VIKKI HEYWOOD
​In 2019 Vikki completed an MA in Creative and Life writing at Goldsmiths. Her debut novel Miss Veal and Miss Ham will be published by Muswell Press in the summer of 2025.
Vikki enjoyed a forty-year executive and non-executive career in the Arts. She is currently on the board of the National Theatre, Chairman of National Theatre Productions Ltd (wholly owned subsidiary responsible for the commercial exploitation of NT productions in the UK, Broadway and Internationally), a trustee of the Foyle Foundation. In an advisory role she is a member of the Imperial War Museum’s Arts Commissions Committee and the Doyle Cart Endowment Advisory Board and a member of the Society of London Theatres. She is an honorary Fellow of the RSA.​
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Vikki was Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (alongside Michael Boyd as Artistic Director) from 2003 until 2012, and before that Joint Chief Executive of the Royal Court Theatre, (alongside Stephen Daldry as Artistic Director) where in addition to her organisational leadership and executive producing role (over 100 world premiere productions in the West End and on Broadway) she was responsible for overseeing the fundraising and delivery of the multi-million pound redevelopment of both national institutions.
Past roles include: board membership of the Society of London Theatre, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and Warwick University where she was chairman of the highly influential Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value in 2015. She was chairman of two-multimillion-pound UK and international digital and live performance festivals:
14-18 NOW, a £50 million programme of First World War Centenary arts commissions that reached over 35 million people worldwide from 2014 – 2018, and UNBOXED, Creativity in the UK which reached a world-wide audience of 18 million in 2023. In 2022 she completed a nine-year term as Chairman of Mountview Drama Academy, where she led the campaign to build a new state of the art facility and re-established it as one of the UK’s leading and diverse drama schools. Vikki served a six-year term as chairman of the Royal Society of Arts from 2012 and was the first person to be invited to serve two terms.
Vikki divides her life between her voluntary activity and her writing whilst sharing happy times with her husband Clive Jones between their two homes in London and Pembrokeshire.