Hannah Calascione

Hannah is an award-winning director, filmmaker, dramaturg and creative learning practitioner from London. She makes her own devised and interdisciplinary work with her company Too Much, and also collaborates with writers and musicians on new writing, adaptations and music-driven work. She makes work from a place of curiosity, and her work is often queer, sensory and visual.

She is a gardener with a Level 2 in Horticulture, and has 4 years experience advising on the National Domestic Abuse Helpline.

https://hannahcalascione.com/
Twitter/Instagram - @hcalas1

Credits

THEATRE/OPERA
• Next of Kin - (Writer/Director) in development— supported by Camden People’s Theatre and UCL
• Adaptation. Enough Already. (Writer/Director) - 2023, Edinburgh Fringe
• Green Satanic Thrills - (Writer/Director) 2023, Camden Peoples Theatre, Starting Blocks residency
• her bed // dream wake piece - (Writer/Director) 2023, Rough for Opera #18, Sadler’s Wells
• Reader for the Womens’ Prize for Playwriting 2023
• La cambiale di matrimonio, (Observer) dir. Sam Brown, 2023 Royal Academy of Music
• The Rake’s Progress, (Observer) dir. Freddie Wake-Walker, 2022 Royal Academy of Music
• Reader for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize 2022
• Camellia by Oladipo Agboluaje - (Director) 2021, Fabula Collective
• Sushi Delivery - (Director) 2019, Akimbo Moonchild (drag artist)
• All the Little Lights by Jane Upton - (Director) 2019, Tristan Bates - winner of Off Westend Award
• Resident Director and Literary Assistant at HOME 2018-2019
• the accident did not take place (Associate Director) 2019, YESYESNONO, Total Theatre Award
• Incubator by Georgia Affonso (Dramaturg) 2019, HOME
• Sparkplug by David Judge (Assistant Director) dir. Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder, 2019 Box of Tricks
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, (Assistant Director) dir. Suba Das, 2019 Octagon
• Submission by Michel Houellebecq (Assistant Director) dir. Teunkie Van der Sluijs, 2019 HOME
• The Maids by Jean Genet (Assistant Director) dir. Lily Sykes, 2018 HOME
• The Emperor by Colin Teevan (Observer) dir. Walter Meierjohann, 2018 Young Vic
• Experiments with Art and Empathy - (Writer/Director/Performer) 2018, Birkbeck School of Arts
• Hunters by Ben SantaMaria - (Director) 2017, HATCH
• Knots by Ben SantaMaria - (Director) 2017, Herstory Festival N16
• The Effect by Lucy Prebble, - (Director) 2015, Corpus playroom, Cambridge
• trade by debbie tucker green - (Director) 2015, Corpus playroom, Cambridge
• All My Sons by Arthur Miller - (Director) 2014, ADC theatre, Cambridge


FILM
• Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Director) - HOME, screened at ¡Viva! Festival with Manchester Camerata Orchestra 2019
• Youth Support Worker for Roundhouse/Lyric Theatre film colab & Behind the Lens 2023
• On Falling (Production Coordinator), Other People’s Films 2023
• Change at Baker Street by Avigail Tlalim (Production Assistant) dir. Avigail Tlalim 2021
• Reader and Development Assistant at Potboiler Productions (film and TV) 2016-2018
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Director/Producer’s Assistant) dir. Lenny Abrahamson, 2017, Element Pictures and Potboiler Productions

CREATIVE LEARNING & COMMUNITY WORK
• Youth Support Worker at The Roundhouse - Age 11-25 - inc. Theatre Taster (3 days), Storytelling & Streetdance (1 week), Drama Drop in (Saturdays), Rehearsal for Life (SEND / Tuesdays)— 2019-current
• Facilitator & creator Barbican Conservatory ‘Biodiversity Treasure Hunt’- Age 6-11 - 2023
• Artist practitioner -‘Earth Day’ whole school project - City of London Primary & the Barbican - 2023
• Facilitator/creator - Sonic Soil Meditation (workshop)- Greenpeace Microbe venue at Glastonbury 2023
• Facilitator for WestEnd in Schools / Creative Climate & Shakespeare - primary & secondary age
• Artist practitioner for Barbican “Creative Curriculum” 2 year research action edu-project commissioned
by Will Gompertz (in collab with teachers in schools as part of curriculum teaching)
• Artist practitioner - Barbican Teacher Lab,-(resource/workshop creation - primary school) 2022
• Artist practitioner - Our Time on Earth @ Barbican - created schools programme for exhibition - 2022
• Resources on Barbican website: https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-time-on-earth-classroom-resources
• Tutor at Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) for BA solo performances 2021
• Domestic Abuse Helpline Adviser at Refuge - 2019-current (& member of the LGBT network)
• Children Support Officer at Bromley and Croydon Womens Aid - 2018-2019
• Artist Mentor for Barbican Box programme - developing work with young people based - 2019-2020
• Facilitator/volunteer for Clean Break - acting, poetry and writing workshops - 2018-2022
• Facilitator for Community Arts Northwest + HOME - 6 month project with asylum seekers - 2019
• Mentor for Arts Emergency - 1 year mentorship programme, 2020
• Facilitator for Womens Lab, Journeys Festival, Manchester 2018

Training

• MFA - Birkbeck (Theatre Directing) 2017-2019
• (secondment at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Bolton Octagon & HOME)
• First Class / BA - University of Cambridge (Human, Social and Political Sciences) 2013-2016
• TV Writing / ‘Story’ - Robert McKee Seminars - 2015 & 2016
• Filmmaker’s Foundation - Raindance - 2017
• Director in the Devising Process - Told by an Idiot - 2021
• Devising Theatre with Young People - Company Three - 2022
• Dramaturgy with Lyndsey Turner - Living Pictures - 2017
• Directing Shakespeare with Michael Attenborough - Living Pictures - 2017
• Adapting a classic novel - Maria Aberg - Living Pictures - 2017