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- Maggie Inchley
background: My first professional production of The Zoo Story in 2005 at the Edinburgh Festival won The Stage award for 'Acting Excellence'. Since then I have directed a wide range of published plays, helped many writers with developing scripts, and worked a lot with comedians and comic performers.Last logged in 18/8/2010
I have directed plays at all the major Edinburgh venues, my productions including modern classics True West, Gagarin Way and Killer Joe. In London my experience includes Jeremy Lion for Your Entertainment at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Stork Bite and Proper Lunch at The Hackney Empire.
I am the Co-Director of the Comedians Theatre Company and recently began a writing initiative through which the company will develop new work. In addition I have worked with sketch act Teak Show who have performed at a variety of comedy and theatre festivals.
Finally, I have worked with youth groups including the Haringey Shed and with young people on devised and community pieces.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Writing and script development
other skills: Qualified, expereinced, enthusiastic teacher
date of birth: 30/9/1965
country: UK
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Last updated on 22/10/2009 - Maja Milatovic-Ovadia
background: I am originally from Belgrade, but have been living and working in London for the past five years. In 2007, I completed an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at The Central School of Speech and Drama. Previously, I graduated with honours Theatre and Radio Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade.Last logged in 26/7/2010
Recent productions include: Product Medea 4.0 (The Cock Tavern Theatre, London), Gagarin's Way by Gregory Burke (BITEF Theatre, Belgrade); Vlad (Embassy Theatre, London) Pedalo by Nenad Velickovic (Blue Elephant Theatre, London); Bukefal by Bosko Puletic (National Theatre, Belgrade); The Lover by Harold Pinter (GLEJ Theatre, Ljubljana); Fall on Betl by Milica Piletic (National Theatre, Montenegro); Kafka’s Dick by Alan Bennett (National Theatre, Belgrade).
I was also associate director of NADA (New Writing Project) at the National Theatre in Belgrade and associate director at Blue Elephant Theatre for the Balkan Season; three month long season of theatre, film and visual art. I was invited to participate as a director at directors/playwrights and NationaI-International workshops, at the National Theatre Studio, London; a program of international workshops with directors and playwrights from the UK and Serbia. I also took part in Rimini Protocol workshops at the International Festival of Alternative Theatre in Riga. Currently I am advisor, team coordinator and festival director for Most Mira charity organization that is using art to bring together divided communities and post-war generation of Prijedor Municipality in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
I received a scholarship from the A.G. Leventis Foundation and a Hugo Klein award (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade).
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Puppetry
country: UK
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Last updated on 5/11/2009 - Manuela Ruggiero
background: Manuela Ruggiero, born in Napoli, is known to the Italian public for her role as actress in some high profile TV productions. She studied at DAMS (Bologna) and holds a degree with School of Dramatic Art Paolo Grassi (Milano) as Actress and Theatre Director. She has worked as Assistant Director and actress/dancer with many well known Theatre Directors (Robert Wilson, Nanni Garella, Giampiero Solari, Danio Manfredini, Pippo Delbono, Yuri Altschiz, Giorgio Marini, Wanda Monaco Westerstĺhl , M.G.Mandruzzato, Thierry Salmon, Monica Francia, Maurizio Smith, Massimo Navone). From them she learned different style and methodology that today are part of her approach to teaching and her “aesthetics ” as a Director. Since 1997 she has been teaching Drama and Theatre Physical Contact Improvisation in different Theatre Academy. In parallel she wrote and directed several theatre shows based on Physical Theatre and screenplays for TV. She is the Artistic Director of the Theatre Company Uranusmoon. Most recently Manuela has directed Words of Honour, the Mafia exposed, a Theatre play on the bosses of the Sicilian Mafia. The play showed at the Assembly Theatre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and run for 1 month in London (Jermyn Street Theatre) and 1 month in Rome (Teatro Piccolo Eliseo). Manuela lives in London where she works as Drama teacher and Theatre Director.Last logged in 5/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Performance Art, Opera, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Director and Teacher in drama and Theatre Physical contact improvisation, choreographer
other skills: acting, play writing, dancer
date of birth: 16/6/1975
country: UK
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Last updated on 19/11/2009 - Marc Nykolyszyn
background: Training includes:Last logged in 5/9/2010
• Directing course: Mountview Academy Theatre Arts
• BA Performing Arts: Cumbria Institute of the Arts
• BTEC National diploma in Musical Theatre
Shows include:
• Director: Boom Bang A Bang - Etcetera Theatre.
• Director: Bad Behaviour - Rosemary Branch Theatre.
• Director: A Gift From Baby Jesus - Barons Court Theatre.
• Assistant Director: Ruby’s Story - 13th Street Repertory Company
• Assistant Director: Finding the Rooster - 13th Street Repertory Company
• Director: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change - Stanwix Studio.
• Director/Writer: Cholovik - Stanwix Arts Theatre
• Assistant Director: Hedda Gabler - Stanwix Arts Theatre
• Assistant Director: Little Shop of Horrors - Guthlaxton Theatre
experienced in: New writing, Classics
country: UK
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Last updated on 19/4/2010 - Marco Ghelardi
background: I have trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, MATP course.Last logged in 23/1/2010
Since then I have worked extensively at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as assistant director. I have my own Italian theatre company, called Salamander TC.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Opera, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
date of birth: 26/1/1975
country: UK
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Last updated on 18/11/2009 - Margaret Tully
background: I was a winner of the Shell Connections in 2005 with Mark Ravenhill's play Citizenship. While working as a teacher in a state school we took this play to Greenwich and The Cottesloe. I have since then adapted and directed for children Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Alice in Wonderland, Lion, Witch & Wardrobe, Greece, Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver and The Wizard of Oz. I work as an actress and enjoy all genres with a special interest in new writing and devising. I try to work with as many different directors as possible in order to keep growing and learning. I was recently involved in The Russian Festival at The Soho. I love collaborative work and researching projects, historical periods and different cultures.Last logged in 6/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Movement
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work
date of birth: 18/7/1959
country: UK
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Last updated on 11/8/2010 - Marianne Badrichani
additional skills related to directing: DramaturgyLast logged in 11/5/2010
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising
other skills related to directing: Script adaptation
date of birth: 13/9/1970
country: UK
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Last updated on 8/2/2010 - Marie Lager
background: I did my BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Laban Conservatoire for contemporary dance and graduated in 2007. I have since then worked as a freelance director, choreographer and dancer.Last logged in 18/8/2010
My artistic vision is to make a difference for the audience experiencing my work. That could be to bring up a political issue in daylight or to look at an everyday issue from a different angle. Give an audience a moment of recognition or something new to think about. Amuse as well as to disturb. The performances that move me the most are the ones where the performers show fragility, are emotionally engaged and take risks in front of the audience. It is this type of work I'm striving to make.
