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About Keisha Thompson

Keisha Thompson FRSA is a Manchester based writer, performance artist and producer.  She is Co-Chair of the Independent Theatre Council, a trustee of Olympias Music Foundation and recipient of the DARE Art Prize 2024 from Opera North and the University of Leeds in association with National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley. Formerly, she has been Artistic Director and CEO of Contact, Manchester, Chair of radical arts funding body, Future’s Venture Foundation and was the first recipient of The Arts Foundation Theatre Makers Award in 2021.

She studied Politics and Philosophy followed by a PGCE in Mathematics at University of Manchester before delving into the arts and education sector. She has taken up posts such as Senior Manager for Children and Young People at the Arts Council England and Senior Education Programme Manager at The World Reimagined.  In May 2022, she completed a residency with Esplanade Theatre in Singapore. Her focus was on her on-going project, DeCipher. The expansive educational project, looks at mathematical pedagogy and how it can be taught in a creative way in non-educational spaces. She is working to find out how it can be decolonised, democratised and dismantled. The goal is to create interactions that allow for agency, joy and discovery. A maths lesson that feels like a poetry workshop, a dance class or an interactive installation.