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Currently, Natasha is developing an international arts residency programme with seed funding from The Arts Development Company as well as developing work with her company Grace The Space after being awarded the 101 Outdoor Arts Seedbed Residency fund.
Alongside this, Natasha founded her company Shared Collective in 2022 where she has been developing her own methodology in creative connections and play culminating in nearly two decades of experience to explore the performative nature of being in and amongst her community and internationally.
During the pandemic she spent a year as an Associate with Activate Performing Arts as part of the Women Leaders South West programme (WLSW) funded by The Arts Council England as part of their Transforming Leadership grant.
The programme involved the WOW Foundation, a global movement to celebrate women and girls and to take a frank look at the obstacles they face and was designed to understand that women are under-represented at a leadership level across all art forms in theatres, festivals, galleries, and museums.
As part of the programme, Natasha co-founded Grace The Space with Bristol based artist Ruth Pitter, a free and inspiring community project for women, encouraging diverse groups of women to embrace outdoor spaces and explore creativity through interactive workshops and walking opportunities. The project is sponsored by Activate Performing Arts, AONB Dorset, National Trust, Dorset Food and Drink and the Dorset Race Equality Council.
She has also collaborated with Angel Exit on a devised piece exploring the climate crisis at Activate Performing Arts Inside Out Dorset Festival, with Landance on a dance performance in Lyme Regis with poet Vanessa Kisuule and was the judge, mentor and director for the winner of the Lighthouse Playwriting Price, St Ives by DA Nixon.
She also leads dance theatre classes for Grace and Growl, a contemporary dance company of older dancers, part of Fingerprint Dance CIC by Anna Golding.
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Experimental dance theatre piece, Trigger Warning, was awarded the CPT's Jerwood Charitable Foundation Home Run commission.
Imagine Ryanair staging Beckett on a falling plane.
Presented by two charming hosts, Trigger Warning is a pre-show disclaimer to a show you may never see.
A jet-black absurdist comedy exploring the politics behind safe spaces and the culture of offence, pushing it to its logical breaking point and freewheeling along the tightrope between dance, clown, text and theatre.
Trigger Warning is a collaboration with writer Marcelo Dos Santos and performers Daniel Hay Gordon and Kath Duggan supported by UCL Culture, Young Vic, Dare Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall.
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Devising The Mabellous Route Home with designer Kirsty Harris and performers : Ben Thompson, Fiona Clift and Jordan Ajadi for a SEND audience (children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities) for the Young Vic Taking Part Department.
“Irrepressible joy sums up our young visitors experience of The Marbelous Route Home this morning.” (Teacher)
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Devising a piece for The British Museum as a performative response to their exhibition Edvard Munch Love and Angst with local schools.
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Working as the Movement Director on Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie Naylor and directed by Cat Shoobridge at The Young Vic, London.
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Photos by Mike Masarro Films by Vanessa Bowles
Natasha's work ranges from devised work, new writing, adapting classics, community theatre, immersive performance, mask, musical theatre, circus and dance theatre.
Her directing has included work in the West End at The Garrick Theatre, The National Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, The Young Vic Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, The Tricycle Theatre, Theatre 503, Edinburgh Festival: Pleasance, Tilburg Concert Hall in the Netherlands, Circus Schatzinsel in Berlin and Dock 11 in Berlin.
Other directing projects include work at Lighthouse Poole, Southwark Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, Tristan Bates, Soho, Old Vic (24 Hour Plays), New Diorama and the Albany.
Associate directing and other projects include work at The Royal National Theatre, The Young Vic, The Old Vic, The Almeida, The Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), The Austrian Embassy, The Royal Court and Eden Studios (Berlin).
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Past Works Include:
Macbeth (Abridged by Moira Buffini and performed by the National Youth Theatre’s award-winning REP Company) at London’s West - End Garrick Theatre.
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“Potent brew of monstrous majesty and sexual twists”
“Natasha Nixon’s slick direction”
From The Guardian
"A wildly eclectic fever dream"
“A refreshingly inventive take on Macbeth, that’s thankfully unafraid of mixing it up a bit."
