Rose Fenton is independent arts producer and advisor who supervises the whole process of the Festival Lab. Together with other tutors she elaborates the contents and methodology of the training programme and participates at the academy, as well as all the workshops. Rose Fenton was co-founder in 1981, with Lucy Neal, of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and was its co-director until April 2005. Over the past years Rose has been leading projects with FIT - Festivals in Transition - an initiative by eight European Festivals to develop the role of international contemporary arts theatre festivals within the cultural landscape of an evolving Europe. She is also very involved in the issue of Climate Change through Tipping Point, a project that brings together scientists and artists internationally in responding to what will be the major driver of societal, cultural and economic change in the 21st century. Rose has recently completed an Arts, Culture and Creativity Strategy for the London Olympic Park post the 2012 Olympic Games. Rose contributes widely to arts advisory panels in the UK and abroad and lectures nationally and internationally on a regular basis. She is a founding member, and was President from 2002-2005, of THEOREM, a network that supported and invested in the presentation and creation of work by emerging artists from Eastern and Central Europe across Europe. She is also member of the Roundhouse Trust Advisory Board and is on the board of Dance Umbrella festival and the performance company, Moti Roti. Rose studied English and Drama at Warwick University. She is a graduate of the civic leadership programme, Common Purpose, and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from De Montfort University and an Honorary Fellowship from Dartington College of Arts. In 2005 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama. Her book, The Turning World; Stories from the London International Festival of Theatre, co-written with Lucy Neal, was published in 2005.