Jonathan Chadwick is currently Artistic Director of Az Theatre. He directs a course at the London Film School. Board Member of Meeting Ground Theatre Company. He is a founder member of Paddington Arts, a former Artistic Director of the Vanguard Company at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield and Theatre Foundry. He was Associate Director of the Theatre Royal Stratford East London. He wrote and directed plays for Foco Novo and directed for 7.84, the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the Half Moon Theatre in London. He has directed plays in Australia, Canada, USA and Romania and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and a post graduate course in acting at Mountview Theatre School as well as being a guest director at other dramatic academies. His work on Az Theatre’s War Stories project led him to work with the United Nations Office of Missing Persons and Forensics in Kosovo. In 2011 he became a Masters of Science in Ecological Economics at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. He started out as an Assistant Director of the Royal Court Theatre London.