Sunday 12 October 2014

New students 2014-15 Biographies



CAROLINE DAVID was born and raised in London.  She attended Bristol University, City University and the National Film & TV School.  Caroline has worked for producing theatres and theatre companies in the UK since 2004: as a Literary Associate [the Royal & Derngate from 2007-2009, Soho Theatre 2010 to present, Theatre Writing Partnership 2007-2009, Script 2005-2010], a Script Reader [the National Theatre 2010-2013, Hampstead Theatre 2004-2007, Gate Theatre, Alibi Films, NFTS, the London Screenwriters Workshop], and Development Co-ordinator [Hampstead Theatre 2004-2005].  She currently works as a Theatre Critic [Ham & High, Camden New Journal], and a Visiting Lecturer in screenwriting [University of the Creative Arts].  The Theatre Royal Stratford East commissioned her first stage play No Gypsy Child of Mine and she produced it for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008.  She is currently producing a play The Day After by Miran Hadzic which has been selected as part of the Old Vic New Voices Lab 2014 and will be on at the Theatre 503 in Spring 2015.

LEYLA McLELLAN grew up in the Scottish Borders, studying Law (BA 2:1) at the University of Cambridge. While studying she produced many productions through the university including a touring adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘The King and Queen of the Universe’ to Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. At Cambridge University she has produced The Bloody Chamber, Indelible Acts, Luck of the Draw, Becky Shaw, Blue/Orange, Last Among The Long Grass, ESCAPES, Frame 312 and The Duchess of Malfi. She has also worked extensively in box office and front of house; she has previously worked for C Venues, TheSpaceUK and was box office manager for The Wynd Theatre, Melrose. She is currently production manager for Dippermouth.

CRYSTAL NOLL was born and raised in Warner Robins, Georgia and is a graduate of Georgia Southern University.  Her start in theatre was as an Assistant Stage Manager in a high school rendition of the musical Grease.  In university she worked behind the scenes on multiple performances, including For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, and was excited to take the lead on three different benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues, where she did everything from producing, to PR, to directing.   In recent years, she has been an active part of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company as a voice actor, foley artist, assistant producer, and con liaison.  She currently is one of the organizers and Directors of 221B Con, an annual Sherlock Holmes fan convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Friday 25 July 2014

Belated last day of teaching photo - the MACP 2014 class with Julius Green






L-R ... Rochele Mitchell / Hannah Lambert (half-hidden by ...) / Imogen Robertson / Yvonne Waigo / Julius Green / Senne Vercouteren / Malin Berggren Lundell / Miyuki Kasahara (class representative)

Sunday 1 June 2014

Last Day of formal teaching at Birkbeck

On Thursday 39 May we celebrated the end of formal MACP classes at Birkbeck.  The students now are going off to secondments and / or work in places as diverse as London, New York, Jamaica and Uganda.
We clebrated with some drinks with the seven students plus Julius Green and Andrew McKinnon.
Here is a selfie to mark the occasion .. a more formal photo will follow!!


Thursday 15 May 2014

Birkbeck Creative Producers Get-Together

On 08 May, current MACP students got together with some former students to exchange views and information ... and to laugh quite a lot!!   Here are a few snapshots of a lively evening (names given from left to right)


Ine van Riet (2011), Chrissy Jaye (2011), Malin Berggren Lundell, Miyuki Kasahara, Imogen Robertson

 
 
 
Yvonne Waigo, Hannah Lambert
 
 
 
Ine van Riet, Imogen Robertson, Chrissy Jaye, Malin Berggren Lundell, Miyuki Kasahara, Carolina Artegiani (2011)
 
 
India Pool (2012), Hannah Lambert, Abena Adofo (2009), Senne Vercouteren, Rochele Mitchell, Chris Mellor (2011)
 
 

Sunday 2 March 2014

MACP and MFA students combine for Devised Theatre workshop

On Thursday 27 February students attended an intensive four-hour workshop on Devised Theatre led by Simon Pittman.


Friday 21 February 2014

Students view new Stratford East Building

This week some students visited the new USS Building in Stratford East's Cultural Quarter to see the new studio facilities generously funded by the Wolfson Foundation.



Left to Right - Andrew McKinnon (MACP Director), Miyuki Kasahara (Current Student), Michelle Owoo (MACP 2009),  Emanuela Craveri and Carolina Artegiani (MACP 2011)

Monday 10 February 2014

TWO ASPECTS OF A TYPICAL MACP CLASS ...

Careful concentration ....






The mood changes .....


...... and then the work goes on ......

(L to R in second picture ... Senne, Yvonne, Hannah, Malin, Miyuki, Imogen, Rochele) 

Monday 13 January 2014

CREATIVE PRODUCERS START THE NEW TERM.......

On Wednesday 08 January the Creative Producers started on the new term with a greatly enjoyed visit to Dick Whittington at the Theatre Royal Stratford East - singsongs, cat-masks and all!

The next day it was back to work ... a joint session with the Birkbeck MFA Theatre Directors in Birkbeck's newly refurbished and re-equipped theatre studio.

The session included a speed-dating intro process, a somewhat testing theatre quiz, and then a fascinating design exercise on colour, drawn from Alison Chitty's famous processes.

Professor Rob Swain took this session, which involves lengthy and complicated amounts of colour matching and judging, and the producers and directors combined to unravel the dilemma.

Here are a few glimpses of the process ....

  


.... and a very enlightening - and enjoyable - time was had by all!