Nel Crouch

I'm a director, writer and collaborator based between Rotterdam, London and Bristol. I make work primarily with my company, Bucket Club, who are produced by Farnham Maltings. Our work is highly visual and uses live electronic music and song. Our most recent show was Five Children and It, a Christmas show for the egg theatre, which I developed with playwright Marietta Kirkbride.

I am interested in making collaborative work that is formally inventive, tender, silly and invites its audience to play. I love working with live music in unexpected ways, and I'm really excited by comedy.

(she/her)

Credits

DIRECTOR, Catch That Beast!, UK tour, 4 months, 2022
DIRECTOR, Five Children and It, the egg, Theatre Royal Bath, 5 weeks, 2020-21
DIRECTOR, Piece of Me, Claire Gaydon/ CPT, 2 week R&D, 2021
DIRECTOR, The Importance of Being Earnest, Slapstick Picnic, 3 month tour, 2021
DIRECTOR, fifty foot, RSC/ Almeida/ Bucket Club, two weeks R&D, 2019
DIRECTOR, Weirdo Sister, RSC, six performances, 2018-19
DIRECTOR, The Tempest, HandleBards, nine-month international tour, 2019
DIRECTOR, Crimes of the Christmas Pudding, New Old Friends/ Lichfield Garrick, 1 month, 2018
DIRECTOR, Table, Drama Studio / New Diorama, four performances, 2018
DIRECTOR, Romeo and Juliet, HandleBards, three nine-month tours, 2016-20
DIRECTOR, As You Like It, HandleBards, nine-month international tour, 2017-18
DIRECTOR, Fossils, Bucket Club/ UK Tour / Brits Off Broadway at 59E59/ Edinburgh Fringe, three three-week runs, 2016-17
DIRECTOR, The Long Trick, VAULT/ South West tour, three week tour, 2017
DIRECTOR, Speaker, Young Vic (5 Plays), one night, 2016
DIRECTOR, Launch Party, Farnham Maltings/ Bucket Club, six week tour, 2016
DIRECTOR, The Love I Feel is Red, Tobacco Factory Theatres/ Oran Mor, two weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR, Lorraine & Alan, Bucket Club/ Tour/ EdFringe, two months, 2015
DIRECTOR, The Beasts, Lyric Hammersmith/ Latitude/ Bucket Club, eight dates, 2014

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Kunene and the King, RSC/Fugard Theatre/Ambassadors Theatre, 5 month run, 2019-20
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, RSC, fifteen weeks, 2018
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, The Magic Flute, Operaupclose/ Soho Theatre, six weeks + tour, 2017
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Forever Young Gala, Young Vic, one night, 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Light Princess, Tobacco Factory Theatres, six weeks, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Living Quarters, Tobacco Factory Theatres, three weeks, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Trial, Young Vic, two months, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, What the Thunder Said, Theatre Centre, one month | 2014
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Home, Arcola, one month, 2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Found at Sea, Traverse Theatre, one week, 2013

Training

Resident Directors' Pool at the Almeida, 2018
Relational Dynamics 1st Accredited Coach, 2017
BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow as Director in Residence at Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2015-16
Jerwood Assistant Director, 2015
Farnham Maltings Fellowship, 2015
Young Writers Group, Royal Court, 2013-14
Various Young Vic Directors Programme workshops since 2013
University of Bristol, BA(Hons) in Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, 2012