At the JMK Trust we are committed to developing the potential of up to 20 talented young directors each year. We run regular Development Weeks for existing and recent finalists, contributing to their ongoing learning.

Our latest runner up award – a Designer/Director Development Week for all current finalists – took place at BAC in July 2009. Jon Bausor led an award-winning team of creatives including Ian MacNeil, Ben Oremerod, Mark Espiner and Dan Jones of Sound and Fury, Douglas O’Connell, Ian Dickinson and Jon Clark.

In March 2009 all eight finalists received a week of intensive workshops supported by Step Change and using the resources and facilities of BAC. The practitioners who took part, chosen by the finalists, were Katie Mitchell, Richard Eyre, Akram Khan, Melly Still, Wendy Spon, Laura McDermott, Ruth Little, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Mike Bradwell, Kathryn Hunter and Daniel Kramer.

Photo by Gemma Riggs: finalists on our recent Development Week March 2009.