RAD POPP

Transylvanian/British Writer/Director

I come from an BAME and new British citizen background.

I have directed actors and novices in various settings - including film. I have started as digital media artist and I also freelance as a digital content producer/writer/editor for arts, higher education and healthcare orgs.

The intention of my work as a director is to formulate consistent cultural, dramatic and human dimensions that go beyond the naturalistic theatre framework and pursue transnational appeal, topics and engagement with fragmented audiences.

I am interested in new writing and adaptions of classical plays. Feel free to approach me with both.

I am always happy to work with prospective playwrights and actors, to provide them with feedback and notes regarding their work or to submit treatments, rehearse readings or workshop key aspects of a play.

My current focus is on directing full plays and theatre that are not 'one off'.

My ideal topics would focus on less represented groups and individual politics, would challenge the hypocrisy of the existing norms because they serve the few, and would make use of satire humour and physicality to drive those points.

I subscribe to European theatre practices. That is to say as director, my primary concern is to shape, sharpen and harness the power of the group/ensemble and the value of the show as a whole, which may go at times against the supremacy of the text or that of the actor and take inspiration from devising and improv.

Credits

Please see:
https://aftername.co.uk
Or
https://www.tiktok.com/@freeandsafeasoriginalsin

Training

• Inventing the Future, School of HighTide - 2021

• How to make theatre accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, blind or partially sighted with StageText and VisualEyes – Young Vic 2020

• Intimacy and the role of the intimacy director with Yarit Dor – Southwark Playhouse 2019

• Michael Chekhov’s acting technique: Psychological gestures with Sinead Rushe – Pushkin House 2019

• Director’s masterclasses with Anatoly Vassiliev – Pushkin House 2018

• Directing MA – University of East London 2018

• Theatre Directing – Central School of Speech and Drama 2015

• Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Editor – Apple.com 2012

• Certified ScrumMaster – Agile project management 2011

• Training in Narrative Research – University of East London 2010

• Diploma in Integrated Marketing, PR and Communications – London School of PR, 2006

• PgDip Film and Television Studies – University of Westminster 2004

• Diploma in Cinematography and Photography – People's Art School, Transylvania 1996