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Laura McDermott

About

Laura McDermott is joint artistic director (along with Harun Morrison) of Fierce Festival – an international festival of live art and public intervention.

Fierce takes place annually in arts venues and other sites across the city of Birmingham, UK. In 2012-13 Laura was awarded a CLORE Fellowship in Arts Participation and Engagement, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

As part of the fellowship, she completed a secondment at Collide@CERN, an artist residency programme at CERN – the particle physics laboratory, located just outside Geneva in Switzerland.

Previously, Laura was a theatre producer and programmer at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) in London. Laura currently sits on the board of directors of Uninvited Guests theatre company.

Past Events

Breakfast Club

'One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star' - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tania El Khoury, Phillip O'Carroll, Pierre Proske, Laura McDermott

Past event

3 May
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