FORA.tv Speaker - William White

Willie White has been artistic director and chief executive of Project Arts Centre, a multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre in Dublin, Ireland since 2002. At the Centre, he commissions, co-produces and programs for two performance spaces and has recently produced and directed a dance film and projects for community television. His freelance work includes serving as the artistic director of Dublin Youth Theatre from 2007 to 2009 and as curator of the annual conference of Theatre Forum in 2007.

He is interested in how culture can build communities. In 2008, he was awarded the Jerome Hynes Fellowship at the Clore Leadership Programme. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin where he received masters' degrees in English and Irish theatre, respectively.