Meet our team
Jacqui George
Project Director
Jacqui has been working in Stage and Production Management for the last 25 years. with a major focus on Conservatoire training. She has taught at several conservatoires and is a Master of Education and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2018 Jacqui joined the senior leadership team at Sharjah Performing Arts Academy to design and implement a Conservatoire performing and production arts undergraduate training, the first of its kind in the MENA region.
Jacqui has worked with professional companies such as National Theatre Wales, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Shared Experience. She has toured the UK extensively, produced Rep seasons in the West End, and internationally worked in Shanghai; World Expo, Berliner Festspiele, and Paphos; City of Culture. Jacqui also enjoys producing work with her and her husband’s company, We Made This.
Jacqui was one half of Stand By Please, the stage management podcast.
David Filshie
Project Leader
David is a Production Manager with 36+ years of experience collaborating with creative and technical teams to successfully deliver productions across Europe, Asia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates. He has managed a diverse range and scale of productions including arts festivals, events, classical and contemporary music concerts, musical theatre, opera, dance, drama theatre, puppetry and exhibitions.
Most recently David production managed 'Varuna' at the Bali Marine and Safari Park, Indonesia. Career highlights include production managing at Scottish Opera (UK), stage musicals ‘Crazy for You’ and ‘Cats Goes to the Circus’ (Australia) Large scale events such as Citrawana (Malaysia), Indigenous touring productions (Australia), concerts featuring Frank Sinatra, Joes Carrera and Sarah Vaughan and numerous arts festivals (UK and Australia). Project managing exhibitions such as Madame Tussauds (Hong Kong) ‘Spiders’ touring exhibition and UNIMA World Congress (Australia)
David is also an educator who over the past 12 years has been teaching and leading production arts students to deliver shows and events at Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and training production staff at National Center for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, India.