Directing: MAD (Mariestads stadsteater, Sweden, 2009), DU.JAG.NU (Turteatern, Sweden, 2008), CRIMES OF THE HEART (Teater Tribunalen, Sweden 2008), THE CLOWN (On tour in Sweden, 2003).
Choreography and assistant directing: Fredrik Lundqvist on ROTEN UT NORČN (Södra teatern, Sweden, 2007-2008) and KRIG PĹ FJÄRDE VĹNINGEN (Södra teatern 2008-2009).
Choreography:DANS LA SOLITUDE DES CHAMPS DE COTON (Turteatern 2008), ETT PARTI TARATAPP (Dieselverkstaden 2007), I AM DYING TO MAKE LOVE (Paradiso festival 2007), ROOM SERVICE (Paradiso festival 2007)
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Contemporary dance
other skills: Martial Arts
date of birth: 10/1/1983
country: UK
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Last updated on 4/2/2010 - Marina McClure
background: Marina McClure is a director, producer, and collage artist who grew up nomadically wandering across Europe. She currently directs in the Washington DC and New York areas as well as collaborating internationally with artists and companies in the UK and South Africa. Ms. McClure’s directing style focuses on expression through movement and theatricality and she is fiercely dedicated to the notion of collective creation. Her productions are highly physical and express a sharp visual aesthetic. In 2004 she co-founded the ensemble theater company, Odyssey Productions, which she currently heads as Artistic Director. Odyssey produces work in the Washington, DC and New York metro areas and is dedicated to the development of emerging professional artists. As Artistic Director, she has initiated readings and performances in found spaces, and champions developmental dramaturgy for new plays. She has recently directed productions for the Capital Fringe and New York International Fringe Festivals as well as coordinated an international theater exchange in Hilton and Parys, South Africa as a part of The Savannah Theatre Project. She is a 2007 recipient of a Dartmouth General Campbell Fellowship for research into post-apartheid South African satire. Her academic interests are in identity, nationality and performance, cultural memory, new media integration, and ensemble creation. Ms. McClure holds a BA from Dartmouth College where she was awarded the 2004 Gurdin Award for "Best Director." She is a recipient of a Waterhouse Grant for the 2nd US production of Gao Xingjian's Nocturnal Wanderer. Ms. McClure received further training at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.Last logged in 23/2/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Physical work
other skills related to directing: developmenal dramaturgy, ensemble creation
other skills: certified yoga instructor
date of birth: 10/3/1982
country: UK
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Last updated on 27/1/2010 - Mark France
background: Graduated with distinction from MA Theatre Studies Course at University of Leeds in 2003. Prior to this I directed extensively in community and fringe theatre over several years.Last logged in 9/3/2010
Directing since 2003 includes 'Wealth', 'Anton's Shorts','AYorkshire Tragedy', 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Four Nights in Knaresborough' for Icabod, 'Henry VI' & 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for York Shakespeare Project, and numerous short plays and rehearsed readings for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, for whom I am also a script reader.
I have also taught performance theory at the University of York, directed for MMU School of Theatre, and worked for the Shakespeare Schools' Festival, Theatre in the Mill, Hull Truck and Harrogate Theatre as variously a director, assistant director, devisor and workshop leader.
I am now artistic director of The Mooted Theatre Co, for whom I have directed 'A Life in the Theatre', ''Tis Pity She's a Whore' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising
other skills related to directing: Workshop Facilitation, verse speaking
other skills: Teaching
date of birth: 21/10/1971
country: UK
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Last updated on 24/11/2009 - Mark Swetz
background: Co-Director of Company Y with Nadia Adame; specialising in multi-disciplinary work.Last logged in 5/9/2010
Interested in work which integrates artists with and without physical and sensorial (dis)abilities. Also interested in the idea of access, and has recently focused on radio and cyberperformance projects. Will be starting a period of work in 2010 related to Blind Spectatorship.
Over twenty-five professional productions in the UK, US and Spain; details available on request.
PhD Performance Studies, (Central School of Speech and Drama -- from January 2010)
MA Dance, (Ohio State University, USA)
BA Theatre Arts (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
BA Classics (Pennsylvania State University)
Certificate, Technical Theatre (PA Governor's School/Arts, USA)
Certificate, Musical Theatre (HBG Arts Magnet School, USA)
Certificate, Theatre (HBG Arts Magnet School)
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills: Languages: English and Spanish
date of birth: 6/11/1970
country: UK
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Last updated on 16/6/2010 - Mark Espiner
additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, DramaturgyLast logged in 5/9/2010
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Opera
other skills related to directing: Writing
other skills: Collaborative performance work
country: Germany
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Last updated on 22/11/2009 - Mark Stevenson
background: Mark is currently directing shows for young people with GLYPT and Arts Depot, before commencing on the third production of Supermarket Shakespeare for Teatro Vivo.Last logged in 4/9/2010
He's been a director (and actor) for the last 15 years working primarily in theatre, but also in film and television.
additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work, Puppetry
other skills related to directing: Improvisation
date of birth: 13/11/1972
country: UK
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Last updated on 11/8/2010 - Martin Ward
background: I am an experienced and successful drama teacher, youth theatre leader, manager and artistic director based in London. My specialisations include: new writing, modern adaptations of classics, commedia dell’arte and mask work, physical theatre, all aspects of Drama and Theatre A levels and GCSEs, TIE, and outdoor / spectacle performances. I am committed to challenging young people to engage physically, intellectually and emotionally with world literature and mythology, resulting in engaging and innovative productions.Last logged in 1/8/2010
This year I am doing an MA in Actor Training and Coaching at Central School. My last full-time post was Head of Expressive Arts in a specialist Arts school. I have been Artistic Director of a youth theatre company – the cap and stocking players – since 1997. I set up this company to take talented young Oxford-based performers to an International Youth Theatre Festival in France, and I have been going back every year since with new students and a new production. I enjoy adapting classic texts, and I have also written plays for young performers.
