Charlotte Cunningham is a creative producer who founded Turtle Key Arts as a performance venue and production company in 1989. Turtle Key was founded in the photographic studio in Fulham that was owned by Anthony Crickmay and he was a great support in the early years of the organisation – introducing artists, dancers and choreographers to us and taking pictures for some of our early productions. 

Since 1989 Charlotte has produced a number of theatre and dance productions with a strong emphasis on physical theatre, dance and devised work. She has worked with writers, directors, choreographers, composers and designers to bring together projects for adults and children. With Turtle Key, she has also consistently devised groundbreaking education and participation projects with the aim of making the arts accessible to all and focusing on high quality provision for groups who do not have access to this kind of work. This includes projects aimed at children and young people on the autism spectrum, young people living with HIV, children with dyslexia, interfaith projects and a national project for people with Dementia - the Turtle Song project in association with the English Touring Opera and the Royal College of Music which has run since 2007. 

Charlotte also acts as a lecturer, trainer and consultant to organisations interested in using the arts to work with specific groups. 


Philip Gee is a Chartered Accountant who qualified in 1972 and who has been a partner in Lithgow, Nelson & Co., a small professional practice, for over forty years.

Philip dealt with Anthony Crickmay’s tax affairs for many years before his death and was delighted to be asked to be a Trustee of The Abderrahim-Crickmay Charitable Settlement at the time it became a Registered Charity in 1991. Although he has no direct experience of working in the field of performing arts Philip has a good depth of knowledge relating to the various accounting and other aspects of running a charity.

Choreographer and director Jonathan Lunn has spent over forty years working internationally in dance, film, opera and theatre. His performing career began with London Contemporary Dance Theatre, then the UK’s leading modern dance company, where he evolved from dancer to choreographer to Associate Artistic Director. During his time with LCDT he was regularly photographed by Anthony Crickmay, whose extraordinary images defined and shaped the Company’s identity. His works for the repertoire included Olivier Award Nominated Shift and Hang Up - the first of several collaborations with writer / film director Anthony Minghella. He earned an Olivier Award Nomination for Best Choreographer in Theatre for the National Theatre’s Pericles.

Major dance works include Reading Room (2008) Modern Living, 1993 Time Out Dance Award Winner, and Removed From The Palace, created with Cambodian dancers and musicians for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Massachusetts. Alice, his collaboration with Amir Hosseinpour and Philip Glass, received its world premiere with Ballet de l’Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg in 2022.

He is a graduate of Hull University and London Contemporary Dance School. He was 1993 Research Choreographer in Residence at Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Arizona. He is a Trustee for Contemporary Dance Trust’s Lunn Prothero Dance Award.

Elizabeth Smith is a professional photography consultant based in London. Her career began in New York where she worked for Howard Greenberg. She relocated to London and became the manager of the Print Sales Team at the Photographers’ Gallery for six years. Under her direction, print sales greatly expanded its remit becoming the first London gallery to show a number of internationally known photographers including Bill Jacobson, Elinor Carucci and Ed Van Der Elsken. She left in 1999 to become Head of Photographs at Christie’s London. In late 2001 after leaving Christie’s she set up her photographic consulting company. Elizabeth befriended Anthony Crickmay in 2004 and worked as an advisor on his photographic work until his death.

In December 2005 she launched the Norman Parkinson Archive which she co-founded with Eric Franck. The NPA was the exclusive world-wide representative for the British fashion photographer Norman Parkinson’s work. The NPA produced over 60 exhibitions, a BBC/Arena documentary and produced two publications including the book Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour which she co-edited. After twelve years Elizabeth left the NPA and now works independently advising photographers and estates on their collections, assisting collectors with acquisitions and completing photographic appraisals for individuals and institutions both private and public. She is the editor of the book William John Kennedy, The Lost Archive: Photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana.

Edward Watson is currently Répétiteur and formerly, Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet. He is known as one of the world’s most distinctive male dancers of his generation and has had more roles created on him than any other dancer in The Royal Ballet.

Watson has had an astonishing career, winning Best Male Dancer at the Critics Circle National Dance Awards in 2001, 2008 and 2022, an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his performance as Gregor Samsa in Arthur Pita’s Metamorphosis, and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2015 for his performance in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.

In 2015, Watson was awarded an MBE for his services to dance. 

Outside of life on stage Ed has engaged in many collaborations, among them fashion houses, editorials and runways, as well as working with high-profile photographers including Anthony Crickmay, with whom he had a working relationship lasting nearly twenty years.