OUR TEAM
Josephine Burton
Artistic Director and Chief Executive
Josephine Burton is co-founder of Dash Arts, where she’s led the creation of over 80 award-winning cross-artform works nationally and internationally over nearly two decades. A theatre director, dramaturg, playwright, and podcast host, her work has been praised for its “immersive ingenuity... that stretches the vocabulary of the stage” (Observer).
Upcoming projects include Our Public House (2026), a “state of the nation” production shaped by public conversations, and The Reckoning (2025), exploring justice in Ukraine. Past highlights include Dido’s Bar, an immersive retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid, and The Great Middlemarch Mystery, a site-specific theatre work for Coventry City of Culture.
Her work spans disciplines and geographies, from Olivier Award-winning Babel by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to Lyrical Alliance, an ensemble of Arabic-speaking rappers. Josephine integrates academic research into her creative process, ensuring Dash Arts’ productions are intellectually rich and deeply engaging.
She’s also a music advisor for the PRS Foundation, a vocalist, a keen yogi, and a mum of three.
MOYA MAXWELL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Moya has over 25 years’ experience of working in a business capacity across arts and commercial venues, both here in the UK and overseas. She has a background in venue management and event organisation, most notably at Royal Opera House, RIBA and Sadler’s Wells, and has organised events such as BAFTA Film awards, BP Summer Big Screens, Olivier Awards and the Stirling Prize.
Latterly, Moya has been working as ED for arts organisations across the dance sector. Moya is responsible for the business administration of Dash Arts and is passionate about sharing her business acumen with independent arts producers to put the sector on a more sustainable financial footing.
When not working, Moya is a keen tennis player and gardener.
Cristina Catalina
SENIOR Producer
Cristina is a theatre and multi-disciplinary arts producer, translator and performer. She has been working with Dash since 2013, first as a performer, and since 2017 as producer.
In-house shows: Songs for Babyn Yar, The Great Middlemarch Mystery, Dash Cafés, Dash Arts Forum, Eurosquat, Euro2020 Gigs.
Previous production work includes productions and festivals for the Lyric Hammersmith, New Diorama Theatre, VAULT Festival, and touring theatre from Romania to the Barbican, Theatre Royal Stratford East and LIFT. She co-founded and ran All Change Festival with Firehouse Creative Productions and produced a season of Romanian theatre featuring Elevator (**** Critics Choice, Time Out).
She is of Romanian-German descent, and also works as a translator and an actor, notably for the Royal Court and the BBC.
Kate Knight
Fundraising Associate
Kate is an experienced fundraiser and consultant with over twenty-five years of expertise in the arts charity sector. She’s held senior positions at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and her freelance clients include Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, and Whitechapel Gallery. Kate is passionate about creating exceptional donor experiences, building strong, loyal communities that play a key role in the financial health of the organisations she works with.When she’s not fundraising, Kate enjoys fostering rescue dogs and has a knack for entering - and sometimes winning - competitions!
MARIE HORNER
Podcast Producer
Marie is an award winning podcast and radio producer who loves storytelling through sound as well as running workshops to support others to create their own ear crackling audio. After being the Head of Broadcast and Digital at the Roundhouse for over 10 years she now works as a consultant and producer for different arts organisations and broadcasters to explore podcasting and lectures in podcasting and broadcast law at SOAS and Bournemouth University. Marie’s career started as a broadcast journalist and voiceover artist at the BBC, Global and other international broadcasters and podcast platforms before moving to working with emerging talent in the arts.
Eragona Communications
Marketing Team
Helen Eragona and Anna Kjaergaard Fischer are part of Eragona Communications, based in Scotland. They work collaboratively on projects which have strong positive social and ethical ambitions, and aim to empower their audiences.
Bryan Woltjen
Creative Associate
A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Bryan has designed for a diverse range of theatre makers across Australia, India and the UK. He is the recipient of two W.A. Equity Guild Awards for Best Set Design. In 2008 he undertook a series of residencies across India researching traditional puppetry and devising new works.
Based between London and Perth, Australia Bryan seeks to develop work that is inclusive, sustainable, and unflinchingly anti-oppression.
Sophie Austin
Creative Associate
Sophie is a theatre and film director. She specialises in large scale, site specific and immersive theatre and has staged productions on Greenham Common, Trafalgar Square, in an arsenal and up and down high streets across the UK.
She is director of SHH Productions, film company producing work that has an International vision and a female focus.
Carolyn Goertzel
INTERN
Carolyn was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has just graduated from University of Redlands in California with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Theatre Arts. She has experience in stage management, writing, and social media. Carolyn is interested in learning more about theatre and bringing a voice to those who are often silenced.
Finance Team
Jo Hughes
Beth Roberts
TRUSTEES
Joachim Fleury (Chair)
Olivia Scanlon
Jerry Wattenberg
Katherine Zeserson
Magdalena Ziarko