Frazer Meakin

He/Him
I am a Director, Movement Director and Facilitator.
I create work for all ages and love the wonder of bold, ambitious stories and innovative stories.

I am particularly passionate about the audience experience and how we can push the parameters of theatre as an art: through space, style and form.

Whilst training at UWE, I specialised in ensemble, interdisciplinary and Postdramatic theatre. This influences my work to create work that intertwines music, movement and text to create a sense of heightened theatricality putting an onus on the ensemble.

My USP is that I work across a range of genres/forms: reimagining classics, devising physical theatre, musicals, interactive theatre and working with young people. What runs across my work and at the heart of my process is collaboration and realising ways we put audiences in an active role rather than simply observers.

Credits

DIRECTOR, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Opera) by Otto Nicolai, 1 week, 2024,
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Ballad of Maria Marten by Beth Flintoff (Dir. Hope Thain), The Station, 1 week, 2024.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Mosquitos by Beth Flintoff (Dir. Cameron Thorne), The Station, 1 week, 2024.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood (Dir. Alison Reid), The Station, 1 week, 2024.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, A Dream Play by August Strindberg, translation by Michael Meyer (Dir. Anne Musisi), The Station, 1 week, 2024.
DIRECTOR, Mountains Of The Moon by Martin Coslett, Ashgate Heritage Arts, Buxton Fringe, 1 week, 2023.
DIRECTOR, TABLE by Tanya Ronder, Bristol School of Acting, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, 1 week, 2023.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & RESIDENT DIRECTOR, Deathdrop:Back In The Habit (Dir. Jesse Jones), Trafalgar Entertainment & Tuckshop Productions, UK Tour and The Garrick Theatre, London. 6 Months, 2022/23.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, In Our Skin (Dir. Greg Homann), The Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham, 1 week, 2022.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Crooked Spire Musical (Dir. Jake Smith), Ashgate Heritage Arts, The Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield, 1 week, 2022
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Dick Whittington (Dir. Chris Clegg), TuckShop Productions, The Phoenix Theatre, London, 5 weeks, 2021-22.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, The Great Gatsby (Dir. Tom Brennan), The Wardrobe Ensemble, UK Tour, 7 weeks, 2021.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Troilus and Cressida (Dir. Gemma Fairlie), BOVTS, The Arnolfini, 1 week, 2021.
DIRECTOR, Katie Johnstone, BOVTS, The Wardrobe Theatre and live streamed, Bristol, 1 week, 2021.
DIRECTOR, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, BOVTS, Online, 1 week, 2021.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Great Gatsby (Dir. Tom Brennan), The Wardrobe Ensemble, The Wardrobe Theatre & Streamed, 8 weeks, 2021.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, A Matter of Life and Death, Monkton Senior School, 1 week, 2019.
DIRECTOR, Bear Pit (Devised), PQA Venues Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2019.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Mermaid, Monkton Senior School, 1 weeks, 2019.
DIRECTOR, Bristol Playwright Festival, The Wardrobe Theatre, 1 day, 2019.
DIRECTOR, A Girls Guide to Saving The World, Alma Tavern, 1 week, 2018.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WINK (Dir. Faye Elvin), The Mission Theatre, 1 week, 2017.

Training

BFI New Voices 2023
MA Drama Directing (20/21)- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
BA Hons (First Class) Drama and Acting- University of the West of England
ALCM Music Theatre Performance