We’re delighted to be joined by a fantastic line-up of industry leaders for our upcoming Multifaceted event, including creative directors, international programmers, independent producers, and funders. Book your tickets now to join the conversation.
Articulation’s MULTIFACETED will bring together artists, producers, and programmers from across the Outdoor Arts, Circus and Spectacle sector for an afternoon of pitches, performance, and networking. Hosted as part of this year’s Surge and Merchant City Festival on Friday 24 July, the event will explore the evolution of multidisciplinary outdoor arts practice. We’re delighted that the following speakers will be in attendance.
Katy Fuller, Pinwheel
Katy Fuller is Founder-Director of Pinwheel, a creative organisation based in North East England. Pinwheel conceives and cultivates breath-taking cultural projects and programmes which ignite imagination, inspire curiosity, transform spaces and transport audiences. Katy is currently devising the Arts and Culture Programme for the Tour de France Grand Depart GB in 2027, working across three nations and 27 local authorities.
Other projects in recent years include North of the Tyne, Under the Stars, a major programme of activity leading to a large-scale projection festival in Newcastle City Centre, the Cultural Festival for the Rugby League World Cup, and Where to Begin, a spectacular new opening event for Edinburgh International Festival.
From 2015 – 2019 Katy was instrumental to Hull’s journey as UK City of Culture 2017, first as Executive Producer for the pivotal year and then as Creative Director and CEO of the successor company, Absolutely Cultured. Earlier in her career, Katy had worked on some of the UK’s most iconic events including Royal de Luxe’s The Sultan’s Elephant, which brought central London to a standstill, and Antony Gormley’s One & Other for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Deirdre Dwyer, Spraoi Festival
Deirdre Dwyer is the Street Theatre Programmer for Spraoi International Arts Festival and is a theatre maker who works as a set and costume designer, director and writer. She is based in Waterford Ireland.
Her training includes an M.A. in Theatre Design from the RWCMD Cardiff and a degree in Drama and English from UCC.
She is an artistic director of BrokenCrow, for whom she has produced, designed, directed and written plays and audio dramas and is a founder member of Shakespeare Squared, a Waterford theatre collective. She teaches design, and related theories, to students in UCC and has guest lectured at and MIC, IADT,SETU and mentored design students at Berridge Gap Year Programme, France and LAMDA, London.
She is a founder member of the Irish Society of Performance Designers (ISPD) and has been Theatre Artist in Residence in MIC, Limerick, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Alan Richardson, Surge
Alan Richardson is the Director of Surge. Surge runs projects to develop street arts, physical theatre and circus in Scotland. We work with artists, performance companies and educators at all levels of experience. SURGE Festival is our annual festival of Physical Theatre, Street Arts and Circus and takes place each summer and brings new Scottish work and cutting-edge international performances to the streets, theatres and unusual spaces of Glasgow.
Zoe Munn, Green Man Festival
Zoe Munn is an independent producer working across outdoor arts, contemporary circus and visual theatre, based in Cardiff, Wales. Originally studying fine art, she has over 30 years experience in the outdoor sector, including a decade of touring tented circus internationally with NoFit State Circus. Zoe produces & curates the Performing Arts programme at Green Man Festival, and is the Welsh lead on the Four Nations Bursary Project for Outdoor Arts.
Her work spans different scales, from large scale collaborative shows at the National Eisteddfod of Wales & Coventry City of Culture, to supporting & mentoring emerging artists and producing touring inclusive street work with Ramshacklicious & Hijinx. She is currently producing the Artworkers programme for Citrus Arts, training young adults from the Welsh Valleys to work in festivals and outdoor events, and is a visiting lecturer at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Ben Torrie, Creative Scotland
Ben leads on theatre at Creative Scotland, working with artists, producers, and organisations to support a thriving, diverse theatre sector. He provides guidance on funding and development while helping shape strategic approaches to making and touring work.
Ben joined Creative Scotland in 2026 following an 18-year tenure at Aberdeen Performing Arts, where he was Director of Programming and Creative Projects. A champion for equity and sustainability in the arts, he also brings extensive governance experience from his board roles with the Federation of Scottish Theatre, Lyth Arts Centre, Manipulate Arts, and Culture Aberdeen.
Dawn Taylor, Manipulate Arts
Dawn Taylor is the Artistic Director & CEO of Manipulate Arts, Scotland’s national development body for puppetry, visual theatre and animated film. She is also the Director of Manipulate Festival, an international celebration of visual performance and animated forms which recently marked its 19th edition in Edinburgh. She has led the organisation since 2020 and programmes work across many visually-led disciplines including puppetry, circus, object theatre, mime, clown, physical theatre and animated film.
Pacino Yang, ICONTACT
Pacino (Seungmin) Yang is a creative producer, director, and international programmer based in Busan, South Korea. He is the Founder and Creative Producer of ICONTACT and International Programmer for the Busan International Performing Arts Festival (BIPAF) — working across all three stages of the chain: making the work, producing it, and choosing what reaches an international audience.
With a background spanning cinema, broadcast spectacle (including the League of Legends World Championship), and live performance, Pacino creates cross-disciplinary work that crosses borders without surtitles. His touring production, Tr-edition: Life Is But A Dream, has been presented across Europe and South America. Supported by the British Council’s Momentum Follow-Up Fund, he is currently developing a two-way exchange between Surge and ICONTACT, following Surge’s visit to Busan at BIPAF in May 2026.
MULTIFACETED
Join Articulation for an industry afternoon exploring the evolution of multidisciplinary outdoor arts practice.
City Halls, Glasgow | Friday 24 July
