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Dateline: 19th May, 2008
New Creative Team Members at the RSC Michael Boyd today announced key additions to his current RSC creative team alongside Chief Associate Gregory Doran, Associate Director Deborah Shaw, and Associate Designer Tom Piper, as the company plans the artistic programme for the next long-term acting ensemble from 2009 and the reopening in 2010 of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
David Farr will join the RSC full time from early 2009 and Rupert Goold from 2010, alongside his commitments to Headlong Theatre, though they will be closely involved in the development of the repertoire from now on. Roxana Silbert will join shortly, dividing her time between the RSC and her post as Artistic Director of Paines Plough. As RSC Associate Directors, they will participate fully in the life of the company, including the events and learning programmes, as well as directing plays.
David Farr comes from the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and brings with him a breadth of knowledge and relationships with the country’s leading physical and devised theatre companies, as well as his own writing, directing and devising skills.
Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre. He has been a strong advocate of large scale classical and new work throughout his career, and draws influences from all art forms. His iconoclastic take on what contemporary theatre should be has shaken up audiences’ expectations with recent inventive stagings of Shakespeare.
Roxana Silbert is Artistic Director of Paines Plough Theatre Company. She has a forensic eye for contemporary dramaturgy and has championed many of our leading dramatists through their early plays. She recently led the RSC’s residency at Davidson College in the US, exploring an epic new play by Rona Munro.
Kathryn Hunter is a performer and director who brings her uniquely intense ensemble theatre-making to the RSC. She was a key member of Complicite in its formative years, and is a powerhouse of theatrical invention. As Artistic Associate she will be an important contributor to the creative conversation within the company.
In another step towards repositioning New Work at the heart of the company, Boyd is also strengthening the RSC’s literary department.
Anthony Neilson becomes Literary Associate. A powerful leading figure in the development of contemporary writing, he made his RSC debut writing and directing God in Ruins, and is renowned for tackling the darkest of subjects with the highest levels of invention and wit. He will work closely with Jeanie O’Hare, who has been the architect of the RSC’s renewed relationship with living writers and who takes up a new role as Company Dramaturg, working with writers and directors in the rehearsal room to help shape and draw together the strands of classical and contemporary work. They will shortly be joined by a new RSC/Warwick University International Writer in Residence who will take over from Adriano Shaplin later this summer.
Michael Boyd said, “The RSC is very fortunate that some of the most inspirational theatre-makers of their generation want to make the RSC their artistic home over the coming years and help to redefine ensemble theatre-making in this country.”
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