Liz Bacon

Theatre Maker Director Writer Performer Facilitator

She/ her. I am a theatre maker, director, writer, performer & facilitator with over 8 years of experience working in the UK and internationally. I work a lot through physical & embodied processes, because that's where I experience most pleasure as a creator & these processes help me to imagine. For me theatre & performance is storytelling & storytelling is about connection and belonging. I work a lot with humour, enjoy the absurd & creating things that are about feeling. I work in professional settings, with new writing, ensembles, devised work, with young people, in the criminal justice system & with community groups. I am a founding member of DOGCHILD a physical theatre and clowning group based in Berlin and Artistic Director of Anything Other Theatre Company in the UK.

Credits

AS DIRECTOR

(Devised) Sonder, New Diorama & BRIT School, 1 week run, 2022
Foxfinder, LAMDA, 1 week run, 2021
Things That Might Become, Eden Studios, Berlin, 2 performances, 2021
A Wake in Progress, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, 4 week run, 2019
This Wounded Island, Touring Kent & London (Theatre503), 2 week tour, 2019
Coelacanth, Camden Fringe Festival (The Cockpit Theatre), 2 days, 2018
The Future of Sex, Arts Ed, 1 week run, 2018
SALT, The Bunker Theatre, 1 performance, 2018
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Arts Ed, 1 week run, 2017
All of Me, Edinburgh Fringe Festival & Incoming Festival (New Diorama) & Vault Festival, 5 week run, 2016-2017

AS PERFORMER
Tetris, Spinner Und Weber, Berlin, 2022 (a clowning piece)
The Things That Might Become, Eden Studios, Berlin, 2021
La Caravana, public parks in Berlin, 2021 (a clowning piece on bikes)
BalkonKunst, balconies across Berlin, 2021 (a clowning piece on balconies)

AS WRITER

Things That Might Become R&D, Eden Studios, Berlin, 2021 and Jerwood Space and Trinity Laban across 2022-23

AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

R&D The World We Made, Sophie Austin, National Theatre Studio, 1 week, 2018
Sonny, Deborah Bruce, Arts Ed, 1 week run, 2017
dreamplay, Sarah Bedi, The Vaults, 3 week run, 2016
Germ Free Adolescent, Jane Fallowfield, 2 week run, 2015
Backstory, Dani Baker, 9 month tour, 2014
Lee Harvey Oswald, Alex Thorpe, Finborough Theatre, 3 week run, 2013

Training

MFA Advanced Devising Practice (Distinction), Arthaus Berlin (previously LISPA), Berlin, Germany- 09/2019-10/2022

Meisner Technique (short course), The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol- 02/2017

Theatre Directing (Short course), Royal Central School of Speech & Drama– 04/2016-06/2016

Springboard, Young Vic Theatre (training week for directors)- 04/2016

PG Certificate in Applied Theatre with Young People (Pass- marked on a pass/fail basis), Royal Central School of Speech &
Drama & Almeida Theatre, 09/2012- 08/2013

English Literature BA Hons (First-class), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007- 2010 & awarded the Brooks Johnson Prize for Drama

Foundation course in Dance Studies (Distinction), Lewisham College, London, 2006-2007

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

I am currently learning German

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