Philippa Lawford

She/her, freelance director based in Kilburn & Artistic Director of Tightrope Theatre. Interested particularly in new writing, Shakespeare and American drama.

Credits

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Eat Your Heart Out, Paradise in Augustine’s, 4 weeks, 2018 & Old Fire Station, 1 night, 2019
DIRECTOR, Dining al Desko, The Space on the Mile, 4 weeks, Burton Taylor Studio, 1 week & NSDF, 1 week, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Table Manners, Old Fire Station, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Keble O’Reilly, 1 week, 2017
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Baby Blues, Etcetera, 1 night, 2017
DIRECTOR, Sex Education, Paradise in the Vaults, 1 week, 2017
DIRECTOR, Blavatsky’s Tower, Michael Pilch Studio, 1 week, 2017

Training

1 week Writing and Directing workshop with National Youth Theatre, 2019
Participant in early workshops for The Prisoner with Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Alexander Zeldin, 2018
1 day workshop in Pentonville Prison with the London Shakespeare Workout, 2018
1 week Shakespeare workshop with Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Alexander Zeldin, 2017
Shadowing early workshops for Comus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with Lucy Bailey, 2016
1 week Directing workshop with Peter Brook & with Genesis Network, 2016
1 day workshop with DV8 Physical Theatre, 2015
1 day workshop with Frantic Assembly, 2015
Shadowing rehearsal for Detroit, National Theatre, 2013
Michael Grandage's Futures Company, member, 2012-2013
Shadowing rehearsals for Home/Sevastopol, Royal Opera House, 2012
National Youth Theatre, member, 2012-present