Future Producers 2014 starts tomorrow and we are really excited to have Sarah Ellis a Digital Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company to kick off this year’s programme. Sarah will be sharing with our group of aspiring young producers what she thinks the the role of a producer is in realising exciting ideas that engage audiences.

Sarah’s Midsummer Night’s Dreaming project was a collaboration with Google’s Creative Lab that explored the performance of the play in real-time live and online.  In 2012, she produced the online project for the World Shakespeare Festival,  myShakespeare which searches for  Shakespeare’s digital heartbeat through a data aggregator called Banquo. It searches for references of Shakespeare and his plays through Twitter, Flickr and Ebay. myShakespeare includes a series of think pieces submitted by people from around the world and an international commissioning programme featuring artists from a variety of art forms – Central Saint Martins, Brendan Dawes, Tim Etchells, Will Power, Kate Tempest, Tom Uglow and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.