Founder and staff

The National Youth Arts Trust is a small organisation with a strong team of staff members, drama facilitators, and trustees with skills and experience in the arts, charity, legal, media, finance and business sectors.

Administration staff

• Ruth O’Brien
  Director of Operations
• Ramika Prajapati
  Director of Operations

• Mosope Alli
  Social Media Manager (part time)
• Hannah Balogun
  Administrative Assistant (part time)

Drama facilitators

• Helen John
• Gareth Warren
• Dominic McHale
• James Baldwin
• Matthew Butchers
• Matthew Gray

Founder

Fiona Laird is an award-winning theatre director and writer whose work has been seen at many of Britain’s top theatres including The National Theatre, The Old Vic, The Royal Court, the Welsh National Opera, the Sheffield Crucible, the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Festival Hall, as well as in the West End, and in Europe and the USA. She founded the National Youth Arts Trust in 2013 in response to the growing crisis in funding for education in the performing arts.