VISUAL CV
currently:
Currently Associate Director on Subject Object/Nathan Ellis's new project with Nottingham Playhouse.
Also working to direct upcoming projects for the Finborough Theatre and Theatre503
As co-creator:
MEND
or a performer's attempt to reassemble a heart
2023-Present
R&D
ARC Stockton
Theatre Royal Stratford East
A solo performer attempts to evoke the fractured reality of a broken heart.
Co-created with Meg Lewis & Hazel Low as part of Helikon Theatre Company
By Joe Eyre
Omnibus Theatre
2023
OFFIE Finalist for Best New Play
The Evening Standard's Culture Pick
TIGER
This moving new play explores the mysteries of grief: how we befriend it, get lost in it, and find a way to live with it.
Written by Joe Eyre
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
2023
As Director:
The Blue House
By Gaia Fay Lambert
Blue Elephant Theatre
2022
Three OFFIE nominations
Including Best Director
2022
Blending poetry with theatre, The Blue House looks to provide the audience with hope, healing and solidarity after some of the most turbulent and lonely years in living memory.
Written by Gaia Fay Lambert
Produced by Helikon Theatre Company
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
with devised additions from the company
2021
De Vere Latimer Estate
Performed outdoors by three actors, Helikon Theatre Company breathes life into a riotous new queering of Shakespeare’s treasured classic. When the night ends and we return from the forest, can we really go back to normal?
Designed by and conceived with Hazel Low & Andy Thornton
Produced by Helikon Theatre Company
2021
The Winter's Tale
After William Shakespeare
Adapted by Myles O'Gorman & Ella Godfrey
2019
OSO Arts Centre/The Hat, Brighton Fringe
2019
In their inaugural production, Helikon Theatre Company radically reworks Shakespeare’s most illusive work and its compulsion towards a happy ending.
Other shorter projects include:
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Rapid Write Responses by Lydia Sabatini and Theo Hristov at Theatre503 (2021-2)
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Black Men Smile Too by Reece St. Omer at Southwark Playhouse (2022)
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Wo-Lab Actor-Writer showcase at Bunker Theatre (2019)
Work as Assistant Director:
2021
Every Thing
A New Play by T. E. Lodge.
Directed by Will Maynard.
Disused Poundworld, Huddersfield.
In association with the Lawrence Batley Theatre
Not Quite Jerusalem
2021 post-covid remount
By Paul Kember
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Finborough Theatre
Trainers,
or the brutal unpleasant atmosphere of this most disagreeable season
A New Play by Sylvan Oswald
Directed by Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth
Gate Theatre
2020
2019
The Wind of Heaven
By Emlyn Williams
Directed by Will Maynard
Finborough Theatre
My training:
Workshops:
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RTYDS New Directions Cohort, various workshops inc. Jude Christian, Alan Lane, Tinuke Craig, 2021.
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6-week director training with Katie Mitchell, Young Vic, 2021.
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12-week director training with Sacha Wares, Young Vic, 2020.
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Living Pictures 3-day training: Dominic Cooke, 2024; Polly Teale, 2020; Lyndsey Turner, 2019.
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Weekly directing workshops with Robert Icke & Lyndsey Turner, 2020-2021.
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One-week workshop with Mike Alfreds, Schott Acting Studio, 2020.
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JMK Trust Edinburgh, two-day director/designer residency, Traverse Theatre, 2019.
Observerships:
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One-day observership: Coriolanus, dir. Lyndsey Turner, Olivier Theatre, 2024.
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One-day observership: Pins & Needles, dir. Amit Sharma, Kiln Theatre, 2024.
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One-day observership: The Duchess of Malfi, dir. Rebecca Frecknall, Almeida Theatre, 2019.
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One-day observership: Fairview, dir. Nadia Latif, Young Vic, 2019.