Biography
Annabel is the Founder & CEO of Children’s Theatre Digital (CTD), the home of children’s theatre worldwide. Her research with CTD explores how the digital platform can enhance a child’s engagement with theatre on both a local and global scale and diversify revenue streams for makers. Her work as Artistic Director/ Head of Education for ‘Todos Teatro’ (Associate Artists of the Oxford Playhouse) & carbon footprint free creative learning platform TeatrONLINE inspires young audiences to make positive ecological change. She’s particularly interested in this work to empower young activists to join climate change action and debate. Annabel is co-Artistic Director for To&Fro Theatre, an actors’ network to explore new R&D ideas, reconnect artists with training and find fusion points with techniques across art forms.
She has worked internationally and as a speaker and advisor for ‘Developing the Arts’ in Rwanda for The First Lady’s Foundation ‘Youth Empowerment Scheme’.
Her work stems from and continues to engage community theatre & films projects with youth justice organisations, mental health charities as well as teenage parent groups. Alongside running Todos Teatro, she worked as Director-in-Residence for both Eton College & Harrow School where she curated the London Primary Tour and the Harrow Fringe Festival. Her training credits include Gardzience Centre of Theatre Studies, First Class BA(Hons) Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance/ Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico & MA (Distinction) from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts/ Birkbeck College, London.
Links
CHILDREN’S THEATRE DIGITAL
TODOS TEATRO
My blog for Mobius Industries
Is digital theatre becoming the most financially viable option for family theatre?
Contact
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CV & Portfolio
| 2023 to date Notting Hill & Ealing High School, Teacher of Drama |
| 2020 to date Founder & CEO, Children’s Theatre Digital |
| 2019-2020 MA Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts RADA/ Birkbeck College – Text & Performance [Distinction] |
| 2020 The Watermill Theatre, Freelance Outreach Practitioner |
| 2020 Oxford Playhouse Associates with Todos Teatro (Shortlisted for ‘Evolve’) |
| 2018 to date Artistic Director/Head of Education, Todos Teatro |
| 2018 Visiting Speaker: Rwanda – Developing the Arts, Youth Empowerment scheme (The First Lady’s Foundation) |
| 2017-21 Director in Residence, Ryan Theatre, Harrow School |
| 2015-17 Director in Residence, Farrer Theatre, Eton College |
| 2015 to date To&Fro, New Writing & Training Company, Co-Founder and Affiliate Director |
| 2015 The Pappy Show, Company Member |
| 2013-15 Bred in the Bone Theatre Company |
| 2014 Young Vic Directors’ Programme |
| 2014 Oxford World Theatre & Gallery Drama |
| 2014 The European Centre for Theatre Practices, Gardzienice |
| 2011-14 Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, BA Hons 1st Class, European Theatre Arts & Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático, Creación |
| 2011 to date National Youth Theatre of Great Britain |
| 2009-11 Peer Productions Youth Arts Training Programme |
Directing Credits
| Ghost from a Perfect Place by Philip Ridley Rose Bruford, Studio 1 (2023) |
| The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Old Harrovian Players (2022) Rehearsed, performance cancelled in respect HM Queen Elizabeth II |
| Rabbit by Nina Raine Rose Bruford, Studio 1 (2021) |
| Assassins Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman The Rattigan Society Musical, Ryan Theatre (2020) |
| Turtles Don’t Like Plastic New Writing/Devised with Bethan Screen Brighton Fringe, International Youth Arts Festival & Beijing with Nagashenme (2019) |
| Emil and The Detectives by Erich Kästner, Ryan Theatre (2019) |
| Land of Nod New Writing/Devised The Ryan Theatre/London Primary Tour & Harrow Fringe Festival (2019) |
| The History Boys by Alan Bennett, The Rattigan Society, Ryan Theatre (2018) |
