Sabrina Richmond

I am an emerging theatre maker, director with a passion for dramaturgy. I have a background in journalism.
Thematically, areas of interest include identity & belonging, sex as in desire and sensuality through the lens of age and race - its politics and the subject of masculinity.
I come from generations of migratory people and have lived in 7 countries since birth which has cemented my interest in how we make home and belong.

Credits

DIRECTOR CREDITS
• Dolly by Chantelle Dusette, The Vaults, A woman journeys through therapy to discover what she needs
• A Pill by Angie Peña-Arenas (The Space, online) It is 2050 & England has new measures to obtain citizenship but how much are a mother & daughter willing to give up to gain it?
• Windows by Chris Reynolds, 4-part monologue series, Off ya trolley productions (youtu.be/oqXded0y2Sk)
• Services Rendered by Colleen Doherty, Slackline Productions (online)
• Southwold by Kate Reid (The Space, online) 78-year-old June in a care home and 19-year-old Ryan, a young offender bond over twiglets during conversations they have three times a week https://youtu.be/7YQGVzGivLM
• Fingerprints by Darrel Draper (The Space, online) a little boy comes of age in a bedsit with his alcoholic father over 6 days
• The Apocalypse Kit by Sophie Rivers (Harpy Productions online) three friends face a test in their friendship as the world is on the brink of collapse
• The Difference Between you and I by Jake Talbot (Up’ere Productions online) A man with a newborn tries to reconcile his own childhood
• Sea Legs by Zoe Glen (Arcola Theatre) a monologue about a woman battling anxiety trying to find peace
• So this is what it feels like by Patrick Bayele (Lion and Unicorn as well as Bunker Theatre) A black man questions his racial belonging
• Whose Right is it anyway? by Jenny Knotts (Southwark Playhouse) a game show with a jackpot prize of 15 human rights
• PDA by Andrea Aptecker (Theatro Technis) Over coffee with their neighbours, Ana and Magnus question their own relationship after witnessing how affectionate the couple are
DIRECTOR & WRITER CREDITS
• 13 Secrets, Old Fire Station (online), Oxford
• A Black Story, (streamed from Applecart Arts), Set in a row of terraced houses; three households, three sets of relationships try to reorder their worlds as they once knew it.
• My Cape is Invisible (Pleasance, Islington) The efforts of four eco warriors are waning and they have to join forces with the scary woman on the hill to make the change they seek
• Hands off my womb! (Chapel Playhouse) A woman turning 30 tells her truth to a crowd
• Genetic Beauty co-written by Samantha Richmond (Virtual Collaborators online) the annual telethon fundraiser for needy causes is a vulgar pageant except this year no one's laughing https://youtu.be/0d1bwqIzZKw

SCRIPT/DRAMATURGY EXPERIENCE
• Script Mentor for winning recipient of the James Ene Henshaw Foundation Playwrighting competition, ongoing reporting to Trustee James Henshaw – reading drafts and providing one to one feedback on zoom centred around guiding the writing to tighten points of tension in character relationships and solidify the larger story arc, providing areas to focus on for rewrites, as the playwright has no experience of stage work sharing resources and skills such as tackling an outline, sharing play extracts and when possible clips of performances to show content and form
• Script reader for The Space theatre's scriptspace submissions, 2021 for Artistic Director Adam Hemming – reading and writing a report which entails feedback solely for the writer and then feedback suggesting further action based on the building’s own marking system (e.g. progress to being staged or requires further work)
• Script reader for the Literary Manager Suzanne Bell of Royal Exchange, 2021 reading and writing a report which entails feedback for the writer and suggesting further action for the Literary Manager based on the building’s own marking system (e.g. progress to being staged or requires further work)
• Dramaturgical support to ACE funded play Lisa & Luca by Selina Armoudon, 2021 - reading the draft and providing one to one feedback on a call, followed by sending written feedback incorporating the conversation on the call, because the writer is a performer discussed form that could enhance this aspect
• Dramaturgical support for recipients of Tamasha Theatre's bitesize playwrighting competition, 2021 reporting to Artistic Director Fin Kennedy - reading and writing a report which entails feedback for the writer and suggesting to the building which playwrights should receive mentoring. Mentoring for 5 plays over 2-3 one to one sessions on zoom which included reading drafts and suggesting how to strengthen the draft for final submission
• Leading from concept to writing process for Thematic Theatre working with co-Founders Darrel Draper & Laura Shoebottom, in progress 2020 – as the process began with no text, suggesting writing exercises based on themes emerging from discussions with the playwright, assigning tasks such as writing a monologue from a character’s perspective, setting up prompt questions to stimulate writing explorations
• Leading from concept to writing process for Thematic Theatre (in progress)

WRITING CREDITS Upcoming Mimi’s World - episode for children’s TV Upcoming Babba Da Jakka - short Animation How to light a fire, in anthology published by London Library
• Audio
Inside my insides (2021, University College London, SELMA project Borderings: Displacement, Gender and Health) https://borderings.co.uk/Sabrina Way to becoming (2021, Legal Aliens Theatre): https://thingsiamnot.com/way-to-becoming/ Echo Chamber (2020, Tamasha Theatre) https://soundcloud.com/tamashatheatre/echo-chamber-by-omar-khan
• Short plays & monologues Genetic Beauty (2020, Virtual Collaborators, online) https://youtu.be/0d1bwqIzZKw
Blissful (2020, Tamasha Theatre, online) https://youtu.be/4vMlBUm0Gwg My Cape Is Invisible (2019, Pleasance Theatre) Hands Off My Womb! (2019, Chapel Playhouse)
My Little Fish, (2020, The Hate 2 Love Collective, online)
• One Acts plays The Clock Wins (Sweet Tamarind) (Tamasha Theatre)
13 Secrets (2021, Old Fire Station, online) A Black Story (2020, Applecart Arts, livestreamed) An African in The Snow (2019, LABS Program, Pleasance Theatre).

Training

• Intro to Directing, led by Ria Parry at The North Wall, Oxford
• Park Theatre Script Accelerator Mentee Program
• Directing, Nancy Medina hosted by WoLab
• JMK Trust Director residency by Nyasha Gudo and Gbolahan Obisesan for The Mountaintop by Katori Hall hosted by Reading Rep
• Funding Paul Stacey, Reading Rep
• Issue-based work Christie O’Carroll, Reading Rep
• Devising New Work, Helen Goalen, part of NSDF webinars
• Directing, Nikolai Forster, part of NSDF webinars
• Moves & More, Lucy Hind, part of NSDF webinars
• Storytelling through movement, Paul Smethurst, part of NSDF webinars
• Writing trauma, Winsome Pinnock, part of NSDF webinars
• Autobiographical movement, Christina Fulcher
• Excellence in Participatory Theatre, Collective Encounters
• Site specific work, Rebecca Bogue and Matthew Hahn, Monobox
• Making a Mess (devising workshop), Andrew Whymet & Louise Roberts, hosted by Part of the Main
• Intersectionality, Kane Husbands, Monobox, Rebecca Bogue and Matthew Hahn
• Jon East, Directing, Screenskills online
• Jim Loach, Directing, Screenskills online

EDUCATION
*BA (HONS) MEDIA THEORY & PRACTICE at UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT)
*THREE-YEAR NATIONAL DIPLOMA, JOURNALISM, CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (formerly known as Peninsula Technikon)
*1 YEAR ACTING FOR FILM CONSERVATORY NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY, NEW YORK, USA