T1157487120For free, on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Tuesday, we are joined by Paula Garfield from Deafinitely Theatre. Deafinitely Theatre are the first deaf launched and deaf led professional theatre company in the UK producing quality bilingual theatre in British Sign Language and spoken English. On Thursday, vocal coach Leon Trayman joins us for a voice masterclass. Leon has worked as a singing teacher at the world famous Brit School, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts & on the Musical Theatre degree course at Colchester Institute. He also lectures in voice at The University of Northampton. Due to the diversity of Leon's training & experience, he approaches his teaching & performance from musical, theatrical, directorial & technical voice perspectives. | |
| 28 Jul 20 to 30 Jul 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L852411051 |
T610074795For free, on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Tuesday, we are joined by Tori Allen-Martin from Burn Bright. Burn Bright is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to champion women and level the playing field wherever possible - creating a network and opportunities to build writers up, lobbying for change, and calling out inequality and bad practise where they see it. Since Burn Bright's formation, writers Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley have launched three initiatives: Time Bank, to connect writers who identify as women with industry professionals willing to offer mentorship, feedback and advice on a variety of topics affecting playwrights; Connect, a series of online panel discussions providing invaluable tools for professional and personal development and Better in Person, five short plays by five fantastic women written for and set on a Zoom call. On Thursday, creative producer Georgia Attlesey joins us - Georgia is a creative producer making big ideas more accessible through culture. She has programmed and delivered large scale events from prize ceremonies to festivals, gigs and performances. In the last seven years she has demystified philosophy for the HowTheLightGetsIn festival, popularised poetry at Poet in the City and the Forward Prizes and made climate change compelling to the creative community for Julie's Bicycle. Now freelance, she runs the Achates Philanthropy Prize and oversees public programming for London Film School. A Roundhouse Creative Entrepreneur alumni, Georgia has spoken on art and change at the Barbican, Southbank Centre and Wellcome Collection. She mentors for the Roundhouse and Arts Emergency. Georgia is developing Pudding, a discussion platform for audiences to digest cultural performances. She will cover what a creative producer does, tips for transitioning to a freelance career, and why you might not know that your dream job in the arts sector exists. | |
| 14 Jul 20 to 16 Jul 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L0757561454 |
T0436537912For free, on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Tuesday, we are joined by Clarissa Widya from Papergang Theatre. They produce work that is informed by the East Asian experience within Britain and the East Asian diaspora, inspired by the desire to see that perspective on stage. Clarissa leads the company as a producer. Since Papergang Theatre's foundation in 2013, Clarissa has facilitated writing workshops and R&Ds, and produced staged readings and scratch nights. In 2018, Papergang Theatre became a charity and Clarissa worked on a rebrand with Associate Director Kim Pearce before going on maternity leave. A year later, Papergang Theatre returned with more socio-political projects: Tiananmen 30 (2019) at the Omnibus Theatre; Invisible Harmony ????? at the Southbank Centre and Freedom Hi ??? followed in 2020, the latter winning VAULT Show of the Week. This session will cover the development of Papergang Theatre, growing into a career and being a parent in the theatre industry. On Thursday, theatre designer Isabella Van Braeckel join us - Isabella is a London-based Designer for Performance, specialising in New Writing, Opera and Dance across Fringe Theatre and in the West End. She is a Jerwood Young Designer, long-listed for the Old Vic 12 and was featured in the UK Exhibit | |
| 7 Jul 20 to 9 Jul 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L287610947 |
T01032897688For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Monday, we are joined by Ben Pettitt-Wade from Hijinx, a not-for-profit professional theatre company who cast learning disabled actors in award-winning productions which tour the world. Ben has devised and directed numerous productions for the company; his most recent production, The Flop, was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. On Tuesday, Stella Wilkie 2020/ award-winner Macadie Amoroso talks about my journey into the arts and experiences as an actor and writer in the industry, how her debut show Blue Beneath My Skin came about, and the trajectory it's taken since. On Wednesday, sound designer Tingying Dong talks about her approach to interpreting a script/project from a sound design perspective, and some methods she uses to enrich the sound design and therefore to enrich the piece. Ting is a sound designer, composer, and technician from Beijing, she was trained at LAMDA and has since been based in London. Thursday will be a Skills Session with Ita O'Brien and David Thackeray, intimacy consultants. The have developed industry standards for Intimacy on set and promote best practice within the industry. They have worked on numerous high profile productions including SEX EDUCATION and PENNYWORTH and for international broadcasters including Netflix, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Channel 4, Sky and HBO. On Friday, Katie Berglof, Will Irven & Imy Wyatt Corner from Swings and Roundabouts discuss their mission to create community for theatre makers, and look to their future projects within the Covid-landscape and beyond. Swings & Roundabouts is a collective for emerging theatre makers to connect, share skills and support. At the beginning of Lockdown, they moved online, launching | |
| 29 Jun 20 to 3 Jul 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L2030704739 |
