Felicity Beckett has been General Manager of the Duke of York’s Cinema since 2015 having worked there since 2003. Originally from London, she has a background in music and entertainment from all angles of the business having worked as a music promoter, singer, children’s entertainer and stand-up comic. She is passionate about film and has her own review show Flick’s Flicks which goes out monthly on the Picturehouse Cinemas website.

How Felicity embraces the unknown
The best piece of advice I ever got was when I was doing stand-up which is, without doubt, plunging yourself regularly into the abyss of the unknown. I was testing a joke out on the then unknown Seann Walsh who was very uncomfortable with the experience. He didn’t laugh but simply said, “You just have to take the punch in the face.” That is what I have been doing ever since and it’s not nearly as painful as it sounds.