Board of Trustees

Dicky Eton

Dicky Eton has been a Producer with Duckie for over 20 years. Prior to stepping into the bright lights Dicky spent over ten years in corporate banking and the NHS (with a sojourn in retail) before re-training as an actor and developing an interest in experimental theatre and performance.

Over the years he has worked with Blast Theory (with whom he is an associate artist) Pacitti Company, and Carnesky Productions amongst others.

He presently sits on the on the boards of Marlborough Theatre Productions, & Friends, and Screaming Alley.

These days you will generally find him lurking in the shadows at one of numerous events run by Duckie, The Posh Club or Home Live Art.

Andrew Westle

Andrew is the National Programme Manager for The Agency at Battersea Arts Centre. Before this, he worked as Engagement Manager (co-creation) for Manchester International Festival. His work defies neat boundaries to include research, socially engaged arts practice, performance, evaluation, writing, and public health.

Originating from Australia, Andrew has lived in the UK for 5 years and has worked with a diverse range of organisations including All The Queens Men, Australian Ballet, University of New South Wales & Manchester Craft and Design Centre. He created popular podcast and web-platform, Delving into Dance, with an international audience of 40,000+.

Andrew holds a PhD and a Masters of Fine Arts (Cultural Leadership) as part of the Inaugural Cohort at National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). He has also written a leading report into gender equality in Australian dance.

Monica Pearl

Veteran ACT UP activist and scholar, Dr Monica Pearl, has written extensively on HIV/AIDS literature, film, theatre, and visual art. In this public lecture, she will offer current work-in-progress, tracing instances of fury on the part of gay men who survived the AIDS crisis towards younger men who are seemingly oblivious to it in some recent American cultural texts.

Monica B. Pearl is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Twentieth Century American Literature and Film at the University of Manchester, UK. She has written extensively on AIDS representation, including her book AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss (Routledge). Her most recent publication is a short essay on the UK AIDS TV show It’s a Sin in The European Journal of Cultural Studies. A brief recent account of her experience as a member of ACT UP/New York was also published recently in Radical History Review.