I have a degree in Drama and English (Hull University), a PGCE in Drama (Reading University), and training courses / workshops attended include: Mike Alfreds, Desmond Jones, Michael Chase, John Wright, John Rudlin, Legs on the Wall.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Drama Teaching, performing, producing, management
other skills: circus skills (eg juggling, balances)
date of birth: 6/9/1967
country: UK
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Last updated on 19/9/2006 - Matt Peoverbackground: Trained at LAMDA Currently developing new music drama with Conor Mitchell at National Theatre Studio Director and teacher at LAMDA for five years - teaching acting, Shakespeare, Jacobean - shows include The Crucible, Othello, The White Devil, The Changeling, and two new musicals in the MacOwen theatre with the writer/composer Conor Mitchell Co-founder of Liquid Theatre (Endgame, Cowboy Mouth, Crave, Feeding Time, all at BAC) Developing new Liquid Show with writer Fin Kennedy, a modern Jacobean project Attended 2004 RNT Studio Directors Course, 2004 Young Vic Doorway Project with Phylidda Lloyd and Kate Flatt, 2005 Royal Court directors' day Directed Hamlet for Natural Perspectives TC and Patching Havoc (new writing) by Sam Ellis for theatre 503. Was invited to workshop 'The King Stag' by Gozzi for the Young Vic Have worked with BAC Young People's Theatre (The Searchers), YMT:UK (Youth Music Theatre - Missing Melanie by Kath BUrlinson and Conor Mitchell) and with Playbox Theatre, Warwick (Tis Pity She's a Whore) Trained in Le Jeu with Phillipe Gaulier Studied English at CambridgeLast logged in 31/8/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Opera, Physical work
date of birth: 1/5/1977
country: UK
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Last updated on 24/8/2010 - Matt Ball
background: Artistic Director of Camden People's Theatre (www.cptheatre.co.uk)Last logged in 4/9/2010
Directing work includes:
Icarus 2.0, Pleasance Edinburgh & Camden People's Theatre (Nominated for Stage Award for Best Ensemble, and Total Theatre Award for Devised Performance)
Point & Shoot, Camden People's THeatre & The Toilet Gallery
Ariadne, Camden People's Theatre
Wapping: Audio (downloadable audio walk from www.wappingaudio.org)
Oh! Canada (Scratch), BAC
and Wapping: audio, an ACE funded audio walk
I have taught at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, GSA, NYMT & Laban, and reviewed work for Total Theatre and Animations Online. I am currently the mentor for the graduate theatre company programme at the Central School of Speech & Drama.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: production management
country: UK
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Last updated on 22/10/2009 - Matt Rozier
background: I was trained initially in physical theatre, then took achieved a 1st at BA(hons) level at a NCDT drama school. I was asked back to the school to teach acting to adults on the part time course and to direct their final year showcase. I've been teaching young people acting skills and have coached over 30 young people into gaining places at drama school in the last 8 years. I have worked in depth on classical Elizabethan/Jacobean plays, aswell as comedies and various pieces of new writing. I also write and for a while was enrolled on the Soho Theatre young writers course. I've written a pantomime, monologues, sketches, an alternative nativity and have a drama play in development.Last logged in 17/8/2010
Currently teamed up with award winning new writer Patrick McConnell to form 'Rotten Park Road' theatre company. The first two pieces have been written and we're currently researching for a third new writing project.
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Trained actor, stage combat, acting teacher (7 years),
date of birth: 1/8/1980
country: UK
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Last updated on 20/11/2009 - Matt Roberts
background: I graduated from the RWCMD in 2006 with a BA(hons) in Acting. Since then I have been heavily involved in directing, writing and producing. For the last two years I have been running my award-winning theatre company Papatango. Which can be viewed at: www.papatango.co.uk.Last logged in 31/8/2010
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work, Mask work
date of birth: 24/8/1984
country: UK
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Last updated on 15/2/2010 - Matthew Evans
background: .Last logged in 2/9/2010
CURRENT: 'The Jewish Wife' (for Gameshow & Supporting Wall at BAC - www.bac.org.uk/whats-on/jewish-wife)
FORTHCOMING: 'She Stoops To Conquer' (for Rogue's Gallery at Hoxton Hall)
I direct for Gameshow and as a freelancer. Gameshow are currently developing 'The Chekhov Project' and 'Robin Hood The Pantomime'
I've trained at the Young Vic and National Theatre Studio. I've also worked with ATC, Peckham Shed children's theatre, Punchdrunk, Rose Theatre Kingston, Supporting Wall, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Total Theatre Awards.
JMK Award Winner 2010
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additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry
country: UK
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Last updated on 2/9/2010 - Matthew Parker
background: TrainingLast logged in 5/9/2010
One Year Directing Course at Drama Studio London 2008/09.
BA Hons 1st Class Theatre Arts (Acting), Bretton Hall
I am artistic director of DOgORANgE Theatre Company and its sister youth theatre company MOBstars*. DOgORANgE’s debut production of Ward No.6, my own adaptation of the Chekhov short story, was presented at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival gaining 4-star reviews and a Best Ensemble nomination from The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence. DOgORANgE is now planning a tour of Ward No.6 in Autumn 2010.
Recent directing credits include Peter Pan (Panto Tour, West London schools), Permission (Courtyard Studio) Jersey (Daffodil Theatre Awards & LOST Festival), 12 Clocks (RACC Studio) and A Perfect Ganesh (Courtyard). I have also been Movement and Assistant Director on new musical Zipporah (George Wood Theatre) and am a regular Director and Choreographer for cabaret group Scales of the Unexpected, directing A Winter’s Scale (Cock Tavern/Leicester Square Theatre) this December.
Upcoming projects include new play Seconds at the Rosemary Branch in January 2010, The Killing of Sister George at the Etcetera in April and the development of a new interpretation of France Rame’s tragi-comic farce A Woman Alone for DOgORANgE.
I have a passion for bringing my physical, visceral style and strong visual imagination to classic stories. I’m particularly interested in tragi-comedy, absurdism and farce with an emphasis on physical characterisation but have worked in a variety of styles and genres and I have a strong background in the classics.
