Collaboration Working with a theatre designer with Jeff James A director’s relationship with a designer is crucial to the success of a production. Ideally, the stage design for a show emerges out of a series of conversations between designer and director over the months leading up to rehearsal and production. Focusing on text-based theatre, this […]
#JMKSpace Starting to Cast
How to assemble a company with Tristan Fynn Aiduenu Aimed at early career directors and theatre makers, who may be yet to have opportunities to work with a Casting Director, this #JMKSpace session/workshop on Zoom will take you through many of the tips Tristan has learnt with, and without, casting directors. In this two hour […]
#JMKSpace Post Show for North East Directors
Fancy watching a play and talking about it? Nothing compares to the magic of a live audience experience. However in these times, it’s fantastic to have access to so much theatre from our living rooms while we patiently wait for our theatre spaces to re-open their doors. But what about the drink and discussion in the […]
#JMKSpace Starting Points: Jaz Woodcock Stewart
Plays that don’t start with the word with Jaz Woodcock Stewart This #JMKSpace session/workshop on Zoom will look at making plays that don’t start with one writer. In a writing-centric theatre ecology, are there other ways to make Plays? Through tasks and improvisation everyone in a process may ‘write’; whether that be actors, designers and […]
#JMKSpace Creative Collaborators
Creative Collaboration Working with sound and light with Prema Mehta and James Cook This #JMKSpace session/workshop on Zoom will look at the careers of two experienced creative practitioners, and to explore the dialogue and relationship between a Director and Lighting and Sound Designers. This #JMKSpace event is open to all. It takes the place of our directors’ groups […]
#JMKSpace Ask an Artistic Director
Ask an Artistic Director with Chris Haydon Please Note that this event has had to be rescheduled. The revised details are below. Artistic Directors are seen as some of the most influential individuals in the theatre industry. But what do they actually do? And, more importantly, what does one need to do to get a […]
#JMKSpace Writer in the Room
Devising Theatre What is a ‘Writer in the Room’? with Adam Peck Drawing mainly on his experience of working with director Sally Cookson, in a devised theatre context, Adam aims to explore the meaning of the term ‘dramaturg‘, and get to the bottom of what it means for a theatre director to have a ‘writer-in-the-room’. […]
#JMKSpace Making Work as a Collective: The Wardrobe Ensemble
Join Jesse Meadows and Helena Middleton, two founding members of The Wardrobe Ensemble, to explore devising theatre as an ensemble. The Wardrobe Ensemble are a group of theatre artists working together to make new plays that dissect the twenty-first century experience. Formed in 2011, they have made 15 shows which have toured nationally and internationally, […]
#JMKSpace Post Show for North East Directors
Fancy watching a play and talking about it? Nothing compares to the magic of a live audience experience. However in these times, it’s fantastic to have access to so much theatre from our living rooms while we patiently wait for our theatre spaces to re-open their doors. But what about the drink and discussion in the […]
#JMKSpace with Jake Orr
Producing How does it work and what are the challenges? with Jake Orr This #JMKSpace session/workshop on Zoom will look at the relationship between a theatre director and creative producer. Jake will use previous productions he has worked upon to give an insight into the relationship. He will also aim to demystify what a producer […]
