Vikki Heywood

Dame Victoria Mary Taylor Heywood, DBE (born June 1956) is the chairman of Unboxed:_Creativity_in_the_UK and a member of the Board of the National Theatre. She is a former Chairman of Mountview Drama Academy, the RSA, Royal Society of Arts.[1] She is the former Chairman of 14-18 Now the UK's five year commemoration of the First World War. She is the former executive director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, London, and ran the London International Festival of Theatre. She was chief executive of the Contact Theatre, Manchester.[2]

Already Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.[3]

References
  1. Vikki Heywood CBE and the first to be offered a second term in office. Royal Society of Arts. Retrieved on 20 December 2016.
  2. Women rise to the top of the bill in arts jobs. James Morrison, The Independent, 14 June 2003. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  3. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B9.


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