{"id":2414,"date":"2026-04-24T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2414"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:00:10","slug":"anton-woodward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/anton-woodward\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Woodward is a stage automation engineer with over 35 years\u2019 experience working at the intersection of engineering and performance, designing motion control systems for theatre, live performance and broadcast environments. He is a Chartered Engineer. He founded AVW Controls Ltd in 1996. He was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013 for services to stage automation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2458\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anton-bw-340x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anton-bw-340x480-1.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anton-bw-340x480-1-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Woodward OBE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His work has contributed to well over 100 productions including <em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em>, <em>Miss Saigon<\/em>, <em>War Horse<\/em> and <em>Billy Elliot<\/em>, as well as projects for major theatres, opera houses and touring productions in the UK and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>He has also contributed to the development of industry practice through work on stage machinery safety standards, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/bs17206\/\">BS EN 17206.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through AVW Controls Ltd, he continues to support projects in which reliable, safety-critical automation enables movement to be explored as a repeatable, controllable and ultimately creative element of the production.<\/p>\n<p>Profiles and Media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtt.org.uk\/people\/anton-woodward\/\">ABTT Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/antonvwoodward\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etnow.com\/profiles\/anton-woodward\">ETNow Industry Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/Anton-Woodward\/author\/B0034P5S50?ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\">Amazon Author<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anton Woodward OBE CEng MInstMC FRSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Woodward is a stage automation engineer with over 35 years\u2019 experience working at the intersection of engineering and performance, designing motion control systems for theatre, live performance and broadcast environments. He is a Chartered Engineer. He founded AVW Controls Ltd in 1996. He was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/anton-woodward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anton Woodward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":27,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avw.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}