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Press Release: Ian Albery Awarded Fellowship of ABTT
19th Dec 2013
Theatre consultant,
manager, producer and founding member of the ABTT Ian Albery, has been
awarded a Fellowship of the Association. Individuals are
appointed Fellow if they "have rendered signal service to the technical aspects
of the art of the theatre".
In recognising his
outstanding contribution to theatre - including work as both production and
technical managers and service as vice-chairman of the ABTT, as well as an
executive member of the Society of West End Theatre - Nimax Theatre Chief
Executive, Nica Burns, praised the former chief executive of Sadler's Wells
Theatre, acknowledging the importance of Albery in her own career.
The list of ABTT
Fellows now reads as follows: David Adams, Ian Albery, Jason Barnes, Fred
Bentham (deceased), Richard Brett, William Dudley, Tim Foster, Roger Fox,
Roderick Ham, Chris Higgs, Ethel Langstreth (deceased), Iain Mackintosh,
Maurice Marshall (deceased), Richard Pilbrow, Francis Reid, Peter Roberts, John
Simpson and Ken Smalley (deceased).
Picture,
left to right :
Nica Burns, theatre
producer and co-owner of Nimax Theatres, with Ian Albery and ABTT Chairman Mark
White
Picture
Credit :
etnow.com
Caption
:
The Association of
British Theatre Technicians took the opportunity of its annual Christmas Party (at the New London
Theatre, Friday 13 December 2013), hosted by Gold Industry Supporter Group
member ETC, to bestow its top honour, the ABTT Fellowship, on Ian Albery.