Harri Marshall

Director

Harri is a deaf director based in York and has been working in this dirty business that we call show since 2012. She has received training from the Young Vic, RTYDS as well as the Bristol Old Vic and directed a total of 9 shows. She is also the co-artistic director for Manchester based company Born Witness Productions.

Harri has an affinity for contemporary theatre including genres like new writing, adaptation and verbatim.

She advocate for D/deaf and disabled creatives and is a self-proclaimed proactive busy body!

Credits

Director:
Love Bites: I Often Think of You - Written by Harri Marshall - York Theatre Royal, 2021
Wined Up - Written by Helen Connolly - Coronavirus Theatre Club, 2020
Red Shoes – Adapted by Nancy Harris – York Settlement Community Players – John Cooper Studio, 2019
You Can Never Tell – Written by George Bernard Shaw – York Settlement Community Players - 2019
Life Through a Convex Lens – Written by Harry Revell – TakeOver Festival – Spark York, 2018
Listen Up – Written by Harri Marshall – Offbeat Festival - The Old Fire Station Oxford, 2018
B+ - Written by Roisin Moriarty – Oxford Pride, True Colours Festival – 2018
Not Quite the Dog and the Duck – Written by Jilly Gardiner – Shorts @ the Canal – Canal Café Theatre, 2018
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Written by Tom Stoppard – Gallows Productions - Winchester Theatre Royal, 2016

Assistant Director:

Murder by Poe – Written by Jeffrey Hatcher - Directed by Abigail Oscroft – Riding Lights Youth Theatre - Friargate Theatre York, 2018
Mercutio and Tybalt – Written and Directed by Miriam Higgins – Leaning House Productions – Burton Taylor Studio Oxford, 2017

Training

2020: Access and Wellbeing – RTYDS (Led by Rachel Bagshaw), via Zoom
2020: Creative Access - JMK Trust (Led by Nickie Miles-Wildin)
2020: Script Reading and Analysis – Young Vic (Led by Teunkie Van Der Sluijs), via Zoom
2020: Sustainable Theatre – Young Vic (Led by Metta Theatre), via Zoom
2020: Working Collaboratively – Young Vic (Led by Elayce Ismail), via Zoom
2020: Director’s Skill Building – Young Vic (Led by Sacha Wares), via Zoom
2019: Directing Workshop - York Settlement Community Players (Led by Bridget Forman), York
2018: Introduction to Directing (Deaf Directors Workshop) - RTYDS and the Manchester Royal Exchange (led by Amit Sharma), Manchester
2017: Verbatim and Testimonial Theatre Workshop - Young Vic and Bristol Old Vic (with Common Wealth), Bristol
2017: Rita, Sue and Bob Too shadowing Titas Halder - Out of Joint, London
2017: Studio Assistant Internship - Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford
2017: Theatre Education Internship - Creation Theatre, Oxford
2017: Artistic Development - The Conker Group and the Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
2014-2017: BA (Combined) Creative Writing and Drama (Achieved a 2.1) - University of Winchester, Winchester
2016: Directing and Writing Skill Session - Oxford Playhouse (with Barney Norris), Oxford

Location

York

Experience

2-5 years

What I do

  • BSL interpretation
  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Lighting Design
  • Movement Direction
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German and French (basic). BSL (completing level 2).

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