Mel. Cook
Director Performer Game Designer Events Coordinator ProfessorMel. creates autonomous audience adventures and interactive events for people around the world, specializing in Shakespeare and site-specific work. Currently a covid castaway in New Zealand, Mel. looks forward to returning to the UK as soon as the world stops burning.
Credits
(Selected)DIRECTOR, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Manawatu Summer Shakespeare NZ, 4 weeks, 2021
DIRECTOR, Twelfth Night, Manawatu Summer Shakespeare NZ, 4 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR/PERFORMER, Pantechnicon, Vault Festival, 2 week, 2019
LADY M, Macbeth, New Orleans Shakespeare, 4 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, Sweet Bird of Youth, Southern Rep New Orleans, 3 week, 2017
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Ivy, Southwark/SPID, 4 week, 2016
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Julius Caesar, Tulane University 2 week, 2016
Training
MFA (merit) Theatre Directing, Birkbeck ULBA (hons) Acting, RADA
Keith Johnstone, Complicite, Frantic Assembly, Young Vic, RSC, etc.
Location
LondonExperience
10+ years
Art forms / Disciplines
- AR / VR
- Circus
- Comedy
- Gaming and interactivity
- Literature
- Live art
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- New technologies / digital
- Opera
- Other
- Radio/Audio
- Theatre / Live perfomance
- Visual arts
What I do
- Creative Access
- Curating
- Devising
- Dialect / Voice Direction
- Directing
- Dramaturgy
- Editing
- Facilitating
- Game design
- Movement Direction
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Plays Instruments
- Music - Singing
- Outdoor performance
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Physical Theatre / Mime
- Prop Making
- Puppetry
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Teaching / Coaching
- Theatre making
- Verbatim theatre
- Working with Deaf artists
- Working with disabled artists
- 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
Additional Languages
Latin
