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Date: Thu 19 Oct
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Location: Stratford East
Join Matthew Xia for this insightful workshop into understanding the relationship between a director and designer, and how you can both achieve your vision. Matthew will take you through the process of establishing a relationship with a theatre designer including design discussions, model box creation, stage and costume design.
Who is this workshop for?
Open to all, particularly directors and those looking to understand the relationship between a Director and a Designer. To attend this workshop, you must be a Freelance Royalty member. Click here to find out more about our Freelance Royalty membership and sign up now.
Sign-up deadline date and time
Fri 13 Oct, 5pm
How do we select who gets a place?
Our workshops are intended for specific disciplines and experience-levels. To ensure that everyone attending gets the most of the workshop, all entrants that meet the intended requirements are entered into a lottery and randomly selected.
Matthew Xia (director) is the award-winning Artistic Director of ATC (Actors Touring Company). His recent credits include The Architect (ATC / GDIF) and Tambo & Bones (Stratford East / ATC). He was previously Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; Director-in-Residence at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; and Associate Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East (where he started in the youth theatre in 1993!).
Directing includes: the Olivier Award-winning Hey Duggee – The Live Theatre Show (Kenny Wax Family Entertainment/Cuffe & Taylor); the Fringe First award winning Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (FMP / Roundabout); Rice (ATC / Orange Tree); The Wiz (Ameena Hamid Productions / Hope Mill / BBC Big Night of Musicals); Family Tree (GDIF / ATC / Belgrade / Brixton House); 846 Live (Stratford East / GDIF); Amsterdam (ATC / Orange Tree / Plymouth Theatre Royal); Blood Knot (Orange Tree); Eden (Hampstead Theatre); One Night In Miami… (Nottingham Playhouse / Bristol Old Vic / HOME); Into The Woods, Frankenstein (Royal Exchange Theatre); Wish List (Royal Exchange Theatre / Royal Court); Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse / Stratford East); Sleeping Beauty (Stratford East); Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre); Blue/Orange, The Sound of Yellow (Young Vic); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Genesis Future Director Award Winner - Young Vic / Eclipse); The Blacks (Co-Director, Stratford East); I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky (Co-Director, Stratford East / The Barbican); Suckerpunch Boom Suite (The Barbican / NitroBEAT).
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