Ione is a Theatre Producer, Cultural Programmer and Creative Administrator based in Nottingham and working across the Midlands. She champions access to the arts, whether that’s through touring live performance to regional and rural venues, working with communities to develop their own creativity, or producing events with accessibility at the heart of their design.
As Associate Producer for Leeds-based theOBJECTproject, Ione has toured new puppetry work for adult audiences nationally across the country. As a member of Connecting Notts youth board she also helps creativity closer to home in Nottingham continue to flourish by producing events to help early and mid career creatives thrive. Her work also includes freelance projects as a creative programmer, event manager and even puppeteer, working with organisations including City Arts, the Hustle Collective, York Creatives and Four Wheel Drive Theatre, and running her own theatre company, Foxglove Theatre, whilst living in York.