Roy Luxford

Monday, 28 April 2025 - Keynote Arts Festivals Summit 2025

Roy is Creative Director at the Edinburgh International Festival and is responsible for the programme of the annual 25-day multi art-form festival. Prior to Edinburgh he produced theatre and dance internationally for the Barbican, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, The Young Vic, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center New York, Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, Chekhov Festival Moscow, and the Venice Biennale amongst others.

He led three of the UK’s foremost producing companies Cheek by Jowl, Michael Clark Company, and DV8 Physical Theatre, and produced the European premiere of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul in London and Tim Supple’s production of One Thousand and One Nights for the Edinburgh International Festival.

For the European Festival Association’s Festival Academy, he was the professional lead on the Atelier for Young Producers, and he is a member of UK Theatre, the UK’s theatre industry organisation.