Sebastian Warrack - Producer

Sebastian Warrack studied languages at Southampton University and then trained as an actor at Guildford School of Acting. After working as an actor for several years, he moved into producing, setting up his own company, Akimbo, for which he produced sell-out runs of The Rivals: A Queer Appropriation and It Took More Than One Man. Since then he has worked for a number of organisations in the subsidised and commercial sectors, including the Lyric Hammersmith, Guy Chapman Associates, Music Theatre London, National Student Drama Festival, International Workshop Festival and West End producers Matthews, Redington, Torein. Between 1999 and 2007 he worked as a Theatre Officer at Arts Council England, both in the London and East offices, where he was responsible for a portfolio of clients including New Wolsey Theatre, Oily Cart, Mercury Theatre, Hoipolloi, The Gate, Quicksilver, Yellow Earth and the Junction. He was also part of the Sustained Theatre working group and was one of the national leads for music theatre. In 2007 he was appointed Producer of Told by an Idiot and has worked on all the company’s subsequent productions, including Casanova, Beauty and the Beast, The Comedy of Errors, The Fahrenheit Twins and The Dark Philosophers, as well as working with the Artistic Directors on the strategic development of the company.

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