Zoe Templeman-Young

Director

I'm a director, dramaturg and actor who trained at RADA on the BA Course before focusing on directing. I was the Associate Director on Hamlet (feat. Cush Jumbo, Josef Marcell) at the Young Vic in 2021.
I have an interest in developing new work, and work closely with writers to develop and realise their work through R&D's, workshops and industry reads.
Having started in verbatim theatre, I am most interested in work that is political and socially engaged, the questions the current status quo and gives platforms to voices from unheard communities.
I am a mentor at Tunbridge Wells Welcomes Refugees and work closely with individuals looking to enters the arts, as well as being an associate director at RADA and RWCMD.
I am also published playwright with my verbatim play, Take Care (Nick Hern Books)

Credits

DEMETER (new commission from Marina Carr)
Young Vic : Five Shorts (Director, 2023)

The Bright Bright Black (Fred Fergus)
The Criterion : Industry Reading (Director, 2023)

A Quiet Voice (Amy Rosenthal)
46 Jews (Richard Katz)
Kiln : Emanate - A Night of Jewish Writing (Director, 2022)

The Collaboration (Anthony McCarten)
Young Vic (Placement Director, 2022)

The Book of Dust : La Belle Sauvage (a premier of a new edit with Bryony Lavery)
The Bute : RWCMD (Director, 2022)

Sex, Love and Rising Sea Levels (Sam Thorpe-Spinks)
The Pappy Show : R&D (Director, 2022)

Indecent (Paula Vogel)
The Caird : RWCMD (Director, 2022)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Young Vic (Associate Director, 2021)

Training

BA Acting, RADA, 2014-2017
Theatre, Performance and Cultural Practice, Warwick University, 2010-2013 (1st Class Honours)

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Photography
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Movement Direction
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French

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