S2 Ep1728: Tam Gilbert - Second Extant Trainee Artistic Director

S2 Ep1728: Tam Gilbert - Second Extant Trainee Artistic Director

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May 6, 2026 · 11 min · Season 2 · Episode 1728

About this episode

Tam Gilbert discusses her experiences as the second Trainee Artistic Director at Extant and her work on the 'marking Time' project.

Bournemouth-based writer, theatre-maker and Audio Description Consultant Tam Gilbert is almost coming to the end of her time as the second Trainee Artistic Director at Extant the UK”s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners. RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Tam to find out more about her writing and theatre background, how her time as the second Trainee Artistic Director at Extant came about, what Tam has been doing as TAD so far, the “marking Time’ project looking into the prison experience from a visually impaired persons point of view, what Tam will take from her time as TAD at Extant and what might be next for her when her time at Extant comes to an end this summer. You can follow Tam on social media by searching for Tam Gilbert theatre Maker. To find out more about Extant do go to - https://extant.org.uk (Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underlined with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font)

People in this episode

Host: Toby Davey

Guest: Tam Gilbert

Topics covered

  • theatre
  • visual impairment
  • artistic direction
  • prison experience
  • audio description

Keywords

  • Trainee Artistic Director
  • theatre-maker
  • visual impairment
  • audio description
  • Extant

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Extant

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