Lou Rogers
Lou has worked with Lîla Dance as their Producer since January 2017. She books the tours, writes the funding applications, collaborates in the studio and builds new partnerships. Lou buys the biscuits and fixes things when they break.
An experienced Producer with over 20 years experience, Lou has a background in performing and trained at Birmingham Theatre School, The University of Birmingham and ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts). For the last four years Lou was Senior Producer Artist Development at South East Dance, and over the past ten years Lou has been Creative Producer at Stopgap Dance Company and worked with Unlimited, The British Council and Disability Arts online to create integrated dance work with disabled and non disabled artists.
Lou created and curated the iF (Integrated Fringe) Platform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015 - a unique platform showcasing the best disabled artists and integrated companies working in the UK. Lynn Gardner of the Guardian called it a 'brilliant initiative'. Work included Jo Bannon's production of ALBA, Marc Brew's For Now, I am, Backstage in Biscuitland by Touretteshero, Easy for you to Say Rowan James and Stopgap Dance Company's Artificial Things.
Photo Credit: Amy Morvell
Lou has produced small to large scale touring projects and everything in between. Aside from contemporary dance they include such diverse subjects as a bhangra musical, magic show, skateboard and BMX dance shows, children’s theatre, outdoor festivals, dance films and Paralympic events. Lou was Producer for NPO Rifco Arts and has worked as Producer for Small Performance Adventures, Kriya Arts, Root Experience, Spun Glass Theatre, Casson & Friends, MakeAMPLIFY and Flexer and Sandiland. Lou has worked for and with both Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe for many years. In rare gaps between shows in Edinburgh Lou met her husband Olly and together they run their own production company Hubble Bubble Productions.