Saturday, June 4th, 2011
Steve Gilroy is a published and award winning writer and director who produces work on both national and international stages. Steve’s work has attracted critical acclaim and awards including a Fringe First, The Stage Best Ensemble Award and The Spirit of the Fringe Award at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his verbatim play Motherland. His most recent documentary theatre projects as writer/director include Facts on the Ground, a play based on interviews conducted with Palestinian Olive Farmers and another work in development which focuses on the journeys of athletes training to compete in the 2012 Olympics. As a director Steve’s primary focus is on working closely with writers in the development of new plays. In his role as associate director at Live Theatre, Steve has worked alongside a number of emerging playwrights, most recently working with the Royal Shakespeare Company directing a new play by Ali Muriel. Prior to taking up his current joint post as senior lecturer at Northumbria University and associate director at Live Theatre (Newcastle upon Tyne), Steve spent four years as a director with the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme, working with some of our most prominent contemporary playwrights.
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Saturday, June 4th, 2011
Jane George is currently a senior lecturer and course leader for the BA Drama & Performance at the University of Worcester. Prior to this she was the director of Coral Arts, an organization that specialized in cross-artform, site-specific performance and installation projects. Jane completed her PhD, En/countering Globalisation: Contemporary Performance and the Politics of Place in 2009. One strand of this research was presented in a paper (Place, space and globalization in the work of Blast Theory and Lone Twin) at the University of Winchester Counter-Narratives conference in 2005. During her PhD research, Jane worked in collaboration with Reckless Sleepers on a number of projects as a participant observer and outside-eye. Alongside her teaching and research at the University of Worcester, Jane continues to operate as freelance writer, director and dramaturg, with a particular interest in the possibilities and interactions of place, performance and text.
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