Amy Clare Tasker Theatre CV
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AMY CLARE TASKER THEATRE MAKER & CREATIVE PRODUCER London 2013 - present. co-director of Pinecone Performance Lab San Francisco 2008 - 2013. arLsLc director of Inkblot Ensemble +44 (0)7462 550062 @AmyClareTasker [email protected] www.amyclaretasker.com | www.pineconeperformance.com THEATRE MAKING DIRECTING & DEVISING WITH MY OWN COMPANY PINECONE PERFORMANCE LAB ChanGe of Art | creave producer, singer-songwriter a mulE-arts collecEve, fostering community and HOT (Helen of Troy) | writer & performer conversaEon through creaEve intervenEons. a patriarchy-smashing solo show with Greek mythology, www.changeofart.org.uk power ballads, and a 90s pop culture twist 2017: Change of Art FesEval, in partnership with HOPE not The Cockpit (London) February 2020 hate & Amnesty InternaEonal UK. artsdepot residency (London) Sept 2019 2018: Hear Here, an audio installaEon commissioned by Upstart Theatre, at DARE FesEval, Shoreditch Town Hall. Home Is Where… | director, creator, producer verbaEm theatre & oral history project, devised by the The Helen Project - later became HOT (Helen of Troy) company from interviews with Cross Culture Kids. director, co-writer, producer CLF Art Cafe, Bussey Building R&D (London) 2019 by Megan Cohen & Amy Clare Tasker Theatre Delicatessen R&D (London) June 2017 Face to Face FesEval at LOST Theatre (London) 2014 RichMix R&D (London) September 2016 DIVAfest (San Francisco) 2013 Camden People’s Theatre scratch (London) January 2016 Dirty Laundry inspired by Lorca’s Yerma CREATIVE PRODUCING director & dramaturg The Collaboratory & Inkblot Ensemble Voila! Europe Theatre Fes=val EXIT Theatre (San Francisco) 2012 co-director a border-busEng mix of mulElingual, mulEcultural, & Satellites by Inkblot Ensemble mulEdisciplinary performance in London. director & producer www.voilafesEval.co.uk FURY Factory FesEval of ensemble theatre Nov 2018: The Cockpit, Etcetera Theatre, Applecart Arts Inkblot Ensemble at NOH Space (San Francisco) 2011 Apr 2019: A Piece of the ConEnent FesEval at Actors Centre Nov 2019: The Cockpit & Rich Mix Alice in WonDerlanD | director Nov 2020: The Cockpit on stage & online by Lewis Carroll, in a new adaptaEon by Brian Markley for promenade performance in a Redwood forest. Theatre Maker at The Cockpit Theatre in the Woods (San Francisco) 2010 programme director an ongoing arEst development programme, creaEng EDUCATION community among early-career theatre makers with BA Drama. University of California, Irvine 2007 workshops, courses, scratch nights, readings, networking DirecEng: Bill Rauch, Keith Fowler; PlaywriEng: Anthony events, and producEon support. Kubiak; ProducEon: Don Hill, Cliff Faulkner. www.thecockpit.org.uk/theatremaker Uni. of Manchester/Royal EXchange Theatre 2006-2007 LonDon DeviseD Theatre Intensive DirecEng: MarEn Harris; PlaywriEng: Jo Combes, Amanda producer & Open Space facilitator Dalton, Chris Meads; ProducEon: Vivian Gardner. a two-week workshop for theatre makers: masterclasses, peer pracEce exchange, and devising sessions using Open CONTINUED TRAINING & WORKSHOPS Space. Toynbee Studios, October 2017 & October 2018 Directors Lab West 2012/ Directors Lab Chicago 2018 www.devisedtheatre.com The OpEmists producing course: China Plate Theatre Intracultural Performance: KrisEne Landon-Smith TranShakespeare | producer InteracEve Performance: FanSHEN & Play Vienna a pracEcal workshop exploring gender in the Shakespeare CreaEng Theatre Lab: Scenic Route Theatre AdapEng Theatre PracEce with Disabled Actors: Young Vic canon with internaEonally renowned director Lisa Wolpe. HOPE Academy community organising: HOPE not hate Young Vic/London Shakespeare Centre summer 2015 German Level A2, InternaEonal House, London updated October 2020.