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CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (County Hall, 2023)
At present, I am Assistant Director on Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Lucy Bailey.
I have supported the Associate Director Lucy Waterhouse throughout rehearsals for Cast 10, lead cover rehearsals, and conducted weekly show watches and notes.
https://witnesscountyhall.com/
GREATEST DAYS: THE OFFICIAL TAKE THAT MUSICAL (2023)
It’s 1993 and for five 16-year-old girls, Take That is everything. Join us as this group of girls, who were once inseparable, reunite after 25 years apart and try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting the boy band whose music became the soundtrack to their lives.
Director: James Robert Moore
Associate Director: Grace Currie
Choreographer: Ian West
Lighting and Video Design: Ben Bull
Sound Design: Leigh Davies
Previous directing credits include:
BAD GIRLS: THE MUSICAL (2022)
Based on the popular ITV1 prison drama series, Bad Girls follows the lives of the inmates and wardens of HMP Larkhall. This was a production for the University of Cumbria, featuring the third year students on the BA Musical Theatre degree.
Musical Director: Cerys Reading
Choreographer: Beth Loughran
Stage Manager: Ellie Dale
Stagebox BOLT ON Musical Theatre workshops, Leeds (2022)
Leading weekly workshops with both the Elite and Development teams at Stagebox Leeds, currently exploring Billy Elliot and In the Heights.
THE REIN-CALF (2021)
R&D for a new multidisciplinary children's Christmas show for rural communities in North Yorkshire. More information coming soon.
MOTH (Show Face Festival, online, 2020)
'Moth' is a gentle piece of theatre looking at how a single person can change the world one tiny action at a time. You may want to get yourself some squares of paper before the performance begins ...
Writer: Amanda Hallam Lane
Designer: Hannah Harding
Performed by Felicity Dorey
Moth can be viewed here.
WRENS (Show Face Festival, online, 2020)
Wrens’ is an interactive piece of audio theatre, best experienced with headphones, that invites you to see and hear your world in a new way. The Wrens team will be inviting you to share your experiences on their curated Instagram, @counting.wrens.
Writer: Amanda Hallam Lane
Designer: Hannah Harding
Sound Designer: Findlay Claydon
Performed by Matthew Blaney
Wrens can be viewed here.
WHILST WE WERE THERE (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2018)
An insight into misogynistic structures in the music industry, Whilst We Were There combines the craft of actor-musicians and an abundance of loop pedals to create a catchy folk-rock musical. The piece was predominantly devised over a three week rehearsal period in the Lakes by Grace and the team.
Performed by Curtis Medley, Lizzie Dewar, Max Kinder, Seb Yates Cridland, Tyler Holland.
THE PILLOWMAN (Directors' Showcase, John Thaw Studio Theatre, 2018)
A young writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome
content of his short stories, and their similarities to a number of
child-murders occurring in his town.
Performed by Tom Thacker (Katurian), Michael McQuaid (Tupolski), and Elle Burns (Ariel).
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (3 Minute Theatre, Manchester, 2017)
What if Shakespeare’s comedy was set in the heart of Manchester’s student community, Fallowfield, in the height of post-exam celebrations? Imagine if the Bard went to Warehouse Project … and you’d get Ensemble Estate’s production.
Performed by Tom Carswell (Benedick), Georgia Brown (Beatrice), Madeleine Brooks (Hero), Nick Kettle (Claudio), Charlie White (Leonato), Brogen Campbell (Leonata), Elle Burns (Don John), Lerato Mokate (Margaret), Sam Williams (Borachio).
SPILT MILK (King's Arms, Salford, 2017)
Also Writer. Spilt Milk explored the impact of mass production on small farms in the UK dairy industry, and was produced as part of the Manchester Drama Society Shorts Festival. The script was produced as part of the Playmaking module at the University of Manchester, supervised by Sarah Woods.
Performed by Jack Waterman, Chloe Weare, Emily Tandy and Nick Kettle.
As Assistant Director:
GREATEST DAYS: THE OFFICIAL TAKE THAT MUSICAL (dir. James Robert Moore, P&O Cruises, 2023)
It’s 1993 and for five 16-year-old girls, Take That is everything. Join us as this group of girls, who were once inseparable, reunite after 25 years apart and try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting the boy band whose music became the soundtrack to their lives.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS (dir. Jonathan O'Boyle, Southwark Playhouse, 2020)
Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk Award winning musical, The Last Five Years, is an emotionally powerful and intimate show about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
★★★★★ “You won’t have seen a better production of The Last Five Years… It is the definitive production. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket.” WhatsOnStage
WHERE THE SOCKS GO (dir. Jeremiah Towolawi, Hope Theatre, Islington, 2020)
Ahead of a really crucial Zoom job interview Max is determined to answer the question we all want the answer to: where do socks go in the wash?
LORD OF THE FLIES (dir. Ricky Dukes, Greenwich Theatre, 2020)
William Golding’s explosive 20th century classic returns to the Greenwich stage after a smash hit run in 2018.
Eleven children, one island... an incredible adventure turns into a fight for survival.
★★★★★ “ Deliciously dark and disturbing, Lord of the Flies thrills and shocks in equal measure” Fairy Powered Productions
CLOUD AVENUE (dir. Cara Looij, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017)
Violet has had the ability to travel back in time since a young age and has utilised her gift in her writing career. On a round the world trip into her childhood, she stumbles into the world of her emotions. How far will her relationship with the past jeopardise her existence in the present? Cloud Avenue is a multimedia puppet show which illustrates the vivid world of childhood imagination for all ages.
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