The Director's Club

WORKSHOPSPractitioner and Artistic Director Heather Ward runs workshops with members of The Director’s Club as well as hiring professional directors and practitioners to run workshops to share their knowledge and experience. Not only is this a great way to learn and develop skills, it is also an excellent opportunity to connect with directors working in the industry.

Previous workshops have included directors Mike Leigh, Dominic Cooke, Stephen Unwin, and Rikki Beadle-Blair to name a few.

The Director’s Club is designed to nurture talent, create a space to grow and provide new Director’s with a strong support network.  The group meet regularly, giving each director the opportunity to run exercises, workshops and direct within the group, to provide and receive feedback and to gain and share skills, techniques, and experience.

Rehearsed readings with our actors and writers
Directors in The Director’s Club get the opportunity to work on scripts written by members of The Writers Club and direct professional actors from The Actors Club in our Write To Right nights, as well as many other projects, including workshops and events that connect artists across these clubs.

Cross-connection week - free actors/writers workshops
Cross-connection week is an opportunity for directors, actors and writers to attend each others workshops at no additional cost, to meet each other and to run exercises with the groups, developing skills and experimenting with ideas in a safe space.

Members of The Director’s Club get the opportunity to work with new writers, professional actors, and direct in The Director’s Club Showcase and other additional showcases. In London directors direct in theatres such as Southwark Playhouse, in Brighton at Komedia, the winner of best venue in the South East and West of England.

As well as all of the above Director’s Cut also host and organise many other events and activities including free mentoring sessions, community social events such as picnics, open mic nights and theatre trips, monthly newsletters advertising your shows and achievements. As a member of The Director’s Club you also recieve discounted tickets to selected plays and discounted drinks at Southwark Playhouse bar.

Our scheme that connects artists on projects to workshop a script or idea
We encourage artists within our artistic community to connect and work together. We match actors, writers and directors on a project to workshop it, facilitated by one of our directors.  Many projects have gone on to have a future life from one of these workshops!  Open Stage scheme is supported by theatres Southwark Playhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Rose Kingston, Park Theatre and Pleasance Theatre to support directors within The Director’s Club by providing rehearsal space every month for them to workshop a script, idea or technique they are developing as practitioners.  More on the scheme can be found HERE.