Aran Cherkez

Aran Cherkez is a theatre director and DJ, and is the Artistic Director of Haringey Shed. They were awarded a recipient of the MGC Futures bursary 2022/23 to develop their new dance theatre concept, The Departing Memoir, based upon their work as a health care worker in the pandemic. They graduated with a First Class Honours in European Theatre at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance and trained with the Gardzienice Theatre Company in Poland. Aran is an Associate Artist at the Kings Head Theatre and a Lead West End Creative Learning Practitioner for ATG . Within the industry and community, Aran is a multi-disciplined artist and has a keen interest in ensuring there is an inclusive practice, displaying diversity within art, offering non-traditional audiences with theatrical experiences and uses musicality: the relationship between music, movement and text to facilitate this. Aran is a Visiting Director for Rose Bruford College. Aran has DJ'd in a prime slot for Pride in London 2022 at the Southbank Centre for Nazar and Hungama.

Credits

As Artistic Director of Haringey Shed:
DIRECTOR, The Sound Of Tomorrow, Theatro Technis @26 Crowndale, One Night, 2022
DIRECTOR, For You I Write…, Haringey Irish Centre, One Night, 2022
DIRECTOR, Transmission, in collaboration with ZooNation, Alexandra Palace, Two days, 2022

As Director:
DIRECTOR, The Pride, The Fortune Theatre, One night, 2022
DIRECTOR, Hansel and Gretel, London School's Tour, One week, 2022
DIRECTOR, Abigail's Party, Rose Bruford College, One week, 2021
DIRECTOR, Love and Information, Rose Bruford College, One week, 2020
DIRECTOR, GUY: A New Musical, UK Tour, 6 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR, Vanilla, Southwark Playhouse, One night, 2019
Candyfloss, OSO Arts Centre, One night, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Girl with Glitter In Her Eye, The Lyric Hammersmith, OPIA Collective, One night, 2018
DIRECTOR, A Mother’s Song, The Barn Theatre, Devised by Aran Cherkez, 2 nights, 2018
DIRECTOR, Medea Redux, Rose Bruford Symposium Festival, Two nights, 2018

As Assistant Director:
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, RUMI: The Musical, London Coliseum, Premiere: 2 nights, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Death Drop, The Garrick Theatre, Six weeks, 2020-2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios, Four weeks, 2020
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Permanent Way, The Vaults, David Hare, Nine weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Southern Belles, The Kings Head Theatre, Tennessee Williams , Six weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Tosca, The Kings Head Theatre at Petersham Nurseries, Giacomo Puccini, One night, 2019
MUSICAL DIRECTOR, Come To Daddy, Edinburgh Festival, Sleepwalk Collective, Two weeks, 2018

As Assistant Director for Film:
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/ 1ST AD, My Fathers Shed (Short Film), HopeatHome, The Hope Theatre, 2020

As Workshop Facilitator:
FACILITATOR, ATG West End Lead Practitioner, 2022- Present
FACILITATOR, Storytelling Through Queer Perspectives, MENA Arts, 2021
FACILITATOR, Drama and Singing Coach, Schools in Hertfordshire, 2019-Present

AS DJ:
DJ, Nazar: Pride in London, Southbank Centre, 2022
DJ, MENA Arts Mixer, Theatro Technis, 2022
DJ, House of Melanin, Dalston Superstore, 2021-2022

Training

Trainee Resident Director at The Kings Head Theatre, 2019-20
First Class Honours, Ba(Hons) European Theatre Arts 2015-18
Gardzienice Theatre Company, Lublin: Poland, 2 months, 2017
Stepping into Movement, Polly Bennett, MONOBOX, 3 weeks, 2019