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Details of SABA BURALI, SARAH CLEWS, SOPHIE LARSMON, THERESA PINE, ROWAN RUTTER, CLARE SHUCKSMITH, ROISIN STIMPSON and LEO WOOD are available at
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/alumni/BirkbeckCreativeProducingYearbook20101.pdf
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Tuesday 24 November 2009
Class of 2008/09
The class of 0809 celebrated the end of their training year with a dinner at Joe Allen's. (Left to right - Samantha Nurse, Nick Hennegan, Julius Green (Producer, Bill Kenwright Ltd), Michelle Owoo, Nick Boalch and Abena Adofo. Karen Jemison was working out of London that evening)
Biographies and photos of ABENA ADOFO, NICK BOALCH, NICK HENNEGAN, KAREN JEMISON, SAMANTHA NURSE and MICHELLE OWOO are available at
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/programmes/postgraduate/ma_creative_producing/class_2009
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Monday 23 November 2009
About the 2008/09 session
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During 2008/09 students experienced a varied range of professional training that centered on practice-based exercises, budgets and presentations.
Student work included;
* sessions with senior members of TRSE staff (Barry Burke, Karen Fisher, Murray Melvin, Kerry Michael, Jan Sharkey-Dodds and Vanessa Stone);
* over forty hours of extended and detailed tuition on commercial production from Julius Green (Producer, Bill Kenwright Ltd);
* sessions from commercial producers Neil Laidlaw, Jeremy Meadow, Derek Nicholls, Nick Salmon; investment consultant Philippe Carden; and a range of independent producers including Chloe Dear, Bill Gee, Angela McSherry and Sita Ramamurthy;
* conversations and discussions with Lyn Gardner, Neil Murray (National Theatre of Scotland), Gene David Kirk (Theatre 503), Chenine Bhathena (ACE London), Leyla Jones (Roundhouse ACE Fellow), Jackie Elliman (ITC), Manick Govinda (Artsadmin), Jonathan Kennedy (TARA) and casting director Sophie Marshall.
Students' final Personal Projects include work with Artichoke, Cardboard Citizens, Emergency Exit Arts and Forest Forge as well as the development of projects with Maverick Theatre and Manilla Street Productions.
As a group the students saw and analysed Wicked and Blood Brothers in the West End; Come Dancing, Hansel & Gretel, Mad Blud, Bad Blood Blues and Foreplay at Stratford East; Pied Piper at the Barbican; Warm at Theatre 503; and The Trapeze Artist at TARA. They also formed part of the onstage audience at the first dress rehearsal of Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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During 2008/09 students experienced a varied range of professional training that centered on practice-based exercises, budgets and presentations.
Student work included;
* sessions with senior members of TRSE staff (Barry Burke, Karen Fisher, Murray Melvin, Kerry Michael, Jan Sharkey-Dodds and Vanessa Stone);
* over forty hours of extended and detailed tuition on commercial production from Julius Green (Producer, Bill Kenwright Ltd);
* sessions from commercial producers Neil Laidlaw, Jeremy Meadow, Derek Nicholls, Nick Salmon; investment consultant Philippe Carden; and a range of independent producers including Chloe Dear, Bill Gee, Angela McSherry and Sita Ramamurthy;
* conversations and discussions with Lyn Gardner, Neil Murray (National Theatre of Scotland), Gene David Kirk (Theatre 503), Chenine Bhathena (ACE London), Leyla Jones (Roundhouse ACE Fellow), Jackie Elliman (ITC), Manick Govinda (Artsadmin), Jonathan Kennedy (TARA) and casting director Sophie Marshall.
Students' final Personal Projects include work with Artichoke, Cardboard Citizens, Emergency Exit Arts and Forest Forge as well as the development of projects with Maverick Theatre and Manilla Street Productions.
As a group the students saw and analysed Wicked and Blood Brothers in the West End; Come Dancing, Hansel & Gretel, Mad Blud, Bad Blood Blues and Foreplay at Stratford East; Pied Piper at the Barbican; Warm at Theatre 503; and The Trapeze Artist at TARA. They also formed part of the onstage audience at the first dress rehearsal of Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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About the MA
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The MA prepares students for professional roles as creative producers in a wide variety of theatre and live performance events, including outdoor performance and street arts.
The MA is:
* practice-centred and practice-based;
* rooted in the present-day realities of the role of the professional creative producer, and in the blend of personal taste and judgement, practical skills, creative team working, and problem solving needed for that role;
* designed to appeal to a diverse range of potential students – which is reflected in its diverse content, teaching and assessment methods;
* based on current industrial practice and planned in consultation with a wide range of current practitioners.
The MA programme includes extensive input from many experienced professional practitioners and industry professionals.
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The MA prepares students for professional roles as creative producers in a wide variety of theatre and live performance events, including outdoor performance and street arts.
The MA is:
* practice-centred and practice-based;
* rooted in the present-day realities of the role of the professional creative producer, and in the blend of personal taste and judgement, practical skills, creative team working, and problem solving needed for that role;
* designed to appeal to a diverse range of potential students – which is reflected in its diverse content, teaching and assessment methods;
* based on current industrial practice and planned in consultation with a wide range of current practitioners.
The MA programme includes extensive input from many experienced professional practitioners and industry professionals.
