Sam Holland-Bunyan

Theatre Director Theatre Maker Curator

“Actors are often pigeon holed early in their career and are rarely given the opportunity to try something new. I feel privileged that I have been given opportunities to make what might have been considered crazy choices and which have allowed me to develop work in multiple mediums.”

My work is heavily influenced by the teaching of Chattie Salaman, an inspirational teacher at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where I trained between 1988 and 1991.

I align a ‘poorer’ theatre where the actor is reliant on their own body and imagination to create a story, with basic Meisner technique. This methodology allows an actor’s imagination to be released through simple means, creating fresh and innovative performance.

Credits

Assistant Director, A Taste of Honey, Main Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester, Studio Theatre, 4 weeks, 2024

Director, Takeover (Community Project), Royal Exchange Manchester, Studio Theatre, 1 performance, 2024

Assistant Director, Intergen (Comedy Project) Royal Exchange Manchester, Studio Theatre, 2 performances, 2024

Assistant Director, Romeo & Juliet, Main Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester, 4 weeks, 2023

Assistant Director, Twelfth Night, (Shakespeare for Young Audiences), RADA Vanbrugh Theatre and Inner London Schools, 2 weeks, 2022

Assistant Director, Contemporary Duologues, RADA Studios, 1 week, 2022

Assistant Director, The Effect, RADA Gielgud Studio, 1 week, 2022

Director, Rose, Phoenix Studio Exeter Fringe Festival, 1 week, 2019

Director/Writer/Co-Designer/Filmmaker, Systemised, White Room Salisbury Arts Centre, 1 week, 2017

Director/Writer/Designer, Filmmaker, Dis_Connect, New Red Studios Salisbury, 1 week, 2016

Director/Writer/Designer, Paper Bird, (devised) The Woolstore Theatre Codford/Salisbury Playhouse, 1 week, 2014

Director, Please Retain For Your Records Sketch Department, Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival & London, 4 weeks, 2010

Director, The Prime Minister's Suitcase (devised), Salisbury Playhouse community outreach & local school, 1 week 2010

Director, El Ojo de Vidrio, The Hungry Actors, Workshop, Valencia, 8 weeks, 2010

Director/Writer/Designer, Inauguration, Ars Xikanda Valencia, 1 week, 2009

Director/Writer/Designer, Los Suenos del Verano, Ars Xikanda Valencia, 1 week, 2009

Director/Designer/Filmmaker, La Lupe, Teatro Flumen and Teatro Inestable Valencia, 4 weeks, 2006

Training

Professional Acting Diploma Guildhall School of Music & Drama 3 year programme.

Currently on Birkbeck MFA in cohort 2022-24

Location

Wiltshire

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Architecture
  • Comedy
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Graphic / product design
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Photography
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Curating
  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Theatre making
  • Video Design
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Spanish

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