For more info visit www.matthewparker.net
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Choreography, Writing/Adaptations
other skills: 10 years dance traiining in ballet, tap, contemporary and jazz. Stage fighting.
date of birth: 2/9/1975
country: UK
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Last updated on 24/8/2010 - Max Key
background: Trained NATIONAL THEATRE DIRECTORS' COURSELast logged in 18/8/2010
JULY/AUGUST THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA ARCOLA
By Benjamin Britten (Director)
APRIL/JULY PUNK ROCK MOUNTVIEW
By Simon Stephens (Director)
APRIL PLAYLIST THEATRE 503
(Director)
MARCH 10 LAMDA LONG PROJECT LAMDA
Playwright David Watson (Director)
JAN 10 CARDIFF EAST EAST 15
By Peter Gill (Director)
NOV09 HARPER REGAN LAMDA
By Simon Stephens (Director)
SEPT/OCT 09 MACBETH INDIA
By William Shakespeare
JULY 09 PITCH IDOL NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
(Director)
JUNE 09 LULLABY BURN LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
By Simon Stephens (Director)
Cast Saskia Reeves
APRIL/MAY 09 SENSE SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
By Anja Hilling (Director)
SEPT/FEB 09 TREASURE ISLAND HAYMARKET THEATRE
(A Director to Sean Holmes)
JULY 08 NT CONNECTIONS NATIONAL THEATRE
JUNE 08 NT CONNECTIONS BRAZIL – SAO PAULO
(Director)
MAY 08 LOVE AND MONEY ALRA
By Dennis Kelly (Director)
MAR/MAY 08 FRAM NATIONAL THEATRE
By Tony Harrison (Assistant Director)
FEB 08 PENGUIN CAFÉ COCHRANE (Director)
* Theatre/Dance piece with Music by the Penguin Café Orchestra.
DEC 07 DANGER:MEMORY! CALDER THEATRE
By Arthur Miller (Director)
* Cast included: Doreen Mantle
OCT 07 THEATRE CAFÉ UNICORN THEATRE
(Director)
* 11 New European Plays
SEPT 07 SWEET PETER MUZ THEATRE
By John Retallack AMSTERDAM
(Director)
JAN/JUNE 07 DNA ALRA
By Dennis Kelly (Director)
MISTER PARADISE AND OTHER PLAYS
By Tennessee Williams
GRIMM TALES
Adapted by Carol-Ann Duffy
NOV 06/JULY 07 NT CONNECTIONS NATIONAL THEATRE
*Assistant Director to John Tiffany
OCTOBER 06 YEAR 10 TNB - FRANCE - Rennes
By Simon Vinnicombe (Director)
Also at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg and Le Maillon
SEPTEMBER 06 VOTE BY BALLOT NATIONAL THEATRE
By Harley Granville Barker (Director – Platforms)
AUGUST 06 MARIANA PINEDA ARCOLA THEATRE
By Federico Garcia Lorca (Director)
“The atmosphere is rich with Lorca’s poetic writing and catholic sensibility”
The Sunday Times 4****
MARCH/SEPT 06VOYSEY INHERITANCE NATIONAL THEATRE
By Harley Granville Barker (Assistant Director to Peter Gill)
* Cast Dominic West
FEBUARY 06 YEAR 10 BAC
By Simon Vinnicombe (Time Out Critic’s choice season)
(Director)
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian 4****
05 WILDE TALES Southwark Playhouse
By Oscar Wilde (Director)
Jeremy Kingston, 4****, The Times
Opera Credits
JAN/MAR 04 LA BOHEME Royal Albert Hall
Giacomo Puccini (Assistant to Francesca Zambello)
MAY 03 SUSANNA Queen Elizabeth Hall
George Frideric Handel (Assistant Director to Netia Jones)
MAY 01 PARTENOPE Linbury Studio (R.O.H)
George Frederic Handel (Assistant Director to Netia Jones)
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Opera, Puppetry
other skills related to directing: Excellent people skills, good organisational skills
other skills: Speak Italian (level 5 -Goldsmiths College)
date of birth: 14/6/1978
country: UK
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Last updated on 20/6/2010 - Max Lewendel
background: In 2003 Max Lewendel founded The Icarus Theatre Collective (www.icarustheatre.co.uk) where he directs most of their plays. The Finborough Theatre recently commissioned Icarus to direct James Graham's Albert's Boy (winner of the Pearson Playwright Award) starring Tony Award winner Victor Spinetti. Max also directed Coyote Ugly (no relation to the film) and co-produced the British premiere of Frank McGuinness’ Gates of Gold for the Finborough, both Time Out Critics' Choice. Max also dircted a National Tour of Ionesco's "The Lesson" which transfered to the Assembly Rooms and Romania in 2007/2008.Last logged in 15/8/2010
After a mid-scale tour of Vincent in Brixton transferred to three No 1 touring houses, Max is now touring his first Shakespeare play, a mid-scale tour of Othello using a sextet of string-playing actor-musicians.
Out of the dozens of reveiws Max has received, over 75% are four-stars-or-better.
Max is particularly interested in working with new writers or on unique interpretations of classical texts and incorporating physicality into naturalistic scripts.
At Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, Max completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Theatre Arts with an emphasis on directing and minors in French Language and Business Administration.
