John Walton

I’m the artistic director of Fol Espoir and a freelance maker of theatre, comedy, circus and opera. My passion is to collaborate with artists, writers and performers and help sculpt their ideas into daring, wild and spine-tingling live performances.

My tastes are varied, but be it comedy, drama or tragedy I want to see dynamic work that dives deep into the adventure that is life.

Credits

For up to date credits - see www.johnwalton.org/my-cv

Training

TRAINING/ EDUCATION

2018 Circus 50:50, Professional development scheme for theatre and circus directors

2005-07 Ecole Philippe Gaulier (with Philippe Gaulier, Mick Barnfather, Jos Houben, Lilo Baur & Linda Kerr Scott)

2003 British American Drama Academy – Summer Course (with John Barton, Maria Aitken, Indhu Rubasingham & Michael Bogdanov)

2001-04 University of Oxford (Biological Sciences)

WORKSHOP TRAINING

2016 Neil Haigh, Long-form improv (two days)

2015 Lyndsey Turner, Staging Shakespeare (three days)

2014 Paul Hunter, The Way of the Idiot (one day)

2014 Lyndsey Turner, Updating Classic Texts (one day)

2013 Joseph Alford (Theatre O), A Collaborative Approach to Making Theatre (one week)

2013 Hoipolloi, Barbican Weekend Lab (two days)

2011 Ian Rickson and Elen Bowman, Stanislavski Method in Practise (one week)

2011 Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale, Actor-Director Workshop (one week)

2010 Kristine Landon-Smith, Inter-Cultural Theatre Practise (one week)

2010 Irina Brown, Unlocking the Director’s Imagination (six weeks)

2009 Ariane Mnouchkine & Theatre du Soleil, Physical Comedy (two weeks)

2008 John Wright, Clown (one week)

2007 Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, Physical Performance (two days)

2005 Song of the Goat, Physical Theatre, Poland (one week)