Devon Burke

Director Playwright Performer Intimacy Director Consent-Forward Artist

Devon (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre practitioner with a special focus in Shakespeare and early modern theatre. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Mad Atomie Theatre Co. As an artist, she is inspired by the exploration of classic plays and media through nontraditional lenses, with the goal of making Shakespeare and his contemporaries accessible to a broader range of contemporary audiences and performers. As a scholar, she is particularly interested in the evolution of typecasting from the early modern stage through the present day. As such, she is also a vocal advocate for increased representation of and discourse on weight diversity on the professional stage.

Credits

Director/Choreographer, Whose Bard Is It Anyway 2: Electric Boogaloo, Mad Atomie Theatre Co./The Shakespeare Institute Players, 2024
Director, Tales from the Tiring House, Mad Atomie Theatre Co., 2024
Co-Director, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shakespeare Institute, 2023
Intimacy Director, Sin of a Heavier Kind, The Other Place, 2023
Sound Designer/Producer, A Winter's Tale: A New Play, Birmingham Rep, 2022
Don Pedro, Much Ado About Nothing, The Shakespeare Institute, 2022
Writer/Choreographer, All's Well That Ends (or Whose Bard is It Anyway?), The Shakespeare Institute, 2022
Octavius Caesar, Julius Caesar, Las Vegas Little Theatre, 2021
Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing, Las Vegas Little Theatre, 2021
Grasshopper, The Cunning Little Vixen, Vegas City Opera, 2020 (COVID-19 cancellation)
Director/Performer, Various Shows, Bard at the Bar (Las Vegas), 2018-2021
Artistic Director, Various Shows/Programmes, The Shakespeare Institute of Nevada, 2017
Cheryl, Evil Dead: The Musical, Tommy Wind Theater (Las Vegas), 1 year and 3 months, 2016-17

Training

MA Shakespeare + Creativity (Distinction) - University of Birmingham
Graduate Certificate in Applied Shakespeare - CU Boulder
Diploma in Acting for Stage and Screen - IAFT Las Vegas
BA (Hons) Asian Studies, minor in Music
Advanced Shakespeare Actor Intensive - Soho Shakespeare Company
Classical/MT Voice Training - The Latour Voice Studios
Directing Short Course - College of Southern Nevada

Location

Warwickshire

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Graphic / product design
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Singing
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Japanese (JLPT N3)

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