Scarlett Spicer

I am an early - career movement director and director from Manchester looking to expand and diversify my experience through supporting bold and exciting theatre and looking to cultivate a portfolio with focus on multidisciplinary projects: spanning cabaret, dance, immersive, musical and gig theatre.

I love to make theatre that is bold, playful, camp, and curious spanning across disciplines. At the core, I want to make work that prioritises collaboration between artists and embraces interdisciplinary practice. I am excited by work that imaginatively and authentically responds to the human experience, telling stories of identity, power, intimacy and grief. I am always returning to themes that explore womanhood, sexuality, intimacy and power and how our bodies enact as political and physical landscapes to explore these concepts.

Above all, I am passionate about creating safer and more empowering creative environments and believe creating supportive freelance networks is the key to maintaining top talent, prioritizing gender and racial diversity. I co-founded my theatre company So La Flair in 2021 which champions early career female and non-binary artists by providing performance and networking opportunities. Over the last year, I have produced a series of alternative queer cabaret, immersive club nigths, and toured our most recent production in Manchester and London venues, as well as a run at Underbelly for the Edinburgh Fringe.

I have over two years of community and applied theatre producing, working with arts charities across Manchester to deliver specialist projects to support and empower a diverse range of adults and young people. Working with charities such as Tandem Theatre, Odd Arts and Theatre in Prison and Probation, I have developed a confident skillset in successfully delivering projects that balance the needs of funders, community organisations as well as those participating in the program.

I am also a freelance Creative Producer, currently producing for Night People, a Manchester based theatre dance company, combining contemporary dance, cabaret theatre and immersive digital technologies, enabling audiences to engage with the exciting world of cross collaborative art and come together in social celebration and experiential intimacy.

Credits

Upcoming:

Creative Producer, Aphrodite's House Party, Night People Events, Various Locations, UK Festival Tour 2023.

Previous:

Movement Director, Sinner, Martha Pryer for Marylebone Records, 2023.

Director and Movement Director, How to Keep Up with the Kardashians, So La Flair Theatre (2022): The Edge, Chorlton Manchester, McQueen's Theatre, London, 42 Degrees Festival, Lake District , Underbelly, Cowgate (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022), John Thaw Studio Theatre, March - August 2022.

Movement Director, We have Sinned, Three Minute Theatre, 1 week, 2018.

Director and Creative Producer, Pleasure Rebellion, So La Flair Theatre, Old Abbey Taphouse, June 2022.

Director and Creative Producer, The Bad Bitch Cabaret, Vol. I - III, So La Flair Theatre, 2022: Tribeca Canal Street (2021), The Brewers (2022), Canal Street, Wilson's Den NQ (2023)

Creative Producer, The Brightness Sanctuary Green Island Vol. III, Hulme Community Garden Centre, September 2021.

Drama Facilitator, Tandem Theatre, Wellbeing Drama Group (Eccles, Irlam, Walkden), Groundwork (Prestwich) Harmonizing Heroines (Youth Music & Salford CVS), LGBTQ+ Drama Sessions (Altrincham School for Boys), 2021 - 2022.

Drama Facilitator, Odd Arts, Creative Community Resettlement (vulnerable adults), Drama Drop (4 – 12 years old), Creative Door Knock Sessions (15 -17 years old), 2020 - 2023.

Training

Introduction to Intimacy Co ordination with Yarit Dor, NFTS, 2021

Basic Principles to Intimacy Co ordination with Ita O'Brien, Intimacy on Set, 2020

Applied Practitioner Training:

Non-violent Communication
Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young People
Trauma Informed Approaches
Theoretical Facilitation Approaches; working with additional needs
Mental Health First Aid
LGBTQ+ mental health awareness
Conflict Resolution and Bystander Intervention
Supporting Student Sex Work Awareness

200 hour Somatic Movement and Coaching
Qualification (completed 2023)