Each year we invite established professionals, subject experts and artists and creatives from across the UK to form part of the independent Jury that will select this year’s Shortlisted Artists and Fellow.
We are thrilled to share that the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 for Theatre Jury Members are:
Anna Fleischle
Anna Fleischle is an Olivier award-winning and Tony-nominated production set and costume designer. Anna’s theatre credits include: A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic); Punch (Nottingham Playhouse/ Young Vic 2025) Nachtland (Young Vic); The Time Travellers Wife (West End); The Pillowman (West End); The Collaboration (Broadway/Young Vic); Death Of A Salesman (Broadway/Young Vic/West End); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End/LA/Tour/Melbourne); Hangmen (Broadway/West End/Royal Court), for this production Anna received a Tony Award nomination 2022, Olivier Award For Best Set Design, Critics Circle Award for ‘Best Designer’ and the Evening Standard Award for ‘Best Design’. Anna’s fellowships include: Founding Member of Scene/Change, Associate Artist Young Vic, and Trustee Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Paul Handley
Paul has worked in theatre production for the last 35 years. For many years he was Head of Production at the Royal Court Theatre focused on delivering new plays by both new and established writers including Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Jez Butterworth, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. For the last decade he has worked at the National Theatre where he is Production and Technical Director. He sits on the Linbury Prize Committee and chairs the Genesis Theatre Design Programme.
Stella Kanu
Stella Kanu is CEO at Shakespeare’s Globe and was previously Executive Director at LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre). At LIFT she led the strategic strands of the business as well as presenting and executive producing international work like 2019 Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Climate-Opera from Lithuania Sun & Sea (2022) and Australia’s The Second Woman (2023) starring two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson in an internationally acclaimed feat of endurance theatre and live cinema.
Stella has worked in the theatre, festival, and cultural sector for 30 years and sat on several strategic and governing bodies including All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Theatre, and is Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s representative to Arts Council London Area. Stella is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College (2021), was named one of the Alfred Fagon Award 25 Black Theatre Champions (2022) was recently named one of the 100 Black Women to Have Make a Mark (2023) and alongside Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry is listed in The Stage 100 power list (2024).
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The Arts Foundation Futures Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives at a pivotal moment in their careers with £20,000 unconditional Fellowships.
The Theatre Award is generously supported in partnership with The David Collins Foundation, with development support from The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund.
The Theatre Award Shortlist will be revealed in January 2025, and the recipient of the £20,000 Fellowship will be announced at a live Award Ceremony in February 2025, with all Shortlisted Artists awarded £1,000.
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