Jacob Wolstencroft

Director Choreographer Maker Writer Assistant Director

He/Him/They.

Proud to be a Queer theatre maker, working between Canada and the UK, Jacob works on musicals, new plays, solo shows, concerts and cabarets.

He is interested in creating work that explores a sense of simultaneity, as it is the reality that more than one thing can be true that creates a sense of poetry within the experience of living, and he is interested in work that speaks to this poetry in some way.

They are currently working with Miranda Gold on a theatrical adaptation of her novel "Starlings".

Credits

DIRECTOR, Starlings, The Criterion Theatre's Springboard Festival, Coventry, 1 week, 2024
DIRECTOR, Thought Monster, The Hope Theatre, 1 week, 2023
DIRECTOR/CREATOR, With Love, Juliet, Tramshed Theatre/Wandsworth Arts Fringe/Rose Bruford College, 2023
DIRECTOR, The Deceiver, Gray Productions/The Questors Theatre, 1 week, 2022
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER, Marry Me A Little, Square One Entertainment, 2 weeks, 2015
DIRECTOR/CREATOR, Meet Me Tonight, Square One Entertainment, 1 week, 2014

WORKSHOPS
DIRECTOR, A Tale of Fellowship, one week workshop culminating in a two performance concert at The Actor's Church in Covent Garden, 2023
DIRECTOR, I Have Eggs, Rapid Write Response at Theatre503, 2023
DIRECTOR, Bright Star, Garner Theatre Productions, two week workshop of an actor-musician production with a staged reading for producing partners, 2022

CONCERT/CABARET
DIRECTOR, Soirée: A Night with Niko Kaim, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Downbeat : Garner Theatre Productions' Launch Concert, 2020

ASSISTING
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Wonderful Town, Randolph College/Online, 2020
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The City and The Tour, UK Tour, 6 venues, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Fiddler on the Roof, Persephone Theatre, 4 weeks, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Louder We Get, Theatre Calgary, 4 weeks, 2020
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Dance Nation, Omnibus Theatre/ALRA, 1 week, 2022
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Ballad of Maria Marten, Pleasance/Rose Bruford, 1 week, 2022

FILM
DIRECTOR/WRITER, Surprise, short film
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER, Reflect In, dance film
DIRECTOR, Freedom, music video

Training

MA in Directing from Rose Bruford College (with Distinction) - 2023
Canada's National Voice Intensive - 2016
Diploma in Musical Theatre Performance from Capilano University - 2014

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Dance
  • Fashion
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Magic / illusion
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Opera
  • Radio/Audio
  • Streaming
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French (Fluent)

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