Katie Jackson

Director

Katie initially trained in Stage Management, earning a Foundation Degree from RADA.
They worked as a stage manager for 5 years, in UK & Int'l touring and in the West End.
In 2019 they began working as an assistant director in opera and during the pandemic relocated to Glasgow for their studies.
They graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in January 2022 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Directing Classical and Contemporary Text.

Credits

Co-Director - 'Model Behaviour' - Pitlochry Festival Theatre/National Theatre Connections 2023
Director - 'Visiting Cézanne' - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2022
Director - 'The Test' - Gilmorehill Halls, May 2022
Writer/Director - 'We Are Gathered Here Today' - Chandler Theatre, RCS, January 2022
Director - 'BURNT' (TV Pilot) - December 2022
Director - 'Pains of Youth' by Ferdinand Bruckner, translation by Martin Crimp - August 2021
Assistant Director - 'Perkin Warbeck, A Masque of Anamnesis' by John Ford (additional text by Dr Marc Silberschatz) - May 2021
Assistant Director - Benjamin Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw', Wilton's Music Hall, OperaGlass Works - March 2020
Assistant Director - Lennox Berkeley's 'A Dinner Engagement' & Leonard Bernstein's 'Trouble in Tahiti', Britten Theatre - July 2019

Training

Foundation Degree - Technical Theatre and Stage Management - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

MFA Degree - Classical & Contemporary Text (Directing) - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Location

Glasgow City

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Lighting Design
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Prop Making
  • Sound Design
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Basic French, German & Russian

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