Laura Wooff

I am a theatre director working in London and am keen to hear about the next project!

Credits

DIRECTING
Showcases (Identity School of Acting) 2019-present
Self-curated collections of scenes from contemporary writing with full production.

Golden Shoulder (Bread and Roses Theatre) 2019
Directed new play by Jamie Carragher. This one-man show is a musical piece and has been offered space for further development at Greenwich Theatre.

Greenwich Theatre Rehearsed Readings (Voices in the Dark & Greenwich Book Festival) 2018
Directed short plays and worked closely with the writers in preparation for public rehearsed readings.

NoF*cksGiven (The Kings Head Theatre)
Selected as a director for Monobox’s event ‘Playstart’. I directed ‘Stacy’ the first version of this play, from which a full-length version was commissioned by the Kings Head Theatre. From our run at the Kings Head, the play was selected for the Vaults Festival.

Full-time 1 year Assistant Director Internship (NYT’s access to HE Social Inclusion Course) 2010-2011
I worked on productions at The Pleasance & The Unicorn Theatre and throughout the course trained with Talawa, Graeae, and Gendered Intelligence theatre companies. The full-time role as Playing Up 2 Intern was pastoral, creative and administrational.


FACILITATOR & ACTING TUTOR
Text Tutor (Identity School of Acting) 2019-present
Tutor for contemporary play text. Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced actor courses.

Adult Acting Class Workshop leader (The Park Theatre) 2019-present
Facilitator for drop-in adult acting classes. Participants are introduced to a different acting methodology in each session.

Shakespeare in Schools Module (The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) 2018
Co- directed and tutored 2nd year BA Acting Students at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for their Shakespeare tour of Glasgow secondary schools. This involved devising workshops with the actors which were then delivered in schools and alongside a performance of Romeo & Juliet.

Theatre Teacher (ISSOS Summer School) 2017
An international summer school at Queens College Cambridge University. As the theatre teacher, I planned a 6-week program of training, confidence building, and performance skills which led towards a production of devised theatre at the end of the course.



PRODUCING MY OWN WORK - THE VESSEL THEATRE


The Emergent Theatre Conference
Etc. was programmed at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival 2015 at The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and was supported by Creative Scotland. I created this event in order to connect graduates across borders. This two day conference consisted of a workshop day and was followed by a ticketed performance where the delegates presented pieces of their work alongside our collective manifesto.

Keep The Cross High
In 2015, I was awarded the Individual Artist Fund from Creative Scotland to work with Francesca Caprioli Theatre Company in Rome and develop a piece of theatre to bring to the Traverse in Edinburgh. We developed ‘Keep The Cross High’ a play written half in Italian and half in English, telling the story of Joan of Arch. We then performed the play in Rome and Scotland.

The Tobacco Shop – WFS Wonderfools
WFS is a gig, come club night, come theatre event, which theatre company, Wonderfools, have produced over the last few years at The Old Hairdressers venue in Glasgow. In 2018, I was invited to develop a theatrical intervention for the night. I devised a performance of Fernando Pessoa’s poem The Tobacco Shop in collaboration with Opera Singer Teresa Ared and house music DJ Glassmasters.

Golden Shoulder (In development with Greenwich Theatre)
After directing the scratch performance of this play at the Bread & Roses Theatre in London in 2019, The Vessel Theatre was asked to produce its further development supported by Greenwich Theatre.

It’s Been A Mighty Long Time (In development)
A devised piece of theatre which will aim to build connections between generations and give voice to the stories of our Grandmothers. Inspired by their stories of hope, challenge, adventure and laughter- we are at the start of ours.

Training

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland