Jessica Bailey

Director Playwright Facilitator Workshop Leader Mentor

My name is Jessica Bailey and I'm a London based and raised director, playwright and theatre maker. I can't decide between my two children, but I love to work on projects that have strong social context as either a playwright, director, or both, and I like to confront, head on, modern society in any way that appeals to me: through period theatre, verbatim, feminist, Brechtian, avant-garde you name it. Gimme it all. She/her preferred. Neurodivergent as heck and proud.

Credits

Mentorship/Playwright Experience/ One Act Play 'Butterfingers' rehearsed reading in a project led by then National Theatre Writer in Residence, Matt Charman, National Theatre Studio, August/Sept 2009

Playwright/ 'Venus Flytrap', Tamasha Theatre, Rich Mix, 2014

Assistant Director/'dreamplay'/HighTide Festival 2015/ two weeks

Assistant/Trainee Director/ 'dreamplay'/ The Vault Theatre/ two weeks/2016

Assistant Director/'Zero For The Young Dudes'/Royal Central School of Speech and Drama/a month/2017

Assistant Director/ 'Der Process/ Wilton's Music Hall/ 1 week R&D/2017

Director/ Extract of 'Deadline' (my own play)/Vault Festival/ 1 performance/ 2018

Director/Extract of 'Deadline'/Actor Awareness, 2020, Spotlight Studios/One performance/Feb 2020

Director/Four Monologues/ Yellow Coat Theatre at Drayton Arms/ Two nights late Feb 2020

Director/ Reading of 'Deadline'/ New Works Playhouse Online/Summer 2020

Director/Playwright/ various mono/duologues/ Fleeting Words International Festival/ July 2020/Feb2021

Director, Playwright/ 'Electric Shock'/ Theatre Delicatessen/ 10-11th July 2021

Training

- Secondary education at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, LAMDA in Acting, Grades in Tap, Ballet, Jazz
- Grade 5 in piano
-Directorial Training with Baz Productions and under AD Sarah Bedi
- University Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster
-New Views at the National Theatre Studio
- Mentoring project with playwright/screenwriter Matt Charman
- 24 hour plays at the Old Vic Audition Weekend
- First Aid Training

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

What I do

  • BSL interpretation
  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

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