Senior Associate Producer
Lynnette is a Creative Director, Arts Producer and Festival Director specialising in Live Art, Theatre, Visual Art and Digital platforms; with distinct experience of producing collaborative and socially engaged arts practice and public art commissions.
Lynnette is Artistic Director and co-founder of field:arts – a creative production support organisation funded by Arts Council Ireland. It is here where she leads a vision to establish a central framework to enable independent contemporary Producers and Artists to access sustainable infrastructures and support, plan strategically and adopt best practice models. While practitioners can grow and contribute to a shared network of collective intelligence, experience and skill sets to think globally, make ambitious work and to reach new audiences. Founded in 2020, field:arts was an active response to the challenges faced by the independent sector; indicative of how Lynnette has shaped new opportunities, to protect and embolden Artists & the wider sector.
Lynnette is the founding Festival Director of Live Collision International Festival. Established in 2099, Live Collision is Ireland’s leading annual curated festival of Live Art presenting some of the most groundbreaking artists across contemporary culture. The 12th edition of the festival took place in April 2024 offering a succinct and deeply considered invitation to audiences to experience & engage across live performance, theatre, artworks, live installations, workshops and salons. The work presented in the festival connects live performance and the intersection of class, race, equality, displacement, climate and world ecologies. The festival presents artists of exceptional calibre – from seminal international artists making groundbreaking work across the globe, to Ireland’s most exciting next-generation of performance makers with work never before presented in Ireland.
Lynnette is one of four core members of ANU Productions since 2013. ANU are a multidisciplinary Irish production company that present award winning theatre, visual art and socially engaged artworks. ANU place the audience at the very centre of each production, creating an immersive live experience where audiences have agency and proximity to the fierce and mesmeric worlds establish with each production. Together they’ve created 48+ multi-award winning artworks across theatre, public art commissions, gallery installations and museum interpretations; growing a national & global reputation for excellence. In 2024, ANU have joined forces to present The Dead, a co-production between ANU and Landmark Productions, in association with MoLI taking place from Nov 2024 – Jan 2025.
Lynnette has a long-standing working relationship with Amanda Coogan and is currently presenting Possession by Amanda Coogan and composer Linda Buckley along with collaborators Alvean Jones, Lianne Quigley and the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf. Developed as part of ART:2023 – a Decade of Centenaries. A collaboration between the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Across Lynnette’s career she has founded several arts initiatives, curated many programmes and produced and developed over 160 independent artists in Ireland and beyond. Including Maia Nunes, Mufutau Yusuf, mouth to mouth (performance collective, London), Fast Track to Dance (audience development initiative with Dublin Dance Festival) and CAPP (Collaborative Art Partnership Programme) an unprecedented four year transnational partnership across six European countries and nine partner organisations co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union focusing on collaborative & socially engaged practice and commissions across Europe between (2014 – 2018) of which Lynnette was co-founder and Lead Producer. She is an alumni of SPACE (Supporting Performing Arts Circulation Europe), EFA (European Festivals Association), Dance LV & Noass, Riga and Atelier for Young Festival Directors in Ljubljana .
Lynnette began her career in London, cutting her teeth with some of the UK’s leading arts organisations including LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), Bernie Grant Arts Centre and BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) where she developed her practice as a Creative Producer. She holds a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art and an MA in Performance Art from Goldsmiths College, London. Currently Board Member of Performing Arts Forum.
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