Kelly Wilkinson
Kelly is part of Creative Junction’s extended team, currently project-managing a large-scale outdoor arts commission for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Working with young people in the UK and abroad, the commission is led by a team of UK-based disabled artists. 
Kelly is a freelance theatre director with a particular interest in developing new work. She has directed for the BBC Roots’ Stages of Sound, Arcola Theatre, Etcetera Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and various workshops and readings. She directed the critically acclaimed, Time Out Critics’ Choice production of Atiha Sen Gupta’s What Fatima Did… at Hampstead Theatre. She is Artistic Director of IsoProductions for whom she has directed the Time Out Critics’ Choice production of Ed Hime’s The London Plays: London Tongue/London Falls, Philip de Gouveia’s Isfahan Calling, an NT New Connections production of Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, and has most recently been developing the physical theatre piece Hooked. She was Assistant Director to David Grindley on What the Butler Saw at Hampstead Theatre and transferred this production to the Criterion Theatre, West End. She assisted Indhu Rubasingham on Heartbreak House at Watford Palace and on Anna in the Tropics at Hampstead Theatre, where she was Education Associate for 5 years, developing young writers and directing the heat&light company in new plays by Nick Grosso, Mike Bartlett, and more.
Kelly conceived and set-up Hampstead Theatre’s heat&light company (18-25), a group for which she has directed Hooked, a devised play in collaboration with Frantic Assembly, Punch by Matt Hartley, Mine by Jane Bodie, In His Image by Rosa Connor and Heat and Light by John Donnelly, amongst many others. She has written the published notes for the National Theatre’s production of Roy Williams’ Baby Girl and the TheatreQuest and Create-A-Quest books for the Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation. She has also managed projects for the LB of Camden’s Out of School Learning service in partnership with the Roundhouse, Hampstead Theatre, hi8us and other arts organisations and has developed and delivered outreach work for Headlong, Barbican, New Wimbledon Theatre and many others. Kelly is an Associate Artist for the National Youth Theatre and the Touring Consortium and an Artsmark Assessor for Arts Council England. Future projects include: the collaborative piece written by Rosa Connor and Georgia Lester, Hooked and Lachlan Philpott’s Silent Disco, as well as, an intergenerational community project and production on the Hackney/Islington borders.
