Natasha Freedman

Natasha Freedman is a producer and director with experience of nurturing interdisciplinary collaborations to open up ways of thinking, challenge dominant mindsets and drive change.

Natasha has worked with different forms of storytelling from animation to opera, with world-leading theatre makers, artists and writers, and with storytellers whose voices are rarely heard - young people, sex workers, nurses and communities with lived experience of injustice and marginalisation.  All her work has been motivated by a recognition of the need to shift whose stories we hear, and where and how we listen.

Natasha founded the performing arts programme in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, directed Cape Farewell to drive culture change around the climate, and produced international touring theatre productions with Sulayman Al Bassam to open a lens onto the contemporary Arab world in an increasingly polarised media landscape since 9/11. She reimagined the learning programmes for Complicite theatre company and English National Opera and was, until recently, Chair of Improbable Theatre.

Alongside her work at the AKO Storytelling Institute, Natasha produces an experimental arts programme in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and is a facilitator and regular visiting tutor at the National Film & Television School and Royal Academy of Arts.