Our Team

Sonja Rein

Sonja Rein is the Executive Director of CurvingRoad and has worked in the arts in many capacities. She holds degrees in Film and Art History and is particularly interested in working with artists who have yet to be discovered. Sonja has lived for many years in the United States, Israel and Moscow as well as being born and raised in Britain. She has been intimately involved in arts programming in International schools and brings this global view to her work with us. Her interest in the avant-garde, post-modern and �out there� work adds to the richness that is CurvingRoad.

Sue Guiney

Artistic Director, Sue Guiney, is a poet, novelist and playwright. She was born and raised in New York, although she has lived in London with her husband and two sons for nearly twenty years. Her work has been published in many journals both in the UK and the US, and her first collection, a poetry play entitled Dreams of May, has been published by Bluechrome and premiered in September �06 in London�s Pentameters Theatre. Her first novel, Tangled Roots, has just been published by Bluechrome and is available in your local bookstore. You can read more about her at www.sueguiney.com.

Verity Langley

Verity Langley, Technical Director, brings over fifteen years of experience to CurvingRoad. A RADA-trained Stage Manager, she has set her capable hands to tasks ranging from mounting new plays to promoting new writers to overseeing technical aspects of administration. She splits her time between Eastbourne and London, and when not working with CurvingRoad is a professional tennis line judge. Look for her on the telly when you�re watching Wimbledon.

Prav Menon-Johansson

Prav Menon-Johansson trained in Theatre Design at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts where she designed the inaugural shows for the LAMDA Linbury Studio. Her design portfolio is wide ranging and can be seen on www.pravmj.com. While living in Boston in 2007, Prav’s curving road led her not only to design for the thriving Boston Theatre scene (Company One, Zeitgeist Stage & Way Theatre Artists) but also into direction & writing for the theatre. She directed The Kiss for FeverFest 07 and The Girl who Loved the Moon for SLAMBoston 07.

Our Mission

CurvingRoad is an organization founded on behalf of the artist. Its mission is to find new artists within a variety of disciplines as they make their way along the curving roads of their own, individual artistic lives, nurture them, advise them, and then, when ready, launch them and their work into the public eye.

Regardless of audiences' perceptions, the artist is separate from his or her creation. Yes, it is through the mounting of exhibitions, play productions, readings, publications and other such events that artists reach out to their surrounding communities with their art. Therefore, any organization endeavoring to help the artist will inevitably be in the business of producing such exhibitions, performances and publications. But CurvingRoad is an arts organization with a difference in that its focus begins and ends with the artists themselves rather than their work. A piece of art which is ready to leave the hands of its creator and journey into the public eye inevitably becomes a commodity. It becomes a 'thing' to be polished, marketed and sold. When that happens, the piece of art becomes separate from the artist and his or her creative process. Artists need to sell their work, but it is the process of creating that work which is the strength and talent of the artist. Many artists find the transition from 'creator' to 'retailer' difficult, painful, often embarrassing, and sometimes even debilitating. The supporters of CurvingRoad understand this and seek to shepherd the artist, sensitively though realistically, through this crucial segment of their artistic life. To us, the artist always comes first. We believe that it is the truly nurtured artist who goes on to produce art that changes societies and lives.