LADA Staff

Mary Osborn│Director

Before joining LADA as Director in 2024, Mary Osborn (she/her) built a reputation for bold projects and programmes as a producer and curator. As Senior Creative Development Producer at Battersea Arts Centre, she shaped BAC’s programme of commissions and artist development programmes. Mary has worked closely with artists on significant projects such as Cade & MacAskill’s ‘The Making of Pinocchio’, Ama Josephine Budge’s ‘The Apocalypse Reading Room’, and the vacuum cleaner’s ‘Madlove Takeover’. Mary co-led radical performance collective Steakhouse Live, and has a long-standing collaboration with Danish curator Emma Møller (osborn&møller). Mary is currently a Trustee at Fierce, and on the Buzzcut Advisory Board.

 

Willy Amott│Operations & Public Programmes Manager

Willy Amott (they/he) joined LADA in October 2023. They are a project manager, producer and researcher whose work spans DIY drag cabaret, national artist development schemes, worldwide funding experiments, immersive experiential events, festival sets, club nights and community arts activities. Their practice centres care, wellbeing and accessibility through responsive and sustainable modes. They have a BA in English Literature and an MA in Film & Literature from the University of Birmingham, and have previously managed commercial venues.

 

Natalia Damigou-Papoti│Communications Manager

Natalia Damigou-Papoti (she/her) joined LADA in December 2019. She is a writer and an independent cultural programmer and producer invested in feminist and queer frameworks and modes of collaboration. Natalia was working at CUNTemporary/Arts Feminism Queer and was a founding member of the interdisciplinary festival UNCENSORED (London 2019) which explored pornography at the intersection of art and activism. She has worked in press and communications for London-based events and festivals taking place in venues such as the ICA, Rich Mix, Camden People’s Theatre. Her background is in journalism and cultural criticism, writing mainly about gender, sexuality, feminist politics, and pop culture. She holds a BA in Journalism from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MA in Gender Studies from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

 

Rosaleigh Harvey-Otway│Digital Projects and Resources

Rosaleigh Harvey-Otway (she/they) joined LADA in December 2019. She began her career in photography and production before moving into digital-focused roles, leading her to joining the team at LADA. Rosaleigh is also an artist and is currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths.

 

kane stonestreet│Unbound Co-Ordinator

kane stonestreet (they/he) re-joined LADA June 2024, having originally been a part of the team as an intern back in 2019. They have been active in Live Art for the past seven years, acting as an artist, collaborator, co-conspirator and producer. Their performance practice centres around transness and time, whilst their curation is preoccupied with dyke erotics and censorship. They hold a BA(Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art and studied Live Art (MA) at Queen Mary University of London.

 

 

Former LADA Staff:

Maria Agiomyrgiannaki, Katy Baird, Daniel Brine, Season Butler, Tania Camara, Uzma Chowdhury, Hannah Crosson, Rhiannon Davies, Alex Eisenberg, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha, Ben William Harris, Ruth Holdsworth, Lois Keidan, Jess Latowicki, Finn Love, CJ Mitchell, Andrew Mitchelson, Ankita Mukherji, Amy Poole, Ria Righteous, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Barak adé Soleil, Catherine Ugwu, Megan Vaughan, Aaron Wright