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Bio

Theatre Director, Writer, Creative Producer, Script Editor, Mentor.

Awards include: 

 

Best New Play of The Year Award 

Associate Director

Character led improvisation, Research & Devising collaborations with the Writer.

Pentecost by David Edgar. RSC.  

The Other Place/Young Vic 

 

Soho Theatre Westminster Prize 

Commendation 

Erosion by Clarissa Brown 

 

British Council Hong Kong Award 

Shrimp Paste and Pearls by Clarissa Brown 

Translated into Chinese by Chung Ying Theatre Company

Directing Credits: 

The Lover by Harold Pinter

Battersea Arts Centre
 

Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner

Warwick Arts Centre

 

Angel City by Sam Shepherd

Lyric Hammersmith 

 

Whistler and Greaves by Sam Dowling 

The Chiswick Theatre

 

A Place Called Mars by Nick Darke 

Bristol

 

Leocardia by Jean Anouilh 

(world premiere of translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker)

RSC Festival

 

Tissue by Louise Page

The HK Fringe Club

 

The Winter’s Tale 

The Devon Shakespeare Project

 

Fightback by Jon Oram and The Kent Miners

The Ondaatje Theatre, Aylesham and National Tour

 

From the Farm to the Fridge (devised)

Dartington Hall.

 

Changing Views by Jon Oram

European Wood Festival 

 

Out Of The Blue by Jon Oram

Frome Valley

 

The Elfin Project by Clarissa Brown

 Hong Kong/ Los Angeles / UK

 

Noonday Gun by Peter Wesley Smith

Tour 

 

The Odd Couple by Neil Simon– (Female version) 

The Shouson Theatre

 

Northcott Theatre Charity Soireès with Paul Jesson,
Mark Rylance, Judi Dench Robert Lindsay, Imogen Stubbs, Bertie Carvel and friends

Royal Shakespeare Company

AD/ Staff Director/ Associate Director/Dramaturg: 

  • Troilus and Cressida Dir. Sam Mendes 

  • Much Ado about Nothing Dir. Bill Alexander 

  • Richard II Dir. Ron Daniels 

  • Two Shakespearean Actors
    by Richard Nelson Dir Roger Michell

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by David Edgar Dir. Peter Wood 

  • Pentecost by David Edgar
    Dir. Mike Attenborough

 

At the RSC I transferred shows from the Main House, The Swan and The Other Place, toured nationally, rehearsed central cast changes eg: Patterson Joseph as Troilus taking over from Ralph Fiennes.

I represented theatre management in dealing with Equity disputes, worked closely with the Education Department, produced and directed workshops with company actors in The Swan, The Other Place, The Shakespeare Institute. 

Writer:  

Shrimp Paste and Pearls  -  musical. Translated into Chinese with a British Council Grant and toured Southern China. 

The Elfin Project  - performed in the UK, Hong Kong and LA.

Soho Theatre Westminster Prize – Commendation for Erosion

Created and directed actor-writer laboratory with company members RSC.

Produced New Writing Competition King’s head, Islington.

Created and directed workshop with RSC and Birmingham University’s MA Playwrighting Course “Shakespeare as a jobbing writer”.

Reader – The  Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Large Scale Promenade Productions:  

During my work with Ann Jellicoe and Jon Oram (www.communityplays.com) I had long residencies with villages and towns collaborating with writers over years as Director, Assistant, Production and Stage Manager, Dramaturg.

David Edgar’s Entertaining Strangers  for Dorchester transferred to The National Theatre with Judi Dench and Tim Piggott Smith in lead roles. 

The work was directly linked to the Royal Court with workshops and collaborations with: Bill Gaskill and  Keith Johnson. 

Journalist:  

Researcher:

  • C4

  • Films of Record .

  • National Life Story Collection – British Library

 

Theatre Critic and Arts Features writer:

  • The South China Morning Post 

  • Hong Kong Standard

  • RTHK

Festivals and Conferences:  

The Hong Kong International Arts Festival:

 Artistic Coordinator.

internationally acclaimed celebration of global talent. Working with sponsors, venues and artists.  Produced The Flying Dutchman at The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. 

Writing English language copy and English precise for live foreign language performances.

Developed strong links with the locally formed Fringe Festival giving voice to local artists. 

 

The Tree Sessions at Powderham Castle:

Founder and Creative Producer.

Woodland performances with Sam Lee and Martin Shaw. 

Song and Storytelling in the wake of COVID lockdowns.

 

Centre For Performance Research: 

Conference Coordinator

Polish theatre company Gardzienice’s first visit to the UK. 

Residential creative conference Dartington Hall.

Mentor and Tutor:  

Visiting Director:

Birmingham, Exeter and Falmoth (Dartington) Universities.

 

The National Film and Television School ( 5 Years):

Post Grad Fiction Directors.

Wrote and taught course “Rehearsal technique: Improvisation and working collaboratively with actors”

 

English Language in Refugee Camps.

Voice to performers and professionals.

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