Lucy put together the inaugural YNAF programme in 2013 and became Director in 2014. Her hard work and determination has expanded Young Norfolk Arts from a small project to an incorporated charitable trust, running year-round activities. Lucy is also an independent creative producer, working on theatre projects across the UK, as well as coordinating True Stories Live and Balloon debates.

Emily joined us in the beginning of 2021. She is passionate about working with young people through the arts. Since graduating from the University of Surrey Emily has worked with Les Enfants Terribles, Mercury Theatre Colchester and Project 21 and is a freelance dance teacher and facilitator. She strongly believes in making art more accessible, mainly due to her having spent a year as an intern with Stopgap Dance Company during her degree.

Rosa is a writer and producer for theatre, radio and community projects. Her work aims to resonate with the peculiar experience of being human, exploring relationships and identity within the context of a chaotic socio-political landscape. Credits include: BBC, Soho Theatre, VAULT Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Waterstones, Battersea Arts Centre, Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Sarah is our new Finance Manager who has just joined us this year. We look forward to working with Sarah as we look to the year ahead.

Steffan Griffiths joined Norwich School in September 2011 and has since introduced initiatives such as the Young Norfolk Arts Festival and Young Norfolk Sports Academy. After reading Classics at University College, Oxford, he taught at Tonbridge School (1995-1999) and Eton College (1999-2006). In 2006, he was appointed to the role of Usher (principal deputy head) at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Steffan also holds a first-class honours English Literature degree from the Open University. During his school years at Whitgift School, he acted with the National Theatre, both on the South Bank and in European tours. He maintains an active interest and involvement in drama.

Robbie is the Communications Manager at First Light Festival Community Interest Company (CIC), which runs a free multi-arts beach festival in Lowestoft, as well as the newly opened East Point Pavilion on the town’s seafront. He moved to East Anglia in early 2019 to take up a traineeship with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and has subsequently worked at National Centre for Writing, SPILL Festival, and on the Collaboration: Place: Change project as part of Arts Council England’s Transforming Leadership Programme.

Robbie has a master’s degree in Sexual Dissidence/Queer Theory from University of Sussex, and prior to living in Norwich, worked for a marketing start-up in Hong Kong. Both of these ventures have, in very different ways, informed his approach to arts marketing.

Nina is the Arts Editor of ITV News which she joined in 2002 from the BBC. The job involves specialist arts and media coverage for ITV, including covering the Oscars every year and interviewing the biggest names in film, music and TV. She is also a regular contributor to ITV programmes on entertainment, and popular culture.

Nina started out at the BBC as a trainee, then working on regional and national television and radio, including presenting Asian Perspective for 3 years, a live news and current affairs programme on BBC Radio Five Live. In 2007 Nina was awarded an Honorary doctorate for Services to the Media.

She is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, chairing events for the charity, and for the British Asian Trust. and is a Governor of Norwich University of the Arts. Nina is also a Trustee of the National Centre for Writing, and patron of the domestic abuse charity Leeway.

Ellie Reeves is a poet, arts practitioner and YNA collective alumni based in Norwich. She is currently the Programme Assistant at National Centre for Writing where she managers commercial mentoring and supports writer development. After co-founding the arts & culture website rrramble in 2020, she has taken on the role of Head of Creative Development and Partnerships. rrramble is a unique platform designed to diversify the creative and critical voices in the arts.

Her poetry has been long listed for the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize and she has headlined Toast Poetry. Ellie’s work casts a sometimes comical, sometimes cynical eye on queer dynamics and the body in place. She has a longstanding love of performance; as well as encouraging others to take the stage, she recently performed in Wasp at Camden Fringe and Maddermarket Theatre.