Employment

Artistic Director of Footprints Theatre Company

Choreographer:  Velocity Youth Dance Company

Writer:  'A Definitive Guide to AS Drama and Theatre Studies'

Plays - 'No Turning Back', 'In the Cold Light of Day'

Freelance performance Artist Employment

Professional Singer

Assistant director working with Rob Kearly on ‘Idomeneo’ for Floral Opera

Director of Orwell Spirit Youth Theatre

Orwell High School. Head of Drama and in charge of dance 

Assistant director to Richard Gregson working on Die Fledermaus

Youth Director at The QuayTheatre, Sudbury.

Training

CSSD

Middlesex University

Viv Cousins – Acting on Camera 

Howard Barker and Mel Jessop– The Fence

Max Stafford Clark – Interpreting and directing text

National Theatre– Shakespeare

Malachi Bogdananov - Physical Theatre

Michael Finnissy and Wilf Judd– Site specific Opera, Bury St Edmunds

Rambert Dance Company – Contemporary repetoire

Royal Opera House- Covent Garden, work experience with Ron Freeman, Wig Master.

John Wright- Archetypal Mask

SNAP Youth Theatre

Associate Artist - Nicola Werenowska

 Nicola’s first play Twenty Per Cent, written when she was 16, was a runner-up in the 1988 Royal Court Young Playwrights’ Competition. After a long gap, in which she studied modern languages to Ph.D. level, she returned to playwriting when she joined the Colchester Mercury Theatre Playwrights’ Group in 2003. Since then she has had six plays produced professionally/semi-professionally within the region: Davy’s Day (Mercury Theatre, 2004), Aftermath (Mercury, 2006), Peapickers (Eastern Angles, 2007), Freedoms of the Forest (Menagerie, 2008), Kwaidan: Strange Tales (Mercury, 2008), Hurt, (Aspire Community Theatre). Her work has been short-listed for several national playwriting competitions including the Drama Association of Wales Playwriting Competition (2005), the London Writers Competition (2005), Channel 4 The Play’s the Thing (2005), the Churchill Theatre Playwriting Competition (2006), the Soho Verity Bargate Award (2007). She is currently working on an Escalator project, supported by the Mercury Theatre, exploring the experiences of Polish migrants in the region.

Associate Artist - Vicki Weitz  (BA Hons)

Employment and Training

Director/performer - 'A Girl in a dress' - Colchester Arts Centre
Director/performer - 'Blue Screen Concealing Two Artists (1937) - Pulse Festival, Lakeside Theatre and Colchester Arts Centre
Performer - Pinkie's Jazz Club, Colchester
Participant/performer - 'Mad for Real'
Performer - Souterrain - Wild Works
Performer - 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore' - Lakeside Theatre
Residency participant - Souterrain - Wild Works
Life Model
Performer - 'Das Rheingold' - Lakeside Theatre
Performer - 'Les Jet de sang' Lakeside Theatre
Residency participant - Growotoski workshop

Associate Artist - Emma Martin

Emma is a graduate from the University of Plymouth studying Theatre and Performance and is a co founder of No Left Turn Theatre Company. At university she was involved in a number of community projects working with people with mental health issues, with Lab Theatre Company. She first started theatre at school being, heavily involved in a number of school productions both as cast and crew. She has also been an important member of Orwell Spirit, performing at Cambridge Arts festival and touring around local schools with the company. Emma is now starting out as a freelance actor and crew member.