Rebecca Phillips

Rebecca Phillips (Bex) is a Birmingham-based Senior Producer currently at Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces (OPUS), where she collaborates with clients, artists and communities alike to deliver bold, inclusive, and innovative cultural events from concept to delivery. Her work spans programme development, creative placemaking, and large-scale outdoor event production.

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With extensive experience across both city-wide festivals and hyper-local events, Bex specialises in creating unforgettable public experiences in outdoor and unconventional spaces. She leads with a commitment to audience-first design, ensuring events are welcoming, safe, and impactful.

At OPUS, Bex brings both strategic and artistic direction to a range of high-profile projects. Her role includes creative production, stakeholder engagement, team leadership, compliance and budget management, and fostering strong partnerships across the cultural sector. She is a vocal advocate for outdoor arts, from dance and live music to public art installations.

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Known for her proactive, collaborative approach, Bex brings care, clarity, and creativity to every stage of event-making. She has built a broad network of artists and creatives through years of curatorial work, enabling her to shape diverse, compelling programmes across varied unusual locations.

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Passionate about supporting the next generation of women in events, she has created student placement opportunities with University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University, and previously taught Event Management at BIMM Birmingham, specialising in crowd psychology and concept design. Bex also serves as a Trustee for the award-winning Birmingham arts charity Women & Theatre.

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Event Design, Development & Delivery

Bex is comfortable in a range of producerial roles, working from conception to completion. From creating considered and tailored event design plans - which include everything from site layout and audience experience planning - to project management, creative consultation and budget management. Bex has previously worked across the UK in a range of roles - take a look at the festivals and events she's been involved with recently.

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Event Director & Event Management

Specialist in large-scale outdoor arts and cultural events ​taking place in urban environments and green spaces including public squares and areas of conservation. Whether Bex is working in an Event, Site or Production Management capacity, she ensures integrated, efficient and safe planning and delivery. She is no stranger to hard graft and has previously undertake pretty much every role under the sun - from assisting showcalling the Queen to stage management of shows inside several taxi's at once.

 

Creative Placemaking, Producing & Programme Curation

Her passion is taking culture, arts and events to everyday spaces people use. Simply put, Bex likes to make places nicer for people to be in, and she often gets to do that through arts and culture. Fostering pride in local areas and enabling cultural ambition, she works predominantly in outdoor arts and light - and when she's not working a festival, you can usually find her attending one. Over years of curatorial work on a portfolio of varied programmes, she have a developed a wide network of artists, companies and creatives to recommend for a range of audiences, needs and spaces.

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Lecturing & Speaking

Bex is an Associate Lecturer at BIMM Institute Birmingham and has previously taught modules to undergraduate students in Event Concept & Design (focusing on all elements of event design, including sustainability planning, access provision, programme curation, stakeholder management and more) and Events & The Audience (understanding crowd psychology, crowd control, H&S legislation, understanding audiences and historical event incidents). She have previously spoken on various panels, including chairing sessions on Crowd Psychology, Local Authorities & Events and Safe Event Production in a Mid-Pandemic World. Do get in touch if you are looking for guest lecturers, panellists and speakers. 

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Access in Outdoor Arts

She am committed to making welfare and accessibility a priority across all projects she is involved with. Currently, Bex is a level 2 British Sign Language, with an aim to collaborate more with D/deaf artists and audiences.