What To Expect In This Episode:
- Trajectory from actor training through stage management to directing.
- Finding creative freedom and fulfillment through the mode of Directing.
- Using the UK’s “Scratch” culture of creative development to platform Canadian work.
- Working through imposter syndrome - especially when returning to drama school to direct current students.
- Building relationships and keeping your director friends close.
- The process of articulating artistic essence and creative practice.
- Wearing many hats in fringe theatre - branching into sound design.
- Hacks you should know about the London Fringe scene.
About The Guest
Kay Brattan is a Canadian-born, London-based, multi-award-nominated director and theatre maker known for bold, playful productions driven by movement, music and ensemble storytelling. She is the Artistic Director of Little Lion Theatre Company, where she champions ambitious new writing, reimagined classics and Canadian artists working in the UK. Her directing credits include Witch Girl Summer, Mary’s Daughters, Portia’s Julius Caesar, Yaga, Much Ado About Nothing and Don’t Panic. In Toronto, she co-founded how.dare.collective and directed its five-star, award-nominated adaptation of Lysistrata, a hit at the Toronto Fringe. Her work has received multiple Fringe Theatre Award nominations, an Off West End Award nomination and Arts Council England funding. Kay is also a guest director at East 15 Acting School and Fourth Monkey. She creates theatrical worlds that are physically alive, emotionally fearless and rooted in a direct relationship with the audience.
https://www.kaybrattan.com/
Insta: @kay.brattan
⭐️ Kay’s Shared Resource ⭐️
“Look for opportunities to make new friends. Especially if those friends are also creatives. Don’t be afraid of just meeting new people who are as excited about theatre as you are, becasue you never know, you might have a beer one day and go ‘Lets make a show!’” → “Go find the good people.”
“You don’t need to have all the answers.” Just remember that.
London Fringe Theatre Hacks
*Look at venues where the people who run them are very active in programming and developing artists at their theatres.
- Pub Theatres who run scratch nights:
Links
Little Lion Theatre Company - Bringing Canadian work to audiences in the UK
Directors Cut - "Director's Cut Theatre Company is the UK's leading artistic home for directors, writers and professional actors. We meet regularly to continue training, develop our practice, ideas and projects and build community."