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Lisa Friedrich

Director

Lisa Friedrich is a director and writer. She has also been working as an assistant director and stage manager both in Germany and in the UK. Lisa holds degrees in theatre and media studies and literature, as well as honorary degrees in tea drinking and disharmonic singing.

Her work focuses on new, genre- and medium-defying writing and female voices in particular. Lisa also adapts and translates for the stage.

Credits

Directing

Sending a Message / Pleasance Downstairs / written by Scotto Moore / 2019

Doe / Etcetera Theatre / written by Rebecca Robinson / 2018

Rita / Lion and Unicorn / written by Joy Waldron / 2018

Monument / Theatre Peckham / written by Clare Woodward / 2018

Feelin' the Love / Theatre Peckham / written by Vivian C. Lermond / 2018

Sammy / The Space Arts Centre / written by Ben Rogers / 2018

Coriolanus / Worcester College Oxford / written by William Shakespeare / 2017

Contractions / Burton Taylor Studio Oxford / written by Mike Bartlett / 2017

Meta / Burton Taylor Studio Oxford / written by Lisa Friedrich / 2016

Foxfinder / Brechtbautheater Tübingen, Germany /written by Dawn King / 2016

Die Panne / University of Bayreuth, Germany / written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt / 2014

The Picture of Dorian Gray / University of Bayreuth, Germany / written by Oscar Wilde, adapted for the stage and translated into German by Lisa Friedrich / 2014


Assistant Directing

Die Jungfrau von Orléans / Kleines Theater Bad Godesberg, Germany / dir. Rolf Heiermann / 2017

Die Verführung des Casanova / Unterfränkische Landesbühne Massbach, Germany / dir. Rolf Heiermann / 2015

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Studiobühne Bayreuth, Germany / 2013-14

Fressen Kaufen Gassigehen / Theater der Altstadt Stuttgart, Germany / dir. Yvonne Groneberg / 2011

Faust I and II / Theater der Altstadt Stuttgart, Germany / dir. Uwe Hoppe / 2011

Glaube Liebe Hoffnung / Theater der Altstadt Stuttgart, Germany / dir. Wilfried Alt / 2010-11

Charley's Tante / Theater der Altstadt Stuttgart, Germany / dir. Uwe Hoppe / 2010

Training

M.St. in Modern Languages, University of Oxford, 2017

B.A. in Theatre and Media Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2015

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

What I do

  • BSL interpretation
  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Set Design
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German (fluent), Italian (conversational), British Sign Language (basic)

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