James Mackenzie - Artistic Director of Zoo Venues
James Mackenzie founded Zoo Venues in 2000, aiming to refocus the Fringe festival on the needs of the artists. Zoo gives the companies bringing their work the time, space, and technical resource to show their work as it was created. Their programming usually focuses on innovative and challenging work across theatre and dance.
In this conversation we speak about the difficulties that artists face in adapting shows to the fringe format, the future of Zoo, and what James looks for when programming.
DTF: Doing The Fringe
In this series we’ll chat with the people who work behind the scenes to make this all happen. We’ll speak with reviewers, people in charge of running venues, we’ll look at the marketing side of things, as well as speaking with actors, writers, and directors who are taking work to the fringe.
- No. of episodes: 25
- Latest episode: 2025-03-22
- Arts Performing Arts
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