Lizzie Manwaring

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Hi! I'm a British/American theatre director who grew up in Germany. I was Resident Assistant Director at Hampstead Theatre from 2019-2020 as part of my training on Birkbeck's MFA in Theatre Directing. 'Bible John' by Caitlin McEwan was awarded the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Reserve Fund in 2019.

I enjoy working with writers and new writing as well as re-inventing classics for today, especially when the work champions stories of and by women.

I love theatre which grips and entertains an audience, tells a thrilling story which is full of heart, is urgent in its message and doesn’t shy away from celebrating theatricality. I also love theatre which is as rigorous, bold and inventive with its visual dramaturgy as it is with text.

www.lizziemanwaring.com

Credits

DIRECTING:
Short Film: What Makes Me Who I Am, Hampstead Theatre: Ignite [Youth Theatre Project], 2021
Everything Must Go (2 week R&D) by Caitlin McEwan, Playground Theatre and THESE GIRLS, January 2021
Bible John by Caitlin McEwan, Vaults Festival, 1 week, 2020
Hampstead Theatre Gala, Hampstead Theatre Upstairs, 1 performance, 2020
Bible John by Caitlin McEwan, Pleasance, Ed. Fringe, 4 weeks, 2019
The Woman Who Gave Birth To A Goat (Devised), Camden People's Theatre, 1 week, 2018
WAGGO (Devsied), Ed. Fringe, 2 weeks, 2017

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE* DIRECTING:
RuneSical* by Gigglemug Theatre, Gilded Balloon @ Ed. Fringe 2022
Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, dir. Rebecca Frecknall and Michael Talke, Schauspiel Stuttgart, 2022
The Two Character Play by Tennessee Williams, dir. Sam Yates, Hampstead Theatre, 2021
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, dir. Alice Hamilton, Hampstead Theatre Upstairs, 6 weeks (interrupted due to Covid-19), March and December 2020
The Tyler Sisters by Alexandra Wood, dir. Abigail Graham, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 5 weeks, 2019-2020
Unknown Rivers by Chinonyerem Odimba, dir. Daniel Bailey, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 5 weeks, 2019
The Diary Of A Scoundrel by Alexander Ostrovsky, dir. Stephen Harper, Rose Bruford Theatre, 4 performances, 2019
A New And Better You by Joe Harbot, dir. Cheryl Gallacher, The Yard, 4 weeks, 2018

Training

MFA Theatre Directing - Birkbeck - (Distinction)
BA English and Drama - Queen Mary, UoL