Beth Shouler

I'm a director/dramaturg/producer who specialises in developing new work. I'm particularly interested in work about women, regional voices, comedic writing and writing for young people.

(She/Her).

Credits

CURRENT

Duffield Clore Fellow on the Clore Leadership Fellowship 2022-2023
Producer on Stage One Bridge The Gap Commercial Producer Training
Offical Runner-Up RTST Directors Award 2022

PRODUCING

PRODUCER | Autopilot (by Ben Norris) | Pleasance (Edinburgh) | 4 Weeks | 2022
PRODUCER | New Work Festival | Curve (Leicester) | 1 Week | 2022
PRODUCER | Curve on the Square | Curve (Leicester) | 4 Weekends | 2021
PRODUCER | Welcome Back | Curve (Leicester) | | 2 Performances | 2021
PRODUCER | New Work Festival - Residencies | Curve (Leicester) | 1 Week | 2021
PRODUCER | New Work Festival | Curve (Leicester) | 1 Week | 2019
PRODUCER | BOAR (by Lewis Doherty) | Pleasance (Edinburgh) & National Tour | 2019
PRODUCER | Amplify Festival | Nottingham Playhouse | 1 Week | 2018
PROGRAMMER | The Party Somewhere Else Festival | Nottingham Playhouse | 1 Week | 2018
CO-PRODUCER | Plymouth Fringe Festival | TRP/Barbican/House | 2015

DIRECTING

DIRECTOR | Hansel and Gretel (by Monika Johnson) | Nottingham Playhouse | 8 weeks | 2023/24
DIRECTOR | I Dare You (by Tom Powell) | Nottingham Playhouse/Curve/In Good Company | 1 Week | 2018 (Recipient mid-career award from In Good Company)
DIRECTOR | Against All Odds (by Charlie Josephine) | Almeida & Arsenal Football Club | 1 Performance | 2017
DIRECTOR | Bait (Devised by the company) | Almeida | 2 Performances | 2017
DIRECTOR | Stacked (Devised by the company) | Almeida | 2 Performances | 2017
DIRECTOR | Big Sister Little Brother (by Mike Kenny) | Spark Arts Tour | 6 Weeks | 2016
DIRECTOR | The Crossing (by Andy Reeves) | Spark Arts | 2016
DIRECTOR | Are You There? (by Lucy Bell) | The Bike Shed | 2 Weeks | 2016
DIRECTOR | The Dissidents (by Shamser Sinha) | Kiln | 1 Week | 2015
DIRECTOR | The Endless Night (Devised by the company) | Kiln | 2 Shows | 2015
DIRECTOR | Gargantua (by Carl Grose) | Kiln | 2 Shows | 2015
DIRECTOR | Plunge (by Rose Biggin) | The Bike Shed | 2 Weeks | 2015
DIRECTOR | Epiphany (by David Lane) | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 1 Week | 2014
DIRECTOR | Love and Information (by Caryl Churchill) | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 1 Week | 2014
DIRECTOR | Pronoun (by Evan Placey) | NT Connections/Theatre Royal Plymouth | 3 Shows | 2014
DIRECTOR | Hardworking People (by Beth Shouler) | The Bike Shed/Theatre Royal Plymouth | 1 Week | 2014
DIRECTOR | Girls Like That (by Evan Placey) | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 1 Week | 2013
DIRECTOR | Ailie and the Alien (by Morna Pearson) | NT Connections/Theatre Royal Plymouth | 3 Shows | 2013
DIRECTOR | Amanda (by Kieran Hurley) | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 2 Shows | 2013
DIRECTOR | Recipe (by Rachel Chavkin) | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 2 Shows | 2013
DIRECTOR | The Grandfathers (by Rory Mullarky) | NT Connections/Lakeside Arts Centre/Sheffield Theatres | 3 Shows | 2012
DIRECTOR | Journey to X (by Nancy Harris) | NT Connections/Lakeside Arts Centre/Sheffield Theatres | 1 Week | 2012
DIRECTOR | Beauty Manifesto (by Nell Leyshon) | NT Connections//Sheffield Theatres/Olivier National Theatre | 1 Week | 2011
DIRECTOR | Ruckus in the Garden (by David Farr) | Lakeside Arts Centre/College Street Studio | 4 Performances | 2010
DIRECTOR | DNA (by Dennis Kelly) | College Street Studio | 2 Performances | 2009
DIRECTOR | Animal Farm (by Peter Hall) | New Art Exchange | 2 Performances | 2008

REHEARSED READINGS

DIRECTOR | Time Traveller’s guide to Donbas (by Аnastasiya Kosodiy) | Nottingham Playhouse | 1 Performance | 2022
DIRECTOR | The Blue Road Response | Derby Theatre | 1 Performance | 2017
DIRECTOR | Brexit: The Write Club Response | Nottingham Playhouse | 1 Performance | 2015
DIRECTOR | Extracts | Synergy Theatre & Isis YOI | 1 Performance| 2015
DIRECTOR | Platform 13 | Theatre Royal Plymouth | 1 Performance | 2013
DIRECTOR | Road from Baadheere (by Marilyn Ricci) | Theatre Writing Partnership | 1 Performance | 2012

DRAMATURGY

DRAMATURG | It Sort of Looks Like A Doughnut (by Holly Boyden)| Curve/The Pleasance | 2021
DRAMATURG | Hand Me Down (by Si Rawlinson) | Wayward Thread/Nottingham Playhouse | 2020
DRAMATURG | The MP, Aunty Mandy, and Me (Rob Ward) | Curve/The Pleasance | 2020
DRAMATURG | BOAR (by Lewis Doherty) | National Tour/ The Pleasance | 2019
DRAMATURG | Mighty (by Jack AG Britton) | National Tour and The Pleasance | 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | Town Mouse Country Mouse (dir. Fiona Buffini) | Nottingham Playhouse | 6 Weeks | 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. Giles Croft) | Nottingham Playhouse | 3 Weeks | 2011
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (dir. Matt Aston) | Nottingham Playhouse | 3 Weeks | 2010
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | Séance on a Sunday Afternoon (dir. Matt Aston) | Lakeside Arts Centre | 3 Weeks | 2010

Training

Clore Fellowship (Including training on governance, finance, equality, diversity and inclusion, coaching, business planning and styles of leadership).
Stage One | Bridge the Gap
The Royal Court | Playwriting Course
George Perrin | 7 Priorities for Aspiring Artistic Directors
China Plate | The Optimists - Independent Producing
UK Theatre | Negotiation Skills
UK Theatre | Introduction to Finance
NSPCC | Designated Safeguarding Officer
Inc Arts | Anti-Racism
Diverse City & Ramps on the Moon | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
University of Leeds - MA Theatre Studies (Distinction)
University of Leeds - BA Tons English Literature and Theatre Studies (2:1)