Lauren Mitchell

Theatre Director Theatre Maker Actor Actor-Musician

I am an emerging freelance director and theatre-maker from Glasgow. Since graduating from the University of Glasgow in 2018, I have predominantly worked with the Citizens Theatre and their Young Co having been a member myself. I am also an actor-musician and co-founder of new company Siren Theatre. This is a female-led company focusing on making genre-defying work with social issues at its heart. We are currently working towards our first production "Text Me When You Get Home" which is gig-theatre piece on female safety on nights out. It recently had its R&D at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.
I am interested in working with new writers, particularly those who identify as female and who write interesting, colourful stories about female characters. However, I also have a love for classical text and am influenced by companies and directors such as Kneehigh and Emma Rice who take pre-existing stories and re-invent them.
My preferred pronoun is she/her.

Credits

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Kiki, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, Edinburgh Fringe, 1 week, 2023

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Jack and the Bean Pie, Oran Mor, 3 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, Reign of the Rabbit, LAM Theatre, Research and Development, 2 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, The Big Bill, C.A.S.T. (Clutha Actors Studio Trust), Oran Mor, East Kilbride Arts Centre, 1 week, 2023

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Kiki, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Oran Mor, 1 week, 2022

DIRECTOR/WRITER, Hard Times, Outside Eyes (Scratch Performance), Tron Theatre, 2022

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Comedy of Errors, Citizens Theatre, Live at No.40, 1 week, 2021

CO-DEVISER/ACTOR-MUSICIAN, Text Me When You Get Home, Research & Development, Tron Theatre, 2 weeks, 2020

DIRECTOR, Scarfed for Life, Glasgow schools, Citizens Theatre, 1 week, 2020

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Adrift, Scottish Youth Theatre, Citizens Theatre, 1 week, 2020

DIRECTOR, Ladies, Scottish Youth Theatre, 1 performance, 2019

DIRECTOR, Scarfed for Life, Glasgow schools, Citizens Theatre, 1 week, 2019

DIRECTOR, Hard Times, Chrysalis Festival, Traverse Theatre, 1 performance, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, #71, A Play A Pie A Pint, Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre, 2 weeks, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Annville, Citizens Theatre, Scottish Storytelling Centre, New Lanark, 3 performances, 2017

Training

Kneehigh Kitchen Residency at Kneehigh Barns, Gorran, Cornwall. Led by Mike Shepherd, Annamaria Murphy and Alice King, November 2019.
Middle Child Residency at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Led by Paul Smith and Marc Graham.
The Bureau of Silly Ideas Residency as part of Surge Festival. Led by Roger Hartley and Brian Thunder.
MA Joint Honours in Theatre Studies and Music from the University of Glasgow. Graduated in June 2018.

Location

Glasgow City

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Performing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

No

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