Bethan Barke

Director Facilitator Applied Theatre Practitioner Dramaturg Deviser

I am a director, dramaturg and facilitator based in London. I'm interested in theatre for social change and applied theatre projects. I enjoy creating and exploring alternative theatre pieces and playing with narrative structures.

Credits

Assistant Director & Workshop Trainer, Goblin Rock, University of West London, one week schools tour, 2023

Assistant Facilitator, Hackney Shed Children's Theatre & Youth Theatre, 2022/23

Assistant Facilitator, Strangers Like Me, Hackney Shed Collective Group NT Connections, 2022/23

Director/ Deviser & Dramaturg, What Makes a Body Terrifying, The Hope Theatre, 1 week, 2022

Deviser & Ensemble, Naturalism, Rose Bruford College Barn Theatre, 1 week, 2020

Deviser, Ensemble & Co-Writer, The Solution to Everything, Rose Bruford College Barn Theatre, 1 week, 2019

Director & Dramaturg, The Juniper Tree, VSMU Burkovna, 1 performance, 2019

Woman, Wild, Rose Bruford College Studio One, 1 week, 2018

Cinderella & Deviser, Not So Charming, Rose Bruford College Rose Theatre, 1 performance, 2018

Training

September 2022 - due to finish September 2023: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA in Applied Theatre

January 2021 - May 2022: Association for Project Management, Level Four Project Management Apprenticeship

September 2017 - September 2020: Rose Bruford College, Sidcup, Ba hons in European Theatre Arts

February 2019 - May 2019: School of Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, Erasmus programme

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • 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

Additional Languages

N/A

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