The Director Designer Relationship

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The Director Designer Relationship: Alex Brown and Madeleine Girling

The collaboration between designer and director is right at the heart of a creative process. In this workshop director Alex Brown and designer Madeleine Girling will reflect on their own process in creating The Chronicles of Kalki, and share practical ideas for ways to develop design ideas and build a creative working relationship.

Alex Brown trained at Sussex Uni and the NT Studio. Recent directing includes The Island (Young Vic) and Napoleon Blown Apart, The Red Helicopter (Arcola Academy). He is associate director on Great Britain (NT/West End) and has assisted on The River (Royal Court) and The Turn of the Screw (Almeida). He won the JMK Award 2013.

Madeleine Girling trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2012. In 2013 she was awarded as a winner in The Linbury Prize For Stage Design for her collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse. Between April 2013 and July 2014 she worked for The Royal Shakespeare Company in a one-year, Design Assistant position. Previous design work includes: Time And The Conways; Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.; The Ant & The Cicada (Royal Shakespeare Company Midsummer Mischief Festival), Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated (Undeb Theatre), Tender Napalm; How To Curse (BOVTS Director's Showcase), A Welshman's Guide To Breaking Up (Boyo productions), Hey Diddle Diddle (Bristol Old Vic), The Cagebirds (LAMDA Director's Showcase), The Life After (BOV Young Company).

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Saturday 24^th January 2015

10:30-1:30

Gate Theatre

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Alex Brown – Director

Alex was the winner of the JMK Award 2013, directing The Island at the Young Vic. He has directed short plays by Ella Hickson, Rachel De-lahay and Arinze Kene.
He trained on the National Theatre Studio Directors course. As an Assistant Director, his credits include The River (Royal Court) and The Turn of the Screw (Almeida THeatre). He is currently a staff director at the National Theatre.

Madeleine Girling – Designer

Madeleine Girling trained in Theatre Design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating with a First Class Honors, and receiving The Lord Williams Memorial Prize for Design 2012. In 2013 she was awarded as a winner in The Linbury Prize For Stage Design for her collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse. Between April 2013 and July 2014 she worked for The Royal Shakespeare Company in a one-year, Design Assistant position. Previous design work includes: Time And The Conways; Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.; The Ant & The Cicada (Royal Shakespeare Company Midsummer Mischief Festival), Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated (Undeb Theatre), Tender Napalm; How To Curse (BOVTS Director's Showcase), A Welshman's Guide To Breaking Up (Boyo productions), Hey Diddle Diddle (Bristol Old Vic), The Cagebirds (LAMDA Director's Showcase), The Life After (BOV Young Company), Blood Wedding (RWCMD Burton Company), The Ducks (SEArED Productions).

The Gate is home to the Jerwood Young Desinger’s Scheme which is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. This support which began in 2001, has been instrumental in launching the careers of some of the country’s most exciting theatrical designers. Previous participants on the design assistant scheme include Zoe Hurwitz (I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole), Benjamin Walden (Grounded), Petra Hjortsberg (Dances of Death) and Daisy Bunyan (The Body of an American). Follow this link to explore the longstanding relationship between the Gate Theatre and The Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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The Director Designer Relationship: Alex Brown and Madeleine Girling

The collaboration between designer and director is right at the heart of a creative process. In this workshop director Alex Brown and designer Madeleine Girling will reflect on their own process in creating The Chronicles of Kalki, and share practical ideas for ways to develop design ideas and build a creative working relationship.

Alex Brown trained at Sussex Uni and the NT Studio. Recent directing includes The Island (Young Vic) and Napoleon Blown Apart, The Red Helicopter (Arcola Academy). He is associate director on Great Britain (NT/West End) and has assisted on The River (Royal Court) and The Turn of the Screw (Almeida). He won the JMK Award 2013.

Madeleine Girling trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2012. In 2013 she was awarded as a winner in The Linbury Prize For Stage Design for her collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse. Between April 2013 and July 2014 she worked for The Royal Shakespeare Company in a one-year, Design Assistant position. Previous design work includes: Time And The Conways; Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.; The Ant & The Cicada (Royal Shakespeare Company Midsummer Mischief Festival), Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated (Undeb Theatre), Tender Napalm; How To Curse (BOVTS Director’s Showcase), A Welshman’s Guide To Breaking Up (Boyo productions), Hey Diddle Diddle (Bristol Old Vic), The Cagebirds (LAMDA Director’s Showcase), The Life After (BOV Young Company).

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