From The Stage
“Stylishly bizzarre”
“Icily cool” Timeout London
An interview with Love London Love Culture : https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2018/11/01/interview-with-natasha-nixon/
Conceiver and Director of the return of The Wonderful Way To Marble Town (formerly known as The Marbleous Route Home) at The Young Vic Theatre. This was an immersive and non-verbal dance theatre show made for children with SEND (special education needs and disabilities) Co-conceived by Natasha Nixon and designer Kirsty Harris. Devised by the performers : Ben Thompson, Fiona Clift and Jordan Ajadi, Sound : Helen Atkinson, Light : Jess Bernberg, Associate Sound : Kyle Macpherson, Associate Lighting : Jess, Production Manager : Alysha Laviniere.
Nel Gwynn nursery school : http://nellgwynn.southwark.sch.uk/nell-gwynn-news/we-visited-the-young-vic/
Director for A ColOURful World at the KILN Theatre (formerly known as the Tricyle Theatre). Devised by Willsden Green Young Persons Company, Design Emma Bailey, Dramaturgy Marcelo Dos Santos & Natasha Nixon, Puppetry Director Fiona Clift, Sound Designer Dinah Mullen, Lighting Designer PabloFernandez Baz, Costume Supervisor Kyle Davies, Assistant Director Kadisha Williams.
Mapping Brent article : http://4a7c0a6c-53af-4296-a452-8e2d7ff8c37c.filesusr.com
Director for Detached at Dock 11 in Berlin with Valentina Bordenave and the Anderplatz Collective. A dance theatre piece exploring the ever shifting relationship between one's inner and outer self. Performed by: Irene Fas Fita, Javier Ferrer Machín, Clara Gracia, Marina Rodriguez Llorente, Laura de Arcos, Filippo Serra, Piet Starrett and Valentina Bordenave. Assistant Director: Amelie Seib, Music: Piet Starrett, Stage: Eva G. Alonso, Costume: Lydia Sonderegger, Light design: Sylvain Faye and Eva G. Alonso, Production management: M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art, Photography: Daniel Nartschick.
Director for Cosmo, a masked street performance based on The Baron of the Trees by Italo Calvino premiering in Berlin at Circus Schatzinsel. Cast includes: Clara Gracia und Catia de Almeida Santos. Mask Training: Marina Rodríguez Llorente, Mask Design: Amelie Seib, Set and Costume: Laila Rosato, Music: Stefano Ciardi, Illustration: Ines de Vasconcelos
Director of new work 'Trigger Warning' by Marcelo Dos Santos at DARE Festival in Shoreditch Town Hall. Cast included: Christina Brown, Lily Lesser, Ella Smith, Iain Woods, Tom Randall-Page and Mike Massaro. Photography: Mike Massaro.
Performer at VAULTS festival, in 'Borderland' by Crew For Calais. A blunt telling of the truths of forced relocation through verbatim responses and the Refugee Rights Data Project. For more information about Crew For Calais and how to donate and/or get involved: www.crewforcalais.org
Associate Director for the Mahogony Opera Group on their new opera about mindfulness, 'Lost In Thought' in Hamburg at the Elbphilharmonie.
National Theatre Connections Director for the world's largest youth theatre festival.
Director, along with Valentina Bordenave and Anderplatz Company, of dance theatre piece, Detached. Devised and performed by: Irene Fas Fita, Javier Ferrer Machín, Clara Gracia, Marina Rodriguez Llorente, Patrick Rupar, Laura de Arcos, Filippo Serra, Piet Starrett and Valentina Bordenave, Dramaturgy: Charlotte Wetzel, Music: Piet, Set: Eva G. Alonso, Costume: Pascale Mühl, Lighting: Mario Seeger, Eva G. Alonso.
Maker and Performer in Who Invited Him. A(n) (auto)biographical immersive show set in a shower and a toilet exploring a journey through diagnosis and surgery of lung cancer. Performed by: Natasha Nixon and Christina Brown
Director for a dance theatre / new writing collaboration called Trigger Warning. Performed at the Young Vic Theatre, written by Marcelo Dos Santos, Design Florence De Mare, Performed by Daniel Hay-Gordon and Raquel Cassidy.
Director and Writer for devised circus show Gone Fishin' in Tilburg Concert Hall, the Netherlands. Mixed disciplinary company of 31 final year student performers from Fontys Academy. Acts included: trapeze, static trapeze, hand to hand, straps, chinese pole and acro-dance. Music and Lighting Design by Natasha Nixon with support from technical staff at the concert hall, dramaturgy support from Arjan G Breed and choreographic support from Deborah Black. Assistant Director, Fred Deb.
