Alex Kampfner

Director

She/Her

I am a multilingual (English/French/Spanish) theatre director.

I have worked in Colombia, Chile and Mexico.

My experience includes working in one of Colombia’s most prominent theatre companies in a women's prisons in Bogota. I directed two shows, Romeo and Juliet, and Mas Alla de Un Sueno, based on the women's own lives. The improvisations explored issues like drug trafficking, the millions displaced by fighting, the impunity of the paramilitary groups, and the enduring trauma of young men and women kidnapped and forced to fight for the left-wing guerrillas of the FARC. This took part of a national festival Festival Carcelario . The play was highly commended and received widespread press coverage.

I graduated from the BA Acting course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2016.

Credits

SHADOWING DIRECTOR, Hansel and Gretel R&D, 3 days, Globe Theatre, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Disruption, 7 weeks, Park Theatre, 2023
DIRECTOR, About Money, 6 weeks, Summerhall (Edinburgh Fringe), 2022
DIRECTOR, About Money, 3 weeks & two performances, Theatre503, 2021
CO-DIRECTOR, Mujeres Con Ojos Grandes, Two performances, Theatre Deli Sheffield (Migration Matters Festival), 2021
DIRECTOR, Celine, Voila Europe/Rich Mix, 2020
DIRECTOR, Guerrillera (devised), Bush Theatre Studio, 2 performances, 2020
CO-DIRECTOR, Icarus (devised), HMP Brixton, 2 performances, 2020 (cut short due to COVID-19)
DIRECTOR, Más Allá de Un Sueño, El Buen Pastor Prison selected as part of III National Penitentiary Theatre Festival supported by Acción Interna, 2 performances, 2018
DIRECTOR, Romeo and Juliet in a translation by Pablo Neruda, El Buen Pastor Prison supported by Acción Interna, 1 performance, 2017

Training

Katie Mitchell, Core Directing Skills 2022
Springboard Young Vic, 2020
Directing Studio, Shakespeare's Globe, 2019
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, BA Acting, 2013-2016
Member of the National Youth Theatre

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Languages
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • 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

French and Spanish

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