Ed Lees

I am a theatre maker, director, writer, producer and drama teacher originally from Manchester but working in London as an administrator for Something for the Weekend. I am also the co-Artistic Director of Born Witness theatre company and am a part of this year's Almeida Young Company.
I am particularly interested in new writing and verbatim theatre. As part of Born Witness, I am currently working on a new piece of verbatim theatre about Manchester, its people and how we remain different.
I read History at the University of Bristol (2015-2018) and was the Drama Society's New Writing Representative, curating the Tobacco Factory Writing Scheme in 2018.
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Credits

ASSISTANT PRODUCER, A New Dawn, King's Head Theatre, 2 performances, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Flesh, Bush Theatre (NT Connections), 1 performance, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Wardrobe, Leatherhead Theatre, 1 performance, 2019
CO-DIRECTOR, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Reed's School, 1 performance, 2019
DIRECTOR, Krindlekrax, Reed's School, 1 performance, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Passion Play, Reed's School, 3 performances, 2018
WRITER/PRODUCER, Into the Deep, The Room Above/LEAF Manchester/Etcetera Theatre, 3 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Laramie Project, Winston Theatre, 4 performances, 2017
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Pegg Theatre, 3 performances, 2017

Training

Almeida Young Company 2019-2020
Bristol Old Vic Directing Scheme 2016-2017 - Series of workshops led by Lee Lyford culminating in directing an excerpt of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Bristol Old Vic Writing Scheme 2015-2016 - Series of workshops and one-to-one sessions conducted by Sharon Clark, mentoring me as a produced my first piece 'Into the Deep'.