Tamar Saphra

Tamar is a theatre director and dramaturg. She was a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre (2019-2020), and is a graduate of the MA in Theatre directing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Tamar works collaboratively with playwrights to develop new plays, with a particular focus on work that uses innovative theatrical form to dynamically connect with an audience.

Tamar regularly experiments across artistic form, collaborating with artists, composers and writers to explore the intersections between theatre, poetry, art and performance. Her more recent directing and assistant directing work creatively integrates D/deaf and disabled access into the theatre-making process.

Tamar’s been a script reader for many of the UK’s most prolific New Writing theatres: the Almeida, National Theatre, Bush Theatre, the Royal Exchange, Papatango & Bruntwood Prizes and the Verity Bargate Award 2020. This Autumn, she read scripts for the Channel4 Screenwriting Course, for which she is also a Shadow Script Editor. She is also currently a script reader for BBC Writersroom.

Tamar is co-founder of award-winning script-reading and dramaturgy company RoughHewn, which offers dramatical support (for both text and production) to writers of all experience levels. roughhewn.org

Credits

DIRECTOR, Are There Female Gorillas? / Brighton Fringe & Camden People's Theatre, 2 weeks, 2019

DIRECTOR, The Noises / Old Red Lion, 3 weeks, 2019

DIRECTOR, Hold / Truman Brewery & Bunker Theatre, R&D, 2018

DIRECTOR, No.152; Haste Ye Back; Pig / Arcola Theatre, short plays (two performances), 2017

DIRECTOR, Grand Concourse / Mountview, 1 week, 2016

DIRECTOR, Body / Wilton’s Music Hall, 2 performances, 2015

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Midnight Movie / Royal Court Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Vassa / Almeida Theatre, 7 weeks, 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Ewelina's Crying / Yard Theatre, R&D, 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Augmented / Ovalhouse, R&D, 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Icons / Ovalhouse & WOW Festival Hull, 2 weeks, 2018

Training

Resident Director - Almeida Theatre (2019 - 2020)

Theatre Directing MA - Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (2015-2016)