Liz Arday | Business Director | she/her
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Liz is the Business Director for VAULT Creative Arts. She first joined the VAULT team in 2019 as Customer Experience Manager, leading front of house operations for VAULT Festival and In 2022 she became General Manager.

Originally from Australia, Liz has previously worked for organisations including Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic, Sydney Theatre Company, Bush Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company and Regent’s Park Open Air. She is also a freelance theatre director and was the 2018 recipient of the Sandra Bates Directors Award, spending a year as resident assistant director at the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.

Liz is passionate about building inclusive and welcoming spaces, championing audacious new work, and exploring the intersections of live performance and technology.

Mat Burtcher | Co-Founder | he/him

Mat is a co-founder of VAULT Festival, and has worked across a variety of positions since its first edition in 2012.

He has been a writer, director and producer with the Heritage Arts Company since 2008, creating live performances, events and experiential activities.

He is as passionate about programming computers as programming wonderful shows, and spends most of his free time creating and tinkering with systems that make organising big events easier.

He lives with his wife in West Sussex.

Laura Evans | Head of Communications | she/her/they
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Laura is the Head of Communications for VAULT Creative Arts, developing and delivering campaigns across a range of projects as well as VAULT Festival.

Laura joined the VAULT team in October 2022, having previously worked at UK New Artists; Attenborough Arts Centre; Cultural eXchanges Festival and The Spark Arts for Children. Laura has also worked as an Associate Lecturer at De Montfort University where she taught on BA Performing Arts, MA Performance Practices, and BA Arts and Festivals Management degrees. Alongside VAULT, Laura has her own sustainable clothing business: peachy.

Laura’s loves seeing work that centers queer/LGBTQ+ stories, as well as innovative multidisciplinary work with interactive technologies.

Andy George | CEO, Director & Co-Founder | he/him
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Andy is CE, Director & Co-Founder of VAULT Creative Arts & VAULT Festival which involves setting the direction for the company, creating new projects and developing existing ones, and keeping an eye on the organisation’s day-to-day business & operations.

Andy’s background is in producing and managing immersive & site-specific productions, National & International Touring shows, and a wide-range of performance festivals including the Olivier Award nominated Alice’s Adventures Underground and You Me Bum Bum Train, Belarus Free Theatre’s international hit, Burning Doors, and seven editions of VAULT Festival.

Outside of work, Andy is a Director, Devisor, & Collaborator on shows, and loves running, walking, and being outdoors. He builds furniture for his tiny flat and loves taking things apart failing to fix them. He’s passionate about creativity and social change and is driven by wanting to create a more accessible, more inclusive, & more sustainable world for everyone to live in, and enjoy.

Adèle Reeves | Producer & Programmer | she/her
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Adèle joined the VAULT Team in July 2021 as the Artist Development Coordinator, and transitioned to Producer & Programmer in 2023. Her role is to support the curation, planning and delivery of creative outputs for VAULT Creative Arts. She also manages the programme of Artist Development Opportunities offered by VCA.

Adèle is a producer with a background in theatre administration and box office management. Originally from Scotland, she studied an MA in Theatre & Performance Studies at King’s College London. Following this, Adèle spent 3 years working for the Pleasance Theatre core management team in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Alongside this work, she developed her career as a producer. Adèle is the Creative Producer for international company, Out of the Blue, and has also worked freelance on many fringe theatre, live music and mixed-medium festival projects.

Adèle is inspired by performance that breaks outside the traditional theatre space, and focuses on projects that address narratives of refugeehood, national identity and political commentary.

Kate Stone | Head of Comedy | She/her
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Kate is the Head of Comedy at VAULT Creative Arts.
Passionate about making comedy more accessible and inclusive, Kate worked with Funny Women CIC, booking their live comedy shows and producing their Comedy Writing category in addition to introducing the Comedy Shorts category as part of the internationally renowned Funny Women Awards. She also oversees the administration for the David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Award and programmes live comedy for four venues across Hampshire.
Kate is also an award-winning script writer. She has written comedy sketches for the BBC, JLL’d diversity campaign and, to keep to comedy’s rule of three let’s say third project.

Jess Zaydner | Administrator | she/her
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Jess has a diverse background in administration and finance within the arts and charity sectors. With over three years of experience in these fields, Jess brings a unique blend of creativity and business acumen to work.

Born and raised in London, with a degree in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton.

Jess is also a visual artist and small business owner. She has established and run their own venture, specialising in handmade contemporary Judaica, particularly Jewish jewellery. Tchochke as a brand is a love letter to diverse & contemporary nature of worlds Jewry and seeks to offer a feeling of representation to Jewish folk existing with intersectional identities.