Since 2018, Matt Burman has been Artistic Director & CEO of Cambridge Junction. Between 2016-2018 he developed an independent producing and programming portfolio, working across artform, locating radical structures for the creation of new work. Projects and partners included Leeds 2023 (developing the programme for Leeds’ bid to be European Capital of Culture), LIFT (producing the UK tour of Lola Arias’ Minefield), Northern Stage (associate producer on Northern Stage @ Summerhall), 509 Arts (on the RPS Award-winning Calderland), Unlimited Theatre, Proto-type Theater, West Yorkshire Playhouse and independent artists Luca Rutherford and Hannah Jane Walker. He was Artistic Director of Yorkshire Festival 2016, curating and presenting a programme featuring more than 900 artists, 15 new commissions and hundreds of performances and days of exhibition across the whole of the county. He was Head of Programme & Audiences at Warwick Arts Centre (2011-2015), where he co-produced work by artists and companies including Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Teatro Sotterraneo, Stan’s Cafe and Theatre de Bouffe du Nord. Previously he was Executive Producer for Norfolk & Norwich Festival (2008-2011) and General Manager of Forced Entertainment (2003-2008). Matt has been on judging panels, advisory and curatorial groups for the Total Theatre Awards, BE Festival, the British Council Edinburgh and Caravan Showcases, and on the boards of Candoco Dance Company, Reckless Sleepers and Bootworks Theatre Company.