Fran Olivares Medina

Director

I'm a passionate and motivated female director with international experience.
My academic background includes a BA in Acting and an MFA in Theatre Directing. I also hold further experience through a fellowship with the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts – GITIS in Moscow as well as researching Balinese Theatre (dance and performance) in Bali.
To this I must add a vast experience in performing, directing and assisting directing theatre.
Since I moved to London, I have been involved in different projects, consistently trying to learn from this industry (as well as networking).
With my work, I’m constantly trying to capture a sensual and surreal perspective of the world with a visceral input, highlighting what it is different, in order to find a place where the outcasts have a voice.
I like to focus my attention on female experiences and perceptions. And I have a particular interest in theatre in translation, devising and experimental theatre, classics and new radical ideas.

Credits

Dir. "Beasts" (Las Brutas), written by Juan Radrigán and translated by Catherine Boyle at the Bread and Roses Theatre
Dir. “The Maids”, by Jean Genet translated by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton at The Stockwell Playhouse.
Dir. "Her Open Eyes" (stage reading) for OOTW Festival 2019 at the Omnibus Theatre.
AD. "Phoenix Rising" directed by Maggie Norris for The Big House Theatre Company.

Training

MFA Theatre Directing East 15 Acting School

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Costume Design
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Languages
  • Mixing
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Producing
  • Prop Making
  • Set Design
  • Sound Design
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf 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

Spanish

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