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- Actor/Facillitator
• I enjoy working collaboratively as a theatre maker and performer. Music is a vital part of my work, and I play the violin, clarinet, guitar and sing. During my musical theatre training I was awarded the Highest Regional Award for my Grade 4 examination with 97%. I also have varied dance experience and I have worked as an actor/voice-over artist, as well as a producer/other technical roles for various students films and projects, and for the university radio station.
• I have worked in a plethora of venues; amateur, professional and site specific ranging from theatres, music festivals and to award ceremonies. I have worked through a vast array of performance styles which range from pantomime, musical, drama, children’s theatre and street theatre. This is predominantly through the mediums of devising and scripted work.
• Whilst studying for my BA (upper second) at the University of Huddersfield I specialised in performance, specifically looking at character development. However, I also specialised in technical theatre. This showed me the wider aspects of working in a theatre company, and also informed my performance style through the marriage of technical work to performance. I beleive it is important for an actor to understand areas of production aside from performance, as through understanding a form, the gained knowledge can be developed for personal enhancement in a specified manner.
• Whilst at university I have worked with playwrights Gordon Steel and Alice Nutter, and the theatre companies Slung Low, Red Ladder, Arden, Chol and IOU. Recently I have undertaken workshops with ActUp in collaboration with the Oxford School of Drama.
- The first thing that inspired me in theatre...
- The power to create character and develop this.
- My favourite theatre something is...
- Heightened character - be this tragic, or comic, especially the juxtaposing of these two elements.
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