FACT - Key Persons
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Technician
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
- Security Officer
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- Member of the Programme Team
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- Independent Documentary Producer / Director
Bea Freeman is an independent documentary Producer/Director, with 25 years experience in the media industry, involving commissions from the BBC, Channel 4, National and International Film Festival and former North West Vision (now Creative England). Having documented the Liverpool Black community since the early eighties, Bea was commissioned to produce a film for Channel 4 based on the 1981 Liverpool riots, titled ‘They Haven't Done Nothing.' Bea was selected to attend the prestigious European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs workshops in Germany, Ireland, Italy and Sweden and was part of the British Delegation at the Hong Kong Macau North West Film Trade Market. Bea is a member of the British Film Institute Cultural Diversity Committee.
Bea has won awards for her work at the Chicago Film Festival and her work has been selected and screened at the Berlin Film Festival and London Film Festival. Bea has sat on the judges panel for the USA Women's International Film Festival and the European Pan African Film Festival at anne. Most recently Bea was awarded the Liverpool City Region Cultural Creative Judges Award 2022. Bea joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Programme Technologist
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- Member of the Marketing & Communications Team
- Video Production Manager
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Senior Exhibitions Producer
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- Executive Director at China Plate
Chloe Courtney is Executive Director at China Plate, an independent theatre producing studio that makes work across the UK and digitally. Having worked as a producer and arts administrator for over a decade, Chloe is passionate about embedding access, equity, and care into creative working practices.
Prior to joining China Plate, Chloe was Health and Science Producer at Contact in Manchester, an arts centre which puts young people at the heart of its decision-making. Chloe's work there explored the ways that arts, health, science, and tech can interact, and how to involve more people in these conversations. Chloe previously worked at Bernie Grant Arts Centre in London, and at Complicité, and has collaborated with artists nationally and internationally as a freelance producer. Chloe joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.
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- Executive Assistant & HR Admin
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- Member of the Visitor Services Team
- Gallery Mediator
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
- Security Officer
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
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- Communications Officer
- Member of the Marketing & Communications Team
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Head of Business and Operations
Jernice Easthope has over 10 years' experience working internationally in broadcast television entertainment, as an established TV and documentary Producer. As an ITV TV producer, Jernice has worked on numerous productions in Entertainment including, X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Dragons Den, Real Housewives of Cheshire amongst more. Having Liverpool close to her heart, Jernice has independently produced documentaries capturing present historical times around social economics, particularly around music and the black community. Jernice joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2020.
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- Marketing & Communications Manager
- Member of the Marketing & Communications Team
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- Member of the Visitor Services Team
- Visitor Services Manager
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
- Cleaning Supervisor
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
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- Member of the Marketing & Communications Team
- Digital Content & Marketing Officer
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Studio / Lab Manager
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Film and Events Officer
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- Head of Marketing & Brand at National Museums Liverpool
Lisa Middleton is Head of Marketing & Brand at National Museums Liverpool, having joined the organisation in 2015.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lisa has a wealth of experience in marketing, brand and communications roles, and is passionate about utilising tech in arts to create memorable experiences for customers, and supporting opportunities for people taking unconventional routes into creative careers. Lisa joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Learning Manager
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Head of Programme
Maleka Egeonu-Roby is a Junior Project Manager on the race equality programme at Liverpool City Regions combined authority, where she works on exciting national arts exhibitions, such as "The World Reimagined." Born and bred in L8, Maleka helped shape Liverpool's cultural landscape from a young age, when joining the young people's board that delivered the successful 2008 Capital of Culture bid to Downing Street. Maleka is also a founding member of the Liverpool African Caribbean Grassroots initiative formally and locally known as the Merseyside Caribbean Centre. Passionate about having young, black and ethnically diverse perspectives heard in majority white spaces, Maleka promotes conversations about the disparities that ethnically diverse communities face in a move towards a more equitable future. A registered social worker, Maleka has experience in adult safeguarding and youth advocacy services. Maleka joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Technical Manager
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- Head of Development
- Member of the Development Team
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Learning Technologist
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- Chief Executive
- Director
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Development Officer
- Member of the Development Team
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Exhibitions Producer
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
- Operations Manager
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- Member of the Building Operations Team
- Operations Coordinator
Rachel Higham, WPP CIO joined WPP in Dec 2020 to lead the creation of a new global IT organisation and lead a multi-year digital transformation programme. Over the past 25 years, Rachel has served in technology leadership and transformation roles at ABN Amro, M&S Money, HSBC, ACE Group and BT, and has worked across EMEA, ASPAC, NA and LATAM.
Rachel has been named as one of the top 30 Global Executives driving gender equality by HERoes, and one of the top 10 Inspirational Leaders at the British LGBT awards. Rachel is a trustee of Macmillan since 2020. Rachel served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool, from 2016 to 2022 and has rejoined as Interim Chair in 2023.
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Learning Producer
Ruth Catlow is an artist, curator and recovering web utopian. As co-founding co-director of Furtherfield, London's longest-running organisation for art, technology and eco-social change, she curates and creates collaborative, playful and emancipatory artworks to engage people across silos around emerging technologies and the wicked problems they give rise to or intensify. She is co-editor of Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain (2017), and Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts (2022), and leads artistic research at Furtherfield's Decentralised Arts Lab DECAL experimenting with blockchain and web 3.0 technologies for fairer, more dynamic and connected cultural ecologies and economies. Catlow is also Co-PI at the Blockchain Lab at the Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform. Ruth joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.
Sheralee Lockhart has 20 years' experience of arts and cultural sector leadership roles. As Director of Business and Operations at Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, Sheralee's ongoing focus is reshaping and rebuilding the organisation. Having held leadership roles in a range of arts and cultural organisations: The Science Museum Group, Opera North, Leeds Playhouse, Square Chapel Arts Centre and Z-Arts, Sheralee is committed to increasing diverse representation across the arts and removing barriers. Sheralee joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2019.
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- Member of the Visitor Services Team
- Visitor Services Mediator