Elizabeth Freestone

 

Elizabeth Freestone

Director


Current Shows CURRENT SHOWS


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Elizabeth Freestone      Last updated October 2008

 

Trained: at the National Theatre Studio and at the Rose Bruford College
(1st Class BA Hons. Directing).


CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PROJECTS INCLUDE
THE TRAGEDY OF THOMAS HOBBES – Royal Shakespeare Company, opening at Wilton’s Music Hall

 

RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Director on Attachment at the National Theatre Studio until February 2008

ROMEO AND JULIET – The Globe Theatre on UK and European tour

THREE SISTERS – Welsh College of Music and Drama
SIX CHARACTERS LOOKING FOR AN AUTHOR – Central School of Music and Drama
SKELLIG by David Almond – tour
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE – as Associate Director to Sean Holmes –National Theatre
THE WATER HARVEST by Chris Lee - Theatre 503
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS – Royal Shakespeare Company
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Anthony Neilson – St Dunstans
LEFT ON CHURCH STREET by Nathan Parker – Bridewell Theatre
LOCK THE GATES by Neela Dolezalova – Lyric Studio

 

RECENT SHORT PLAYS
FLAMINGOS by Duncan Macmillan – Latitude Festival
TYCHO BRAHE by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm – Theatre 503
POOR HENRY by James Graham – Red Lion
PIGEONS by Mike Bartlett and Rachel Wagstaff – Theatre 503
WAYS TO SURVIVE THE WORLD by Jennifer Tuckett – Red Lion
ONE MAN AND HIS TREE by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm – Theatre 503
COURSE IN A RESTAURANT by David Dipper – Old Vic (New Voices)

 

RECENT REHEARSED READINGS
National Theatre Studio: THE WATER HARVEST by Chris Lee, THE FIVE WIVES
OF MAURICE PINDER by Matt Charman and ARIEL by Linda Marshall Griffiths
GUARDIAN PLAYS – Soho Theatre
THE ROAD TO GREENWICH PIER by Rachael Wagstaff – Actors Centre
LEARNING TO SWIM THE INDIAN WAY by Paven Kirk – Royal Court Theatre

 

THEATRE (as Staff Director)
MARKET BOY by David Eldridge (extension) – National Theatre, director Rufus Norris
A NEW WAY TO PLEASE YOU by Middleton & Rowley – RSC, director Sean Holmes
SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES by Frank McGuinness – RSC, director Rupert Goold
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL by Philip Massinger – RSC, director Josie Rourke
FUN HOUSE by Catherine Johnson – Old Vic (24 hour plays), director Phyllida Lloyd
VIA DOLOROSA by David Hare - Australia tour, director Stephen Daldry
LOYAL WOMEN by Gary Mitchell – Royal Court, director Josie Rourke
SUNDAY FATHER by Adam Pettle – Hampstead Theatre, director Rupert Goold
THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK by Naomi Wallace, director Raz Shaw

 

THEATRE (other projects)
Senior Reader: Royal Shakespeare Company, Hampstead and Paines Plough
Reader: Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Soho and Live Theatre
Literary Associate: Soho Theatre

 

RADIO (as Director)
THE LUNEBERG VARIATION by Paulo Maurensig - CBL for Radio 4
WATER SCULPTURES by Dawn King - Resonance
THE OTHER MAN by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie – Radio 4
WAR WITH THE NEWTS by Karel Capek – CBL for Radio 3
FABULOUS FLOPS+MORE FABULOUS FLOPS by Paul Roseby – Radio 4
THE PAPERS OF A J WENTWORTH (Retd) by H F Ellis – Radio 4
A CHILE CHRISTMAS by Peter Searles – Radio 4
WHO WEARS THE TROUSERS? by Emma Kennedy – Radio 4
RING AROUND THE BATH by Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson – Radio 4
CHURCH LADIES by Aileen Gonsalves – Radio 4


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