Ameena Hamid

Ameena co-founded HD General Management having been frustrated by the gap in bespoke access, HR and pastoral support for theatre producers, venues and productions, and with the goal of bringing her varied expertise to the field. Ameena leads on contracting and negotiations, productions in development, and our West End slate. She is also an experienced wedding and events planner (Weddings by Ameena) and leads on our event producing.

Ameena is an Olivier-nominated general manager and producer based in London. She was named Best Producer at the Black British Theatre Awards 2022 for her work as Producer on The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre), was heralded as "a true role model to the future generations" by Official London Theatre, and is one of The Stage 25. She became the youngest-ever female producer on the West End when she cut her teeth on Death Drop (Garrick Theatre) as an Associate Producer in 2020, and most recently produced Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre) alongside Kenny Wax and George Stiles.

Ameena worked in-house as Theatre Producer at Soho Theatre, where she produced and co-produced Shuck and Jive (filmed production), Shedding A Skin, curious, Queens of Sheba and The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs.

Her other producing credits include Invisible (Bush Theatre and 59E59), The Producers! (No, Not That One) (Pleasance Theatre), Graduates at Cadogan Hall and Since U Been Gone (VAULT Festival), with co-producer credits including Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick Theatre and UK Tour) and Dick Whittington (Phoenix Theatre). As a podcast producer she has worked on Tales From The Tombstone Tavern, Fizzy Sherbet and Right Ho, Jeeves!

Ameena is on the board of UK Theatre and has sat on the board of the League of Independent Producers. She holds a BSc in Social Anthropology with First Class Honours from the London School of Economics, as well as course credits from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Harvard University. Her producing work lives at ameenapresents.com.

Grace Dickson

Grace co-founded HD General Management with a view to bring a fresh perspective, attitude and methodology to general management services, putting the focus on wellbeing, access and pastoral support in large scale productions, something the industry could do with a bit more of. Grace specialises in production finance, press and marketing, tour booking and production development, and leads our Edinburgh Fringe office.

Grace is a Newcastle-born, London-based producer, general manager and production finance manager. She runs Grace Dickson Productions, where she develops and produces formally innovative and bitingly relevant new writing that champions marginalised voices. Credits include: You're So Special (Soho Theatre, Dublin Festival), The Distance (Summerhall), Playfight (Roundabout, Bristol Old Vic, Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Roundabout, Bush Theatre), The Long Run (New Diorama, Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tour), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre, UK Tour), Project Dictator (New Diorama), Move Fast and Break Things (Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe), BOGEYMAN (Pleasance Edinburgh Fringe), Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] (Park Theatre), Flushed (Park Theatre), and Belly Up (Turbine Theatre).

Grace works as Associate Producer at Francesca Moody Productions, where she works across the development slate of new work. She has line produced several award-winning shows for FMP including Ohio (Assembly Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic, Young Vic Theatre), Garry Starr: Classic Penguins (Garrick Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre), Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree internationally, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Bush Theatre), Weather Girl (Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe) and VL (Roundabout Edinburgh Fringe). Grace is also Production Finance Manager at Runaway Entertainment (The Hunger Games: On Stage, The Mousetrap, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Newsies, A Knight's Tale) and is a trustee of theatre charity ZooCo.

Grace's producing work has been supported by a Stage One Bursary for New Producers and an Arts Council DYCP, and she is currently an Associate Member of the Society of London Theatre. She previously held roles at Breach, LUNG, Barrel Organ, Rhum + Clay and LIVE General Management. Grace holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Creative Producing with Distinction from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.