Natalie Chan

Natalie is a tenacious, innovative arts leader and independent producer based in Hong Kong and UK. She was most recently Executive Director at Streatham Space Project, where she oversaw and successfully fundraised for a period of business transition, developing a new operating model in face of reduced arts funding. Her work safe-guarded the only performing arts venue in Streatham.

She’s recently been Associate Producer for Best of Enemies in the West End. She produces Max Percy + Friends, winner of Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s Untapped Award 2022, as well as having supported projects for Chalk Line Theatre, Chronic Insanity, Nuu Theatre.

She’s recently Creative Producer for In Good Company leading the Midlands’ flagship artist development programme with 12 venues. She's previously General Manager for Creative Youth, where she has won the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy’s Giving Tuesday Competition for the charity.

Natalie is a recipient of the Blackbaud Scholarship for completing her Postgraduate Certificate in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent in 2022, and a recipient of the RAISE bursary for completing Chartered Institute Of Fundraising’s Certificate in Fundraising in 2021.

Natalie is on Stage One’s Bridge The Gap Programme 2021/22 and BFI Network South East’s Producers Programme 2020.

Previously she has been the Associate Producer for the Bread and Roses Theatre; Assistant Producer for Theatre503, Spun Glass Theatre and Arch468. She is also a board member for Young Arts Fundraisers.

She is particularly interested in work that spins an under-represented/new/hidden perspective to existing issues.

Credits

Production Credits:
Producer, Bakla, Summerhall Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 4 weeks, 2023 (Best Show, Asian Arts Awards)
Producing Consultant, WILD the Musical, Rose Theatre Kingston, 2 nights, 2023 (International touring visit - City Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong)
Associate Producer (for Chalk Line Theatre), Blanket Ban, Southwark Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2023 (New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly UNTAPPED Award Winner & Transfer from Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
Producer, This Is Not A Show About Hong Kong, New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 4 weeks, 2022 (UNTAPPED Award Winner & Fringe First Winner)
Producer, Who You Are and What You Do, Bread and Roses Theatre, 2 weeks, 2022
Producer, Clapham Fringe Festival 2021, Bread and Roses Theatre, 3 weeks, 2021
Producer, I and the Village, Bread and Roses Theatre, 2 weeks, 2021
Project Producer for Spun Glass Theatre, This Noisy Isle, UK tour, 3 weeks, 2021
General Manager, International Youth Arts Festival, Rose Theatre Kingston, 2 weeks, 2021
Producer, Dumbledore Is So Gay, VAULT Festival 2020, 1 week, 2020
Box Office Deputy Manager, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pleasance Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019
Assistant Producer, The Amber Trap, Theatre503, 4 weeks, 2019
Assistant Producer, J'Ouvert, Theatre503, 4 weeks, 2019

Other notable achievements:
Agent of Change, Artistic Directors of the Future, 2023
Innovator, Artistic Directors of the Future, 2022

Residencies
Arcola Theatre Artist Residency, 2023
Curious Directive Hypothesis retreat, 2023
Hawkwood Artist Residency, 2022
Strike A Light Artist Residency, 2021
Lyric Hammersmith Artist Residency (for the creation of Bakla), 2021
Wild Rumpus Artist Residency, 2020

Conferences
INTIX (International Ticketing Association) Conferences, Orlando and Seattle, 2022 & 2023 (Recipient of Professional Development Grant)
Theatres Trust Conference, 2021 & 2022, (Bursary Recipient)
Outdoor Arts UK, Festival Focus - visits to Coventry City of Culture, Tunbridge Wells Mela 2021 & 2022

Training

IETM Campus (International network for contemporary performing arts), 2023 - supported by ACE DYCP Grant
New Perspectives (Nottingham based Rural Touring Company), New Associates Programme, 2023-24
Generate Artist Programme, Royal & Derngate Theatre Northampton 2023-24
Participant, Union 23, The Northern School for Creativity & Activism, 2023
Empowered Leadership Programme, Bradford Producing Hub, 2022-2023
Yorkshire Producing Collective, 2022-2023
Bank Cohort Artist Programme, Sheffield theatres, 2022-2023
Streetwise - Outdoor and Street Performance Creation Lab, 101 Outdoor Arts, 2023
Postgraduate Certificate, Philanthropic Studies, University of Kent, 2022 (Recipient of the Blackbaud Scholarship)
Discovery Programme on producing work for outdoors, Without Walls, 2022
Green Production Lab, 101 Outdoor Arts, 2022
Supported/Bursary Producer, Horizon International Showcase (England's Edinburgh Fringe Showcase funded by Arts Council England), 2022
Edinburgh Fringe Emerging Producers Programme, 2022
BFI Film Hub Midlands & North, Creative Producer Lab, 2022
Stage One Bridge The Gap Producer Programme 2021-22
NSDF Producers Programme 2021
China Plate Optimist Producers Training, 2021 (Bursary Recipient)
Certificate in Fundraising, Chartered Institute Of Fundraising (Qualified December 2021, Bursary Recipient)
Creative Talent Programme, Creative Youth, 2020-2021
Strike A Light Futures Producers Programme, 2020
BFI Network South East Producers School 2020
Battersea Arts Centre Young Producer 2019-20