Please note that the Young Vic Directors Program is open to all directors at an early stage of their career. The only criteria for joining is that they consider themselves professional directors, are not in full time education and are resident in the UK. It is important that when using this list detailed references are taken up as presence on this list is not in itself a recommendation.
- Walter Sutcliffe
background: My recent work includes directing Cosi fan Tutte for Estonian National Opera, the American premier of Janacek's Sarka (Dicapo Opera, New York), revivals of Il Trovatore for the MET in New York and for San Francisco Opera. Forthcoming work includes new productions of Owen Wingrave for Oper Frankfurt, Albert Herring for Oper Linz and Carmen for Estonian National Opera. For more information, reviews, production stills please visit me at www.waltersutcliffe.comLast logged in 4/7/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Opera
other skills related to directing: Fluent in French, German, Italian
date of birth: 6/10/1976
country: UK
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Last updated on 15/7/2010 - Will Mortimer
background: Most recently I have worked as the assistant director on Entertaining Mr Sloane at Trafalgar Studios, assisting Nick Bagnall from Dec 08 to April 09. Following that I was selected to participate at STORM at Lyric Hammersmith - a week of workshops for experimental theatre practitioners in June 09 - where I worked with Kneehigh, dreamthinkspeak, Filter, Mem Morrison and Upswing amongst others.Last logged in 20/8/2010
I am currently focusing on script development work, and am working as a dramaturg on several new plays.
In Nov 08 I transfered Transient, a new site-specific, promonade piece I directed at the Pleasance in Edinbugh last summer, to Shunt.
Also in Edinburgh last summer I directed The Bee by Matt Hartley, part of The Bird and The Bee, at The Underbelly. It was nominated for the Carol Tambor award and short-listed for a Fringe First.
I am a freelance director working primarily with new writing and emerging writers. Recent directing and assisting includes; Six Days (as writer/director Camden Peoples Theatre, 2007), Baghdad Wedding by Hassan Abdulrazzak (as assistant director to Lisa Goldman Soho Theatre), Opportunism, Duplicity, Paranoia (as writer/director Candid Arts Centre, 2006), Little Deaths by Dawn King (Latitude Festival, 2006), Astronaut Wives Club by Al Smith (Rehearsed Reading, Old Vic New Voices Award Shortlist, 2006), And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel (Lion and Unicorn, 2005)
As Assistant Director; Petronella by Samuel Adamson (dir. Indhu Rubasingham), This One's For You Hula Girl by Duncan Macmillan (dir. Clare Lizzimore) both Old Vic Theatre 24 Hour Plays 2005, Cigarettes and Chocolate and Hang-Up by Anthony Minghella (dir. Tom Edmunds, King's Head Theatre 2004). I also spent six months as the literary assistant at Soho Theatre in 2007.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills: Theatre lighting and sound operating
date of birth: 11/11/1980
country: UK
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Last updated on 21/11/2009 - Will Reynoldsadditional skills related to directing: DesignLast logged in 31/8/2010
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Opera, Puppetry, Mask work
country: UK
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Last updated on 23/7/2010 - Will Wrightson
background: Freelance Producer and Director.Last logged in 4/9/2010
Director - Mouth/Wash - (in development) - written by Steve Hubbard.
Associate Director to Michael Gieleta on Peter Nichols' new play Lingua Franca that premiered at the Finborough Theatre (July - August 2010)
Producer - 19;29 - Threshold - Scotland (August 2010)
www.1929.org,uk
Producer - Magpie Blue Productions - The Old Man and The Sea - Brighton (May 2010)
Assistant Director - Artist Descending a Staircase - dir. Michael Gieleta - Old Red Lion (Decemeber 2009)
Assistant Director - Surveillance - Westminster Reference Library (December 2009)
Artistic Director's Internship - BAC - February to May 2009.
additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Film, Multimedia, Installation, Live Art, Curating, Producing.
