FESTIVAL STAFF

Julia Carruthers
Director

Julia Carruthers worked as PA to John Drummond at Edinburgh International Festival and then as Programme Co-ordinator at London’s Riverside Studios. She was Festival Co-ordinator at Dance Umbrella, London before becoming Dance Officer at the Arts Council of England. Having managed a number of choreographers, including Jonathan Burrows, Michael Clark and Russell Maliphant, she was appointed Head of Dance & Performance at Southbank Centre, London from 2000-2008. From 2008-2010 she held the role of Executive Director at Akram Khan Company, based in London and touring worldwide.

Most recently, her commitments involved theatre company Shared Experience, circus projects with London production house Crying Out Loud and The Re-enchantment, a programme of creative work involving artists responding to landscape.

Julia is currently on the Board of Birmingham DanceXchange and The Lighthouse in Poole, Dorset. In 2006, she was listed in Time Out magazine’s “London’s Top 100 Movers, Shakers and Opinion Makers”".

Caroline Williams
Programme Manager

Caroline Williams has worked in arts management in various capacities over the last couple of decades. In the 1990s, she was a founding member and producer with the independent theatre company, Glasshouse Productions. She co-edited (with Anna McMullan) the Contemporary Drama section of ‘The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature, Volume V’ (Cork University Press, 2002). She was Research Director with Irish Theatre Institute (2002-2008) and managed their Irish Playography and Irish Theatre Artists online projects. She served as a board member of ENICPA (European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts). She was Publications Editor/Special Events Coordinator for the 2008 Dublin Theatre Festival. Her novel ‘Pretending’ was published by Penguin Ireland in 2006, and reprinted in 2007.

Eleanor Creighton
Marketing & Press Officer

Eleanor joined DDF in January 2009. Having trained full-time at The College of Dance, Monkstown for one year she went on to receive a BA in Dance Studies with Psychology from Roehampton University in London. On her return to Dublin, Eleanor worked for Traidlinks, a Development NGO, and on a freelance basis for Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company.

Tiina Ylönen
Finance & Admin Officer

Tiina Ylõnen joined the DDF team in January 2010. After receiving a BA with Honours in Tourism & Finance in Mikkeli University Of Applied Sciences, she came to live and work in Ireland in 2000. Having worked in Tourism, Finance & Procurement she moved on to become an Administrator with the (Absolut) Dublin Fringe Festival for 2.5 years and gained further festival experience with the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in 2009.