Complicité appoints Amber Massie-Blomfield as executive director

Complicité has appointed Amber Massie-Blomfield as its new executive director.

Massie-Blomfield, a producer, consultant and writer, was executive director at Camden People’s Theatre from 2014 to 2018 and replaces Polly Gifford at Complicité.

Gifford leaves the theatre company, which she co-led with artistic director Simon McBurney, after three years as interim executive director.

McBurney described Massie-Blomfield as a “really exciting appointment to take the company forward” as it looks beyond the pandemic to “build a future that, perhaps, we have not yet imagined”.

“Polly Gifford has brilliantly helped to set us on this new path. I want to add our deep gratitude to her for the past three years, in which she has given unstintingly to all of us in Complicité, and also welcome the appointment of Amber Massie-Blomfield as new executive director,” he said.

Massie-Blomfield added: “I have loved Complicité’s work ever since I saw Light as a teenager – and came back to watch the show three times in the course of a week. This is one of the most astonishing, inventive theatre companies in the world today, and I’m thrilled to be joining Simon McBurney and the team to reimagine Complicité’s vital message of human interconnectedness for the extraordinary times we live in.”

She will join the company in April.