Tanika Lay-Meachen

Theatre Director Playwright Interview Researcher Movement director Workshop Facilitator

A multi-disciplined, highly organised, and personable working class artist.
Director, writer, researcher with 2 years professional experience making theatre exploring community, class, queerness and connection. Focusing on inclusive, accessible approaches to theatre-making. Keenly interested in exploring text-based contemporary performance, theatre of ideas, community theatre and postdramatic theatre.

She/Her/Hers

Credits

RESEARCHER, INTERVIEWER, WRITER, Haywire Theatre Company, Unnamed Verbatim Play, Arts Council Wales funded, Ongoing development 2022-2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WRITER, Haywire Theatre Company, Theatre Clwyd, 1 day, 2021
DIRECTOR, Bathwater, the Vaults, London, 2 days, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Shakespeare's Rivals, York, Online Solo Series, 2020-2021
DIRECTOR, Midsummer a play with songs, TFTI York, 1 week
EVENT ORGANISER, Little Sprout (Art) Collective, York, 11 conferences, workshops and gigs, 2017-2021
DIRECTOR, Words as Bullets, Festival of Ideas, TFTI Black Box / The Basement, York; The Great Yorkshire Fringe, 2019

Training

Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance, University of York

Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

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