Francis Parham co-founded the Mascarade Opera Foundation with Roger Granville and Max Fane.
As an opera and music festival producer, credits include The New Generation Festival, in collaboration with the 23Arts initiative, and Andermatt Music, a programme designed for a brand new concert hall in Switzerland that included, among others, Daniel Barenboim, Maxim Vengerov and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Other producing credits include represent.’s production of Trueman and the Arsonists by Max Frisch in a new version by Simon Stephens with songs by Chris Thorpe at the Roundhouse, Much Ado About Nothing at the Rose Theatre Kingston, the UK première of Luce by JC Lee at the Southwark Playhouse and an international tour of Henry V for OUDS/Thelma Holt. He has also worked for the RSC, Cheek by Jowl, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Royal Plymouth, the Sovremennik Theatre, Antic Face and Shakespeare in Italy. Francis read Classics and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, after which he studied Law at both SOAS and BPP University in London. He qualified as a solicitor with White & Case LLP and worked for the firm in London, Moscow and Paris.