Chloe France

I am a theatre maker and founder of Tombola, a theatre company based in Norwich. Tombola’s work is made in the East, about the East. Our next project, John Barleycorn Must Die, is being made during a residency at Metal in Peterborough (2020/21). This work is investigating the legacy of customs and rituals associated with food production, and the nature of fatalities in the agricultural industry. Tombola is the vehicle for my work in East Anglia. The work I make with Tombola foregrounds East Anglian stories without romanticising contemporary regional/ rural experiences. I also work as a freelance director across the UK in buildings and drama schools: frequently collaborating with composers and actor-musicians to create new music theatre, using extant text and new writing.

Pronouns: she/ her.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Medea, Mountview, 1 day, 2020.

DIRECTOR, 'Company’: Music & Text project, Mountview, 1 day, 2019.

DIRECTOR, Jane Eyre, Watermill Theatre & schools/ rural tour, 4 weeks, 2018.

DIRECTOR, ‘Landscape’: Music & Text project, Mountview, 1 day, 2018.

DIRECTOR, Our Town, GSA, 1 week, 2018.

DIRECTOR, Newbury Yarns, Newbury town centre/ produced by the Watermill Theatre, 1 day, 2017.

DIRECTOR, Collective Energy, Empire 2/ Hackney Empire, 1 day, 2015.

DIRECTOR, Red Cross, Albany Theatre, 1 day, 2015.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, The Wipers Times, Watermill Theatre/ Arts Theatre, West End & regional tour, two 4 week runs & 3 months touring, 2016/17.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Gastronomic, Shoreditch Town Hall, 3 weeks, 2019.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare’s Globe, 4 weeks, 2018.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Richard II & Henry IV pt. 1, Shakespeare’s Globe Education Dept., 1 day, 2018.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, House and Garden, Watermill Theatre, 4 weeks, 2017.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Faust x 2, Watermill Theatre, 4 weeks, 2017.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Murder for Two, Watermill Theatre, 4 weeks, 2017.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Sleeping Beauty, Watermill Theatre, 4 weeks, 2016.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Hostage, Rose Bruford, 1 week, 2015.

Training

2015-2017: MFA Theatre Directing (Distinction). Birkbeck College, University of London. During training I spent one term at Rose Bruford as an assistant director and nine months at The Watermill Theatre as the resident assistant director.

2014 -15: Stonecrabs Young Directors Programme.

2011-2014: BA History (2.1). Cambridge University.