Gerald Lidstone



Short career outline
Gerald Lidstone BA MA ATC Dr.h.c FRGS is the founder and director of the postgraduate Arts Administration and Cultural Policy course at Goldsmiths College University of London.

At undergraduate level he currently teaches courses in Performance Art, Arts And Audiences and Theatre Production. In the last few years he has also taught courses in Scenography, Theatre Technology, Stage and Production Management, aspects of Theatre and Culture and contemporary British Afro- Caribbean and Asian theatre. He originally trained as a theatre designer and has designed and toured productions extensively in Eastern Europe and the USA.

He is director of the British Council International Seminar on Theatre Management: Building New Audiences, run biannually in the UK. For the Council he has also taught Arts Administration and training courses in many parts of the world including, Russia, East Jerusalem, Korea, Philippines, Cyprus Slovakia, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Hong Kong and India. He was the director of a four-year British Know-How Fund (Foreign Office) project establishing Arts Management training in Slovakia. An outcome of this was the publication of the first book on arts management in Slovak. He is currently involved on behalf of Visiting Arts and the Ford Foundation in developing education in Arts Management for the Government of Viet Nam, and was co-author of a recently published needs evaluation of Arts Management in Vietnam.

In the UK he has for the last three years responsible for the annual report of the West End box office data research project, for the Society of London Theatre (SOLT).

As a founding member of CONCEPTS he has organised and contributed papers to conferences and symposia in Sofia, Porto, Sibiu and London. He is also a council member of the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a trustee of the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors of Saddlers Wells Theatre. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Vysoka Skola Muzickych Umeni v Bratislave in Slovakia.

Projects
Development of Arts Management Courses, four year project and publication Kulturny manazment - Prednasky, Projekty, Texty
Curriculum Development in the Management of Arts and Culture in Viet Nam within a Market Economy Context
The SOLT Box Office Data Research Project
Performing Arts Management: Introduction to Strategic Marketing and Audience Development

Address
Goldsmiths College University of London
Drama
Lewisham Way
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
U.K.

Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7919 7424

Fax
+44 (0) 20 7919 7413

Email
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