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THE TRIALS & PASSIONS OF UNFAMOUS WOMEN
By Janaina Leite, Lara Duarte (Sao Paulo) and Clean Break (London)
Co-creator and dramaturg
CO-COMISSIONED by Clean Break and LIFT
BRIXTON HOUSE/ LIFT 24
PATHWAYS: CLEAN BREAK & ROYAL COURT
Conceived, led and produced a talent development programme for 6 new writers. Public readings directed by Rachel Valentine Smith
and Anna Herrmann
JERWOOD THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS, ROYAL COURT
DUENDE
Co-created by Amelia Donkor & Rachel Valentine Smith
WILTONS MUSIC HALL / STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE
JULIUS CAESAR
By Shakespeare
SAINSBURY THEATRE/LAMDA
MY LAST DUCHESS - Short film
Screenplay by Jessica Siân
Commissioned by The Lowry Theatre for The Faction
MEDEA/WORN
WILTONS MUSIC HALL / STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE
MEDEA/WORN - Short film
Screenplay by Emily Juniper (after Euripides)
Commissioned by The Lowry Theatre for The Faction
KING LEAR
By Shakespeare
VANBRUGH THEATRE/ RADA
NO DEMAND NO SUPPLY:
A reworking of Lebanon's Sex-Trafficking Scandal
Conceived and translated by Sahar Assaf
GATE THEATRE/ SHUBBAK FESTIVAL
HUNDRED PERCENT POSITIVE WELLNESS
By Sonali Bhattacharyya
ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMA
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie,
edited by Katharine Viner and Alan Rickman
MASRAH AL MADINA, BEIRUT, LEBANON
ZOUKAK THEATRE, BEIRUT, LEBANON
A British Council/Eunic commission
SAHAR SPEAKS
By Sonali Bhattacharyya
By Monirah Hashemi
THEATRE 503 / CPT
SCHILLERFEST
The Faction's festival celebrating the contemporary
resonance of the Schiller canon from Don Carlos to
Mary Stuart. Artists included Tom Burke and Celia Imrie
BUNKER THEATRE
لی / LEAR
By Shakespeare / co directed with Sahar Assaf.
Performed in Arabic
AL MADINA THEATER, BEIRUT
FRAGMENTS
By Arijeta Ajeti, Fjolla Hoxha, Molika Maxhuni,
Jeton Neziraj, John Retallack And Pericles Snowden
UNICORN THEATRE
LETTER TO YOUR LEADER
Curated and directed a live anthology of spoken word,
visual and video work from artists across the globe
THE BUNKER THEATRE
VASSA
By Maxim Gorjy in a new version by Emily Juniper
For The Faction
SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By Shakespeare
For the Faction, commissioned for #Shakespeare400 by Selfridges
The ReFashioned Theatre
TRANSFORMATIONS
METAMORPHOSIS / DOGS DIALOGUE/ FAUST
From Kafka, Cervantes and Goethe in new versions by Gareth Jandrell. For The Faction
WILTON’S MUSIC HALL
THE FACTION SOLO SEASON @ NEW DIORAMA THEATRE
AN ARAB WOMAN SPEAKS
By Dario Fo and Franca Rame
MY LAST DUCHESS
By Jessica Siân after Robert Browning
DUENDE
Devised by Kate Sawyer and Rachel Valentine Smith after Lorca
ROMEO & JULIET
By Shakespeare
NEW DIORAMA THEATRE
Part of The Factions 2015 Rep Season
JOAN OF ARC
BY Schiller in anew version by Mark Leipacher
NEW DIORAMA THEATRE
Part of The Factions 2015 Rep Season
MÖRDER
Devised by the company from Fritz Lang’s ‘M’
Site specific at THE VAULTS commissioned by Epoch
THEBES
By Gareth Jandrell after Sophocles and Aeschylus
NEW DIORAMA THEATRE
Part of The Factions 2014 Rep Season
BLOOD WEDDING
By Lorca in a new version by Gareth Jandrell
NEW DIORAMA THEATRE
Part of The Factions 2013 Rep Season
OTHELLO
By Shakespeare
BROCKWELL PARK, THE FACTION SUMMER REP
THE YEAR WILL BE DIFFERENT: REFRACTIONS
BY Mufaro Makubika
In collaboration with Paddy Molloy
THEATRE 503
MR KOLPERT
By David Gieselmann, translation by David Tushingham
KINGS HEAD THEATRE
THE HIGHWAYMAN
By Bahar Brunton after Alfred Noyes
C VENUES
• Creative Associate at Clean Break 2022-2024
• Trustee of the Board, NSDF 2023-current
• Long listed for Sir Peter Hall Directors Award 2023
• Co-Artistic director of The Faction 2015-2021
• Founding committee member of Directors Lab Mediterranean, endorsed by the Lincoln Center
• Alumni Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, New York 2014
• Trustee of the Board, New Diorama Theatre 2014-2021
• Resident director Almeida Theatre 2016 (inaugural pool)
SELECTED READINGS AND SHORT PLAYS
LET IT LIE
By Adam Lawrence
Criterion Theatre, West End
LEAVE TO REMAIN
By Olga Nikora
THE QUEENS THEATRE, WEST END
(Adopt A Playwright Award Winner).
ACTS OF DEFIANCE
By Chloe Todd Fordham
THEATRE 503
For Sphinx Theatre's Women Centre Stage and Mama Quilla
SWINE
BY Diane Samuels
JW3
JULIUS CAESAR
BY Shakespeare
WOMEN@RADA 100
LOMKI
By Gareth Jandrell
WOMEN@RADA 100
A MILLION LITTLE HANDS
By Christopher York
ARTS THEATRE, WEST END
ROLA COLA
By Lee Matinson
ARCOLA THEATRE
For The Story Project
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