Natasha Freedman
Creative Director

Natasha has over twenty-five years of experience developing programmes that nourish critical and creative thinking, particularly around health, social justice and the environment. She has built a reputation for nurturing ideas and collaborations across disciplines and sectors, pioneering new approaches and driving change.

She established and directed the programme of performing arts in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and the arts charity Streetwise Opera in the 1990s, co-led the culture/climate organisation Cape Farewell and arts/environment charity Honeyscribe, and reimagined and directed the learning programmes for Complicite theatre company and English National Opera.

She has collaborated with academics, actors, animators, architects, artists, athletes, composers, cooks, dancers, designers, ecologists, foragers, jugglers, makers, mathematicians, medics, musicians, scientists and writers, developing projects that use creative practice to explore our humanity and place in the world.

She mentors Higher Education students and young producers, is an advisor to Fevered Sleep and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Improbable Theatre.

Alongside her work with studio2909, she is Creative Producer of Cavendish Arts Science at the University of Cambridge, and a practicing artist and facilitator.

Rhuti Carr
Creative Producer

Rhuti is a producer, delivering creative learning and participation programmes with professional artists, young people, schools and music hubs across the UK with much of her work focusing on increasing the diversity of the creators, performers and audiences engaging with classical music and the arts.

She founded and directed the award-winning group Painting Music bringing together musicians, visual artists and members of the public in performances and participatory workshops and continues to work independently as a professional musician and teacher.

She has previously worked with Music Masters, was lead Producer with ENO Baylis, and Head of Participation and Learning with the London Sinfonietta.