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Assistant Directing, Producing, Rapier & Dagger, Stage Combat, Acting, Sound & Lights, Set Design, Movement, Physical Theatre
other skills: Massage, Rigging, Martial Arts, Wrestling, Crafts, Full Driving License
date of birth: 10/4/1980
country: UK
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Last updated on 30/10/2009 - Max Webster
background: Max read English at Cambridge then studied at the Lecoq school in Paris and the Odin Teatret in Denmark. In London he has directed at the National Theatre Studio, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre503, the Arcola, Soho Theatre Studio and Riverside Studios. International work includes The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Aarohan Theatre, Nepal) Feast Kakhulu (Hilton Festival, South Africa) El Mono (Hopballehus, Buenos Aires) and Hungry Tigers (a surreal cabaret that has toured 25 venues in five countries). He has also taught Theatre for Development workshops for the INGOs SPW and VSO. He has assisting Simon McBurney and Eugenio Barba, as well as at English Touring Opera and British Youth Opera. He is currently an associate of Company of Angels, a company dedicated to making new and experimental work for young people.Last logged in 5/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Opera, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Community Theatre, Actor Training, Intercultural Events, Drama for Development
other skills: Play instruments: piano, flute, guitar; programme notes; translating
date of birth: 19/12/1982
country: UK
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Last updated on 26/10/2009 - Maya Foa
background: Experience in theatres in Oxford, London, Paris and Edinburgh. Currently working with international theatre company Goossun Art-illery.Last logged in 3/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising
other skills: Languages spoken: French, Italian, Spanish
date of birth: 17/1/1984
country: UK
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Last updated on 17/8/2010 - Mel Cook
background: is an experiential theatre maker working in site-specific, cross-media, devised, improvised, and physical theatre, as well as creating live art and pervasive games. Artistic director of Snakebit, co-artistic director of EnterPlay, associate director of SPID, and colleague of Coney, Mel is graduate of Birkbeck’s MFA in Theatre Directing, and RADA’s Acting BA. Mel has been a finalist for the JMK, ITV, C4, Arches, Bankside, and Leverhulme directing awards, has assisted Greg Doran and Anthony Clark, and has directed productions for the Finborough, Courtyard, Arcola, 503, and Southwark Playhouse. “in a league beyond anything the National has had to offer in several years.” - Gyles Brandreth. “4 stars…a remarkably unusual, very special piece” -Helen Macdonald, What’s on Stage. Mel has created festival games for Latitude, Glastonbury, Camp Bestival, Coney,and Hide & Seek, and, and developed site-sympathetic work for Honolulu Theatre, Kensington & Chelsea, Shunt Vaults, BAC, the Globe, and several museums, parks, fields, and derelict buildings.Last logged in 1/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: improvisation, workshop leading
other skills: visual art, games design
country: UK
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Last updated on 11/5/2010 - Melanie Hillyard
background: Currently Director in Residence for Attic Theatre Company. Associate Director for Nabokov on Joel Horwood's 'Is Everyone OK?' Director and Curator of Eyebrow Productions' 'WriteTime' - regular events at RADA (new short plays). Director for Bare Bones new writing bi-monthly night at the Old Red Lion King's Head Young Director's Programme. MA Theatre Practice - Rose Bruford College. 1st Class MDrama degree - University of Kent (4th year specialism in directing). 1 year directing/acting at the University Berkeley, California. 2 week intensive theatre training at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Russia. Directing workshops with Ian Rickson, Mike Bradwell, Nancy Meckler, Dominic Cooke. Young Vic Summer School Directing workshop Physical workshops with Studium Teatralne, Song of the Goat theatre company. Radio workshops with Marina Calderone. Devising workshops with Chris Goode. Directing includes: 'Is Everyone OK?' by Joel Horwood (Associate Director), Lattitude Festival and UK tour. 'I see myself as a bit of an Indiana Jones Figure' by Kieran Lynn, Old Red Lion, Bare Bones. 'Liquid Gold' by Yvonne Dodoo (rehearsed reading), Tara Arts for Attic Theatre Company. 'The Spit of Me' - Adam Barnard, Nabokov's Present Tense, Southwark Playhouse. 'Southgate' by Will Hammond, radio play for Urban Scrawl/Theatre 503. 'His Face Her Face' by Benjamin Cooper, King's Head. 'Three Is Company' by Erin McMahon, King's Head. 'Imposition and 'Grey Days' by Colin Goodwin, Edinburgh festival. 'Loose Ends' by Stuart Hepburn, Edinburgh festival, Horsebriidge Arts Centre and Gulbenkian Theatre. 'Play' - Beckett and 'Cloud Tectonics' - Jose Rivera at Durham Studio Theatre, Berkeley. Assisting includes: 'The Spanish Tragedy' by Thomas Kyd, Arcola Theatre, assistant to Mitchell Moreno. 'Cherry Docs', assistant to Sherrill Gow, King's Head. 'The ShadowMaster', assistant to Stephanie Sinclaire, King's Head. 'The Winter's Tale', assistant to Phil Willmott, The Courtyard. 'Helen of Troy' and 'Jungle Book' assistant to Phil Willmott, The Scoop.Last logged in 5/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Movement
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Drama Teacher/Facilitator for Helen O'Grady, Artis, Theatre Tots and Big Foot Theatre Companies, dance experience
other skills: Beginners spanish, french
date of birth: 10/1/1984
country: UK
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Last updated on 30/7/2010 - Melina Theocharidou
background: I work as a director, producer and actor in London. I have a BA in French and Italian from UCL (First Class Honours) and an MA in Text and Performance Studies from RADA and King’s College. During my Masters I directed my translation of scenes from Eduardo de Filippo’s “The Top Hat” in a rehearsed reading at RADA’s Wolfson Studio. I also wrote and directed a monologue at the John Gielgud Theatre and co-directed “King Lear” at the Bancroft Studio. Since graduating, I have been developing my own projects as a director. I am currently planning a De Filippo/Chekhov double bill for the London fringe and a production of Joe Orton’s Loot for Athens. I am also producing Kimberley Andrews’ Cracks for a London fringe production in March 2010. I have also been working as a script reviewer for the National Theatre, as a reviewer for the One Roof Theatre website and as an actress in numerous projects.Last logged in 5/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Dramaturgy, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Acting, Reviewing
other skills: Native speaker fluency in Greek, English, French and Italian
country: UK
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Last updated on 7/11/2009 - meline danielewiczadditional skills related to directing: MovementLast logged in 23/8/2010
experienced in: Devising, Physical work, Puppetry
date of birth: 6/2/1978
country: UK
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Last updated on 6/9/2010 - Melissa Dunne
background: Central School of Speech and Drama, Advanced Theatre PracticeLast logged in 26/8/2010
BA English Literature, Aberystwyth University. Workshops with Rufus Norris Joe Hill-Gibbins and Vicky Featherstone.
Young Vic Process workshop on Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life
Young Vic Directors Summer School 2008
Directing includes: The Phantom and Pain Management (Part of Rapid Write Response, Theatre 03) Abstract Nouns (Rehearsed Reading, Soho Theatre Studio) Extraction (Etcetera Theatre) Miss Julie (Albany Theatre Studio), Last Bus Home (Work-In-Progress Verbatim, Old Red Lion) The Space Between my Head and my Body, (Theatre 503 and Smirnoff Underbelly)
Assistant Directing work includes.
