Directors Acting History

The Directors Acting Workshops began in 2001. The success of these workshops is due to directors desire and commitment to learn about their craft and the willingness of established directors to share their process. We have been grateful for the feedback we have received from participants and will endeavour to implement your suggestions wherever and whenever possible.

Bella Merlin - Stanislavsky Workshop - June 9th - 13th
Rufus Norris and Tanya Ronder - Adapting for the Stage - June 23rd - 27th
Paul Hunter - Devising - July 14th - 18th
Rosemary Brandt - Exploring Laban - May 17th and 18th
Robert Bowman - NLP and Theatre - May 24th and 25th
Mervyn Millar - Objects, Puppetry and Performance - July 19th and 20th

Natalia Fedrova - The Actors' Inner Impulse - March 29th and 30th
Ian Rickson - Getting the Actor Closer to the Text - March 31st to April 4th
John Wright - Text Immersion & Archetypes: two liberating directing strategies - April 7th to 11th
Rosemary Brandt - Exploring Laban - March 8th and 9th

Elen Bowman - Thinking in Pictures - August 28th to 31st
Tatiana Olear - Character and active analysis - September 3rd to 14th
Dominic Leclerc - Physicalising Text - October 15th to 19th
Rosemary Brandt - LABAN - December 10th to 14th

Lilo Baur - Le Jeu - June 5th to 9th
Bella Merlin - Active analysis and the art of play - June 12th to 16th
John Wright - Evolving the text - July 3rd to 7th
Mike Alfreds - Meet the world of the play - July 10th to 14th
Katie Mitchell - 2 Week Intensive - July 17th to 28th

Katie Mitchell - 27th June - 1st July
Christopher Heimann - Michael Chekhov Workshop - 4th - 8th July
Mike Alfreds - 18th - 22nd
July Polly Teale and Nancy Meckler - 21st - 25th November
Kate Maravan - The Meisner Method - 19th - 23rd September
Elen Bowman - Thinking in Pictures - 22nd -26th August

Dominic Cooke - June 28th to July 2nd
Matthew Lloyd - August 23rd - 27th
Mike Alfreds - September 20th -25th
Polly Teale and Nancy Meckler - October 26th - 30th
Kate Maravan - November 22nd - 27th

Supported by the Jerwood Space and Shared Experience Theatre Company, this two week workshop was led by Robert Bowman for established and new directors to experience their theatre art from the point of view of the actor. Using scenes from Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, the directors were given parts and taken through the methodology of Living Pictures Productions. The fortnight concluded with a showing for an invited audience in the rehearsal rooms at Soho Laundry. Those taking part; Polly Teale, Marc Rosenblatt, Martin Constantine, Jo Clayton and Tom Mansfield.