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Andrew McKinnon Biog Updated June 2011
Andrew McKinnon is currently Programme Director of the ground-breaking Birkbeck MA in Creative Producing, which he created in ‘08.
In addition he regularly makes new work with Martin Lewton’s Brighton-based Theatre North: as dramaturg on Lord Arthur’s Bed, dramaturg/director on the Naked Homo series (’08 onwards) and on the recently award-winning site-specific production of Billy Budd, Sailor (’10-’11).
He is also currently working on an extended text on the production of live performance that will place particular emphasis on the work of self-producing artists.
Andrew McKinnon was born and schooled in Glasgow; attended Glasgow and Oxford Universities; became a professional theatre director in his early ‘twenties; and has since directed well over a hundred productions of plays, musicals and operas. He was Artistic Director of York Theatre Royal (’84-‘88), Northern Stage (‘88-‘91) and Perth Theatre (‘93-96) as well as Associate Director of the Nottingham Playhouse (‘82-‘84) and Artistic Director of Actors Centre London (‘91-‘93).
In ‘95 he turned his attention to professional training in theatre and performance when he was commissioned to write The Training of UK Directors, a major Gulbenkian/NCDT Report. Subsequently he became Head of Postgraduate Drama for RSAMD (’96-’00); and then created several degree courses in theatre, including the highly-regarded Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing.
McKinnon has been extensively involved in mentoring/developing professional directors, theatremakers and creative producers in the UK and Europe (particularly Holland, Germany and Greece).
Co-founder of the Arches New Directors Awards in ‘00, he mentored its award-winners for seven years. During ‘99–‘02 he edited three advanced training publications for the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In ‘06-‘07 he was facilitator/mentor for the first Scottish Arts Council Creative Producer bursaries.
With his company waywardscot he staged three projects collaboratively devised with Dutch theatremaker Herman van Baar – Look at Me ‘03, Brain Salad ‘04, Featherweight ‘05 – in Glasgow (Arches) and Utrecht (Kikker) – and he created the site-responsive Cabinet of Doctor Jekyll in Scotland (‘07).
Throughout his career he has been a board member and trustee of arts and theatre companies; has acted as a strategic, artistic and planning consultant to a wide range of theatre and arts organisations; and has served on several arts funding assessment panels.
In recognition of his work as an international mentor of emerging artists he received an award at the 2003 Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre. Thereafter he became increasingly interested in learning from Middle Eastern performance traditions and spent lengthy periods of study-time in Egypt.
McKinnon has a wide range of cultural interests and was for a decade part of the Edinburgh International Festival’s Insights programme, conducting public interviews with distinguished artists (including Anne Bogart, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Breth, Federico Leon, Tom Murphy, Peter Stein, Silviu Purcarete and many others).
In addition he regularly makes new work with Martin Lewton’s Brighton-based Theatre North: as dramaturg on Lord Arthur’s Bed, dramaturg/director on the Naked Homo series (’08 onwards) and on the recently award-winning site-specific production of Billy Budd, Sailor (’10-’11).
He is also currently working on an extended text on the production of live performance that will place particular emphasis on the work of self-producing artists.
Andrew McKinnon was born and schooled in Glasgow; attended Glasgow and Oxford Universities; became a professional theatre director in his early ‘twenties; and has since directed well over a hundred productions of plays, musicals and operas. He was Artistic Director of York Theatre Royal (’84-‘88), Northern Stage (‘88-‘91) and Perth Theatre (‘93-96) as well as Associate Director of the Nottingham Playhouse (‘82-‘84) and Artistic Director of Actors Centre London (‘91-‘93).
In ‘95 he turned his attention to professional training in theatre and performance when he was commissioned to write The Training of UK Directors, a major Gulbenkian/NCDT Report. Subsequently he became Head of Postgraduate Drama for RSAMD (’96-’00); and then created several degree courses in theatre, including the highly-regarded Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing.
McKinnon has been extensively involved in mentoring/developing professional directors, theatremakers and creative producers in the UK and Europe (particularly Holland, Germany and Greece).
Co-founder of the Arches New Directors Awards in ‘00, he mentored its award-winners for seven years. During ‘99–‘02 he edited three advanced training publications for the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In ‘06-‘07 he was facilitator/mentor for the first Scottish Arts Council Creative Producer bursaries.
With his company waywardscot he staged three projects collaboratively devised with Dutch theatremaker Herman van Baar – Look at Me ‘03, Brain Salad ‘04, Featherweight ‘05 – in Glasgow (Arches) and Utrecht (Kikker) – and he created the site-responsive Cabinet of Doctor Jekyll in Scotland (‘07).
Throughout his career he has been a board member and trustee of arts and theatre companies; has acted as a strategic, artistic and planning consultant to a wide range of theatre and arts organisations; and has served on several arts funding assessment panels.
In recognition of his work as an international mentor of emerging artists he received an award at the 2003 Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre. Thereafter he became increasingly interested in learning from Middle Eastern performance traditions and spent lengthy periods of study-time in Egypt.
McKinnon has a wide range of cultural interests and was for a decade part of the Edinburgh International Festival’s Insights programme, conducting public interviews with distinguished artists (including Anne Bogart, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Breth, Federico Leon, Tom Murphy, Peter Stein, Silviu Purcarete and many others).
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