Everything Must Go, Directed by Lisa Goldman and Esther Richardson, Soho Theatre.
Cakehole by Lucy Kirkwood at Hampstead Theatre. Directed by Imogen Ashby for Clean Break Theatre Company. Working with ex-offenders and women vulnerable to drug and alcohol abuse and mental health distress.
Reads plays for the Soho Theatre
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Training in Visual and object theatre, street and Invisible theatre and Site-specific work.
other skills: Theatre administration, Youth work, devising, script editing.
country: UK
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Last updated on 20/6/2010 - Mervyn Millar
background: Associate Puppetry Director on 'War Horse' for the NT; member of the creative team from first workshops to the West End transfer. Herald Angel Award 2005, Total Theatre Award 2005, for 'Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers', a collaboration with Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox. Winner of Arts Foundation Fellowship 2010. Selected for 'The Independents' Cultural Leadership Programme 2009.Last logged in 13/8/2010
Work in development: 'The History of Departed Things' (Pickled Image); 'Orion' (developed at NT Studio); 'Sitting Room Circus' (Wildwood); 'The Chimp Project' (Handspring).
Awarded ACE Professional Development Bursary 2004 to develop work with theatre, design and puppetry.
Artistic Director of Human Resources (www.h-r.org.uk) Core and founder member of wireframe (www.wireframe.org.uk); the company produced five visually-led shows between 1999 and 2002, all site-specific or installations.
Script reader at BBC writersroom. Work with new playwrights includes five years at Paines Plough and a Pearson Award to develop 'On Line and Paranoid in the Sentimental City' with Chris Lee in 2000.
Director of Finborough Theatre, 1997-9: shortlisted for Peter Brook Empty Space Award for my programming during this period, and directed seven shows there across five years. Associate Director of the Steam Industry 1998-2002.
Various supplementary training including extensive puppetry work with Sue Buckmaster, London School of Puppetry, Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa).
English degree (1st), Bristol University, Theatre Directing MA (distinction), UEA.
Work as a puppetry director and puppet designer includes: RSC, Cheek by Jowl, Opera National du Rhin (Strasbourg), Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic, WYP, National Theatre, BAC, Liverpool Playhouse, theatre-rites.
Work in drama schools includes CSSD, BSSD, RWCMD, and in art education, London College of Fashion, Central St Martin's.
Books: 'Journey of the Tall Horse', 'The Horse's Mouth: Staging Morpurgo's War Horse' published by Oberon Books, ISBN 1840025999 & 1840027657.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Puppet design and making, script development
date of birth: 1/8/1974
country: UK
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Last updated on 4/3/2010 - Mez Ndukwebackground: 2010 John Fernald Award WinnerLast logged in 5/9/2010
Currently working on Dorothy West Project.
Training
Springboard 2010
Stonecrabs Young Theatre Directors Programme 2008
Passionate about theatre that doesn't necessarily preach to the converted I'm keen on contributing to Britain's rich theatrical landscape by fuelling the imaginations of young people and adults from diverse community groups and increasing ethnic audiences for theatres throughout Britain.
Have worked in the music and television industry.
Currently Artistic Associate Stonecrabs Theatre
Resident Writer Stonecrabs Theatre
Previous Professional Directing Credits :-
Directed.
Spiders Web - White Bear Theatre
Waiting For the Number 36 - Albany Theatre
Outsiders - (Community Project)
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Playreading) Albany Theatre
Assistant Directed
Translators (Short piece) - Soho Theatre
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Devising
other skills related to directing: Writing, Casting.
other skills: Set Design, Wardrobe
country: UK
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Last updated on 18/8/2010 - Mia Theil Have
background: RECENT WORK ASLast logged in 25/1/2010
DIRECTOR:
Caucasian Chalk Circle, Aarohan Theatre, Nepal ´09
Blood Wedding, Habana International Theatre Festival, Cuba ´09
Sense, Eyes, Southwark Playhouse ´09
Carnival under the Rainbow, South Africa, Hilton Arts Festival ´09
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Dalston Songs, Royal Opera House
Kafka's Monkey, Young Vic
TRAINING:
2003-2007: Apprenticeship at Odin Teatret (Denmark) with director Eugenio Barba.
Working, devising and touring performances internationally besides creating various theatrical events, setting up cultural barters, directing large scale community performances and young people's projects and teaching actor's physical training: Odin system.
Has also studied with pupils of Grotowski, Meyerhold (Gennadi Bogdanov), Decroux (Tom Leabhart), and various dances (ex. Brazilian candomblé, Indian and Balinese dance) and performed mask work, with stilts, music and singing.
Member of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and Teatrum Mundi (dir. Eugenio Barba)
Associate of Company of Angels.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Design
experienced in: Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: Acting and singing
other skills: Danish (+nordic languages), Spanish, Italian, German.
date of birth: 3/5/1981
country: UK
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Last updated on 20/11/2009 - Michael Gieleta
background: Directors' Programme, National Theatre Studio, 2005Last logged in 3/9/2010
MA (Oxon) Oxford University 1996-1999
www.michaelgieleta.com
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Opera
other skills: fluent command of Italian, Polish, French, Russian, basic German
date of birth: 16/1/1974
country: UK
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Last updated on 14/11/2009 - Michael Longhurst
background: After reading Philosophy at Nottingham University, Michael trained in theatre directing at Moutview and as an assistant director at the Young Vic, Old Vic, Royal Court and RSC working with directors including Peter Gill and Dominic Cooke.Last logged in 5/9/2010
He received a Fringe First in 2005 and the Jerwood Directors Award at the Young Vic in 2007 where he directed debbie tucker green’s DIRTY BUTTERFLY.
His ‘expertly staged’ promenade production of STOVEPIPE (presented in association with the National Theatre) featured in the Sunday Times top ten ‘Theatre Events of the Decade’.
