RTYDS is delighted to welcome Christina Clarke and Pam Fraser Solomon as Joint Chair of our Board of Trustees.
After eleven years of experience at both large and small advertising companies, Christina Clarke set up her own agency, C21 Creative Communications. The company began with a handful of clients and three other members of staff – with two still part of the team today. Having built the business from the ground up, C21 now turns over between £1-1.5m annually working with clients regionally, nationally and globally and across sectors – healthcare, social housing, public sector, education, consumer and charities.
25 years on, the company delivers campaigns targeted at hard to reach and diverse markets, employs a change for good mentally, and helps purpose driven clients take an audience-first approach to delivering positive behavioural change. Christina has also led C21 numerous industry awards wins and transitioned the company from a private entity to an Employee Owned Trust in 2021.
Pam Fraser Solomon is the Head of Creative Producing at Mountview. She is an award-winning producer/director. She was a senior BBC Drama producer and has directed over a hundred hours of audio dramas. Her television drama productions include producing EastEnders and Holby City and the Development Producer for the BBC short film One Night In White Satin.
Pam is a documentary producer and was an executive producer of BBC2’s award-winning Moira Stuart In Search of Wilberforce and a script editor for the autobiographical feature film Farming.
Pam trained at Mountview and developed a career in fringe and repertory theatre working for venues including the Sheffield Crucible and Theatre Royal Stratford East. She is the Interim Chair of Eclipse Theatre Company and the Chair of Theatre Deli.
Sue Emmas, RTYDS Artistic Director, said of their appointment:
“We are very excited for Pam and Christina to join our Board of Trustees as Joint Chair at this pivotal moment for RTYDS. Pam brings her exceptional expertise as an award-winning producer and director and Christina her 25 years of experience in the design and marketing industry. Both have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As Joint Chairs, their collaborative leadership will support RTYDS as we navigate the opportunities and challenges we- and the industry- will face in the forthcoming years.”
Christina said:
“I’m delighted to join the team at RTYDS as Joint Chair, alongside Pam. My career has been focused on helping organisations successfully create and communicate change to overcome inequality in all its forms. So, I’m thrilled to bring my expertise and outside sector perspective to an industry that has always been close to my heart, especially at such a defining time.”
Pam said:
“I am proud to join RTYDS and help serve our sector through this small, hardworking, and nationally influential organisation. RTYDS is known for providing supported training programmes and career development initiatives for creative theatre-makers which resonates with my leadership role in postgraduate producer training. I have seen the significant impact of the company’s mission to create opportunities for those historically under-represented in theatre, a commitment that aligns with my own work in the sector.”
These appointments are part of our plan to continue developing our governance at RTYDS, and we will be looking for new Trustees in the new year to help steer the company in this new chapter.