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Phillip Mackenzie
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- What I do:
- Director
- A little more about me:
- I have been active as a theatre maker and educator for 40 years. I studied theatre with Lindsay Kemp before serving a 3-year apprenticeship with New York director Salvatore Maraucci in performance.
Since arriving in Europe from Australia in 1979, my performance and directing work has evolved and developed through embracing a diversity of styles with seminal companies that include: The Lindsay Kemp Company, Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Odin Theatret, Impact Theatre, Welsh National Opera, Centre for Performance Research, Steve Shill Company, Gloria with Neil Bartlett, Royal Shakespeare Company, and National Theatre, and internationally acclaimed Man Act as founder /co-artistic director for 12 years.1984 – 1996.
My body of theatre and performance work recognised internationally for its innovation and physicality has travelled to 35 countries. Including performances for: conventional theatre spaces in New York, refugee camps in Hong Kong, avant-garde fashion spectacles in Paris, Immersive theatre events in deserted industrial sites on the outskirts of major European cities, The Tempest with refugees for underground cellars in Copenhagen, Swan Lake for Nijmegen harbour and a large scale performance created at the invitation of the government of Dubai.
I created and delivered programmes on Advanced Presentation and Performance skills for Senior Management teams in a myriad of multi national companies that include: Dupont, Pepsi Cola and Kimal UK.
I was external degree assessor for University of Wales, Cardiff in Time Based Performance Studies BA (Hons) 1995-1998 and was an advisor to the Dance and Drama panel for the Arts Council of Wales (1998 - 2002). Board member of National Association of Youth Theatres 2007 - 2010.
From 2001 - 2015, Director of Youth Theatre/New Artists’ Development and Head of Creative Learning.for the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.
For 15 years, I devoted my time to codifying, distilling and developing knowledge to further nurture and educate whilst creating contemporary theatre with the young people of Cardiff aged between 12 – 26 yrs. Creating a series of large and middle scale theatre performances – Lord of the Flies (Revisited), Dressing Up, Alice (through the looking glass), Dam Dogs (all female take on Reservoir Dogs), Frankenstein’s, Bobs Dance Hall, Macbeth (in 6 tons of sand), Savage Love, Gospel, 18/6 and Kontakt ,a 130 person version of Oedipus/Antigone throughout a deserted theatre building, To Live To Love To Be for Royal Shakespeare Company Open Stages, Hood for National Theatre. Crowds and Power. Dracula for the Sherman Players.
International co productions between the Sherman Youth Theatre and the Czech Republic. Gospel was restaged with senior members of the Youth Theatre and Albanian/Serbian performers at the invitation of The Skenaup International Theatre and Film Festival at The National Theatre of Kosovo. For the past 6 years I have created a series of site specific performances for Castello di Galeazza, Italy. Most recently a collaboration between SCYT and the National Theatre of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
In 2007 I was awarded a prestigious Arts Council Wales, Creative Wales Award to travel and continue research into contemporary European theatre practice and its application to my ongoing theatre work educating young people. This lead to the creation of the immersive/participatory performance template Kontakt which has since been adopted by theatres and festivals throughout the UK.
In 2015 I departed my employment at Sherman Theatre to pursue freelance opportunities and further studies, including a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Swansea University.
I continue to deliver masterclasses in improvisation, ensemble and theatre making throughout Europe and beyond. Recent residencies include (FIST Festival) Belgrade, (Olga Pona Company) Chelyabinsk, Siberia, (ACTS Festival) Bilbao, (4th Int’l Festival of Change)Athens, Theatre Uz Theatre for Youth, Tashkent, Uzbekistan and LSO Kenya and MFM inTanzania.
- Location:
- Cardiff
- Projects I’m working on:
- Completing MA in Creative Writing.
Theatre workshops in Kenya.
- Twitter @username:
- @phillipdarcymac
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