He has experience developing and directing new writing (including as a director attached to the Royal Court’s International Residency in 2009 & 2010). Other new writing directing credits include THE CONTINGENCY PLAN: ON THE BEACH (Bush Theatre, John Whiting Award shortlist), GAUDEAMUS (Arcola), 1 IN 5 (Hampstead Theatre Daring Pairings), GUARDIANS (Edinburgh/Theatre503, Fringe First) and most recently the musical IT’S ABOUT TIME (Latitude 2010).
Michael is also a script reader for the Royal Court.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Producing, children's workshop leader, musicals, script reading
other skills: computer literate
date of birth: 27/3/1981
country: UK
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Last updated on 23/8/2010 - Michael Bryherbackground: I have a first class English Literature Degree from the University of Warwick, and I have experience writing journalistically as well as for theatre. I have worked twice with Kneehigh Theatre as an actor, as well as receiving five years worth of training with the National Youth Theatre. I assisted for Peter Brook for one week, and have also assisted at the Soho heatre. Whilst at University, I script edited for several new writers. I am currently training to be an Actor on a Two year BA hons course at Lamda.Last logged in 3/9/2010
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Acting, Script Editing, Writing
other skills: Singing
date of birth: 8/6/1984
country: UK
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Last updated on 10/12/2008 - Miguel Pinheiro
background: Miguel was born in Porto under the spell of the Atlantic Ocean in a land of sailors and poets.Last logged in 4/8/2010
After a leap into the mysteries of the world as Research Scientist, Miguel started his Theatre career in Portugal and has also performed in Scotland, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy and England.
He's now based in London. For the past 3 years he has developed several classic and experimental Theatre productions, he has co-directed a few Theatre projects and has collaborated in some Dance-Theatre performances.
Other work includes Community and TIE (Theatre in Education).
(2002) Artistic Director of TUP Theatre Company, a young physical and experimental ensemle that created work based on contemporary writing.
Other Relevant Training: 'Storytelling and Physical Theatre' with Marcello Magni (Complicite, Peter Brook); Tony Cealy (Forum Theatre: Rainbow of Desire); Javier Cura (Contact-Dance & Tango); Tilike Coelho (Theatre & Percussion); 'Dance Theatre' with Nigel Charnock (DV8); 'Contact-Improvisation'; 'Handball Trained Athlete' - FC Porto, Portugal
Professional Performer, Deviser, Director, previous project includes:
-----"Velvet Scratch" - a Devised Physical and Multilingual Play
- voted "Best Play" at Prague Fringe Festival 2007
- nominated "Best Theatre Production" at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 by Total Theatre Awards
- extended European Tour 2008
------"Nottenera" - a Dance Theatre site-specific performance. Italy, with Javier Cura
------ "mim'delo - Stories of the Periphery" a Devised experimental performance, combining Theatre, Music, and Dance in the African Continent ---- www.miguelpinheiro.com/mindelo
further info: www.miguelpinheiro.com
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additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Producer and Drama-Movement Facilitator. Multilingual Performance, Workshop Leader, Contact-Improvisation/Dance, Aikido, Football, Yoga and Handball
other skills: Native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English, French and Spanish
country: UK
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Last updated on 15/4/2010 - Mike Miller
background: Studied Stage Management and Directing for four years in University in USA.Last logged in 6/9/2010
Directed professionaly for a year in US before coming to London.
In London, Trained at East 15 Acting School where I recieved my MFA in Theatre Directing. This included a stint in Moscow, Russia with the GITIS Acadamey of Arts studying Stanislavski and Meyerhold.
During this two year program I also became a writer under the guidance of Mick Gordon, and directed my own show at the Lion and Unicorn Pub Theatre and Soho Theatre Studio Upstairs.
My approach in working on new writing, as both director and writer, is to treat text as an equal tool in a collaborative process between all the other elements; movement, space, lighting, sound, and audience, and attempting to move the writer/production to that approach with me. To simplify, a happy medium between 'text based' theatre and physical theatre.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing
other skills related to directing: Improvisational Acting (4 years), and Stage Management Exp (3 years)
date of birth: 7/4/1983
country: UK
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Last updated on 5/3/2010 - Mitchell Moreno
background: I read English at Cambridge and took a postgrad at the Royal Academy of Music, before spending a year at the Orange TreeLast logged in 6/9/2010
Theatre on the Trainee Directors' Programme, leaving in 2004.
Since then I have combined assistant and resident directing with creating my own work.
Directing credits include: 'The Spanish Tragedy' (Arcola Theatre), 'Men Without Shadows' (Finborough); the song cycles 'Russian Romance' (Barbican Hall) and 'Chelsea Romance' (Oktober Theatre and Yusopov Theatres, St Petersburg); 'Hippolytus' and 'Seven Deadly Sins and Three Small Flaws' (Orange Tree Theatre); 'The Paper Piano' (Edinburgh); and 'Five Chapters of Love' (Site-specific Tour.)
In 2005 and 2006 I worked as the Assistant Director to Stephen Daldry on the creation of 'Billy Elliot' (West End), subsequently staying on as the production's first Resident Director.
As Staff/Assisant Director, other projects include 'Revenger's Tragedy' (dir. Melly Still, National Theatre) on which I was also the creative responsible for puppetry; 'Merry Wives' (dir. Greg Doran, RSC) 'Playing With Fire' (dir. Michael Attenborough, National Theatre); 'Beauty and the Beast' (dir. Laurence Boswell, RSC).
In 2009 I was a Regional Director for National Theatre's New Connections, with special focus working on Conor Mitchell's musical 'The Dummy Tree'.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Play an instrument, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: circus skills (including flying trapeze); qualified singing teacher L.R.A.M.; youth theatre
country: UK
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Last updated on 29/10/2009 - Moira Healy
background: Since moving over to directing from a career as an actress, I have been an Assistant Director on two productions, one musical and one revival;Last logged in 4/9/2010
MARRY ME A LITTLE Stephen Sondheim. Dir: Cressida Carre, at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden.
THE RAT TRAP Noel Coward. Dir: Tim Lusombe, at the Finborough Theatre. This was the first production since 1926 by special permission of the Noel Coward estate. It was awarded Time Out Critics Choice.
I also have directed a rehearsed reading of a new play 'Never Lies'.
Although my training was centred around straight theatre, I also have a strong interest in musicals. I am currently working on a series of workshops looking at West Side Story within a contemporary setting.
