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Roy Luxford

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Website:
http://www.eif.co.uk
Edinburgh, UK
Opera, music, theatre,  dance

Roy Luxford is the Creative Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, a globally renowned 25-day celebration of theatre, dance, music, opera, and visual arts. Since 2016, he has led the festival’s artistic direction, welcoming companies and audiences from all over the world.

With decades of experience producing international theatre and dance, Roy has delivered landmark projects for institutions such as the Barbican, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, The Young Vic, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center New York, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, the Chekhov Festival in Moscow, and the Venice Biennale.

He previously led three of the UK’s most prominent producing companies—Cheek by Jowl, Michael Clark Company, and DV8 Physical Theatre—and produced major works including the European premiere of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and Tim Supple’s One Thousand and One Nights.

Roy also mentors emerging cultural professionals across Europe as the professional lead of the Atelier for Young Producers at the Festival Academy and is an active member of UK Theatre.

POZIȚIE:  Creative Director, Edinburgh International Festival

Founded in 1947 to “provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit” after World War II, the Edinburgh International Festival is the city’s flagship celebration of the performing arts. Across three packed weeks every August, the Festival presents world-class opera, orchestral and chamber music, theatre, dance, and contemporary projects, drawing leading companies and soloists—and hundreds of thousands of visitors—from every continent. 

The programme is curated (not open-access), so every event is hand-picked by the Festival’s artistic team for excellence and originality. Alongside ticketed performances in major venues such as the Usher Hall, Festival Theatre, and King’s Theatre, EIF commissions new work, runs learning & engagement schemes, and collaborates closely with the city’s other August festivals (Fringe, Book, Art, and Tattoo) to create what is often called “the world’s Festival City.”