Anthony Field, recipient of the 2011 International Citation of Merit at the New York 2011 Congress, The Art of Collaboration.  View other ISPA Award winners.

Anthony Field

Anthony Field’s career in the theatre started after having qualified and gained experience as a Chartered Accountant, when in 1957 he ran London’s Comedy Theatre as the New Watergate Theatre Club so that productions then banned by the Lord Chamberlain (such as Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A View From the Bridge) could be presented to English audiences. This was a pioneering move in securing the abolition of stage censorship which occurred within a few years of launching the Club.

After nearly 30 years as Finance Director of the Arts Council of Great Britain (during which time his budget responsibility rose from under £1 million to over £300 million), Anthony became Vice-President of Theatre Projects Consultants when, together with Richard Pilbrow, he launched the first London productions of shows including Company, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and I’m Not Rappaport.

Since then he has been running his own production and consultancy Company, Anthony Field Associates Ltd, (www.anthonyfieldassociates.com), the directors of which have been responsible for some 300 theatre productions in the West End. He pioneered the very first University training courses for Arts Administrators and Managers at the City University in London and at Harvard University.

He has been Chair of many international opera, dance and drama companies and is a regular contributor to “The Stage” and other newspapers. A compilation of his writings were published in 2004 under the title “Pages From Stages”.