Caroline Griffiths

My experience as a director has focussed primarily on youth theatre. My role at City and Islington College involves directing a number of plays per year with students with different abilities and skillset. I always endeavour to select well written texts that are pitched well with regards to the diversity of the casts I work with. Most recently I have directed ‘Random’ by debbie tucker green and ‘Ruined’ by Lynn Nottage. I am particularly keen on working with texts that are open and fluid with regards to character, leading to the potential for imaginative interpretation.

I run a youth theatre company called ‘See&Eye Theatre’ and for the past three years we have performed in NT Connections. In 2016 we performed ‘Children of Killers’ by Katori Hall at the Orange Tree Theatre and were delighted to be selected to perform at the closing night of the Connections festival on The Olivier Stage. Katori Hall tweeted after, saying it was one of the best versions of her play she had ever seen. The company recently performed ‘Zero for The Young Dudes’ at Artsdepot and were selected to perform at the ‘All our Tomorrows’ festival at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. In 2018 the company were fortunate once again to open the NT Connections at The Dorfman Theatre with our version of Alice Birch’s [ BLANK ]. The company performed this piece again in 2019 at the Arthur Cotterell Theatre for the International Youth Arts Festival.

Credits

2019 [ BLANK ] See&Eye Theatre, Arthur Cotterell Theatre, International Youth Arts Festival. Director
2018 [ BLANK ] See&Eye Theatre, Artsdepot, and Dorfman Theatre Connections National Theatre Festival Director
2017 ‘Zero For The Young Dudes’ See&Eye Theatre , Belgrade Theatre Coventry Director
2017 ‘Ruined’ N7 Theatre Director
2017 ‘Zero For the Young Dudes’, See&Eye Theatre, Artsdepot, London Director
2016 ‘Children Of Killers’ See&Eye Theatre , National Theatre Olivier Stage Director
2016 ‘Children of Killers’ See&Eye Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre Director
2015 ‘Inside’ N7 Theatre Director
2015 ‘Girls Like That’ N7 Theatre Director
2014 ‘Bogus Woman’ N7 Theatre Director
2013 ‘Big Life’ N7 Theatre Director
2012 ‘Random’ N7 Theatre Director
2010 ‘Mountain Language’ N7 Theatre Director
2009 ‘Punch to the Heart’ Hurst and James, for Resolution at The Place, London Choreographer
2008 ‘Weave’ Hurst and James, for Resolution at The Place, London Choreographer
2008 ‘Polish’ Rouge Dance Company, The Place, The Hayward Gallery site specific. Choreographer
2007 ‘Plain to see you were meant for me’ Rouge Dance Company, The Royal Festival Hall, London Choreographer
2006 ‘I do not feel the sun’ Rouge Dance Company, The Peacock Theatre, Lilian Baylis Theatre, London Choreographer

Training

COURSES
2019 Meisner technique Your Vic
2018 Political Theatre – James Fritz
2018 Verbatim Theatre – Aisha Zia
2018 The actor/director forum Russell Lucas
2017 Member of Young Vic Directors Program
2016 The storytelling Body Masterclass, Ad Infinitum Manchester.
2014 Short Course in Directing, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.