Samuel Skoog
DirectorI am a European/Pakeha playwright, performer and theatre maker.
My two main areas of interest are myth/folktale and non-naturalist text, but I enjoy anything that concerns itself with our stories and the ways we tell them to each other, especially when the work interrogates their role in enforcing power structures. I don't begrudge happy endings but haven't found a playwright I love that makes excessive use of them. I also enjoy clowning/physical theatre and am hoping to expand my experience in this area.
Right now I want my work to discuss male mental health, mob mentality and environmental decay.
If you want to contact me you can call me 'Mr Skoog' if you like but I prefer 'Sam'.
Credits
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, 'Cadaver Police: In Quest of Aquatraz Exit', National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow (one night) Nuremberg (two nights) 2019DIRECTOR/WRITER, 'Bucket Men', Fear No Colours, Edinburgh Fringe 4 weeks, 2018
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, 'Cleansed' & 'Mercury Fur', Fear No Colours, Edinburgh Fringe 2015-16
Training
RADA: Contemporary Monologue Summer School 2014Central: Audition Monologue Workshop 2014
Young Vic Doorway Project workshops 2019
Graduated University of Glasgow English Lit/Theatre Joint Honours 2018 (focuses were Beckett, Play-writing, Poetry and Old English/Norwegian Literature)
Location
LondonExperience
2-5 years
What I do
- Devising
- Dramaturgy
- Movement Direction
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Singing
- Performance Art
- Physical Theatre / Mime
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Verbatim theatre
- Working with young people
- Writing
Additional Languages
No
