Dr Anthony Roberts

Anthony leads a small, dedicated team at Colchester Arts Centre, a performance venue, housed in a converted church in the city centre. The venue promotes an eclectic mix of performance arts, jazz, folk, theatre, rock and pop music, children’s shows, comedy, cabaret, poetry, circus. world music…. a lot of different art forms.

The thread that unifies the programme is a celebration of new work, quality work, artists who take risks and dedicate themselves to specialists’ art forms that often sit outside the mainstream. Anthony’s background is in arts marketing, having worked at Salisbury Arts Centre, Old Bull Arts Centre in North London and stood in as interim manager at Firstsite in Colchester. Anthony graduated with a Joint Honours degree in English and Drama from Bristol University, but then spent two years as a car park attendant in Watford while working out what he wanted to do. Anthony’s chance came through a job scheme which placed him in the press office of the Old Bull where he discovered there was something he was good at and that he really enjoyed!