other skills: Light design, Video and multimedia design and sound design
date of birth: 18/9/1985
country: UK
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Last updated on 25/6/2010 - William Wongbackground: 2007/08 Clore FellowLast logged in 3/5/2010
THEATRE AS DIRECTOR:
Cathay House Blend (National Museum of Scotland); Morecambe Bay Declaration (China Power Station 1 for Serpentine Gallery at Battersea Power Station); SerendipiTEA (BAC); Asian Talent Circle (Nehru Centre, Indian High Commission); There is Only Now (Contact Theatre Manchester); Drunk Enough to say I love You (workshop, Young Vic); Betrayal (workshop)
AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Peace Pagoda (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House); Dis-Orientations (Riverside Studios)
AS PERFORMER
Peace Pagoda, Act 1 (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House); Morecambe Bay Declaration (China Power Station 1 for Serpentine Gallery at Battersea Power Station, October 2006); Chinese Two-Step (Yellow Earth) The City Celebrates Festival commissioned by The Mayor of London, Trafalgar Square August 2005; Maritime Mysteries (Yellow Earth) Greenwich & Docklands Festival 05.
TRAINING:
Yellow Stage 2007 - directed scene from Caryl Churchill's "Drunk Enough to say I love you"
Live & Direct 2006 - Contact Theatre, Manchester
Yellow Stage 2005 - Young Vic
Design Direct 2005 - Tamasha at Nottingham Trent University
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: cross artform
other skills: fluent in Chinese
country: UK
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Last updated on 21/3/2010 - William Seaward
background: Hugely enthusuastic director with experience directing and assisting and a loud, booming voice...Last logged in 5/9/2010
Directing:
HANSEL AND GRETEL
2009 - Whiffler Open Air Theatre, Norwich
THE RIVALS
2009 - Camden People's Theatre
BALLAD OF THE SKULL FAIRY
2009 - Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, Camden People's Theatre (Scenepool), Blackpool Grand Theatre
"triumphantly stupid" **** Three Weeks
BOUNCY CASTLE HAMLET
2006 - Rocket Venues, Edinburgh
"triumphant success" The Guardian
"rather brilliant...genius...crackles with ideas" - Metro
"a real treat...I pity the poor souls who go to their graves without seeing one of Shakespeare's finest works performed in this way" - National Student Magazine
"I can't wait" - Les Denis
Guardian Top 10 things to see at the Fringe
BOUNCY CASTLE MACBETH
2007 - Rocket Venues, Edinburgh
"brave...at the heart of the festival. Witty, inventive, and generally just lots of fun" - Fresh Air Magazine
"hilarity ensues from the first view of the actors to the final deflation of the castle" - one4review
"absolutely ridiculous" Piers Morgan
Times 100 best things to see at the Fringe
BOUNCY CASTLE DRACULA
2008 - Rocket Venues, Edinburgh
"I felt like bouncin' bouncin'" - Three Weeks
"silliest, bounciest Dracula I have ever seen" - Whitby Dracula Society
Independent on Sunday's Elite shows of 2008"
"WAITING FOR GODOT"
2005 - Sweet on the Grassmarket, Edinburgh
"The Strolling Theatricals deserve more room than this - it's like watching the Rolling Stones do a gig in a photo-me booth" edinburghguide.com
Official Sell-Out
THE INCREDIBLE PETER PAN...TOMIME!
2006 - University of York
ROBBIN' HOOD
2005 - University of York
Assisting:
2008 - 2009 - Assistant Director - RASPUTIN - Pentameters Theatre, Rosemary Branch Theatre
2009 - Assistant Director - TRADESMAN'S ENTRANCE - Westminster Reference Library
2009 - Assistant Designer - SWIMMING NAKED - Baron's Court Theatre
2008 - Design Assistant - A SKULL IN CONNEMARA - White Bear Theatre
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2006 - 2008 - Chair, University of York Pantomime Society
2007 - Experimental Rep, University of York Drama Society
BA English and History of Art - Starred First - University of York
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additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising
other skills related to directing: design, producing, performing, comedy, youth theatre, writing, panto
other skills: painting, drawing, singing, fencing, sailing
date of birth: 8/6/1986
country: UK
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Last updated on 22/9/2009 - William Edelsten
background: Currently Resident Assistant Director for the education department at the the theatre-royal winchester.Last logged in 6/9/2010
I am Interested in exploring new inovations and new approaches to stagging to enhance the audience experience and in creating multidisiplinary and mixed-media perfromance.
Training
Brunel University
National youth theatre
The Kings Head Young Directors Program
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Opera, Physical work, Mask work
date of birth: 22/7/1987
country: UK
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Last updated on 1/2/2010
