NATASHA RICKMAN
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Natasha is artistic associate at Jermyn Street Theatre and co-founder of Women@RADA.
Directing credits include: The Time Machine for Creation Theatre - The London Library and Oxford Natural History Museum (upcoming Feb-Aug 2020); Rhino - The King's Head; Twelfth Night (Rose Playhouse) Hilda and Virginia (Jermyn Street) Honour (Angry Bear Shorts at The Royal Court). Credits in drama schools include Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona - RADA; Macbeth - ArtsEd; Our Country's Good - Identity. Associate directing credits include: A Little Night Music (Storyhouse); Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) Assistant directing credits include: The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (The Globe) As casting director: For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street Theatre) Natasha is an associate text and acting tutor at RADA where she is also a Shakespeare Awards Examiner. Women@RADA have platformed seventy gender balanced readings to date and platformed work that has gone on to be produced regionally, internationally and in the West End. They also produced the industry's first alumni showcase spotlighting female identifying performers. |
Credits
DIRECTING CREDITS:
The Time Machine
by Jonathan Holloway
Creation Theatre
Banbury
Director
2020
A Little Night Music
by Stephen Sondheim
Story House
Chester
Associate Director to Alex Clifton
2018
Hilda And Virginia
by Maureen Duffy
Jermyn Street Theatre
Director
2018
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Arts Educational School, London
Director
2018
Playing Shakespeare Project
RADA with NYU
Director
2018
Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment
by William Shakespeare
Rose Playhouse/
RSC Dell Stage
Director
2015/
2017
Dirty Word
by Shelley Davenport
Crazy Coqs (Live at Zedel)
Director
2017
Dancing Shoes (short)
by Olivia Mace
Southwark Playhouse (Little Pieces of Gold)
Director
2017
Debrief (short)
by Leila Nashef
Theatre 503 (Rapid Write Response)
Director
2017
Percy (short)
by Tom Collinson
Southwark Playhouse (Little Pieces of Gold)
Director
2017
There's No Place (short)
by Micah Smith
Park Theatre200 (Women Redressed)
Director
2017
Beware of the Devil (short)
by Peri Olufunwa
Rose Playhouse
Director
2017
Bangers (short)
by Shelley Davenport
Rose Playhouse
Director
2017
Witness A (short)
by Shelley Davenport
TheatreN16
Director
2017
Corporis Certi (reading)
by A.C. Smith
RADA
Director
2017
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens adapted by Debbie Oates
Broadway Gallery and Studio, Letchworth
Director
2017
The Beau Defeated (reading)
by Mary Pix
Rose Playhouse (The Salon Season)
Director
2016
The Time Machine
by Jonathan Holloway
Creation Theatre
Banbury
Director
2020
A Little Night Music
by Stephen Sondheim
Story House
Chester
Associate Director to Alex Clifton
2018
Hilda And Virginia
by Maureen Duffy
Jermyn Street Theatre
Director
2018
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Arts Educational School, London
Director
2018
Playing Shakespeare Project
RADA with NYU
Director
2018
Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment
by William Shakespeare
Rose Playhouse/
RSC Dell Stage
Director
2015/
2017
Dirty Word
by Shelley Davenport
Crazy Coqs (Live at Zedel)
Director
2017
Dancing Shoes (short)
by Olivia Mace
Southwark Playhouse (Little Pieces of Gold)
Director
2017
Debrief (short)
by Leila Nashef
Theatre 503 (Rapid Write Response)
Director
2017
Percy (short)
by Tom Collinson
Southwark Playhouse (Little Pieces of Gold)
Director
2017
There's No Place (short)
by Micah Smith
Park Theatre200 (Women Redressed)
Director
2017
Beware of the Devil (short)
by Peri Olufunwa
Rose Playhouse
Director
2017
Bangers (short)
by Shelley Davenport
Rose Playhouse
Director
2017
Witness A (short)
by Shelley Davenport
TheatreN16
Director
2017
Corporis Certi (reading)
by A.C. Smith
RADA
Director
2017
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens adapted by Debbie Oates
Broadway Gallery and Studio, Letchworth
Director
2017
The Beau Defeated (reading)
by Mary Pix
Rose Playhouse (The Salon Season)
Director
2016
reviews
TWELTH NIGHT: A GENDER EXPERIMENT
LITRO: "...director Natasha Rickman brings inventive solutions to limitations of time and cast size: parts are doubled (or even tripled), a change of hat or accent marks a change of role, and characters are assumed or shrugged off mid-scene. On the night I attend, the all-female cast perform an energetic, entertaining, and occasionally farcical version of Twelfth Night, bringing playfulness to the play’s world of disguises and mistaken identities, and making the most of the staging possibilities offered by the atmospheric venue."
MTM: "Natasha Rickman stages Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment four ways: all-female, all-male, same gendered and cross-gendered. Rather than seeing all four, I went for the most rare of the options out of curiosity, which was satisfied by excellent performances and a 90-minute edit with plenty of fun and energy. "
DANCING SHOES
SPY IN THE STALLS: "To create a true sense of drama in such a short piece is a real skill, and Olivia Mace’s Dancing Shoes was a terrific piece of writing in this regard. Dealing with hefty subject matter – dementia, family skeletons, racial politics – with a truth and a lightness of touch, and imaginatively directed by Natasha Rickman"
LITRO: "...director Natasha Rickman brings inventive solutions to limitations of time and cast size: parts are doubled (or even tripled), a change of hat or accent marks a change of role, and characters are assumed or shrugged off mid-scene. On the night I attend, the all-female cast perform an energetic, entertaining, and occasionally farcical version of Twelfth Night, bringing playfulness to the play’s world of disguises and mistaken identities, and making the most of the staging possibilities offered by the atmospheric venue."
MTM: "Natasha Rickman stages Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment four ways: all-female, all-male, same gendered and cross-gendered. Rather than seeing all four, I went for the most rare of the options out of curiosity, which was satisfied by excellent performances and a 90-minute edit with plenty of fun and energy. "
DANCING SHOES
SPY IN THE STALLS: "To create a true sense of drama in such a short piece is a real skill, and Olivia Mace’s Dancing Shoes was a terrific piece of writing in this regard. Dealing with hefty subject matter – dementia, family skeletons, racial politics – with a truth and a lightness of touch, and imaginatively directed by Natasha Rickman"
