I am a freelance Creative Producer based in Suffolk. I have over twenty years experience working with arts organisations and individual artists planning, funding, developing and touring New Writing. My specialisms include raising Arts Council England investment; community engagement; found space theatre; rural touring; amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities. See my projects here: https://karengoddard.net/projects/
Recent credits: ‘Star Sisters’ R&D (Producer) September 2025; ‘Don’t Knock The Dock’ R&D (Writer & Producer) September 2025; ‘The Go-Between’ by Ben Musgrave R&D (Producer) October 2024; ‘Sophia’ by Hannah Kumari R&D (Producer) June – Sept 2024; ‘Ghost Stories By Candlelight’ HighTide – Autumn 2023 Tour (Associate Producer); ‘HighTide Rising’ playwriting festival – May 2023 (Associate Producer); ‘Beneath The Banner’ by Nicola Pollard – Spring 2023 tour (Associate Producer); ‘Satellites’ by Natalie Songer – Autumn 2022 tour (Producer); ‘Patient Light‘ Eastern Angles 2022 schools tour (tour booker); ‘Streets Alive’ Eastern Angles’ town and schools street theatre tour 2022 (tour booker); ‘Splinter’ R&D Martha Loader & Play Nicely Theatre Company 2022 (Co-Producer); ‘The Black Madonna Speaks‘ R&D – Nicola Werenowska 2022 (Producer); ‘Our White Skoda Octavia‘ – Full Production/Eastern Angles in assoc. with ECDP & Derby Theatre (toured 6th Oct -6th Nov 2021 (Producer); ‘Guncotton’ R&D – Stow & Tell project 2021 (Producer); Beneath The Banner R&D and rural tour – Up The Road Theatre Company 2021-23 (Associate Producer); Sheelagh R&D – Zoë Wells 2021 (Producer); Tamed Virtual Chorus R&D – Flight of the Escales 2021 (Producer); ‘Booming Voices‘ R&D for Eastern Angles, 2020 (Producer); ‘Footsteps’ by Martha Loader – audio trail, 2020 (Producer); ‘Satellites’ by Natalie Songer – R&D sharings, 2019 (Producer); ‘English Civil Whore‘ Play Nicely Theatre Co – R&D sharing, 2019 (Marketing); ‘The Numerous & Varied Assassinations of Oliver Cromwell’ Keeper’s Daughter Theatre Co, 2019 – R&D sharing (Marketing); ‘Our White Skoda Octavia’ by Shamser Sinha – R&D sharings, 2019 (Producer); ‘The Famous Four and a Half go wild in Thetford Forest’ Eastern Angles – 2019 (Script Contributor); ‘Edith in the Beginning’ Stuff of Dreams Theatre Co – full production 2019 (Producer); ‘An Honest Gentleman’ Stuff of Dreams Theatre Co – rural tour, 2019 (Producer); ‘The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps’ Matthew Linley Creative Projects/Action Transport Theatre – two national tours, 2019 (Marketing & PR); ‘Footsteps’ by Martha Loader – six Ipswich Town centre promenade performances, 2018 (Producer).
“Just wanted to send you a big thank you for your help on the ACE application for the R&D. Your guidance was incredibly helpful and I’m in no doubt that it contributed to the success of the bid” Essex-based Writer
“Your session was GREAT! So informative and clear.” Ipswich-based Writer
“Thanks so much for last night’s session. Really interesting & I took loads of notes!” Suffolk-based Writer/Actor
Rural theatre: Lyn Gardner reports on the work outside the cities that’s blooming
Photo credit: Natalie Songer in ‘Satellites’ – by Dave Guttridge of Photo Unit
Privacy Notice
If you are involved in one of my projects, this privacy notice tells you what to expect me to do with your personal information.
Contact details
karenlgoddard@outlook.com
What information I collect, use, and why
I collect or use the following personal information for research or archiving purposes:
- Names and contact details
- Addresses
- Recorded images, such as photos or videos
- Records of consent, where appropriate
I also collect or use the following information for research or archiving purposes:
- Racial or ethnic origin
- Health information
- Sexual orientation information
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
- Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
- Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.
If you make a request, I must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes are:
- Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Where we get personal information from
- Directly from you
How long we keep information
Five Years
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Karen Goddard 