Jessica Bickel-Barlow

Director

I am an American director working in the UK who uses Viewpoints and movement work to inform her approach to directing. I am currently interested in how theatre can represent the "liveness" of online experience. In addition to freelance directing work and work in drama schools, I run theatre company Part of the Night, which brings theatre for women, nonbinary, and trans audiences to nightlife spaces like pubs and clubs to promote gender inclusion in social spaces.

She/Her

Credits

DIRECTOR, All By Myself, Applecart Arts - Dazed New World Festival, 3 performances, 2020

DIRECTOR, Brick, St John's Leytonstone - Virtual Collaborators Festival (also adapted for Zoom), 2 performances, 2020

DIRECTOR, Fifty Fifty, The Space Theatre - Two Fest, 4 performances, 2020

DIRECTOR, Heart to Heart: Sketches, Union Theatre, 2 performances, 2020

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Other, Please Explain, Park Theatre - Script Accelerator, 2 workshop performances, 2018

DIRECTOR, The Squirrel Plays, Edinburgh Fringe (preview at Theatre 503), 3 weeks, 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Devil with the Blue Dress, Bunker Theatre, 4 weeks, 2018

Training

MA Creative Practices and Direction (Directing Pathway), Guildford School of Acting

MA Shakespeare Studies, The Globe and King's College London

Ensemble Training and Shakespearean Performance, Make Trouble

Shakespeare Programme, British American Dramatic Academy

BA Radio, Television, Film, Northwestern University

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • New technologies / digital
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can Read
  • Producing
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Intermediate French, Beginner Spanish

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