Festival Committee

The role of the Committee is to administer the Festival on behalf of the societies, schools and groups who enter.

This involves:

(a) liaising with Schools, Societies and Groups in the general wharfedale area to facilitate and progress entries to the Festival.

(b) maintaining correspondence with Societies and Groups to ascertain the details of entries and ensuring everyone is clear about entry conditions;

(c) making all the arrangements for the Awards Evening.

(d) as individual Assessors providing marks for productions in those Festival competition groups in which they have no conflict of interest.

All dramatic and operatic societies and youth and school drama groups in the general Wharfedale area can nominate one of their members to serve on the Wharfedale Festival of Theatre Committee. The Committee can also co-opt people who they feel can contribute a special skill or have relevant experience. Current members are:

KEN STOTT (Chairman)

ALLAN HOLLINGS (Vice-Chairman)

BRYAN CRAVEN (Secretary)

JOAN GRAHAM (Treasurer)

CAROLYN CRAVEN (Trophies & Publicity)

DEBBIE ELLISON

MIKE ELLISON

ROSEMARY GRAINGER

CHRIS ROBBINS

BERNARD RILEY

PAT RILEY

GERALDINE WOODHOUSE

TOM BOOTH