Shani Erez

Director Writer Actor

Shani (she/her) is an award winning theatre maker, creating work as a director, writer and actor.

Shani is interested in new writing as well as classical texts, in which she was trained while at Central. She has extensive experience in devising and a keen interest in the actor-director relationship.

Shani is an Associate Artist of BOLD Theatre and works regularly with leading drama schools across the UK, teaching acting and directing.

Credits

DIRECTOR Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, RCSSD, 2024 (upcoming)
CO-DIRECTOR The Visit, RCSSD, 1 week, 2024 (upcoming)
CO-DIRECTOR Machinal, RCSSD, 1 week, 2023
WRITER/CO-DIRECTOR The Foreigners’ Panto, BOLD Theatre, 4 weeks, 2023
DIRECTOR Constellations, RCSSD, 2023
DIRECTOR It’s Raining on Prom Night (staged reading), BOLD Theatre, 2023
CO-DIRECTOR Mother Courage and her Children, RCSSD, 1 week, 2022
ASSOCIATE DIRECOTR Yeast Nation, Southwark Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2022
CO-DIRECTOR The Trojan Women, Playground Theatre, 3 days, 2022
WRITER/DIRECTOR Sidesteps, BOLD Theatre (short film), 2021
DIRECTOR Little Light, New Tower Theatre, 1 week, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Scene From The End of The World, The Yard, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR Holding The Baby, Theatre 503 (RWR), 2018
WRITER/DIRECTOR Homemade (The Foreigners’ Panto work in progress), Landor Space, 2017
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR A Meeting by the River, Audio Play (theanimalspodcast.com), 2017
CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR Negative Space, Camden’s People Theatre, 1 night, 2015
DIRECTOR Connect Four, Leicester Square Theatre, 1 night, 2015
WRITER/DIRECTOR Inhale/Exhale (R&D), 2015
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Greater Expectations, Brighton Unitarian Church, 2014
CO-CREATOR Turn Right, Turn Left, Fleet Street Theatre, 2013
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, .dash Theatre (tour), 2012
DIRECTOR Infinite Riches, Old Red Lion, 4 weeks, 2012
DIRECTOR Wind, Sand and Stars, Old Red Lion, 2012
DIRECTOR Broken Down, Theatre 503 (RWR), 2012
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Old Red Lion, 6 months, 2011-2
DIRECTOR Daily Hell, Old Red Lion, 2011 (winner of Best Director award at REDFest)

Training

MA Classical Acting, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
BA Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University
Member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab (2012)
In Israel, Shani worked as a radio broadcaster and journalist.

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Other
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Hebrew

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