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Karen O'Neill

Karen O'Neill

Chief Executive Officer of HOME Manchester, one of the UK's leading arts venues; previously Executive Director/Joint CEO of HOME and CEO of Hope Mill Theatre, a prominent producing venue. Guest on the Mischief Makers podcast discussing producing Mischief's first musical.

Aug 18, 2026

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with
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you? Yeah, totally.
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Yeah, so it originally started, we think the first conversations about Fespin started in 2021, actually.
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Okay.
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when Jonathan, who is local, grew up in Manchester area, was talking to the team at home about wanting to do a musical.
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And he's got some idea about some Greek thing.
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And, you know, home were like, oh, yeah, we're quite interested in that as well.

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Well,

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