The Breath of Life

The Breath of Life: embodying concept throughout the directorial process

This workshop explores how you, the director, can take a vision or concept for a production through the foundation, pitching, pre-production and rehearsal stages of the directing process. Through a practical session we will be exploring what you need to begin, the flexibility required throughout the process and ways to navigate the ups and downs of getting a production on. We will use examples from text and devised-based work, as well as examples from participants’ own projects. You can bring work you are in the process of making or recently completed examples.

Harry Mackrill (He/him) Harry Mackrill is a UK-based theatre maker. He trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama following a Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies undergraduate at Roehampton University. Harry was Resident Director at the Tricycle Theatre (2013 – 2015), Associate Director at Kiln Theatre (2018 – 2019) and Associate Director for the National Theatre’s production of Angels in America (2017).

Harry is currently Creative Director of the Lot Productions. His first production for the Lot, WHAT IT MEANS, premiered at Wilton’s Music Hall and was called “vital theatre” by the Guardian.

Recent directing credits include: Led By the Child (The Lot Productions / Greenwich Film Festival Official Selection 2024); What It Means (Wilton’s Music Hall); Road (Synergy Theatre Project); Adjustments (Manchester Film Fest Official Selection, British Short Film Award Winner 2022); World’s End (King’s Head Theatre).

Harry is currently touring the one-to-one performance FABULATIONS around the country, using queer dramaturgy to archive the unrecorded experiences of Section 28 for LGBTQ+ youth 1988 – 2003.

Age Guidance: 18+