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William Burdett-Coutts OBE is the founder and director of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly, one of the major venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival. He was the Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Riverside Studios in London.
Keble College, Oxford. William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (20 January 1851 – 28 July 1921), born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, was an American-born British Conservative politician and social climber who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
William Burdett-Coutts is the founder and director of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly, one of the major venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival. He was the Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Riverside Studios in London.
Aug 3, 2022 · Assembly’s artistic director William Burdett-Coutts, who has been staging shows for more than 40 years, has accused the Fringe Society of failing to plan properly for the event’s comeback...
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Jun 11, 2021 · William Burdett-Coutts - the head of the Assembly venues at the Edinburgh Fringe – has been made an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He was given the honour for ‘services to theatre, comedy and the arts', it was announced tonight.
Our history. Assembly was born in 1981 when our founder and artistic director William Burdett-Coutts took on the iconic Assembly Rooms to present several shows at the Fringe. This concept of a curated hub, or festival within a festival, proved a hit and set the mould for countless others to follow, propelling the Fringe to become the world ...
Aug 22, 2009 · Edinburgh city council have unveiled their refurbishment plans for the Assembly Rooms, which they lease to promoter William Burdett-Coutts for the festival.
