London Arts Discovery Tours Staff

Richard Barran

Richard Barran was an arts administrator with the English Bach Festival before establishing London Arts Discovery with Howard Lichterman in 1981. He was the founding director of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival which he ran for seven years and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He taught French in a boys public school and has a great affection for France. During his travels in the US he met his wife Lynn Cadwallader, who works in public television and film. They have homes in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

	Rodney West

Rodney West worked for 22 years with the Bristol Old Vic, one of the UK's leading repertory companies, first as Theatre Manager and then as General Manager. In 1990 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary and spent three months in North America studying fund-raising and sponsorship. From 1989 to 1999 he taught American students on the University of Notre Dame's London Programme; from 1993-1998 he taught at Thames Valley University; and he has twice been a Visiting Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. From 1994-1996 he worked annually as Festival Co-ordinator and is now a Consultant for the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts. He is an Executive Council Member of the Actors' Charitable Trust, and serves on the Management Committee of Denville Hall.

Jane McIntosh

Jane McIntosh is General Manager of London Arts Discovery. Previously she had spent six years as Director of Finance and Administration at Scottish Opera and prior to that had considerable experience running finance departments and managing projects within both the public and private sectors - including the Family Planning Association and The Civil and Public Services Association. She read for her M. A. in English and Drama at Glasgow University and is an enthusiastic cook, swimmer and theatregoer.

	Patrick Knox

Patrick Knox studied Law and English Literature at Cambridge University but fell in with a bad crowd and became an actor. Apart from brief excursions into film and television his work has been in the theatre, in every area from fringe to West End. He has toured widely and as well as playing most theatres in this country he has performed in Germany, Sweden, Holland, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Iraq. His most exciting parts include Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth and Puck. For several years now he has lectured and led workshops for the Education Department at Shakespeare's Globe.

Gillian McCutcheon

Gillian McCutcheon has had an extensive acting career in regional repertory and in television, including the classic serials A Horseman Riding By and A Little Princess, and the popular series The Brothers, Strike It Rich, This Life and three years in the acclaimed police series The Bill. Gillian is a founder member of the Original Shakespeare Company which, performs Shakespeare using the 1623 First Folio edition and recreates the production methods of the 17th century. The OSC's work has been seen in Toronto, Germany, Australia, Jordan and at the RSC's "Everybody's Shakespeare" festival in 1994. The company has performed As You Like It, King John and Cymbeline at Shakespeare's Globe.

	Cornelius Weber

Cornelius Weber was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of London and the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He has directed and produced plays in each of these cities and his work includes writers such as Beckett, Synge, Chekhov, Marlowe and Simon Gray. He has also worked as a translator (he speaks Russian, French and Irish) for organisations such as the BBC, the London Comedy Festival and the Soviet Theatre Magazine. In 1985 he was employed in New York by the Comptroller's Office and over the past five years has led more than sixty tours throughout Europe with North American travellers. He has contributed articles and short stories to a number of magazines and has been awarded an Oireachtas Prize for writing fiction.