Outside Edge has appointed Susie Miller as its artistic director.
Artist and theatre-maker Susie Miller is a director and co-founder of Humourisk, an associate artist with Collective Voice and a regular visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama. Her recent work includes The Sparked Fun Palace, part of the Fun Palaces initiative.
Miller has been the artistic director of Capital Age Festival and previously worked with Clean Break Theatre Company, where she directed productions for Holloway Prison.
The company supports and works with addicts and former addicts drawing on personal experiences; its performances can include a Forum Theatre debate, in which the play is rerun and audiences invited to actively participate in changing the outcome.
Miller will direct Rockston Stories with creative support from company patron Mark Rylance. Using stories from the people of Hoxton—known amongst crack cocaine users as ‘Rockston’—news archives and live performed testimonies the devised performance will reflect the splintered and at times absurdly comic world of people who have been affected by addiction, chemical or otherwise.
Susie said, "I am so pleased to be working with this extraordinary theatre company. I have been interested in the work of Outside Edge for many years, as they have led the way creating innovative thought provoking theatre uncovering stories and supporting people affected by addiction."
Actor and former addict Phil Fox, who passed away in June last year, was the founder and first artistic director of Outside Edge.