Gabriella Bird

I'm a director and choreographer interested in a wide variety of styles and genres. I combine detailed text work with theatricality and utilize my experience as a choreographer and movement director to explore the physical worlds. I'm especially interested in Shakespeare and Early Modern plays, as well as musicals/plays with music and new writing. My work tends to be heavily influenced by music and movement/dance is a key element of my work.
I'm keen to explore more expressionist designs, and explicit theatricality in my work.
Love to collaborate and meet new people. Especially interested in working class and female voices. Artistic Director of Plain Heroines.

She/ Her

Credits

DIRECTOR, Entropy, Park Theatre Script Accelerator (4 Week R&D, 1 public performance) 2019
DIRECTOR, Romeo and Juliet, Guildford Shakespeare Company Tour, 2 Weeks, 2018 & 2019.
DIRECTOR, January, White Bear Theatre, 1 Week, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Cabaret, English Theatre Frankfurt & Deutsches Theatre Munich, 4 Months, 2018-2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Rutherford & Son, Sheffield Crucible, 3 Weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Miss Julie & Creditors, Theatre by the Lake & Jermyn Street, 6 weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Last Temptation, The Park Theatre, 5 Weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER, Love's Labour's Lost, Guildford Shakespeare Company, 3 Weeks, 2018
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Summer Rep Season (Single Spies & Bold Girls) Theatre by the Lake, 7 months, 2018
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER, Tonight at 8.30, Jermyn Street Theatre, 6 Weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Acid Test, The Cockpit, 1 Week, 2017
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Jekyll & Hyde (Musical), English Theatre Frankfurt, 4 months, 2017-2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Much Ado About Nothing, Guildford Shakespeare Company, 2 Weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Madwomen in the Attic, Edinburgh Fringe, 2 Weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR, Twelfth Night, European Tour, 5 Weeks, 2015-2016

Training

MA Theatre Directing (Royal Holloway)
Intimacy Tools for Directors, IDIUK (Intimacy Directors International UK), 2019
Springboard 2017, Young Vic Directors Programme
Youth Theatre Apprentice, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, 2011-2012