Battle of Trafalgar Bicentennial Celebration

Titled ‘Trafalgar 200’, this hour-long live production marked the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

As Executive Producer at Innovision, working alongside Robert Alge and Stuart Blake, we created a large-scale theatrical event staged in Trafalgar Square for the Royal Navy – beneath Nelson’s Column itself.

The production combined Royal Marine Commandos abseiling down the façade of the National Gallery, battle-esque pyrotechnics across the Square and integrated performances from military personnel and dancers, immersing a live audience of approximately 10,000 people.

This production required coordination across defence, security, heritage and broadcast stakeholders within one of the UK’s most symbolically sensitive public spaces.

Broadcast on the BBC, the event was attended by His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, forming part of the national commemorations.

As Event Director for the 2014 Wales Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), for M-is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I led the delivery of one of the largest gatherings of world leaders ever staged in the United Kingdom.

Hosted in Newport, Wales, the summit required one of the most extensive security operations undertaken in the UK in peacetime.

More than 60 Heads of State and Government attended, including Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela Merkel.

The programme brought together representatives from all 28 NATO member states at the time, alongside approximately 70 Foreign Ministers, 70 Defence Ministers and more than 4,000 delegates and officials from around 60 countries.

It was a politically sensitive, logistically complex and globally scrutinised operation delivered under intense security, diplomatic and media pressure demonstrating delivery at geopolitical scale.