Sue Frye
What is your job title?
Director of Operations or Director of Associations or Director of Operations & Associations – depending on the audience.
How long have you worked at Outsourced Events?
6 years and 6 months.
What is one thing you cannot live without?
Perfume.
Where is the best place you have travelled to and why?
Goodness me – that’s tricky. Probably New Zealand – sentimental reasons as my father was a Kiwi and the first time I visited was as part of my honeymoon. Have since been back with a very young Sam. It also helps that it is the most staggeringly beautiful country.
If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
Sing (in tune) – if only to be able to embarrass the boys in a whole new way.
When you have 30 minutes of free time, how do you pass the time?
I’d like to think I would pick up my book and read but realistically I am more likely to create another To Do List.
What is your favourite thing about working at Outsourced Events?
Probably the variety of projects that cross my desk.
If you could invite four people to dinner (living or dead) who would you invite and why?
1. My father – best fund of stories and tall tales
2. Michael Palin – for the humour and travel anecdotes
3. Katherine Hepburn or Bette Davis – incredible women who worked in Hollywood’s Golden Era and by and large took on the studio system
4. Alan Bennett – why wouldn’t you?
What was your childhood ambition?
Depends what age – earliest one I remember was to be a nun! I also remember nurse and vet. Nowadays I am frustrated that I didn’t have the idea about a boy wizard battling dark forces with his pals from boarding school
What is your most memorable day at Outsourced Events?
Possibly the first day of the BNA Festival – it had been through so many changes as we tried to double guess COVID and we had got to know the team so well that getting to the actual event itself was very rewarding (and a massive relief). I also remember David Puttnam winking at me but that’s another story altogether.
If you could do any job, regardless of skills and training, what would it be?
A writer
What are the top three items on your bucket list?
1. To see the Northern Lights – two failed attempts so far
2. To visit Antarctica
3. Tie between the Trans-Siberian Express and the Silk Road
What would people never guess you do in your role?
Back in the old days of being in an office it would probably be ordering the coffee pods.
If you could witness any historical event, what would you want to see?
Not so much a historical event as a historical mystery – I would like to know who was responsible for the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.
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