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Masterclasses & Workshops

Directors Link Up

Join our peer support network for directors

We’re excited to present this free, bi-monthly group for directors at any stage of their career. If you’re looking for an open and relaxed space to learn new directing techniques, get support from peers and share ideas, this is for you. At The Rep we are building a community of empowered directors in the West Midlands and we want you to be a part of it!

During these sessions, you will meet other directors to talk about topics affecting your area of practice, read scripts, discuss theatre shows and delve into directing approaches, theory and exercises. We will also give you a discounted ticket to see a show at The Rep after every session.

Led by The Rep’s in-house Associate Director Madeleine Kludje (GrimeBoy, City of a Thousand Trades) and featuring guest workshop leaders across the year, Director’s Link Up offers a great place to connect and reflect.

 

Fri 5 Dec, 6.30pm (Creative Learning Hub)
A Conversation with Robin Belfield

This special edition of Directors Link Up will feature a conversation with Robin Belfield who is a theatre director, writer, and educator and Associate Director for The Unicorn Theatre. Robin will be speaking about his work to date including directing the children’s show Anansi The Spider at Birmingham Rep from Thu 4 Dec – Sun 11 Jan.

A smiling headshot of Director, Robin Belfield.

Robin’s directing credits include:

Anansi the Spider (Unicorn Theatre & Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Twelfth Night, Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe); Puss in Boots, Mother Goose (Theatre Royal Winchester); Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Sapho and Phao (The RSC); Blue/Orange, Red Velvet, You Can’t Take It With You, Vincent in Brixton, The Odd Couple (Richard Burton Company, RWCMD); Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Arabian Nights, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island (Water-mill Theatre); The Santa Trap, Here Be Monsters (UK Tour); Walking the Chains, Trade It? (Show of Strength, Bristol); The Twits, Charlotte’s Web, A Christmas Carol (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); The En-tertainer, Oleanna, Othello, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Duck Variations (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Machinal, Anna Karenina (Oxford School of Drama).

Writing, editing and dramaturgy include:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Unicorn Theatre & The RSC), Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale (Tobacco Theatre Bristol); Puss in Boots, Mother Goose (Theatre Royal Winchester) Romeo and Juliet, 37 Plays project (The RSC); Hibiscus Hotel, Dat Bahamian Ting (Yellowtale Theatre, The Bahamas); Around the World in Eighty Days (Watermill Theatre); Here Be Monsters, The Santa Trap (UK Tour); Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Adventures of Pinocchio (The Watermill Theatre); Telling the Truth: How to Make Verbatim Theatre (Nick Hern Books).

If you would like to attend this special edition of Directors Link Up please email talent.development@birmingham-rep.co.uk and let us know if you have any access needs.

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Have a question?

For any questions or queries, please email Talent.Development@birmingham-rep.co.uk with the subject line ‘Directors Link Up’. If you need subsistence to be able to attend, please e-mail and we will be able to discuss options.

We want to make this group as accessible as possible and encourage directors with lived experience of D/deafness, disability or neurodiversity to sign up.