Mary Franklin

I am the Artistic Director of Rough Haired Pointer, which I set up with a designer in 2013. The company has grown to include a producer, a composer and 6 actors. From 2013 - 14 I was the Resident Director at The Hope Theatre.

Credits

Directing

2019 BAD SEX (working title) Shoreditch Town Hall devised in development

2019 All Our Happy Days Are Stupid Wilton’s Music Hall Sheila Heti 1 week R&D

2019 Carmen King’s Head Theatre Georges Bizet 5 weeks

2018 Metamorphoses Queen’s House Various 1 performance

2018 I Do Need Me The Place Oliver Brignall 1 performance

2018 Boy Arcola Poppy Burton-Morgan 2 performances

2017 & 2018 Heart Of A Dog Shoreditch Town Hall & BAC devised from Bulgakov 3 weeks R&D

2014 – 2017 The Diary Of A Nobody White Bear & King’s Head George & Weedon Grossmith 13 weeks

2017 Pinch Hitter Old Red Lion Jake Curran 1 performance

2017 Outlaws to Inlaws King’s Head Theatre Jonathan Harvey & others 4 weeks
2017 Sunrise Park Theatre Nia Jones 1 performance
2016 Christie In Love King’s Head Theatre Howard Brenton 4 weeks

2013 & 2016 The Young Visiters Hen & Chickens & Tabard Daisy Ashford 7 weeks
2015 Blood Crossed Tabard Theatre Gareth Cadwallader 3 performances
2015 Noonday Demons King’s Head Theatre Peter Barnes 4 weeks

2015 Madame Manet Tabard Theatre Gareth Cadwallader 3 performances

2014 Fred & Madge Hope Theatre Joe Orton 6 weeks

2014 The Boy Who Cried Hope & Tabard Theatres Matt Osman 5 weeks

2014 Cleopatra King’s Head & Hope Gareth Cadwallader 5 weeks

Assistant / Associate Directing

2019 Iolanta Opera Holland Park Olivia Fuchs 4 weeks

2019 Shirley Camden People’s Theatre Jennifer Fletcher 4 performances

2018 La Traviata Opera Holland Park Rodula Gaitanou 4 weeks

2017 Blown Away Lyric Hammersmith & touring Poppy Burton-Morgan 6 weeks

2013 Sochi 2014 King’s Head Theatre David Mercatalli 2 performances

2013 Tosca Soho Theatre & Touring Adam Spreadbury-Maher 7 weeks

2013 Quasimodo King’s Head Theatre Robert Chevara 4 weeks

2013 L’Elisir D’Amore (ASM) King’s Head Theatre Valentina Ceschi 4 weeks
2013 Filter Sadler’s Wells Poppy Burton-Morgan 2 perf
2012 Arab Nights Soho Theatre Poppy Burton-Morgan 4 weeks
2010 The Invention Of Love Oxford Playhouse Roger Granville 1 week

Training

Education / Training

2019 Lyndsey Turner The Director Prepares

2013 King’s Head Theatre Trainee Resident Director

2011-12 Queen Mary College MA in English Literature 2.1

2008 – 11 Oxford University BA Hons in English Literature 2.1

Workshops I have attended workshops on directing with Ian Rickson, Paul Hunter, Mike Alfreds and Ramin Gray.

Teaching I have taught workshops at St Paul’s Girls School and guest directed at the University of West London.