Director for an immersive performance of Killer Thrillers. Commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum to celebrate the recent translation of award winning Austrian crime writer Ursula Poznanski in to English. Curator, Jen (http://www.jencalleja.com/) and architect and designer, Thomas-Randall-Page (http://www.thomasrandallpage.com/) Performer, Cristina Catalina.
Director of Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil LaBute for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Design Eleri Llyod, Lighting Josie Allen, Sound Kerri Charles, Voice and Dialect Simon Reeves, Fight Director Kevin McCurdy. Cast Jack DeVos, Tom Forrister, Maggie Haight, Melanie Stevens
Please see: http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/departments/acting/video.aspx for video links to some scenes.
Director of award winning musical The Scottsboro Boys by Kander and Ebb at the Young Vic Theatre. This was a Parallel Production with a young cast from Lambeth and Southwark council. Musical Director Jenny Gould/ Movement Director Lucy Cullingford, Design Lily Arnold, Lighting Nicky Brown, Sound Alex Twiselton, Voice and Dialect Jess Chambers, Assistant Director Madeline Kludje. Cast Michael Adeleke, Leslie Akosah, Anna Asiamah, Christina Brown, Phyllys Egharevba, Yohanna Ephrem, Toheeb Jimoh, Sunneth Lawrence, Pretina Moore, Tarik Nugent, Xianne Peters, Tamoy Phipps, Jennifer Soladoye
Invited to be a participating Director at the Young Vic developing work with Ian Rickson for his upcoming production of Electra at The Old Vic.
Developing a piece of new writing by Sarah Grochala, the Kindness of Strangers at The National Theatre Studio. Cast included: Jonathan Coote, Josie Walker, Tim Samuels, Tamsin Fessey
Work as a National Theatre Connections Director for the “biggest youth theatre festival on the planet”, The National Theatre Connections Festival, in various locations around the UK.
Invited to work as a Creative Associate alongside Melly Still and other participating directors to develop work the Opening of NT Future at the National Theatre Studio.
Director of three Staged Readings at the National Theatre as part of New Views, the National Theatre’s annual playwriting programme for 15−19-year-olds. Cast comprised of NT company members.
Director of a work in progress sharing of a devised music theatre piece in response to The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky with the SITI Company in Paris.
Developing and work shopping an adaptation of The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark at The National Theatre Studio. Dramaturgy: Nic Wass, Choreography: Janine Harrington, Sound design: Mike Winship. Cast: Helena Lymbery, Tom Godwin, Matthew Seadon-Young, Amy Booth-Steal. Big thanks to Joseph Alford.
Director of The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo by Jonathan Brittain at The Edinburgh Pleasance Courtyard and transfer to Theatre 503. Design: jennifer Lee. Lighting: Josh Pharo. Sound: Edward Lewis. Produced by Lucy Jackson. Assistant Director: Leonie Rae Gasson. Cast: Sam Donnelly, Helen Duff, Michael Lyle.
Director of Assassins by Steve Hevey for the Old Vic Time Warner Ignite.
Director of Feel Sad About Japan by Marcelo Dos Santos at the Southwark Playhouse (Nabokov Present : Tense), the Brunel Museum and later developed at Soho Theatre. "Feel. Feel. Feel. Not like that. Like this. Now don't. Don't worry about it." A story which revolves around a mother and a daughter, a life coach and a seeker, some graphic porn and a tsunami. Cast: Helena Lymbery and Kate Stanley-Brennan.
Invited to be a participating Director in a Research and Development workshop at the Young Vic for Ian Rickson’s production of Hamlet at The Young Vic. Guests included: Sir Peter Hall, Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael Sheen and Tim Crouch.
Director for Various New Writing pieces as part of The Lyric Lounge at The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
Director for The Aim of the Game by Jonathan Brittan as part of The Old Vic Theatre 24 Hour Plays.
Director of Staged Reading as part of the Romanian Season, Love Thyself by Maria Manoluescu at The New Diorama Theatre.
Director of Staged Reading as part of StoneCrab’s Theatre New European Work, Supermarket by Biljana Srbljanović at The Soho Theatre
Director and Writer of Pre-Occupation as part of the 00:13:00 Festival with StoneCrabs Theatre at The Albany Theatre.
Director of Staged Reading of The Public Eye by Peter Shaffer with StoneCrabs Theatre at The Albany Theatre.
