Anna Dean

Anna Dean is a director based in London. Her directorial concepts explore the interplay between stage and screen, developing an aesthetic double-vision to illuminate queer-feminine experience and desire. Anna is passionate about new work and adaptations that engage with LGBTQIA+ and female identities.

Anna’s directorial technique draws upon her recent mentorship with Katie Mitchell at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she was selected for a specialist artist development program. She also holds a Master of Arts in Theatre and Performance (Queen Mary, Distinction, December 2019).

Anna has collaborated extensively as a director, performer and artist across multiple projects shown at venues including the Barbican, V&A, Battersea Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, The Old Market, Camden Peoples Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall, Surgeons Hall, and many others. Anna is a member of Louise Orwin company and co-created, devised and performed in the award-nominated CRY CRY KILL KILL.

Credits

SELECTED CREDITS:

Collaborator and Performer, CRY CRY KILL KILL*, Louise Orwin Company, 2018- Present, Barbican centre (2018, 2020) , Battersea Arts Centre(2019, 2020, 2022), Cambridge Junction (2021), Brighton CARAVAN, The Old Market (2022).

Assistant Director /Choreographer, Christ Alive!, Camden Peoples Theatre, 2022

Performer/ Co-Director, In Die Nacht, Mark Emblem, film, 2021

Director/ Performer, Dancer (work in progress), 2020-present

Director/Writer, The Princess and The Cowgirl (work in progress), 2021-present

Performer/ Dramaturg/ Choreographer, Justin in Time for Baby, ‘Man Up’ Finals, EartH Hackney, 2019

Choreographer, Electric Intervals, Martin Heyne, Apple Music Videos, 2018

Performer, Strip, Luca Bosani, Art House Lewisham, 2019

Director/ Performer, Judith in Reverse, V&A Museum, 26th April 2019

Director/ Performer, Gaze Prism, Peopling the Palace Festival, 16th June 2018

Director/ Performer, Abeyance, Live Art Development Agency, 15th March 2018

Performer/Film maker/ Artist, Hearticulation (Effect/Affect), Puderraum Galerie Berlin, 14th February 2017

Actor, Wiltons Music Hall, Actor, Costume Drama’s, Actor, Wilton’s Music Hall, 2016

Actor, The Maids, Actor, Pinter Studio, 2016

Director/ Writer / Producer, EVE, QMTC LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION Festival, 2016

*CRY CRY KILL KILL has been developed with the support of Barbican Openlab Scheme, Battersea Arts Centre, Jerwood Arts and Cambridge Junction. CCKK was originally developed at the Barbican as a finalist for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Prize.

Training

Artist Development Programme, Directing with Katie Mitchell, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023

Directing Short course, Shane Erez, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023


Actors Class Alumni Masterclasses, Nick Bagnall, Shakespeare, 2023

Actors Class Alumni Masterclasses, Nick Bagnall, Pinter, Orton and Kane, 2022

Graeae, Aesthetics of Access training, Barbican, 2020

Barbican Openlab, 2020

MA Theatre and Performance, Distinction, Queen Mary UOL, 2019

Soho Theatre Writers Lab, 2018

Arcola Theatre Screenwriting course, 2017

Actors Class, 2017, Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced graduate

National Youth Theatre, 2013, Masterclass, Shakespeare