Lia Ikkos
Performance Maker/ Performing Arts Producer
[email protected]/ 07721737579
Current Productions
Persephone. Part of DIAZOMA program at Athens, foundation lead by Stavros Benos, ex Minister of
Culture; presentation of Opera Viscera ensemble at annual conference in Athens, 1 month residency at
The National Conservatoire of Athens, performance of Persephone at temple of Necromanteion 2017/18.
ACT Training at The Old Truman Brewery, with Juju's Bar & Stage. Residency in 2nd season, offering 8
week courses of actor training in Actor Chorus Text methodology under Artistic Direction of Anna Helena
MacLean, aka Moon Fool.
Juju's Bar & Stage at The Old Truman Brewery. Producer, Curator and Event Manager for new venue
launched June 2016. Programing theatre and music performance, stage managing events, networking
with London's fringe leaders inc. VAULT Festival for 2018 partnership.
Current Role:
Performance Curator and Events Director at The Old Truman Brewery. Developing partnerships
and Sponsorships (inc. Havana Club, Crystal Head Vokda). Producing performing arts workshops
and festivals. Programming 7 days and 7 nights per week of performance, conference,
entertainment and corporate functions. Working with clients from all sectors, including health,
creative, film, weddings, branding, start-ups, tech, charity, and more. Duties include:
programming, managing budgets, scheduling, line managing staff, booking entertainment.
Originally based at Juju’s Bar & Stage, currently across the whole brewery.
Education:
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2014 Spitafields Music Leader
Sept 2011/ Sept 2012; MA Text and Performance at RADA and Birkbeck. Distinction.
2007/11; BA Language and Culture at UCL; 2.1 Hon’s, specializing in French, Italian,
German and modern European literature and philosophy, and spending 1 year living in
France studying at Chambéry University.
2004/07; Guildhall School of Music Juniors. 2007 graduate as Singer of the Year.
Languages:
English, Spanish and French – Fluent
Italian, German and Portuguese – Conversational
Polish and Greek – Basic
Awards:
2016 Equity Charitable Trust’s Emerging Director Award, recipient.
2016 Sky Arts Academy, Producer Category, runner-up.
2007 Singer of the Year, Guildhall School of Music, Juniors.
Performance Maker
Roles include: performing, conceptualisation, commissioning of other artists, budget
management, event ownership of organization and planning, liaisons with temporary structures
and set-up, liaising with internal providers, local team hiring and managing, and heading public
and media relations.
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Royal Academy of Art. Performance creator from 2015 and ongoing. Events include
Venetian Garden Night – May 2016, Ai Wei Wei Exhibition – December 2015, Summer
Party - June 2015.
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The Ophelia Gallery, Dalston. Residency of artistic practices form January 2016 to May
2016.
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VAULT Festival 2014. Bukowski’s Cass ****
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Gardzienice 2012 to 2014. Core company member. Performer of all company repertoire
inc. Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, Metamorphosis. Core creative in new
performance creation process of Pythian Oratorium. National and international touring.
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Opera Viscera. Narcissus and Echo. 2011. Tour: Open Ealing Art Centre, Secret Garden
Party, The Arcola Theatre ‘Grimeborne Festival’, and The Cockpit Theatre ‘Rough for
Opera’.
Assistant Director / Producer
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Miranda Davis – Assistant Producer. September 2014 to May 2015; Bespoke marketing
services. Clients include TedX, Volvo, House of Frasier, etc.
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Katie Mitchell – Assistant Director. June/ July 2014; Opera Director. Trauernacht at Aix
en Provence Féstival d’Art Lyrique. Services included personal translation between
English and French.
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James Brennan – Assistant Director/ Producer. January 2013 to September 2014; Arts
Producer. Final project involved workshops with prisoners of Warsaw state prison, and a
performance inside the prison grounds. Material to be released in Australia in 2017.
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Hannah Van den Brul – Assistant Producer. September 2012 to December 2012.
Producer of Live from Abbey Road Season 5. In collaboration with Channel 4.
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Martin Constantine – Assistant Director. July 2012 at The Yard Theatre.
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Emma Rivlin – Assistant Director. Lord Sumption’s Chateau Berbiguères July 2012.
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Mark Ravenhill – Assistant Director. at The Tête-à-Tête Festival 2010.
Festival Curation:
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Red Lion Theatre at The Old Truman Brewery. 6 week festival from May to July 2017.
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Gardzienice; 2012 to 2014. European Union sponsored cultural exchange centre in
Poland, working with worldwide performance troops on festivals and touring repertoire.
Responsible for audience experience, coordinating multiple events during festival
weeks, programming encounters and performances, and producing literature about
acts, features and festivals. On location on the Gardzienice premises near Lublin, as well
as travelling nationally in Poland and internationally as far as Iran.
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Winterwell 2011. Personal Assistant to the Artistic Director, Emma Winter. Directing
various stages on the building and deconstruction, pre and post festival; including
managing design specifications and itinerary of workers’ duties.
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Open Ealing 2011. Public arts centre for local community of children and adults from
learning disabilities background. Resident as University College London Volunteers
Services Provider, managing an exhibition and workshop series in collaboration with
local artists.
Hospitality
2016 The Society Club; Events in Literary circles since March 2016 – currently.
2015 Kansas Smitty’s; General Manager since May to December.
2014 Barrafina, Charring Cross; waitress.
2013 69 Colebrook Row; cocktail server.
2012 Quo Vadis, Soho; private members’ club waitress.
2011 Black and Blue, Mortimer St; waitress.
2010 Chez Gerrard, Covent garden; waitress.
2009 The Ladybird, Angel; mixing and bar tending.
2008 Rhubarb catering company; waitress.
2007 San Carlo, Highgate’ waitress.