After more than a decade with The Other Room, Dan Jones is stepping down as our Artistic Director and CEO.
Dan joined us in 2015 as an Assistant Director on The Dying of Today, supporting founding Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg. From there, he became increasingly involved in the life of TOR, initially in a voluntary capacity, before joining founding Executive Director Bizzy Day as co-CEO and succeeding Kate as Artistic Director in 2017.
Reflecting on his time with the company, Dan said:
"My time at The Other Room doesn't fit neatly into one category. Yes, it was a job. But it was also an idea, an experiment I believed in and gave a great deal of myself to. It pushed me beyond my limits more than once and helped me discover parts of myself I didn't know were there.
What Bizzy, Kate and the founding team created was extraordinary, and I'm deeply grateful to the trustees for trusting me to help steward it. It's been an immense privilege and a huge challenge, filled with occasional setbacks and roaring successes. Above all, it brought me into contact with some of the most talented, driven, fiercely compassionate and visionary artists in Wales. TOR helped define me as an artist, just as it has opened doors for a generation of theatre-makers."
Dan's departure comes at a critical moment for TOR. When we parted ways with our friends at Porter's in 2024, we gave ourselves a period to find a new home. We began as Wales' first professional pub theatre. Without that permanent space, the shape of our work has inevitably changed, and it's right to ask what that means for our future.
Subsequently, our Board has decided to take this time to reflect on the journey since leaving Porter's, the challenges ahead, and the fundamental purpose of The Other Room experiment.
Dan steps away from his Artistic Director role with immediate effect and will continue to support the handover in an advisory capacity until January 2027.
For now, we simply want to say thank you, Dan - for your ambition, resilience and generosity, as well as for the artists, audiences and communities you've championed along the way.
We wish you every success in the next phase of your career.
Dan Jones in TOR rehearsals