Roisin Cowen

Interdiciplinary Theatre Artist Director Facilitator Musician Performer

My pronouns are She/Her and They/Them.

I am a hard working early career creative. Through my MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central I have developed my personal practice and I hope to bring my collaborative skills, eye for design and awareness of arts criticism to any future venture, be this in the arts or otherwise. I am friendly and willing to lend a hand at any role.


I am also queer and neurodivergent (I have ADHD) and I believe this makes me an outside the box thinker and doer as well as someone who is committed to equality and access in the creative industries.

I'm especially interested in embodied expression and music within a theatre setting (not necessarily musical theatre!). My main areas of interest are neurodivergence, race, class, gender, ecology and queerness.

My approach to making, facilitating and just plain being, is compassion first. Any situation can be improved by open and honest compassionate communication!

Credits

Deviser, Idle: What Next? Camden People's Theatre, Format Festival, 2022
Marketing Assistant/Performer, Songs For Scattered Times, Scatter Collective, Omnibus Theatre, Last Sunday of every Month 2022
Script Dramaturg, Chrysalis, Clearwater Collective, TBC, 2022
Director, Static, The Penarth Theatre, Queer-Up Festival, 2022
Actor (She), Me, Myself, Myself, Myself, Myself, Maketank, Exeter Fringe Festival 1 week, 2021
Actor (Cordelia), King Lear, Exeter Cathedral, 4 days, 2020
Actor (Moira), The Parliament, Paper Swan Productions, Tour 1 Week Exeter Campus, Old Timers and Camden Fringe Festival, 2018-19
Co-Director, Angelus, Tour - Exeter Campus and London Theatre Workshop, 2018
Production Assistant/Runner, Neon, Caged Bird LTD, Tour - Exeter Campus and Nottingham New Theatre Student Fringe Festival, 2018
Actor (Nel), Whitechapel, Old Timers, 5 days, 2018
Deviser, Barbed Wire Barbies, Tristan Bates Theatre, 1 week, 2016

Training

BA English and Drama, University of Exeter, 2:1
MA Advanced Theatre Practice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Merit



Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Other
  • Photography
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Access consultancy (including BSL, audio-description and neurodiversity)
  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Prop Making
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Video Design
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

N/A

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