Theatre and Web Professional
Harrow, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Theatre Manager, Compass Theatre, Ickenham at London Borough of Hillingdon
- Composer at Upstage Performance Group
- Writer/Composer at Tim Saward
- Past
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- Programme Manager at Mercury Musical Developments
- Online Project Management at Roundhouse
- Freelance Education Specialist at Tim Stuart Saward
- Sound Designer at Brits Off Broadway
- Freelance Learning Content Specialist at Film Education
- Content Producer at London Gifted & Talented
- e-Learning Manager at The British Library
- Dome Education Manager at Millennium Dome
- Education Officer at London Toy and Model Museum
- Education
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- Goldsmiths College, U. of London
- Queen Mary, U. of London
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Tim Saward’s Summary
My career mixes theatre/drama and a learning specialism in equal measure.
I work in all aspects of e-learning and blended learning for school-age children, with particular experience in:
- museums, libraries and archives
- gifted education
- humanities
- theatre and drama, including podcasting
I offer:
- educational/training content writing across the curriculum
- specification of interactives
- teaching and programme design for projects in schools
- practical music activities
- research skills
- project management on educational projects, esp. museums, libraries and archives
- anything to do with podcasting (incl. editing)
In addition I work as:
- a composer for theatre and musical theatre
- a sound designer
As a consultant, I am known for my original thinking, for being able to winnow out and understand the essence of a brief (not wasting time and effort on makeweight irrelevancies), and for delivering practical, deliverable proposals.
Tim Saward’s Specialties:
My particular specialism is in focusing the educational quality of resources - helping all my clients avoid the danger of letting the technology lead.
Tim Saward’s Experience
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Theatre Manager, Compass Theatre, Ickenham
London Borough of Hillingdon
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
June 2010 — Present (3 months)
General management of staff and building at a local-authority run 150 seater venue with rehearsal rooms and studios.
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Composer
Upstage Performance Group
(Entertainment industry)
August 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Composing and writing lyrics for musical theatre songs for young people to perform as part of a week of theatre-focused activity. Project and performance took place in Tetbury, Gloucs.
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Writer/Composer
Tim Saward
(Entertainment industry)
July 1997 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Creating musical theatre and undertaking other creative writing.
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Programme Manager
Mercury Musical Developments
(Non-Profit; Entertainment industry)
August 2007 — June 2010 (2 years 11 months)
Part time position running the programme and membership for this small charity devoted to nurturing new musical theatre writing. I perform a wide range of duties from the creation and editing of the website through to management of projects and financial and budget management for the organisation.
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Online Project Management
Roundhouse
(Entertainment industry)
May 2008 — May 2010 (2 years 1 month)
Working on the implementation of a new online presence for this high-profile and uniquely constituted venue in North London.
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Freelance Education Specialist
Tim Stuart Saward
(E-Learning industry)
December 2007 — May 2010 (2 years 6 months)
Freelance education content specialist, working on:
- educational/training content writing across the curriculum
- specification of interactives
- teaching on projects in schools
- project management on educational projects, esp. museums, libraries and archives
- anything to do with podcasting (incl. editing) -
Sound Designer
Brits Off Broadway
(Entertainment industry)
October 2009 — November 2009 (2 months)
Sound design for the Brits off Broadway production of The Wolves at the Window, adapted by Toby Davies from Saki's short stories.
I originated effects, original music and compiled a sound design in QLab and a cue script for an operator to use at the remote site. -
Freelance Learning Content Specialist
Film Education
(Non-Profit; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
August 2009 — August 2009 (1 month)
Working with this established educational organisation on both new and archive resources, to help it sustain and get more value from its web-based offering. I am originating, drafting and editing content for web resources.
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Content Producer
London Gifted & Talented
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
July 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 6 months)
London Gifted & Talented offer specially designed programmes for the top ten percent of students across the London boroughs. Starting with the How Do You Mean? project in 2004, I've been increasingly working on the production of new resources, events and other learning opportunities. These range right across the curriculum from Religious Education to Physics and Evolutionary Biology, as well as such things as combinations of philosophy, dance and critical thinking. The emphasis is on higher-order sorts of activities.
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e-Learning Manager
The British Library
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Libraries industry)
August 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 11 months)
For my first year I was responsible for strategic planning and day-to-day project-management of all on site schools’ activities, contributing to the development processes of exhibitions and developing an onsite schools’ programme for the Trading Places exhibition, May-September 2002.
My brief then shifted to the digital side of the operation, where I developed the British Library's learning website at www.bl.uk/learning, for which projects included:
- Black History Blog (non-traditional audiences researching)
- Texts in Context (KS3 and sixth-form students use rare BL texts in combination with local museum visits)
- The Ideas Storage Zone (young people consider the problem of taxonomy)
- Disinformation (young people working on the problem of reliability of sources)
The experimental, innovative nature of this work meant I had to manage a very amorphous set of tasks, and apply advanced learning theory to all resources commissioned. -
Dome Education Manager
Millennium Dome
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; ¬; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
September 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for all education on site at the Millennium Dome, managing a team of 30 staff, the Schoolscape building and the Learning Experience Centre. Management of a National programme to provide free visits for thousands of schools.
Programming and delivering (and training others to deliver) educational events in the technology-led Learning Experience Centre for schools, colleges and special educational events, in partnership with sponsors and outside organisations (e.g. EAZs and EBPs). Also recording events and pursuing publicity for the centre.
This was a challenging role with a lot of responsibility, Approximately 1,300,000 students had exciting and fun-filled days at the Dome over 2000. -
Education Officer
London Toy and Model Museum
(Museums and Institutions industry)
August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Running the Museum’s Education department; delivering tours and workshop sessions on history and technology to school groups aged from 4-16. Responsible for all financial/creative tasks in the department, including budgeting, maintaining a payment system, production of educational and advertising materials.
Project work included the devising and setting up of new workshop sessions, overseeing the removal of the collection into storage and creating the computer inventory system, as well as managing staff involved in the process.
Tim Saward’s Education
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Goldsmiths College, U. of London
MA , Musical Theatre , 2006 — 2007
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Queen Mary, U. of London
1993 — 1996
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