Assistant Directing Work
Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner
Adapted by David Harrower
Director: Sean Holmes
Lyric Hammersmith and UK Tour - Secret Theatre (August 2013-March 2015)
Starring: Billy Seymour, Katherine Pearce, Leo Bill, Charlotte Josephine, Hammed Animashaun and Nadia Albina
Set and Costumes: Hyemi Shin
Lighting: Lizzie Powell
Sound: Nick Manning
The Secret Theatre’s part-devised and part-scripted production of Woyzeck examined how social structures dehumanise people in today’s Britain. Embracing the fragmentation of Büchner’s original script, the production pursued an elliptical form of dramaturgy, obscuring its narrative in favour of importing associative texts and songs, to create an onstage nightmare.
Woyzeck rehearsed and performed in repertory with A Streetcar Named Desire.
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Director: Sean Holmes
Lyric Hammersmith and UK Tour - Secret Theatre (August 2013-March 2015)
Starring: Nadia Albina, Leo Bill, Sergo Vares, Adelle Leonce and Katherine Pearce
Set and Costumes: Hyemi Shin
Lighting: Lizzie Powell
Sound: Nick Manning
A critically acclaimed stripped-back production that revealed the guts of Williams' classic script. Polarising audiences with its bare bones aesthetic and dispensing with American accents, this show was a highlight for audiences riveted by the Lyric's Secret Theatre project, which comprised an ensemble of ten actors, four writers and three designers. Working together for over a year, this ensemble challenged their own methods, and the practices of their British peers, by replicating the rehearsal conditions of European repertory theatres.
A Streetcar Named Desire rehearsed and performed in repertory with Woyzeck.
Breeders
By Ben Ockrent
Director: Tamara Harvey
St. James Theatre/Vicky Graham Productions (September-October 2014)
Starring: Tamzin Outhwaite, Jemima Rooper, Nicholas Burns and Angela Griffin
Set and Costumes: James Perkins
Lighting: Joshua Carr
Sound: Tom Gibbins
A production in the One Stage season for emerging producers, with support provided by an award from Stage One.
This new off-West End comedy about family, tradition and procreation had an all-star ensemble and was directed by Theatr Clwyd's current Artistic Director. The play's heartfelt and hilarious scenes were interspersed with musical numbers sung entirely in Swedish!
★★★ What's On Stage
'Sparky dialogue, cracking gags and a quartet of attractive performances' The Guardian
La bohème
By Giacomo Puccini
Director: Christopher Cowell
Conductor: Oliver Gooch
Iford Arts (May-June 2017)
Starring: Máire Flavin, Anthony Flaum, Nicholas Lester and Alison Langer
Set and Costumes: Eleanor Wdowski
Lighting: Christopher Nairne
Staged in a Renaissance cloister in the Wiltshire countryside this atmospheric production was inspired by the opera's short story source material and Picasso's "blue period".
★★★★★ FTR
'Iford Festival opera comes of age this year...a beautiful and sensitive production.'
A Time To Reap
By Anna Wakulick
Translated by Catherine Grosvenor
Director: Caroline Steinbeis
The Royal Court (February-March 2013)
Starring: Sinéad Matthews, Owen Teale and Max Bennett
Set and Costumes: Max Jones
Lighting: Anna Watson
Sound: Alex Caplen
Composer: Tom Mills
Choreography: Imogen Knight
Anna Wakulick's complicated play about the relationship between Poland's reproductive rights policy and the Catholic Church was developed through the Royal Court International Department's unique script development process, which pairs playwrights and translators from the earliest stage of the writing process.
The production's fluid storytelling, which shifted seamlessly between different times and locations, was intimately staged on a thrust set resembling the inside of a church.