Various projects with Cardboard Citizens, the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company, and the leading practitioner of Forum Theatre and the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in the UK.
Macbeth Curtain Call at Garrick
Photo : The Other Richard
The Wonderful Way to Marble Town at The Young Vic
Photos by Leon Puplett
A COLOURFUL WORLD Willesden Green Young Company
Willesden Green Library. Photos: Mark Douet
Detached
Berlin, Dock 11.
Immersive Performance of Killer Thrillers
Commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum
To see behind the scenes footage
The Young Vic Theatre made two short videos.
The Scottsboro Boys Parallel Production at the Young Vic
More behind the scenes footage from the cast of The Scottsboro Boys Parallel Production.
Natasha has taught workshops for the National Theatre for both Entry Pass and Page to Stage which includes school and college students along with young theatre makers.
She has trained young directors on the StoneCrab's Theatre Programme and run workshops for the Young Vic Director's Programme.
She has been asked to deliver Open Rehearsals for HRH Prince Edward with the National Youth Theatre Rep Company.
She regularly runs the Scene Study course for the National Youth Theatre Rep Company, the Auditioning Workshop with Wendy Spon (Head of Casting for the National Theatre) and has worked as a Senior Course Director for the National Youth Theatre Summer School.
She was invited to train to lead multidisciplinary workshops for secondary schools with The Barbican.
Natasha has been a guest lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University and Regents College London. She has also been a tutor for OpenDoor, a non-profit organisation to help talented young people without financial resources to gain a place in leading drama schools.
In Berlin, she has taught “Ways of Seeing” with choreographer Valentina Bordenave in improvisation and composition for cross disciplinary artists.
On zoom, she collaborates with Dance Artist Deborah Black to invite artists to consolidate new ideas and explore questions that may have arisen since Covid 19 with the support of the Six Viewpoints and the etiquette of the ensemble in a practical online lab set up for directors, teachers, dance and theatre artists.
She is currently teaching non professionals in the guiding principles behind creating an ensemble, play and connection with her company The Shared and Collective Space.
Natasha teaching A level students on Shakespeare at the National Theatre.
Open rehearsals for HRH Prince Edward with the National Youth Theatre
Teaching the REP Company at the National Youth Theatre
Natasha's assistant directing credits range from dance theatre, classics, adaptations and new writing across the past five years with well established and inspirational companies and practitioners.
Recently she was the recipient of the Jerwood Assistant Director Award where she assisted on A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic Theatre, under the direction of Benedict Andrews.
After a sell out run at the Young Vic the show was transferred to St Ann's Warehouse in New York.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
At The Young Vic Theatre
Nominated for Olivier Award for Best Revival
Direction Benedict Andrews
Jerwood Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Magda Willi
Costumes Victoria Behr
Light Jon Clark
Sound Paul Arditti / Music Alex Baranowski
Cast Gillian Anderson, Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey, Otto Farrant, Ben Foster, Nicholas Gecks, Troy Glasgow, Stephanie Jacob, Corey Johnson, Vanessa Kirby, Claire Prempeh
Natasha is Associate Director for the NT Live production.
Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
At The Almeida Theatre
Director Sir Michael Attenborough
Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Mark Henderson
Sound Fergus O’Hare
Cast Siân Brooke, Kieran Bew, Billie Piper, Tom Burke
Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau, Translation by Jeremy Sams
Nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award
At The Donmar Warehouse / Trafalgar Studios
Director Chris Rolls
Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Andrew Edwards
Lighting Richard Howell
Sound and Composition Ben and Max Ringham
Cast Frances Barber, Tom Byam Shaw, Anthony Calf, Elaine Cassidy, Sylvestra le Touzel
Cock by Mike Bartlett
Received a Laurence Olivier Award
At The Royal Court Theatre
Director James Macdonald
Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Miriam Buether
Lighting Peter Mumford
Sound David Mcseveney
Cast Paul Jesson, Katherine Parkinson, Andrew Scott, Ben Whishaw
Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Adaptation by Sam Holcroft
At The Gate Theatre
Director Natalie Abrahami
Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Tom Scutt
Lighting Mark Howland
Sound Carolyn Downing
Cast Fiona Button, Robert Goodale, Susie Trayling, Simon Wilson
Pictures From An Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, Text by James Fenton
At The Young Vic Theatre / Sadlers Wells
Director Daniel Kramer / Choreography Frauke Requardt
Assistant Director Natasha Nixon
Design Richard Hudson
Lighting Peter Mumford
Sound Fergus O'Hare / Composition and arrangement Joel Fram
Cast Chris New, Carl Joseph, Conor Doyle, Kath Duggan, Edward Hogg, Carl Joseph, Rob McNeill, Michela Meazza, Inn Pang Ooi, Vinicius Salles, Margarita Zafrilla Olayo
Natasha worked as a Staff Director at The National Theatre in London for two years on the following shows:
Othello by William Shakespeare
At The National Theatre, Olivier Stage
and NT Live broadcast
Winner of London Evening Standards Award for Best Actor, jointly awarded to Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear
Director Sir Nicholas Hytner
Staff Director Natasha Nixon
Design Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Jon Clark
Sound Gareth Fry / Music Nick Powell
Cast Jonathan Bailey, Sandy Batchelor, Adam Berry, David Carr, William Chubb, Robert Demeger, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Gabriel Fleary, Colin Haigh, Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi, Scott Karim, Rory Kinnear, David Kirkbride, Adrian Lester, Lyndsey Marshall, Zackary Momoh, Tom Radford, Tom Robertson, Nick Sampson, Chook Sibtain, Rebecca Tanwen, Olivia Vinall, Joseph Wilkins.
