Kasia Rozycki

KASIA RÓŻYCKI
Artistic Director of Off The Cliff Theatre Company
www.offtheclifftheatre.co.uk
Theatre Director, Producer and Event Manager

​Kasia is a passionate, ambitious and risk-taking director. Originally from Poland, where she fell in love with theatre, she is currently based in London and contributing to the cultural richness of the theatrical landscape in the UK. Kasia believes that theatre should be used as a platform to convey important messages, provoke the audience to reflect on the world we all live in, question it and act in response. She loves working on powerful, multi-layered new plays as well as innovative reinterpretations of the classics.

Kasia has experience in directing a wide variety of shows including classical plays, deconstructed classics, physical and visual theatre, site-specific, devised, abstract, absurd and experimental theatre as well as many naturalistic New Writing pieces. Working as a freelance director, Kasia has had a fantastic opportunity to stage the work in many established venues such as: Arts Theatre West End, Theatre503, Arcola, Traverse, Tristan Bates, Cockpit, Waterloo East, Rich Mix, Bread and Roses and many others.

Kasia trained at two prestigious schools: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MA Directing Classical and Contemporary Text) and Jagiellonian University in Poland (BA Hons Drama Studies).

Credits

DIRECTING CREDITS:

2018 Metamorphoses 2, inspired by Ovid; Waterloo East Theatre / Off The Cliff
2018 Dead or Alive by Keith Hindell; Theatro Technis / Hindell Productions
2018 Tenderness by Malina Przesluga; Research and Development
2017 The Mysterious Gentleman by Jarek Adams; The Courtyard Theatre / Partners in Mischief & Off The Cliff
2017 American Nightmare by Hassan Abdulrazzak; SLAM King's Cross / Untold Arts
2017 Metamorphoses (inspired by Ovid); Bread and Roses Theatre / Off The Cliff
2017 A Dark Night in Dalston by Stewart Permutt (Assistant Director to Tim Stark); PARK Theatre
2017 Where is your Badge? by Sam Morrish; Hackney Picturehouse (The Attic)
2016 White Christmas by Michael Carroll; Theatre503 Rapid Write Response
2016 Knowing by Jessica Hawksley; Tristan Bates Theatre
2016 The Election by Tessa Hart; Bread and Roses Theatre
2016 Once Was Home* by Dan Horrigan; SLAM King's Cross
2016 Something For The Men by Marie Hale; Barons Court Theatre
2016 Crashed While Parking by Alan Dignam; Bread and Roses Theatre
2016 Schrödinger's Cat by LP Harrison; Bread and Roses Theatre / Goblin Baby
2016 Highest Bidder by Danny Parsons; Tristan Bates Theatre
2016 Special Occassions by Amy Ng; Arcola Theatre / Sheer Height
2016 The Road Not Taken by Jarek Adams; Theatre503 Rapid Write Response
2016 Bronze by Elizabeth Adlington; Tristan Bates Theatre / The Pensive Federation
2016 Unconscious Uncouplings by Megan Fellows; The Proud Archivist / Drift Theatre; New Shoreditch Theatre
2015 Being John Barrowman* by Tessa Hart; Bread and Roses Theatre
2015 The Appointment by Tessa Hart; Arts Theatre West End / Sheer Height
2015 Blue Book, Red Book by Kit Walkham; Bread and Roses Theatre
2015 Alan and Ruth by Katie Duncan; RICH MIX / Descent Theatre
2015 White Inside by John Webber; Theatre503 Rapid Write Response
2015 Unconscious Uncouplings by Megan Fellows; Arts Theatre West End / Paperback Pictures
2015 Two Girls by Allie Costa; Clear Lines Festival
2015 My Limbo by Ian Watson; LOST Theatre
2015 Life Sentence by Dandave Roache; Intermission Theatre
2015 The Kicking District* by Christine Roberts; Bread and Roses Theatre
2014 Volpone or the Biter Bitten* by Marcus Miller; University of Glasgow
2014 I've been looking for you my whole life (various writers); Asylon Theatre (site-specific)
2014 Pet Shop* by Morna Pearson; Traverse Theatre (Directors' Cut)
2014 Scrapyard (devised process); Traverse Theatre
2014/2013 Write It!* (various writers); Write It! Company (eight short new plays)
2014/2013 Stage to Page* (various writers); CCA Playwrights Studio Scotland (three extracts from new plays)
2013 Healing Waters by Rob Drummond; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Traverse and Cockpit Theatre
2013 At the End of the End by Kasia Różycki (adaptation of 'The Chairs' by Eugene Ionesco); The Arches / On The Verge
2013 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare; Globe Theatre / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (selection of scenes)
2012 Oedipus the King by Sophocles; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2012 The Land of the Great Big Dogs by Rob Drummond; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
*script-in-hand performance / rehearsed reading

ASSISTANT DIRECTING - CREDITS
2017 A Dark Night in Dalston by Stewart Permutt; dir. Tim Stark; PARK Theatre
2013 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare; dir. Gordon Barr; Bard in the Botanics
2013 Margaret & Ken and the End of the World by Sean Hardie; dir. Ron Bain; Oran Mor
2013 Volpone by Ben Jonson; dir. Andy Clark; Oran Mor
2013 All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare; dir. Bill Wright; AGOS Studio (RCS)
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PRODUCING - CREDITS

2019 Producer (JR Events) of Cohen / Cave (concert) at Ognisko Polskie
2019 Co-Producer (JR Events) of The Journey /Droga (sung poetry concert) at Ognisko Polskie
2018 Co-producer (JR Events) of 'The Last Witness' (movie screening) at the White Eagle Club and Polish Hearth
2018 Co-producer (JR Events) of 'KMN' at the Theatre POSK
2018 Executive & Creative Producer (Off The Cliff) of 'Metamorphoses 2' at the Waterloo East Theatre
2017 Co-Producer (Off The Cliff) of 'The Mysterious Gentleman' at The Courtyard Theatre
2017 Executive & Creative Producer (Off The Cliff) of 'Metamorphoses' at the Bread and Roses Theatre
2017 Associate Producer of 'Reality As Written' (multi-disciplinary event at The Attic Hackney PH)
2016 Associate Producer of 'Imprisoned' (double-bill of plays by Marie Hale at the Barons Court Theatre)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Playwriting, Literary Adaptation & Dramaturgy, Marketing, Acting, History of the World Theatre and Drama, Polish Theatre and Drama, Administration, Translating/Interpreting.

Training

EDUCATION

Sept 2012 - Sept 2013 MA Directing Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Oct 2006 - Sept 2010 BA (Hons) Drama Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Poland

ADDITIONAL COURSES

Springboard' at the Young Vic
Directors' Programme (various workshops) at the Young Vic and Traverse Theatre
A month-long residency at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Directing workshop at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Advanced Creative Writing course (Open University)
Young Writers Group at the Traverse Theatre