Stephen Browning

Short career outline Stephen Browning has worked in senior management positions in the arts in the UK and overseas for nearly thirty years. He was trained at the Oxford Playhouse before being appointed Theatre Manager at the Greenwich Theatre and Art Gallery. He helped to open the Hong Kong Arts Centre, and then set up the International Film Festival for the Cultural Affairs Headquarters in Hong Kong. Stephen was also part of the management team which founded Opera 80 (now English Touring Opera), and he handled the marketing and sponsorship for their first tour. In 1980 Stephen joined the Royal Shakespeare Company’s marketing team in London, and handled the move of the company to the Barbican Centre two years later. In 1989 he was appointed Director of Marketing, Press and Public Relations for the RSC, working closely with Terry Hands and Adrian Noble, and alongside the company’s senior management team. During this period he had total responsibility for the public front of the RSC, covering the promotion and marketing of all the company’s activities in London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newcastle and Plymouth, as well as all UK and overseas touring. Stephen was responsible for promoting over 30 productions a year in five home theatres, as well as West End shows and touring productions in 30 venues across the UK. Key achievements at the RSC included launching the Barbican and Pit theatres in London, The Other Place in Stratford and the Plymouth residency; launching Les Miserables and Les Liaisons Dangereuses; leading the RSC’s first visit to South Africa in 1995; creating the current RSC corporate identity; achieving record box office results in 1994/5; and developing domestic and overseas visitors to Stratford through the creation of South Warwickshire Tourism. Other achievements include the development of new partnerships with the corporate sector, involving two £3.3 million record-breaking sponsorships for the company. Stephen Browning Associates Stephen Browning Associates is a leading management consultancy, which specialises in the cultural sector and in tourism. The consultancy was founded in 1999, and since then we have assisted cultural organisations through periods of change, advising on governance and management, business planning, marketing, fundraising, communications, and customer and audience development. We also advise arts, heritage and tourism organisations on research, marketing planning, branding, public relations, sponsorship, new technology, and lottery bids. We have undertaken a range of projects for Arts Council England, including writing the major report Tell me on a Sunday, which examined the development opportunities provided by opening theatres on Sundays, and A Musical Marriage, which looked at the impact of Classic FM’s sponsorship of classical music in the UK. We were also retained by VisitBritain to develop partnerships for the national tourism organisation, including a partnership with the BBC. Recent clients include Arts Council England, the British Film Institute, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Society of London Theatre, English Tourism Council, VisitBritain, Creative Partnerships, the Mary Rose Trust (the new Mary Rose museum), Guildford Borough Council (the Guildford Museum), Portsmouth City Council (review of theatre and music provision in the city), the National Art Collections Fund, the Shakespeare Guild, and the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. Stephen is a member of the Theatrical Management Association, the Arts Marketing Association, the Marketing Society, the Museums Association, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Trustee of English Touring Theatre and over the last few years he has been advising the Bankside Gallery, the home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He is a founder member of Culture and Heritage Steering Group for VisitBritain. Stephen Browning Associates’ website is: www.stephenbrowning.com Email Email Stephen Browning by clicking here Website http://www.stephenbrowning.com

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