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Situated on the south bank of the River Thames, Southbank Centre is at the heart of London’s arts quarter and showcases local, national and international work across classical and contemporary music, dance and performance, learning and participation, the visual arts, and literature and spoken word.
Jude founded Solent People's Theatre in 1976 and Battersea Arts Centre in 1980, and became the Artistic Director of the York Festival and Mystery Plays in 1988. She later became the founding director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse where as Artistic Director and then Chief Executive Officer she established it as an acknowledged centre of excellence. In 1997, she was awarded the OBE for her services to the theatre. She has directed over 100 productions including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the English National Opera, the Châtalet in Paris and in the West End.
Jude left the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2002 to found Metal, artistic laboratory spaces in London, Liverpool and Southend. Metal provides a platform where creative hunches and ideas can be pursued. It also involves cross-art collaborations and developing strategic projects to affect the built environment, people, communities and philosophies.
Amongst her many successes as a director, Jude’s production of Singin’ in the Rain transferred twice to the Royal National Theatre and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production in 2001. She directed Sir Ian McKellen in The Seagull and The Tempest, Patrick Stewart in Johnson over Jordon and Othello, Dawn French in When We Are Married, and the English National Opera in The Elixir of Love (Southbank Award - Newcomer Opera). On the Town, which was the English National Opera’s most successful production to date and was revived in 2007 at the London Coliseum and in 2008 at Théâtre du Châtelet, Carmen Jones, and the Wizard of Oz at the refurbished Royal Festival Hall. More recently, Jude directed Paco Pena’s Flamenco sin Fronteras in 2009 and Quimeras, also by Paco Pena, which had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in September 2010, and a production of Bernstein’s MASS at the Royal Festival Hall.
Jude has represented Britain within UNESCO on cultural matters, served on the Arts Advisory Committee for Royal Society of Arts, and jointly chaired with Lord Puttnam the Curricula Advisory Committee on Arts and Creativity. She is chair of Metal, a member of the London Cultural Consortium, a member of the Dishaa Advisory Group, she is Chair of the Trustees for World Book Night, and was a member of the Cultural Olympiad Board which was responsible for the ongoing framework for delivering the creative, cultural and educational aspects of London’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. She is visiting Professor at Kingston University and Leeds University and holds several honorary degrees from national and international universities.
[link_to|http://www.hkaaa.org.hk/doc/3490|Other Speakers of "2013 Cultural Leadership Summit – Arts Entrepreneurship: What It Takes And How It Works"]