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Gwilym Lawrence

Gwilym LawrenceGwilym graduated in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick in 2011 with the highest mark in his year and an award for the best research project in the department. Alongside his studies, Gwilym performed in and directed a variety of work, and was firstly the Productions Manager and later the President of the Warwick University Drama Society, overseeing the production of work in the Warwick Arts Centre, the Edinburgh Festival and the National Student Drama Festival.

Since graduating, he has worked as a freelance theatre director and science writer, either directing or assisting on productions with Live Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Forward Theatre Project, nabokov, Taking the Mickand Cap-a-Pie, for whom he directed the Arts Council England funded tour of Under Us All in November 2013. Over the summer of 2013, Gwilym set up Sad Siren Theatre whose first piece, The Hoults Yard Project, saw the company take over the attic of a disused industrial pottery for three weeks.

Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, Gwilym is currently studying for an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, where he is exploring audience interaction, site-specific theatre and non-traditional methods of collaboration.

Gwilym is currently working on a co-authored book chapter with Michael Richardson, with whom he collaborated on Under Us All, to be published in a volume about Irish Studies post 1980, and is awaiting the publication of his review of Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorshipin Theatre Research International.

 

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We produce both professional and community theatre productions that engage with participants and audiences. Through our exiting and dynamic work with communities and academics we aim to produce work that is both challenging, accessible and thought provoking. We play with devising, audience interaction, participation and immersive theatre techniques in the creation and performance of work.