Kama Roberts

Female

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What I do:

Actress

A little more about me:

I trained as an actress at RWCMD and work variously as an actor, theatre maker and workshop facilitator.

As a workshop leader and assistant director I have worked extensively with the Mid Powys Youth Theatre.

Recent performance credits include: a one woman children's show called 'Whose Shoes' by Mike Kenny, directed by Andrew Sterry; Helena in 'All's Well That End's Well' with Shakespeare Link; R&D with Omidaze Theatre on an all female Richard III working alongside volcano, Frantic Assembly and the RSC. I have worked with the acclaimed Pentabus Theatre several times, most recently producing work generated through their young writers program.

Over the last few years I have worked with Dutch theatre company PeerGroup and National Theatre Wales developing an artistic relationship with mid Wales communities.

Theatre making is taking an increasingly significant weight in my artistic priorities. I am particularly interested in taking inspiration from mid Wales life, communities and landscapes in the creation of work with and for mid Wales communities. I hope then to share this work, and the mid Wales experience on a broader platform.

Location:

Powys

Projects I’m working on:

I am co-directing a piece for the Wyeside Arts Centre working with young people from Builth Wells high school. The piece focuses on the life of a local, Victorian, writer Thomas Jeffery Llewellyn Prichard and his novel Twm Sion Catty, which came to be the first Anglo Welsh novel published.

Last summer I developed a scratch performance of a little known Radnorshire Folk tale. It was a one woman piece which merged theatre and story telling and was accompanied by a live violin score. The next stage of development is to work with the landscape and location of the story as a means of rooting and infusing the story with the landscape itself. I aim to enter a sited research and development phase in the next few months.

I am working closely with Wyeside Arts Centre in the development of a Research and Development bid. The aim of the project is to explore the changing identity of mid Wales and in and out migration. We will work with leading Welsh artists to explore these themes and, if all goes to plan, create a piece of site specific theatre at the Urdd Eisteddfod in 2017.

Personal Website/CV:

http://www.spotlight.com/7656-8976-3168

Twitter @username:

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  Peter Cox MBE

  Excellent idea Kama. I'll have think. It would be of particular benefit I'm sure to some of the emerging artists around such as yourself as a very fine actor and Brad Birch as a very fine new writer. I think the reading we did of Brad's play was a good example of what's possible when you get a few like minded people together with a bit of determination to make things happen. Don't know if you've noticed Darius Nash just joined the NTW site. Maybe hook him up as a friend and get his and Brad's thoughts.

  Jul 7, 2009

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  Brad Birch

  Hey Kama,
  Sorry it's been so long for me to get back in touch. Busy as a lark! That doesn't make sense, I know. But you know what I mean. Yeah I'm still writing. Always writing. Trying to kinda hone myself into the one act format at the moment. What about yourself? How's the Living Willow doing?

  Jul 16, 2009

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  Rosie Leach

  Hey Kama, I'm sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you! It was great to meet and hang out with you in November, and would be brilliant to meet up again sometime. Over the last month I've been part of a group working with the CAT oral history archive to create some performance; we're about to make a piece of performance about women's stories from CAT and from the wider community here, for Int-Women's day on March 8th. Let me know if you'd like to come! Hope to catch up soon anyway, Rosie.x

   

  Feb 13, 2014