Since early 2024, Matt Burman has been co-lead of Create Cambridge, the city’s new cultural compact; a place-based cross-sector partnership of artists, organisations, universities, and local authorities whose vision is to build creative imagination, cultural practice and social equity into the continuing success of our region, situating it firmly within the innovation story. Since 2018, Matt has been Artistic Director & CEO of Cambridge Junction, leading on the curation and production of theatre, dance, live art, circus, and artist development programmes. During his tenure, Matt has commissioned and co-produced more than 100 new projects, including Quarantine’s 12 Last Songs, Back to Back Theatre’s The Democratic Set Cambridge, Forced Entertainment’s If All Else Fails, Bert & Nasi’s Tonight and Laura Murphy’s A Spectacle of Herself. Between 2016-2018 he developed an independent producing and programming portfolio, working across artform, locating radical structures for the creation of new work. Projects included Leeds 2023 (developing the programme for Leeds’ bid to be European Capital of Culture), LIFT (producing the UK tour of Lola Arias’ Minefield), Northern Stage, Unlimited Theatre, Proto-type Theater, West Yorkshire Playhouse and independent artists Luca Rutherford and Hannah Jane Walker. He was Artistic Director of Yorkshire Festival 2016, curating a programme featuring more than 900 artists, 15 new commissions and hundreds of performances and days of exhibition across the whole of the county. He was Head of Programme & Audiences at Warwick Arts Centre (2011-2015), where he co-produced work by artists and companies including Complicite, Gecko, and Theatre de Bouffe du Nord. Previously he was Executive Producer for Norfolk & Norwich Festival (2008-2011) and General Manager of Forced Entertainment (2003-2008). Matt has been on judging panels, advisory and curatorial groups for the Total Theatre Awards, BE Festival, and international showcases including Caravan and Edinburgh, and on the boards of Something To Aim For, Candoco Dance Company, Reckless Sleepers and Bootworks Theatre Company.