Martyn C. W. Bould

Chairman

Henry Muttoo, MBE, OC, D'Arts (Hons), MA

Artistic Director

Henry Muttoo is one of the Caribbean’s foremost Theatre Arts practitioners and a household name in regional theatre, arts and cultural practices. 

He trained at the Theatre Guild of Guyana, The University of the West Indies, Croydon College of Art & Design, and Rose Bruford College in the UK.

He has worked in the theatre and cultural arts fields throughout the Caribbean designing and/or directing for several major artists, including Derek Walcott, Dennis Scott, Trevor Rhone and Ken Corsbie. He has lectured at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), was a senior tutor at the School of Drama, Edna Manley College of the Arts in Jamaica and has been a three-time Visiting Scholar at the University of South Florida. He has directed productions in London, Holland and Toronto. Henry was a founder-member of the iconic Guyanese theatre Company, All Ah We, the first regional company to seriously promote Caribbean literature through stage performance.

In Cayman, Dr. Muttoo’s visionary work in culture and the arts, as Artistic Director of the Cayman National Cultural Foundation has helped to recalibrate the national discourse on the importance of the arts and culture in society, highlighted the work of many of Cayman’s finest artists and given artists and culture makers a more assured voice. He has been the Artist Director for all but one of Cayman’s showings in CARIFESTA – the Caribbean Festival of the Arts and, since 1972, has represented three countries at Carifesta – Guyana, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

Henry has received numerous national and professional awards and honours for his work including, an MBE, a CNCF Heritage Cross (Gold), the Cayman Heritage Pioneer, and the Order of Cayman and the Golden Arrow of Achievement (NY) for his contribution to Guyanese arts and culture.

Marcia Muttoo, MFA

Managing Director

For more than two decades, as the Managing Director of the Cayman National Cultural Foundation, Marcia Muttoo has helped to conceive and realise CNCF’s many cultural initiatives. She is responsible for the entity’s strategic management and operational efficiency, including organisational planning and policy development, financial management, property management, personnel matters and board liaison. Throughout, Marcia has also been happy to volunteer her time and efforts to several nation-building activities:  Vision 2008, the National Children’s Festival of the Arts, Batabano, Pirates Week, the National Spelling Bees, and Heroes Day, among them.  And, although she most often stays behind the scenes, she is also been recognised for her work as a stage actress.  

Outside of the Cayman Islands, Marcia has considerable depth of experience in non-profit arts management in the Caribbean and the United States, having held positions and fellowships at the Barbados Carifesta Secretariat, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Manhattan Theatre Club, Arts International and the Edna Manley College of the Performing Arts.

Marcia Muttoo holds a BFA in Drama with a specialisation in Acting (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute) from New York University and an MFA in Theatre Management from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.