Bel Parker

Theatre Maker Theatre Director Performer

I'm Bel Parker. She/her.

I'm a theatre director and a performer, a linguist and an optimist. I live life at a fast pace, and I'm hungry for developing my creative practice across different mediums and different languages. My first love is theatre, and I am currently working as The Associate Director at The Big House theatre company, where we engage care leavers and other marginalised young people to make unique and high quality productions. The job and my experiences are wide-reaching and various, including script development, facilitation, design, marketing and direction, and I have been involved in most stages of realising a production. But it is the direction of a production - the drawing of disparate elements into an impactful whole, the mobilising and guiding the creative energy of a cast and team - that is the thing that I want to do.

I am someone who lives in the present and lights up in moments of change or innovation. Physical/sensual sensitivity/expression are crucial. This is reflected in both the life that I lead and the work that I make.
Clown, physical theatre, visual arts, dance, and cabaret all influence my work.

I nurture play and trust in all creative relationships, seeking space for curious, exciting, artistic collaboration.

Credits

Director, CASHMONEY NOW, The Big House, 4 weeks, Nov-Dec 2022
Assistant Director, Redemption, The Big House, 5 weeks, Jul 2022
Assistant Director, Mission, The Big House, 4 weeks, Apr 2022
Assistant Director, Redemption, The Big House, 4 weeks, Nov-Dec 2021
Co-creator and Performer, W*NKERS Trick or Treat, Bonkers Bar, 2 days, November 2021
Assistant Director, The Ballad of Corona V (The Remix), The Big House, 4 weeks, Nov-Dec 2021
Co-creator and Performer, W*NKERS Trick or Treat, Bonkers Bar, 2 days, November 2021
Performer 'Producer', TBC, Pleasance London and then final in Duchess Theatre, LSDF, 2018 (winner of Best Performance Prize)
Performer 'Jean', Dead Man's Cellphone, Udderbelly Cowgate, Two Weeks, 2017

Training

Studied Arabic BA at SOAS and then at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris, 2018.

Short Courses
• Ned Bennet 2-workshop acting masterclass 2023
• « The Satirical Clown » - Complicité | 15 hrs | The Space | 2022
• « Clown and Ritual » - Zuma Puma | 12hrs | Rosemary Branch Theatre | 2022
• « Le Jeu and Clown » and « Bouffon »– Philippe Gaulier | 100 hrs | 2021
• “Online Clowning Part 1” – Jon Davison | 12hrs | 2021
• “Découverte, initiation, progression” – Nicolas Béatrix | 14hrs | Samovar | 2019
• “Teaching Melodrama” - Norman Taylor | 14hrs | 2019
• “Poésie, Musique, Peinture; L'Approche des Arts et le Jeu du Comédien” | 50hrs | L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq | 2013

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Languages
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French, Spanish, Arabic

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