Cost: $150
- Friday 23 Jan 10am-1pm
- Sat 24 Jan 10am-1pm
- Sun 25 Jan 10am-4pm
- Mon 26 10am-4pm
The Directors Lab is a hands-on workshop for creatives ready to explore theatre directing. Whether you have never directed before, or you have a production or two under your belt and want to skill up with professional guidance – there’s always something new to learn and fun to be had.
Guided by director, actor and playwright Jane Montgomery Griffiths, you will be led through a four-day workshop exploring the creative, conceptual and practical elements of staging a play.
To ensure that every participant is able to engage and learn from this experience, we only have a limited number of spots available. CTC is committed to improving theatre’s accessibility, diversity and inclusion for all. We encourage women, First Nations, Queer, migrant and refugee folk to apply.
We know that cost is often a barrier to opportunity for many in our community, and as part of our ongoing commitment to accessibility, the CTC has heavily subsidised the ticketed price of the workshop for all participants.
Over the course of four days, Jane will guide you through:
• the role of the theatre director
• how to gain confidence and handle ‘imposter syndrome’
• choosing your play
• conceptualising your script
• pitching your project
• working with the design, stage management and technical team
• auditioning your cast
• planning rehearsals
• working with actors
• what happens in the technical rehearsal
• getting ready for opening night and the run
No experience is necessary – this will be a friendly, accessible and gentle introduction to help you plan your first directorial project and build the confidence and skills to make it happen.
Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Jane is an actor, playwright and director, who was also for many years Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance and Professor of Theatre Practice. Prior to that, Jane was Associate Director at Harrogate Theatre in the UK, where she was in charge of new writing and directed several main stage shows. She has also directed the Cambridge Greek play and had freelance directing positions for UpFront Theatre Company and Redstitch.
As an actor she has performed with major theatre companies across the UK, and in Australia, with Bell Shakespeare, Belvoir, Malthouse, MTC, Theatreworks, 45Downstairs and Red Stitch. TV and film includes Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries; The Rings of Power; The Rooster; The Holding’;Five Bedrooms; Casualty; The Bill; Red Dwarf.
Her plays and libretti have been performed at Malthouse, Belvoir, ABC Radio National, NIDA, Victorian Opera and the Vienna Burgstheater and Theatreworks. She’s received or been nominated for several Manchester Evening News, Greenroom, Sydney Theatre, and Helpmann Theatre Awards and two Premiers’ Literary Awards. CTC is very excited to have a creative professional of Jane’s calibre leading this workshop.