| The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, Harrow Fringe Festival (2018) |
| Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre [adapted by Tanya Ronder], Ryan Theatre (2018) |
| Eva and the Wolf by Matt Boyd, Workshop (2018) |
| Elleker and the Sugar Coated Emporium New Writing/Devised The Ryan Theatre/London Primary Tour (2017) |
| The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ryan Theatre (2017) |
| A Little Blue Birdy Told Me Devised, in collaboration with Sean Hollands, Assembly Checkpoint, Edinburgh Festival (2017) |
| The Chase for the Golden Meteor Devised, theme inspired by Jules Verne, Caccia Studio (2017) |
| The Sea by Edward Bond, Caccia Studio (2017) |
| What The Butler Saw – Associate Director with Joe Hancock by Joe Orton, Caccia Studio (2017) |
| Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, Farrer Theatre [Director of Music, Jonathan Woolgar] (2016) |
| Radpole New Writing/Devised, Double Edge Drama; Edinburgh Festival (2016) |
| Guerrilla Street, The Ballad of Eddie New Writing/Devised, Caccia Studio (2016) |
| Eight – Assistant Director by Ella Hickson, To&Fro Theatre Company, White Bear Theatre (2016) |
| The Tempest & Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Oxford World Theatre, Freistadt Shakespeare Festival (2015) |
| Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Caccia Studio (2015) |
| Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, OWT, Slovakia Tour (2015) |
| Romeo&Juliet, Treasure Island by William Shakespeare/Robert Louis Stevenson, Gallery Drama, Sicily Tour (2015) |
| Antigone – Assistant Director by Sophocles (dir. Hailz Osborne), Farrer Theatre (2015) |
| Tiger! Tiger!, Gulliver’s Travels, Don Quixote by Rudyard Kipling/Jonathan Swift/Miguel de Cervantes, OWT, Russia Tour (2014) |
| Liberation – Assistant Director Devised (dir. Luke Clark), The Place & ZOO venues (Main Space) (2014/15) |
| Phases of Her New Writing/Devised, Istropolitana Festival, Bratislava (2014) |
| Herons by Simon Stephens, Rose Bruford College, Studio 1 (2013) |
| Slightly South of Weymouth – Assistant Director Devised (dir. Flick Fernando), The Company, The Rose Theatre (2013/14) |
| 21 Windmills – Assistant Director New Writing, Cervantes/Shakespeare (dir. Matthieu Leloup-Bellon) (2013/14) |
| Parkview Apocalypse – Assistant Director Film Editor (dir. Jason Orbaum) (2012) |
| SuperMentals – Assistant Director Film Editor (dir. Jason Orbaum) (2012) |
Related Experience
| Persephone Facilitator (dir. Bea Holland), Step Out, The Scoop (2015) |
| Oedipus on the Road R&D, Deviser, Bred in the Bone Theatre Co. Théâtre de Ménilmontant, Paris (2014) |
| Beneath A Broken Self Puppeteer, Naptrap, Istropolitana Festival, Bratislava (2014) |
| Riders To The Sea Actor/Practitioner, (dir. Amanda Collins), Bred in the Bone, RBC Symposium Festival (2014) |
| She Is Macbeth Actor/Practitioner, (dir. Mathieu Leloup-Bellon), Bred in the Bone, RBC Symposium Festival (2014) |
| Against Nothingness Performer/ Deviser, (dir. Teresa & Andrzej Welminscy), Pulse 53, The Barn Theatre (2014) |
| The House of Bernarda Alba Performer/ Deviser, (by Federico García Lorca, dir. Luis Campos), RBC Studio 1 (2012) |
| The Adventures of Prince Achmed Musician/ Deviser, (Musical dir. Arun Ghosh), RBC – The Rose Theatre (2012) |
| The Marriage Performer/ Deviser, (by Witold Gombrowicz, dir. Anna Makrzanowska), RBC Studio 1 (2012) |
| Naked Sound Deviser, (dir. Dominic Cooper), The Barn Theatre (2012) |
| London 2012 – Olympics & Paralympics Performer/ Deviser, (dir. Paul Roseby), National Youth Theatre, Olympic Park Team Welcoming Ceremonies (2012) |
| Pigeon English R&D Deviser, (dir. Miranda Cromwell), Bristol Old Vic/NYT, NYT Studios (2012) |
| The Projects Performer/Deviser, (dir. Nina Lemon), Peer Productions, UK Tour (2009/10) |
| Into the Woods Performer/Deviser, (dir. Nina Lemon), Peer Productions, UK Tour (2009/10) |
| New Writing, Rehearsed Reading Actor/Practitioner, Nuffield Theatre (2009/10) |
| The Barre Assistant, (dir. Kate Tydman & Stuart Neal), Tarnbrisk Pictures/Short Film (2009/10) |