She is of Romanian-German descent, and also works as a translator and an actor, notably for the Royal Court and the BBC.
Veronica Revuelta Garrido
General Manager
Veronica makes sure that Dash Arts runs smoothly with the team, artists, stakeholders, and the different activities and projects. She has an extensive experience in operations and team building. Veronica is also an independent curator of visual arts through an activist lens. She holds an MA in Museum Cultures focusing on the topic of identity, diaspora, and refugee studies.
JESSICA MALLINSON
Communications Officer
Jessica is a brand, strategy and marketing expert. She has a range of experience working with multiple industries. Within the arts and culture sector, Jessica has worked with internationally acclaimed brands, including Sadler’s Wells, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and the Islamic Fashion and Design Council.
MARIE HORNER
Podcast Producer
Marie is an award winning podcast and radio producer who loves storytelling through sound as well as running workshops to support others to create their own ear crackling audio. After being the Head of Broadcast and Digital at the Roundhouse for over 10 years she now works as a consultant and producer for different arts organisations and broadcasters to explore podcasting and lectures in podcasting and broadcast law at SOAS and Bournemouth University. Marie’s career started as a broadcast journalist and voiceover artist at the BBC, Global and other international broadcasters and podcast platforms before moving to working with emerging talent in the arts.
Bryan Woltjen
Creative Associate
A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Bryan has designed for a diverse range of theatre makers across Australia, India and the UK. He is the recipient of two W.A. Equity Guild Awards for Best Set Design. In 2008 he undertook a series of residencies across India researching traditional puppetry and devising new works.
Based between London and Perth, Australia Bryan seeks to develop work that is inclusive, sustainable, and unflinchingly anti-oppression.
Sophie Austin
Creative Associate
Sophie is a theatre and film director. She specialises in large scale, site specific and immersive theatre and has staged productions on Greenham Common, Trafalgar Square, in an arsenal and up and down high streets across the UK.
She is director of SHH Productions, film company producing work that has an International vision and a female focus.
Rosemary Avila
INTERN
Rosemary is from California and is currently a third-year student at Oberlin College in Ohio. She is working towards her Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a concentration in Arts Administration and Leadership. She has had a long-standing passion for the visual and performing arts and advancing arts organizations that cultivate understanding, empathy, and social change. She believes in the arts as a means to build new bridges between people and culture.
Finance Team
Jo Hughes
Beth Roberts
TRUSTEES
Joachim Fleury (Chair)
Olivia Scanlon
Jerry Wattenberg
Katherine Zeserson
Magdalena Ziarko