Calder High School for Girls/Quarry Bank Comprehensive School
Alma mater
The University of Birmingham
Occupation(s)
Theatre director and producer
Notable work
Founder of the Women of the World Festival (WOW)
Spouse(s)
Michael Bird, m. 1993
Children
3, including Caroline Bird
Kelly's voice
recorded 2012, as part of an audio description for VocalEyes
Judith "Jude" Pamela Kelly, CBE (born March 1954), is a British theatre director and producer. She is a director[1] of the WOW Foundation, which organises the annual Women of the World Festival, founded in 2010 by Kelly. From 2006 to 2018, she was Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre in London.[2][3]
^"THE WOW FOUNDATION - Officers". Companies House. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^Aitkenhead, Decca (26 January 2018). "Southbank director Jude Kelly: 'Saying you're a feminist is not enough'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^Brown, Mark (18 January 2018). "Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly to step down". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
Judith "Jude" Pamela Kelly, CBE (born March 1954), is a British theatre director and producer. She is a director of the WOW Foundation, which organises...
wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director JudeKelly inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering...
Information. September 2005 saw the arrival of JudeKelly as the centre's Artistic Director. After Kelly stepped down in order to devote herself to the...
festivals across the world. The festival was founded in London in 2010 by JudeKelly, a theatre director who was at that time artistic director of the Southbank...
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masculine identity in the 21st century. The festival was founded in 2014 by JudeKelly. Speakers at the inaugural festival included: Grayson Perry (artist),...
poet, playwright and author. Caroline Bird was born in 1986. Daughter of JudeKelly, she grew up in Leeds, England, and attended the Steiner School in York...
Hunk / The Scarecrow Southampton Mayflower 2008 Zeke / The Cowardly Lion JudeKelly Royal Festival Hall 2009 Chicago Billy Flynn Walter Bobbie UK Tour 2010...
helped trace her family history. Stuart was a judge (alongside Jo Brand, JudeKelly and Joanne Harris) for the Orange Prize in 2005, when the winner was Lionel...
figures, including Prunella Scales, Tariq Ali, Terry Jones, Andrew Motion, JudeKelly, Richard Eyre, Ayub Khan-Din, Willy Russell, Jonathan Coe, Sheila Hancock...
Barry Kyle. In 1994 Dean played Imogen in Wicked Old Men for director JudeKelly at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Dean played Fanny Wilton in the Richard...
Dame Janet Beer Baroness Brady Megan Dunn Damian Green Jenny Halpern JudeKelly Caroline Lucas Lord Mandelson Trevor Phillips Richard Reed Sir Stuart...
workshop for new and established directors, including Stephen Frears and JudeKelly. He is also patron of Footloose Stage School. In January 2011, it was...
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