How do we as directors, practitioners and artists create rehearsal rooms and creative spaces that are free to take creative risks but remain safe? Isn’t it a contradiction to have a ‘safe’ space that also dares? What are boundaries and what is consent? How do we handle conflict responsibly and productively in a room?
About the Facilitator:
Sammy is queer theatre director based in London specialising in Young People, at-risk Young People and community-focused theatre. Sammy works closely with young people to stage their experiences and ideas and they are committed to making the form accessible and intersectional, and seek to celebrate neurodiversity and gender-diversity within their work.
Sammy was Targeted Work Associate Director at the Lyric Hammersmith, Resident Director at the Almeida, Associate Director of The Big House Theatre Company and currently work as National Theatre Mentor Director for Connections and a facilitator for Synergy Theatre Project.
They have just directed The Last Show Before We Die, for the Roundabout Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.
This event is in the past and no longer available.
Sightlines Festival
Funded with support from
Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre, and Real Talk
