Amber Buttery

Director Facilitator Actor Dancer Singer

She/Her

Amber is a Director and Arts Facilitator from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. She came to the North West to train at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and has worked extensively for 7 years in the region since. Gaining great relationships Directing in/for organisations such as The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, 20 Stories High, All things considered, Storyhouse, Hope Mill Theatre, Tmesis, Liverpool Royal Court, Unity Theatre, and most recently The Duke’s Lancaster.

She is excited by making collaborative, vibrant and accessible theatre crafted through a human-centred process. Being the campaigns officer for Equity Merseyside & Cheshire she uses her voice to empower creatives, especially her Working Class and Neurodiverse peers, to find strength, know their rights and have ownership of their work. She shouts loud for the importance of arts access and works extensively with young people and vulnerable communities in the North West to enable this.

Credits

DIRECTOR, The Dream Collector, The Dukes, 1 week, 2023
DIRECTOR, P.O.V Unboxing, Schools Tour, 3 weeks, 2023
DIRECTOR, Wet Dream With Jesus, Unity Theatre, 1 Day, 2023
DIRECTOR, YEP Writers Festival, Everyman, 2 days, 2023
DIRECTOR, Little Ships, Exeter Northcott, 2 days, 2023
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Are You Out There World, 20 Stories High, Unity Theatre, 2 days 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Unsolicited, Liverpool's Royal Court, 1 week 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Snow Queen, Storyhouse Chester, 5 weeks 2022-2023
DIRECTOR, Small Hours, Everyman & Playhouse, 2 days 2022
DIRECTOR, Missionary, Hope Mill Theatre, 1 day 2022
DIRECTOR, Coming Home, Liverpool's Royal Court, 1 day 2022
DIRECTOR, Horny Laertes, Art School Theatre LIPA, 1 day, 2020
DIRECTOR, All the Little Lights, Scale Liverpool, 2 days, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Lion in Winter, Hope Street Theatre, 3 Days, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Crocodile, Hope Street Theatre, 3 Days, 2019
DIRECTOR, Coming Home, 81 Renshaw, 1 day, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, House of Bernarda Alba, Hope Street Theatre, 3 days, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Meeting, theSpace UK, 2 Weeks, 2018

Training

BA (Hons) Degree in Acting from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Everyman & Playhouse Young Director (2021-2023)

Location

Merseyside

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - short
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Other
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Singing
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

BSL (Level 1)

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