Florian Seubert

Theatre Director Facilitator Writer Playwright Stage Director

www.florianjseubert.co.uk - Creative. Collaborative. Inclusive.

Directing innovative music theatre

My main interest as writer-director is intermedial storytelling, with a focus on live readings and music theatre. My main focus as director, thus, is opera and music theatre in the broadest sense and live literature.

I have tried out my storytelling formats with two Arts Council-funded projects: They Fool Eater: an interactive story about urban loneliness for the LGBTQ community and any lonely Londoners (2019); and They Called Her Salt: a multi-sensory opera experience for women with learning disabilities (2020).

My second concern as an artist is involving diverse communities in my projects through active participation in telling and illustrating the story performances with sounds, movements, and tactile art works.

I love the creative energies that come from collaborating across boundaries.

My pronous can be he/him, but I also don't mind any others.

Credits

Here, I can only list a representative selection of the diverse work I have been
doing since 2017. Please get in touch for a full CV and I'm happy to forward it.

Assistant director, Sondheim: Before & After, National Opera Studio/Hoxton Hall, 4 weeks 2022 (rehearsals & performances)

Director/Performer/Writer, The World is Beautiful with Minor Conflicts, Morocco Bound Bookshop/Bermondsey, 2 weeks 2022 (rehearsals & performance)

Inclusive Director/Facilitator, Music Stories: an online mini-musical, Opera Holland Park / Equal People Mencap via ZOOM, 5 weeks 2020 (weekly workshops and live online performance)

Director/Facilitator/Writer, They Called Her Salt: a multi-sensory opera experience for women with learning disabilities, Arts Council England/Powerhouse for Women with Learning Disabilities, 4 months 2019-2020 (weekly workshops, rehearsal meetings, performance)

Director/Performer/Writer, The Fool Eater: an interactive story about urban loneliness, Arts Council England/Goldsmiths, University of London, 2 weeks 2019 (rehearsal period and performance)

Before 2018, I have done various director observerships with the Royal Opera House [The Return of Ulysses at the Roundhouse] and the National Theatre in Mannheim, Germany [e.g., a Cole Porter song revue].

I have also created various other inclusive projects for East London charities, such as a pantomime for young adults with special needs, and have worked as a tutor at Goldsmiths between 2016-2021.

Training

Practice-based PhD on directing and facilitating inclusive music drama, Goldsmiths, University of London [2022]

Foundation in Music Therapy, Roehampton University [2022]

Private voice lessons and music lessons [2018-2022]

Clowning and voice classes at Sewanee: University of the South [2010/1]

Over the last few years I have taken various classes on drama and dramatherapy at CityLit and Morley.

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Opera
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Access consultancy (including BSL, audio-description and neurodiversity)
  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Music Composition
  • Performance Art
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • 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
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German (native speaker), Italian (B1), basic French and Spansih

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