Executive Director, East
Andrea Stark was appointed Chief Executive of East England Arts in November 1999. She was previously Chief Arts Officer for the City of Dundee and during that time she established the city's new arts department. She was project director for the £10 million Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, the largest arts Lottery project in Scotland at that time.
Andrea's early experience was in youth and community theatre. She moved in the mid-1980s to work in arts development in the north of England, where she became Head of Arts Development for Sunderland City Council. While at Sunderland she established the largest arts development agency for the arts in the north and was associated with setting up the National Glass Centre and the Year of Visual Arts.