An award-winning producer, Martin Collins founded Arts Trust Productions in 2012. An arts production company that produces high end captures of staged Music and Dance productions for broadcast; develops large scale music and dance festivals; and is currently developing a Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme which will commission new productions and a national talks and events programme.

He has a burgeoning career in Music and Dance, producing over 30 touring productions and holding Executive Director positions for Arts Trust Productions, Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Boy Blue Entertainment, and Darren Ellis Dance. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Centre for Advanced Training at Trinity Laban, funded by the DFE. This developed alongside a freelance portfolio where he holds long term producing relationships with Dame Evelyn Glennie, Jill Jarman, Jonathon Goddard and others. Martin is currently a Trustee for Kings Place Music Foundation. 

He has produced a number of feature films for the BBC and Sky Arts including collaborations with Boy Blue and Danny Boyle; been a First Assistant Director for BBC feature films such as Young Men by the Ballet Boyz; Producer of Kes Reimagined by Ross MacGibbon and Jonathan Watkins; the Broadcast Director for the award winning Rambert production, Draw from Within; and will be the Film Director or the BBC4 broadcast of Vortex. He is currently working towards his PhD in the Digitalisation of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

His festival portfolio includes roles as Producer of Greenwich World Cultural Festival (2014 - 2018), and since 2017 has been the Festival Director of Kings Cross Summer Sounds, a two-week music and street arts festival, in partnership with King’s Cross, Kings Place, Universal Music, Lafayette, Queer Britain, Aga Khan Centre, EFDSS, and Anthony Whitworth-Jones.

m.collins@russellmaliphant.com
+44 (0)7941 660 192