Overview - Simon Chatterton

Simon works as an independent producer creating multi-disciplinary arts events and collaborative performance projects. His main areas of focus include outdoor performance, music, visual theatre, circus and site-specific work. Simon has a reputation as a creative producer of innovative, high-quality arts events and is an experienced manager of international performance projects.

His experience has included creating and managing cross-artform festivals, producing touring work and developing complex collaborative projects. Project work has ranged from commissioning large-scale outdoor spectacle for audiences of several thousand to creating site-specific performances in unusual locations.

Simon's background spans 18 years working in the performing arts as a programmer, promoter and Festival Director including a long standing relationship with South Hill Park Arts Centre where he spent six years as Festival Director and full-time Performing Arts Manager. He spent five years as the founder and director of a small-scale arts centre and was also a director of the producing company Elemental Arts Ltd. Simon is currently working with the Oxford Playhouse as an associate producer.