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Beccy Smith

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I make visual theatre, write absorbing stories and produce moving and poltical experiences through performance and participatory arts.

I am a trained dramaturg (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and have collaborated on creating a range of brilliant productions for children and adults which you can read about here. I’ve also worked in practical advocacy for the development of dramaturgy in the UK though long-term work with the Dramaturgs Network. As a freelancer, I make total theatre which communicates using all the many languages that theatre offers and my particular interests are political theatre and theatre for the veer young.   I run my own visual theatre company TouchedTheatre and participatory arts project ArtAid exploring how puppetry and film making can support young people in crisis.

As a freelancer I produce the projects I’m really keen to see come to the stage. Follow this link if you’d like to find out more.

An Arts journalist for many years (working as an editor for Total Theatre magazine), I am building a career as a writer for performance, particularly writing for visual theatre, childrens theatre and interactive forms and you can read about recent writing projects here.

All of my work is driven by the ambition to articulate stories from the margins and to develop powerful, evocative theatre forms that invite audiences in and surprise their expectations.

I live in Brighton and my work is influenced by the sense of living on an edge, where the South Downs meet the sea.  I am a parent and being a mum is now an interwoven part of my practice.

For a galley of favourite images from recent productions I have worked on please see here.

Dramaturgy

I have wanted to work as a dramaturg ever since I had my first glimpse of the role, though it’s a complicated furrow to plough in the UK.  Dramaturgy focuses on critical feedback loops to support the evolution and clarity of ideas in theatre-making, and my practice focuses on working closely with a writer or…

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Writing

Having mentored many writers as a dramaturg and teacher at Goldsmiths College, I first started to develop my own writing after setting up TouchedTheatre in 2009.  I think about writing through theatre making and I am interested in working within specific formal constraints. My writing has so far explored diverse specific forms including solo puppetry…

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Producing

I have worked in many roles instigating and delivering theatre projects over the past fifteen years,  and amassed strong sectoral knowledge and networks of contacts in my work producing original theatre and project managing arts programmes, professional development activities and public events.  I now focus this work on my role as a producer working with…

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Contact

If you would like to make contact about a project or to talk further about any of the work showcased on this site, please just get in touch:

beccy_e_smithATyahoo.com

07977 511556

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