Evolve MentorAnthony Lilley

Anthony Lilley has worked across the creative industries for his whole career specialising in the intersection of technology and the creation of IP and experiences.  In his twenties, he led a media start-up, Magic Lantern Productions, and took it from a back bedroom to multi-million turnover and multiple industry awards.  More recently, he founded Scenario Two, which works in theatre and live entertainment where he has raised over £5m in investment alongside her co-founder and delivered four major productions in the last few years.    He has a long-held interest in R&D, including as one of the originators of the AHRC Creative Industries Clusters programme and as an early advisor of CoSTAR, and holds a personal Professorship in Creative Industries at Ulster University where he is also chair of Studio Ulster, part of the CoSTAR Network.  He has mentored over a dozen companies and individuals and find the best relationships are based on and result in two-way exchanges of ideas and experience.