Samuel Skoog

Director

I am a European/Pakeha playwright, performer and theatre maker.

My two main areas of interest are myth/folktale and non-naturalist text, but I enjoy anything that concerns itself with our stories and the ways we tell them to each other, especially when the work interrogates their role in enforcing power structures. I don't begrudge happy endings but haven't found a playwright I love that makes excessive use of them. I also enjoy clowning/physical theatre and am hoping to expand my experience in this area.

Right now I want my work to discuss male mental health, mob mentality and environmental decay.

If you want to contact me you can call me 'Mr Skoog' if you like but I prefer 'Sam'.

Credits

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, 'Cadaver Police: In Quest of Aquatraz Exit', National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow (one night) Nuremberg (two nights) 2019
DIRECTOR/WRITER, 'Bucket Men', Fear No Colours, Edinburgh Fringe 4 weeks, 2018
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, 'Cleansed' & 'Mercury Fur', Fear No Colours, Edinburgh Fringe 2015-16

Training

RADA: Contemporary Monologue Summer School 2014
Central: Audition Monologue Workshop 2014
Young Vic Doorway Project workshops 2019

Graduated University of Glasgow English Lit/Theatre Joint Honours 2018 (focuses were Beckett, Play-writing, Poetry and Old English/Norwegian Literature)

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

No

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