Mark Featherstone-Witty
| Mark Featherstone-Witty | |
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2 June 1946 London, Greater London, England |
| Occupation | Founding Principal & Chief Executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Featherstone |
| Website | www.lipa.ac.uk |
Mark Featherstone-Witty RNOM OBE (born 2 June 1946 in London) is an educator and entrepreneur. He is the Founding Principal and Chief Executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) which he created in the mid-1990s, after creating the British Record Industry Trust BRIT School in Croydon.
He lives in Toxteth, Liverpool with his wife Alison and his son Tom.
Born in London, to Evy and Philip Featherstone-Witty, he was an only child of parents who divorced when he was eleven. His secondary school was Wellington College (1959–1967) which proved an unsuitable school for the performing arts, although he did manage to produce, direct and act in a play. He charts his interest in the performing arts from the time he saw the 1933 film 42nd Street, when he was eight, at the National Film Theatre in London.
After an unsuccessful career start in accountancy and a few years teaching in prep schools in Kent and Oxford, he attended The University of Durham (1969–1972), taking a general degree and remained for a further year to gain a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. He edited the university newspaper ‘Palatinate’ and continued to direct plays and perform. He created and edited a regional arts magazine for the North-East of England, ‘Face North’.
Before leaving, he gained the Gertrude Cole Fellowship at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, which he completed a year later, in counselling and psychology (M.Ed.) and was also elected to the US highest honour society. During his year in the United States, he continued to perform and appeared as a hairdresser in the 1974 Sackett – Hugh film production ‘The Meal’, later renamed ‘Deadly Encounter’.
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