Emelia Hutchinson

Theatre Director and Facilitator based in Oxfordshire.
She/her
I am an emerging director who is interested in telling new stories by new writers. I love to engage in form and character and push the boundaries of how traditional theatre works and what stories we can tell. More recently I have begun engaging with actor-muso work and am interested in developing my experience working on gig theatre and similar styles.

My work with young people involves engaging participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of abilities to devise work which they are proud of and speaks for them.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Catalyst Residency, The North Wall Arts Centre, 2024 (residency, two weeks)
GROUP ASSISTANT, How to Write a Play with Mike Bartlett, The Old Fire Station, 2024. (weekly group, 10 weeks)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Sex Ed Musical, Ice&Fire UK, 2023. (Four week tour)
DIRECTOR, ENACT: Volume 2, Cherwell Theatre Company, 2023. (Two performances)
LEAD ARTIST, A New Constellation, Ad Infinitum, 2023. (Gallery installation)
DIRECTOR, ENACT: Volume 1, Cherwell Theatre Company, 2023. (Two performances)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Curse of Captain Crow, Cherwell Theatre Company, 2022 (One performance)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, In Our Own Words, Ice&Fire UK (R&D), 2022
DIRECTOR, We Think There's Been A Murder, Chipping Norton Youth Theatre (Acting Out), 2 nights.
ASSISTANT FACILITATOR, Interval Youth Group, Watermill Theatre.
FACILITATOR, International Young Company, Ark T, Oxford, 2021.
DIRECTOR, The Progression of a Relationship by Clare Stenning, CAKE Theatre podcast, 2021.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR and FACILITATOR, Myth II by Tristan Jackson-Pate, 7 performances, 2021.
DIRECTOR, Rattlesnake by Harvey Badger, 2 nights, 2021.
WRITER, Salt. Digital performance for New Moon Monologues, 2021.
DIRECTOR, Climbing the Mountain by Sophie Max. Digital Performance for Show Face Festival, 2020.
WRITER, Beginning, Middle, End. Dir. Ryan Thornhill. Digital performance for Show Face Festival, 2020.
WRITER, Careful, Digital performance in association with The Blue Room, Lincoln. Available on Youtube, 2020.
DIRECTOR, Mr Incredible (Camilla Whitehill), Digital Performance, 1 night 2020
DIRECTOR, Boys (Ella Hickson), Caryl Churchill Theatre, 2 nights, 2019.
DIRECTOR, Reclaim the Night (Charlene James), Caryl Churchill Theatre, 1 night. 2019.
DIRECTOR, The Truth About Bedtime (devised by Sherbet Lemon Theatre), Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 1 night, 2018.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Henry IV Part 2 (Shakespeare), Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 2016.

Training

How to Work Creatively with Women in the Criminal Justice System with Clean Break (2021)
MA Theatre Directing with Katie Mitchell at Royal Holloway University of London (2018/2019)
OBSERVER, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (London rehearsals), The Shed, 2018/19. Dir Katie Mitchell
INTERN, Orlando, Schaubuhne, June 2019. Dir Katie Mitchell.