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.
- Zachary Dunbar
background: My professional career started as an award-winning concert pianist and opera accompanist (Yale University; Royal College of Music). Since 1995, music merged with drama. I have written, composed, and directed my own original productions including musicals and stage plays (see 'Your Productions') and have gathered excellent reviews (see my website www.zebfontaine.com). I recently completed my PhD at RHUL - U. of London (forthcoming publication) linking Greek tragedy, science, music and theatre space. The chorus was a key feature of my research.Last logged in 4/8/2010
Creative aims: I am drawn to the transformative power of myth and am presently focussed on modern re-imagings of classical drama. At the moment, I am on a journey with Sophocles' Theban trilogies (one produced in London, and two plays to go) exploring multi-media, physical theatre, the internet, and performance text. I have also started to write a trilogy called the 'Piano Plays'.
I am primarily attuned as a director/creator to the relationship of theatricality and musicality. My style has therefore evolved out of a decidedly Complicite/Lepage influence. I welcome working with directors, scenographers, choreographers or musicians who want to explore this juncture. Musicals, plays, films, site-specific work, internet… these all catch my vibe.
My website www.zebfontaine.com provides images and further evidence about my career and training.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Opera, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Application of 'musicality' in text and performance
other skills: Department head, computer skills, fund-raising, academic research
country: UK
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Last updated on 17/12/2009 - Zee Faloon
background: I am a northern Irish director currently based in London. After completing my BA in Drama at Goldsmiths in 2008, I joined the BBC sponsored Stonecrabs Young Directors program.Last logged in 7/9/2010
I've recently worked as an assistant director on 'Estranged' (Courtyard Theatre:dir. Chris George),'The Ides of March'(White Bear: dir. Adam Spreadbury-Maher). Directing credits include 'Through the Leaves' (Albany Theatre), 'Night, Mother (Robinson Theatre) and The Government Inspector (Robinson Theatre). I'm particularly interested in working with new writing.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: writing
other skills: Musician
date of birth: 9/10/1985
country: UK
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Last updated on 20/11/2009 - Zoe Svendsen
background: Current and forthcoming projects include:Last logged in 29/7/2010
3rd Ring Out: a performance installation created with video artist and theatre designer Simon Daw and sound designer Carolyn Downing. The project is a winner of a TippingPoint Commission Award - and has just toured the UK, ending with 2 weeks at the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (www.3rdringout.com)
Discombobulator: with choreographer/dancer Ben Duke, video artist Will Duke and composer Dario Palermo, developed and first performed at the Venice Biennale Contemporary Music Festival 2009, as part of an international artists’ residency/workshop. This is being presented as part of Dance Umbrella 2010 at the Purcell Room - http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/ben-duke-will-duke-dario-palermo-zo%C3%AB-svendsen-53908 / for a video extract see: http://www.metisarts.co.uk/venice/
Two Perspectives: adapted from the novel by Uwe Johnson, a performance with music exploring a love affair created by the building of the Berlin Wall, Cambridge and Soho theatre (divided skies festival).
Zoe is currently Research Fellow in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge, pursuing practice-based performance projects, and director of METIS: www.metisarts.co.uk.
Recent work includes: Director/adaptor, Four Men & a Poker Game, after Brecht’s short story, with composer/musician David Paul Jones (Northern Stage and the Tron, November 2008, developed with Grid Iron, Cove Park and the NT Studio); Lima:London, a performance installation created with LOT Teatro, Peru, supported by the New Wolsey Theatre; assistant director to Pete Rowe, It’s a Wonderful Life (new musical) New Wolsey Theatre.
Training and workshops include: Berlin Theatertreffen International Forum 2009: with Armin Petras and Andrea Koschwitz; National Theatre Studio Director’s Course 2008; assisting Luk Perceval at the RSC; training with Elen Bowman and Katie Mitchell 2006-7.
Residencies include: Cove Park 2006; with Grid Iron 2007; National Theatre Studio 2008 and 2009/10 (translating Kasper Häuser Meer by Felicia Zeller and Don Juan Comes Back from the War by Ödön von Horváth).
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: Classics, Devising, Performance Art
other skills related to directing: Translation from German, bi-lingual work, new media
other skills: Research and the communication of research, developing strategy, running a theatre company
date of birth: 26/10/1977
country: UK
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Last updated on 6/7/2010 - Zoe Lafferty
background: I am currently working in the Freedom Theatre Palestine.Last logged in 10/9/2010
Most recently I have directed My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman at the Acquire Art Gallery and Not a Step back adapted from the novel by Valentine Rasputine at the Cochran Theatre.
For the Edinburgh Festival I have Directed and Produced The Cagebirds by David Campton and Adult Child / Dead Child’ by Claire Dowie which transferred to The Unicorn Theatre.
I have worked as an Assistant Director professionally in Film and Theatre and have been Assistant Director to Di Trevis working on The Dresser by Ronald Howard (Watford Palace Theatre), ‘London Cries’ which premiered in New York and continue to assist with her Actors’ Workshops.
During my three year training at Drama Centre I have been Assistant Director on many plays including The Government Inspector (Dir. Philip Hedley) and Hamlet (Dir Vladimir Mirodan) and spent a term training and assisting at the Vakhtangov School in Moscow.
Education
2006 – 2009 BA Directing at Drama Centre
2008 – Vakhtangov School in Moscow
2006 – Metropolitan Film School / Ealing Film Studios
2004 – 2005 Oxford School of Drama – foundation year in acting
additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Foundation Stage Combat
other skills: Karate Brown Belt, Ballet
country: UK
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Last updated on 25/5/2010 - Zoe Waterman
background: Trained on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck College and the Theatre and Performance Studies BA at Warwick University.Last logged in 3/9/2010
Winner of the New Wimbledon Theatre Studio's Emerging Director Award 2007.
Directing experience includes:
- Shining City, Theatre by the Lake Keswick
- Robin Hood: A Pantomime Adventure, West Wing Arts Centre
- The Bogus Woman, Theatre by the Lake Keswick
- After Miss Julie, Nottingham Playhouse
- The Promise, The New Wimbledon Theatre
- Gut Girls and Animal Farm ALRA (third year shows)
- The Memory of Water, ALRA (final show for one year course)
- The Laramie Project and The Disorderly Women, Arts Educational (final shows for MA)
- A Kind of Alaska, C Central, Edinburgh Festival
- The Last Days of Mankind, Warwick Arts Centre
Also rehearsed readings of various new plays at Soho, Leicester Haymarket, Lakeside Arts Centre, Warehouse Theatre and Theatre 503.
Associate directing includes All Quiet on the Western Front, UK tour for Nottingham Playhouse.
Assistant directing experience includes an 8 month residency at Nottingham Playhouse, two tours of The Burial at Thebes (national and international), two open air shakespeare tours and plays at Salisbury Playhouse and Lakeside Arts Centre. Assisting, amongst others, Giles Croft, Lucy Pitman-Wallace, Alan Lyddiard, Richard Barron and Indhu Rubasingham.
Script reader for Theatre Writing Partnership and Sphinx Theatre Company.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics
other skills related to directing: Script reading and script development.
date of birth: 23/3/1982
country: UK
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Last updated on 21/6/2010
