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Park Sessions: Getting Over Fundraising Fears with Tania Dunn & Elisha Owen
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR - PARK THEATRE I TANIA DUNN
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - YOUNG VIC I ELISHA OWEN
PARK SESSIONS PROGRAMME CURATOR I HOLLY ADOMAH THOMPSON
Tania Dunn
Tania joins Park from the Young Vic where she spent two and a half years as Development Director, heading up a team of six looking after philanthropic and statutory income. She has also fundraised for Shakespeare's Globe as a Capital Campaign Manager and many (many) years ago as an intern commuting up to London on the National Express to absorb all their fundraising wisdom and input their fundraising data. In between stints at the Globe, Tania has worked in the visual arts and heritage, including nearly four years at Historical Royal Palaces where she worked on numerous capital and revenue campaigns, staged several royal events and planted a few of those famous ceramic poppies.
Tania's experience is chiefly in major gifts and grant-making but she has worked across all income streams over the years. She is keen to get to know the donor community at Park and hopes to build on it despite challenging times. As her local theatre where she has enjoyed many brilliant productions with a very reasonably priced re-usable cup of wine, she is excited to be part of the team which has cemented this theatre as a fixture of the North London community.
She is a long-suffering Arsenal fan and had trials for Southampton ladies' team many (many) years ago. When not at the theatre or crying outside the Emirates, she can be found practising Portuguese, cooking hearty Spanish food or attempting to draw.
Elisha Owen
Elisha Owen has worked as an arts fundraiser for over 6 years, supporting a wide range of performing and visual arts projects. She is currently Corporate Development Manager at the Young Vic, and prior to that she fundraised for the Barbican, where she won the 2019 European Sponsorship Award for best Arts and Culture partnership, The Abram Wilson Foundation, and Rambert Dance Company.
Holly Adomah Thompson
Holly Adomah Thompson is a Theatre Marketer based in South East London. She began her career as Marketing Intern at Park Theatre and eventually became the first and last Marketing Manager at The Bunker Theatre. Holly has led marketing campaigns, for instance the sold out My White Best Friend for The Bunker Theatre and for productions programmed at The VAULTS Festival (2020) and received the Social Media Presence and Activities OFFIE Award 2020 for The Bunker Theatre. She is also the founder of Getting in Formation, her events company which seeks to provide insight and information on the arts sector to emerging and entry level creatives. Holly is also the co-creator of Creative Futures, an event series for the University of Greenwich to inspire their Drama students to pursue careers in theatre.
Holly is also the founder of Holly’s Angels, a volunteer food distribution hub which works with theatre venues to provide food, clothing and gifts to their local communities and freelance artists who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous venues have been Park Theatre, the Albany and the Globe Theatre.
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