Ms Erica Whyman, OBE

Career: theatre dir; assoc prodr Tricycle 1997-98, assoc dir English Touring Theatre 1998-2000, artistic dir Southwark Playhouse 1999-2001 (Peter Brook Empty Space Award), artistic dir and chief exec Gate Theatre 2001-04, chief exec Northern Stage 2005-; prodns incl: A Shadow of a Boy (RNT), The Birthday Party (Sheffield Crucible); prodns for Northern Stage: A Doll's House, Ruby Moon, Our Friends in the North, A Christmas Carol, Oh What a Lovely War (nat tour), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; awarded John S Cohen bursary for dirs; fell Clore Leadership Prog