Andrew Miller Recognised for Championing Disabled People in the Arts

Trinity’s Creative Director Andrew Miller MBE has been named in the top ten for the 2022 Shaw Trust Disability Power List at their annual awards ceremony on 17 October.

The annual Disability Power List is the only UK platform that marks disabled people's contribution to wider society and celebrates influencers from across different sectors. Andrew has been Trinity’s Creative Director for the inaugural season of its public events programme and has curated the Events at Trinity programme of lectures, recitals, performances and special programmes.

Andrew says: ‘I am incredibly proud to appear in the Disability Power 100 Top 10 once again for my work in arts and culture. The Power 100 is the only annual platform that highlights the huge contribution deaf and disabled people make to society and it's a real honour to be recognised and included.’

Andrew Miller MBE started out in broadcasting and was among the first generation of disabled presenters of British television and went on to produce and direct tv arts documentaries. Subsequently becoming the first wheelchair user to run a major UK arts venue, he is now a prolific cultural commentator and his consultancy supports major new cultural infrastructure such as the University of Oxford Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and Coventry City of Culture. He is a National Council member of Arts Council England, a trustee of the Royal Shakespeare Company and BAFTA. He is Chair of the BFI Disability Screen Advisory Group and in 2020 co-founded the UK Disability Arts Alliance #WeShallNotBeRemoved, where he developed the Seven Inclusive Principles which helped shape the cultural sector’s pandemic recovery.

Between 2018 and 2021 Andrew was the UK Government’s first Disability Champion for Arts & Culture, establishing the role as a powerful campaigning platform for greater inclusion across the arts, museums and film. His pioneering career has been recognised by the National Diversity Awards, The Stage Awards, The Stage 100 and in the 2021 New Year Honours. This is his third time in the top 10 of the Shaw Disability Power Awards.