Kay Michael
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2015 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
Clarion Arcola Theatre |
Arcola |
2015 |
Director
Theatre |
Reconstructions - Rehearsed Reading Empty Deck |
Arcola |
2015 |
Director
Theatre |
A Local Boy Invertigo |
Pleasance Theatre, Islington |
2015 |
Director
Theatre |
Property - Rehearsed Reading playWROUGHT |
Arcola |
2015 |
Director
Theatre |
Then Silence Empty Deck |
Platform Theatre, Tristan Bates, New Diorama |
2014 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
2071 Katie Mitchell |
Royal Court |
2014 |
Observing Director
Theatre |
The Cherry Orchard Katie Mitchell |
Young Vic Theatre |
2014 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Mother Courage Drama Centre London |
Platform Theatre |
2014 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
An Intervention Paines Plough |
Watford Palace Theatre |
2014 |
Director
Theatre |
Clarion - Rehearsed Reading PlayWROUGHT |
Arcola |
2013 |
Director (and event producer)
Theatre |
True or False Theatre Uncut, Arcola |
Arcola Theatre |
2013 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Don Gil of the Green Breeches Arcola Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Belgrade Coventry |
|
2013 |
Director
Theatre |
Smell Invertigo Theatre |
Pleasance, Islington |
2013 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Kingdom of Earth (Tennessee Williams trilogy) Mr D Theatre |
Platform Studio, Central St Martins |
2012 |
Director
Theatre |
Her Dying Wish Made from Scratch Theatre |
Rich Mix |
2012 |
Director
Theatre |
Free Fall Invertigo Theatre |
Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
2012 |
Director
Theatre |
The Lodger First Bites |
Oval House Theatre |
2011 |
Director
Theatre |
Just One 5 Minute Festival |
Lost Theatre |
2011 |
First Assistant Director
Film |
Titus Dakus Films |
|
2011 |
First Assistant Director
Film |
Casting Guerill59 & Spare Time Film |
|
2011 |
Production Assistant
Film |
Hyde Park on Hudson Daybreak Pictures |
|
2011 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
A Midsummer Night's Dream Dir. Nick Bagnall |
The Milton Rooms |
2011 |
Production Secretary
Film |
Junk T Squared Productions |
Written and Directed by Justin Trefgarne |
2011 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Tender Napalm Supporting Wall Productions |
Southwark Playhouse |
2011 |
Director
Theatre |
For the Record Give Me a Voice Not a Label |
Oval House Theatre |
2011 |
First Assistant Director
Film |
Ice and Arrows Remix Music Video Guerill59 & Spare Time Film |
|
2011 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Return to the Silence Curious Directive |
Pleasance Theatre |
2011 |
Director
Theatre |
Home; Around the House 33 % London Festival |
Oval House Theatre |
2010 |
3rd Assistant Director
Film |
Waiting for a Stranger Lucid Film Productions |
|
2010 |
Director
Theatre |
Hooters Makes You Happy 24 Hour Plays |
The Counter Culture Project |
2010 |
Project Deviser
Event |
East Journey Curious Directive |
Various, across East London |
2010 |
Director
Theatre |
The Nth Degree In Company |
The Old Red Lion, and Rosemary Branch Theatre |
2010 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Othello Veni Vidi Theatre |
Lauderdale House |
2010 |
Director
Theatre |
Mercury Fur Independent |
Site-specific location, Leamington Spa |
2010 |
Installation Artist
Theatre |
Internal Motion Curious Directive |
Edinburgh Academy |
2009 |
Director
Theatre |
An Ordinary Spectacle Curious Directive |
Toby Paterson: Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion |
2009 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Body In Light Curious Directive |
The CAPITAL Centre |
2009 |
Deviser / Performer
Theatre |
Return to the Silence Curious Directive |
Warwick Arts Centre, NSDF, Shunt Vaults |
2009 |
Assistant Director / Producer
Theatre |
Stray Jenn Markowitz |
Newbold Comyn, Leamington Spa |
2008 |
Set Design and Construction
Theatre |
Wonderland Codpiece |
Warwick Arts Centre Studio |
2008 |
Director
Theatre |
The Magic Flute Warwick Arts Centre Youth Theatre |
Warwick Arts Centre Main Theatre |
2008 |
Director
Theatre |
Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat WSAF |
Warwick Arts Centre Studio |
2007 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Pugilist Specialist WSAF |
The Cooler |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
---|---|---|
2014 | Directing | Drama Centre London |
2011 | Devising: Making Contemporary Performance | City Lit |
2010 | NCFE Photography Level 1 | Bedford College |
2009 | English and Theatre Studies: First Class Hons | University of Warwick |
Equipment
My Equipment/Kit:
I can use:
About me
Theatre and Film DirectorTrained at Drama Centre London - Directing, 1st Class (2011 - 2014)
University of Warwick: English and Theatre Studies, 1st Class (2006 - 2009)
Founding member of Curious Directive
- "Amongst the young names to watch" - The Sunday Times
www.curiousdirective.com
Artistic Director of Empty Deck
An international collective committed to staging new work that crosses artistic forms and geographical borders.
On Arne Lygre’s Then Silence:
★★★★ Theatre Bubble, Exeunt Magazine
“Kay Michael has created a non-stop, thrilling physical version of this frightening, intelligent play.”
- Andrew Haydon (Postcards from the Gods)
“Vivid, hugely inventive, searching work.... Terrific performances... Directed with flair and intuition”
- James Grieve Artistic Director, Paines Plough
Additional skills:
Courses taken:
Suzuki & Viewpoints Training and Residency with Kinderen Van De Villa, Belgium, June 2015
RSC Student Directors Two-Day Workshop with Greg Doran; Cicely Berry; Owen Horsley
With Song of the Goat Theatre:
Source, Being and Active Relationships (Gabriel Gawin)
States of Readiness
With Barbican Weekend Labs:
Katie Mitchell
Thomas Ostermeier
Théâtre de la Ville
With Living Pictures:
Polly Teale
Working on 'The Changeling' with Joe Hill-Gibbons
Relationships in Space (Dan Barnard, Rachel Briscoe)
Listening & Responding: Meisner and Chekhov (David Haugen)
Urban Performance Project - Para Active Theatre Company;
Intensive Physical Expression: Laban - The Bones Theatre Company
Text Analysis - Vik Sivalingam (RSC);
Developing Directing Skills - David Farmer;
Theatre on a Shoe-String Budget - Old Vic New Voices;
The Role of the Director in Devised Theatre - The Team Theatre Company;
Site-Specific Theatre - Punchdrunk;
Physical Theatre - Gecko Theatre
Skilled in planning and leading community youth theatre classes, drama workshops, and practical teaching of Shakespeare for secondary school pupils.
Member of Young Vic Directors Programme
Member of National Youth Theatre (2007) - training includes improvisation, storytelling, mask, clowning, new writing, and physical theatre.
Trained member of Bedford Youth Theatre removed (under the direction of Matt Cullum)
LAMDA certificates: The Speaking of Verse and Prose; Acting - Solo; Group Devised Performance
Industry awards:
Creative Landscape Award, NSDF, for multimedia and physical devised performance 'Return to the Silence' (March 2009)
Referees:
Available on request
License & Passport
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Director, Assistant |
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Job Titles | Director, Production Assistant (PA), Stage Manager, Production Manager, Production Coordinator, Photographer, Set Artist / Designer, Casting Director, Casting Assistant, Stunt Coordinator / Stunts, General Staff, Teacher |
Years in industry | 1 to 3 years |