T0720030937For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Monday, we catch up with Ryan Calais Cameron from Nouveau Riche, a multi-award-winning creative movement, who wasn't able to join us a couple of weeks ago. They are the team behind the critically acclaimed Queens of Sheba, and Typical. On Tuesday, ex-Editorial Director of Oberon Books, George Spender, will discuss theatre publishing and how it works. George published hundreds of playwrights including Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke, Lemn Sissay, Simon Stone, Laura Wade, Tanika Gupta, Scottee, Barney Norris and Alice Birch, and performance groups Action Hero, Rash Dash, Forest Fringe and Ontroerend Goed. He founded Salamander Street in 2019 while living in Edinburgh. Now based in Bristol, the company focuses on new writing and Theatre-in-Education work. On Wednesday, theatrical agent Alex Cory, a dramatists and creatives agent at Berlin Associates, one of the UK's best-known boutique agencies for film, TV and theatre, will talk about what an agent is and how to get one. Her clients include writers Amy Ng, Asif Khan, Chris Bush, Greer Ellison, Iman Qureshi, Kaamil Shah, Maud Dromgoole, Ross Willis, Satinder Chohan, Selma Dimitrijevic, Tariq Jordan, Tatty Hennessy, Teddy Lamb and directors Katie Posner, Guy Jones, Harry Mackrill, Lucy Jane Atkinson, Ng Choon Ping and Poonam Brah. Thursday will be a Skills Session with Flux Theatre, a London based new writing company creating socially engaging theatre, offering insights into running your own theatre company. Their previous work includes: Something Awful by Tatty Hennessey (VAULT Festival 2020 - Nominated for a Vault Award for Best Play); bottled. by Hayley Wareham (VAULT Festival 2019), CHUTNEY by Reece Connolly (The Bunker 2018 - Nominated for four OffWestEnd Awards including Best New Play); Dubailand by Carmen Nasr (Finborough 2017 - nominated for an OffWestEnd Award). On Friday, theatre director Aileen Gonsalves talks about the Gonsalves Method - a new acting Method rooted in The Meisner technique. | |
| 22 Jun 20 to 26 Jun 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L2015767934 |
T383801516For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. Today, we chat to Tom Wright - playwright, theatre director and New Work Associate at Kiln Theatre. Tom will be talking about bringing his smash-hit King's Head Theatre show 'Undetectable' from page to stage, as well as answering your questions about new work development. On Tuesday, we are joined by theatre director Lucy Jane Atkinson. Her work primarily focuses on new writing, but also including musical theatre, devising, and immersive theatre. She is currently developing a host of new plays with an eclectic mix of some of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming playwrights. On Wednesday, stage manager Mica | |
| 15 Jun 20 to 19 Jun 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L02070505161 |
T410569720For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. Today, we spotlight Cuckoo Bang Theatre, with artistic directors Chris Mayo and Holly Mallett talking about their new writing focus. On Tuesday, we are joined by lighting designer Clancy Flynn. They will be sharing how they approach lighting design from a non-technical perspective, focusing on textual analysis, world-building, and communicating with directors and the rest of the creative team. On Wednesday, theatre director Jamie Armitage will be answering any questions you may have about directing, working with new writing and rehearsal process. Jamie is an Artistic Associate at the King's Head Theatre and a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre, and his recent shows include the multi-Olivier award nominated musical SIX. Thursday will be a Skills Session with a leading industry professional: this week, David Thackeray and Ita O'Brien, intimacy coordinators, will discuss their work when dealing with intimacy, sexual content, and nudity. On Friday, Caroline Buckley, producer of Plays Rough London, discusses the process of developing a new-writing night, the importance of scratch-nights for the theatre industry and what they look for in a script. She will also announce their next online event. | |
| 8 Jun 20 to 12 Jun 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L2002146611 |
T0908895728For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. Today, Jennifer Cerys and Samia Djilli from Lemon House Theatre will discussing their work creating conversations between artists and audiences. On Tuesday, we are joined by director and actor Aran Cherkez, who will talk about working as an emerging artist. On Wednesday, opera soprano Honey Rouhani will speak on revisiting roles, keeping them fresh and new. Thursday will be a Skills Session with a leading industry professional: this week, JMK award-winner Josh Roche will speak about directing in smaller spaces. On Friday, Ryan Calais Cameron from Nouveau Riche will present their multi-award-winning creative movement to discover, nurture and produce unique stories with a keen scope on work that is both educational and entertaining. | |
| 1 Jun 20 to 5 Jun 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L166347435 |
T01377584948For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Tuesday, we are joined by Adam Hemming, artistic director of the Space, to discuss new online programme Locked Down, Looking Up, life at the venue before lockdown and how to keep things fresh after 15 years in the same role. On Wednesday, theatre director Deborah Edgington, director of 10x10 New Writing Festival, will talk about directing at new writing festivals. Thursday will be a Skills Session with a leading industry professional: this week, Cheryl Ndione, founder and director of Purple Moon Drama, on how to set up a youth theatre company. On Friday, Dr Farokh Soltani, lecturer in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at RCSSD, will give a talk on examining pedagogical approaches to writing. | |
| 26 May 20 to 29 May 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L1978576343 |
T01041267676For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Mondays, we have a Company Takeover from one of our Associate Companies: this week, Artistic Director of The Upsetters, Marcus Bernard, will speak about producing work with BAME artists. On Tuesdays, a Q&A with our staff members: this week, cabaret and drag producer Chris Clegg on upping the drag game. Wednesday will be aimed at small companies where you can | |
| 18 May 20 to 22 May 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L01467329137 |
T1120777675For free, every weekday at 1pm for 30 minutes, the King's Head Theatre is streaming a different window into the theatre accessible to everybody: our entire community, from artists to audiences to just Facebook followers, we can stay connected and we can develop together. On Mondays, we have a Company Takeover from one of our Associate Companies: this week, comedy musical/theatre makers Gigglemug Theatre. On Tuesdays, a Q&A with our staff members: this week, Associate Artist Amanda Mascarenhas will speak on her work in theatre design. Wednesday will be aimed at small companies where you can | |
| 27 Apr 20 to 1 May 20 | The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L0675921515 |