Port by Simon Stephens
At The National Theatre, Lyttelton Stage
Director Marianne Elliott
Staff Director Natasha Nixon Design Lizzie Clachan
Lighting Neil Austin / Ass. Lighting Rob Halliday
Sound Ian Dickinson / Music Nick Powell
Movement Director Scott Graham / Fight Director Kate Waters
Cast John Banks, John Biggins, Callum Callaghan, Jack Deam, Aaron Foy, Ellie Jacob, Danny Kelly, Mike Noble, Kate O'Flynn, Katherine Pearce, Mark Rose, Liz White
Travelling Light by Nicholas Wright
At The National Theatre, Lyttelton Stage
with a UK Tour (including Aylesbury, Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester)
and NT Live broadcast
Director Sir Nicholas Hytner
Staff Director Natasha Nixon Design Bob Crowley
Lighting Bruno Poet
Sound Rich Walsh / Music Grant Olding
Video/Projection Jon Driscoll
Cast Mark Extance, Colin Haigh, Paul Jesson, Sue Kelvin, Abigail McKern, Damien Molony, Lauren O'Neil, Tom Peters, Antony Sher, Jill Stanford, Darren Swift, Karl Theobald, Geoffrey Towers, Kate Webster, Jonathan Wolf, Alexis Zegerman
Natasha has an international body of training in theatre, movement, devising and live art.
She has trained at Le Coq based physical theatre school, LISPA in Berlin. The course, Devised Theatre and Performance, included work on improvisation, movement analysis, dramatic structure, devising process, performance practise, Alexander technique, contemporary dance-based movement, rhythm work and ensemble singing.
Her studies in the UK have included an invitation to train on the National Theatre Studio Director's Course, various workshops with the Young Vic Director's Programme and the Young Directors Programme with StoneCrabs Theatre (of which she has since led workshops for).
Artists and companies she has trained with include Daniel Kramer, Told By An Idiot, Melly Still, Carrie Cracknell, Lyndsey Turner, Ian Rickson and Annabel Arden from Complicite Company on the 'Chorus' and 'Ensemble' .
Overseas she has attended residencies and workshops with Odin Teatret in Denmark, the SITI company in Viewpoints and Suzuki, the Drift residency for performance art in Brazil and most recently mask making and performing with Berlin based company, Famille Floz.
Suzuki Training
Odin Teatret, Denmark
Familie Flöz - Über Tage
Starting on the open mic scene at Pizza on the Park in London, Natasha moved to Glasgow and became part of a collective of musicians for a number of years where her jazz roots opened up in to HipHop, Drum & Bass, Funk and Soul.
She has supported the likes of Guru, Grandmaster Flash, the Portico Quartet and Calvin Harris.
After a hiatus, she has recently started singing again at jam sessions and open mics around Berlin.
Here are some of Natasha's pieces.
Shoes Flying Down at Rio
Exhibited at the Chelsea Theatre/Sacred Festival King's Road Place, London, in a performance by Dorothy Max Prior and Matthew Blacklock.
In this section is Natasha's latest manifesto.
Ян Шванкмайер - Панч и Джуди (1966)