I direct because I love to tell a story that will move an audience and to present the truths of life according to a particular set of people and circumstances. I love discovering this story through rehearsal and then see it being realised in performance.
additional skills related to directing: Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Classics
other skills related to directing: Acting
date of birth: 14/4/1973
country: UK
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Last updated on 27/7/2010 - Monique Sterling
background: EDUCATION/TRAININGLast logged in 4/6/2010
Goldsmiths University - BA Honours in Drama and Theatre
Young Vic Introduction to Directing Course, led by Indhu Rubasingham
Young Vic Summer School 2008
Young Vic Workshop with David Lan 2009
DIRECTING
Current:
Madame Monique's Mystical Awakening Extravaganza
Baron’s Court Theatre Jan 09
Director of Ache by Gareth Jandrell
Past:
Soho Theatre 2008
Director of Tuesday by Gareth Jandrell
George Wood Theatre 2005- 2008
Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
An Artaud inspired piece entitled Dinner Party
Attempts on her life by Martin Crimp
Soho Theatre 2007
Assistant Director to Poonam Brah on The Worth of Thunder by the Soho Young Writer's Programme
Young Vic Theatre 2008
Assistant Director to David Dorrian on the 2008 Schools Festival at the Young Vic.
Albany Theatre 2007
Assistant Director to Ellen McDougall on Long Sentences by Deborah Pearson
Assistant Director to Ellen McDougall on Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan- Lori Parks.
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dramaturgy
experienced in: New writing, Performance Art
date of birth: 12/3/1987
country: UK
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Last updated on 4/11/2009 - Morwenna Rowe
background: I studied English Literature at Cambridge, graduating in 1992 with a Double First, whilst there I directed, designed and acted in 10 productions, including a European tour of Henry V. I then travelled widely working with several of Grotowski's collaborators in Eastern Europe and West Bengal, before returning to the UK and working for five years as a storyteller, writing and performing my own one-woman shows. Subsequently I trained in Voice at Central School of Speech and Drama, with Distinction, and was hired straight away by the department to train new voice teachers in voice and movement combined. I also trained actors in voice and text at several other leading uk Drama Schools, including running the voice department at ALRA. In 2000 I moved to Paris to train for a year with Philippe Gaulier and then stayed in Paris for the next 5 years, coaching actors, training in more Stanislawski based techniques and starting to work as an actor. I returned to London a year ago and continue to work as a voice and acting coach, but now wish to develop a career as a theatre director. I have directed two productions since returning, Sleuth for Theatre les Salons in Geneva in January 2007 and (co-directed) A Respectable Wedding at Oxford School of Drama in April 2007. I also workshopped a new adaptation of La Ronde in March 2007. I have also taken director training workshops with Mike Alfreds, Katie Mitchell, Tatiana Olear, John Wright and Lilo Baur. I wish to join the Genesis project as part of the great inspiration and pleasure of the directing workshops has been meeting and discussing with other directors at the start of their careers. I would also like to find opportunities to assist established directors and would be delighted to share any of my voice/movement training skills with the project.Last logged in 20/5/2010
additional skills related to directing: Movement, Dialect/Voice
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Physical work
other skills related to directing: Qualified, experienced voice, movement acting coach at NCDT schools
other skills: accent dialect and acting coach for film
date of birth: 30/7/1971
country: UK
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Last updated on 25/2/2008 - Myette Godwynbackground: I am the Artistic Director of Whirlwind Theatre for Children (www.whirlwindtheatre.org.uk) based in Lancaster. An inclusive company that produces visual story based theatre, incorporating masks & puppets – includes: touring, YT, summer schools, schools, workshops, new writing.Last logged in 5/9/2010
Training: P G Cert Inclusive Theatre (ed) Middlesex University and Chickenshed. (Working towards MA (ed) Inclusive Education.
Cygnet Training Theatre (Exeter) – Acting
BA (Hons) Expressive Arts - Brighton Polytechnic
(I also have Level 3 Childcare, Learning and Development- as part of the Ofsted registration requirements for youth/children’s theatre workshops.)
My Directing includes: THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE (‘10); BRILLIANT THE DINOSOAR (‘08); AROUND THE POND IN 80 DAYS (‘07); TOAD OF TOAD HALL ( ‘04); THE KINGS NEW CLOTHES (Witherslack School ‘03) – for Whirlwind Theatre; MINER’S MEMORIES (Illyria & Whirlwind Theatre at Museum of Cannock Chase ‘00); MURDER IN THE PARLOUR (Palm Court Theatre Orchestra ‘97)
Educational work inc. Directing & workshop leader: YT & WORKSHOPS (Whirlwind Theatre at The Kings House ‘04 – ‘08 & The Storey Cic ‘09 onwards); VOICE & TEXT (Joan Ward School, Lancaster ‘09 onwards); WORKSHOP LEADER ( LCC Childcare Development conferences ‘08); WORKSHOP LEADER(SureStart Fathers/ Toddlers, panto workshop); CHANGE devised piece (Hornby High ‘06); WORKSHOP LEADER for STEP UP FESTIVAL(‘06); HAMISH BEAR & STORY TELLING MAGPIE (Morecambe Rd School ‘05); MINER’S MEMORIES (workshops primary & secondary schools, including special, script development – Illyria and Whirlwind Theatre ‘00) ARABIAN NIGHTS (Century Theatre, Keswick – YT assistant ‘97); WORKSHOP LEADER/ TEAM BUILDING (Palm Court Theatre Orchestra inc. BT, Canada Life & Citibank etc. ‘86 – ‘97); MURDER IN THE CATHERAL (Workshop assistant for adults, Oundle International Festival ‘96); CAMOUFLAGE ( YT Project for Bournemouth CC ‘96).WORKSHOP YT LEADER (Cygnet Training Theatre ‘89 – ‘92);
I have also worked as a producing / writer & designer.
additional skills related to directing: Read Music, Movement, Dramaturgy, Design
experienced in: New writing, Classics, Devising, Performance Art, Physical work, Puppetry, Mask work
other skills related to directing: I am skilled in working with young people's theatre from Early Years through to young adults, Inclusive theatre education and storytelling styles, in (art based) puppet and mask making and within performance.
other skills: Fine artist, design, writing & producing. I have also worked as an actress for many years.
date of birth: 6/11/1965
country: UK
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