Sam Redway

Dramaturg Director Writer Facilitator Movement Director

Sam is a dramaturg, director and librettist based in Manchester and London. In each of his roles he aims to support, develop and deepen the work and vision of his collaborators.

He is dramaturg and creative director for Knaïve Theatre with whom he co-wrote and performs the world-touring, international award-winning Bin Laden: The One Man Show; dramaturged War With The Newts (Lustrum Award for Outstanding Theatre), COVID Lockdown Breath Machine by Lavinia Murray and Us. (Post 23/3) by Kamal Kaan; and wrote an interactive, online, game-based environmental piece for Key Stage 2, Antarctica.

He has worked widely as a freelance dramaturg, director and librettist. Most recently he was dramaturg on Smoking Apples Theatre Company’s R&D of Kinder, a puppetry about the Czech Kindertransport of 1938 and directed PURE by Emma Hinds (HER Productions). He is currently working across several projects including his first full-length opera libretto with composer/singer, Laura Bowler.

He has also been a script reader for Royal Exchange Theatre, Brentwood Prize and Through the Mill (Hope Mill Theatre).

Credits

DRAMATURG, Witch R&D, Online, 2021
DIRECTOR, Pure, Hope Mill Theatre (Online), 2021
DRAMATURG, Kinder R&D, Online, 2021
DRAMATURG, With Sympathy R&D, Online, 2021
DRAMATURG, Us, (Post 23/3), Online, 2020
DRAMATURG, Covid Lockdown Breath Machine 2020
LIBRETTIST, Tiresias 2.0, Tete-A-Tete Opera Festival, 2020
WRITER, Undiscovered Island, Lakeside Nottingham (Online), 2020
WRITER, Antarctica, Online, 2020
DRAMATURG, And It Rains R&D, Online, 2020
LIBRETTIST, Cummings & Goerings, Royal Academy of Music, 2020
DRAMATURG, Plate R&D, AWOL Studios, 2020
DIRECTOR, GOLD, CLF Arts Cafe, 2020
LIBRETTIST, Here Nor There, Royal Academy of Music, 2019
WRITER, Eurydice and Orpheus, Lakeside Nottingham, 2019
DIRECTOR, Antarctica, HOME Theatre, 1Concert 2019
DRAMATURG, The Place We Want, Crewe Lyceum (Film), 2019
WRITER, Antarctica, TIE Touring, 2018
DRAMATURG, War With The Newts, Edinburgh & Touring, 2018

Training

Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Opera Making (Writing) MA (2021)
Amit Sharma - Accessibility in Theatre (2017)
Cardboard Citizens – Personal Subjects (2016)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Theatre Lab MA (2014)
Artis Education - Working in Schools (2013)
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth – Facilitation (2011)
University of Plymouth - Theatre & Performance BA (2010)

Location

Cheshire East

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

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