+44 78 77716702 [email protected] www.shanedempsey.co.uk Director NT Connections 2019, supporting productions across UK. Translations The National Theatre Brian Friel Boudica Clifftown Theatre Tristan Bernays Continuity The Finborough Theatre Gerry Moynihan About Last Night Arcola Theatre Verbatim / Tom Harvey Spring Awakening Mercury Theatre Gary Owen 13 Clifftown Theatre Mike Bartlett The Non-Stop Connolly The Finborough Theatre John Arden & Show Margaretta D'Arcy The Blocks ClifftownTheatre devised by the company The Master & Margarita The Bussey Building, Mikhail Bulgakov Te Pooka - Edinburgh adapted by Hannah Burke Seven Jewish Children Arcola Theatre Caryl Churchill LOL Clifftown Theatre Lee Mattinson No Dogs The White Bear Hannah Burke The Bay E15. Eninburgh Fringe, Hannah Burke / devised Theatre 503 Skolka Underbelly Edinburgh, Hannah Burke / devised London and Belgium Vinnie, Henri & Dan The Hospital Club Tom Harvey £39 Dorfman Theatre (NT) Rachel Lane It's More Than Okay Levi Dorfman Theatre (NT) Robert lazarus Moonwalking In Chinatown Soho Theatre Suzanne Gorman Called To Account Tricycle Theatre Nicolas Kent The Caretaker Tricycle Theatre Jamie Lloyd E15 Acting School, BA Acting and Stage Combat, 1st Year Acting, developing Ensemble skills as well as an introduction to The Stanislavski System, with practical application through improvisation and textual analysis E15 Acting School, BA Physical Theatre, 3rd Year, guest workshop ' Demystifying The Casting Process' Colchester Institute, BA Creative Performance, 3rd Year, External Examiner on students devised public performance at The Brighton Fringe E15 Acting School, BA Acting and Stage Combat, 1st Year Acting, 'The Living History ', this extensive project encourages students to immerse themselves in a socio-political context through improvisation 2009 - 2016 BA Acting and Stage Combat, co-director of 'Industry Showcase' 2009 -2017 Colchester Institute, BA Creative Performance, 3rd Year, Director of 'Spring Awakening' in a new version by Gary Owen, Mercury Theatre Colchester Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand, 3rd Year, guest lecturer and taught 'Acting On Screen' in 2014 and 2016. The Forge Initiative, Guildford, Year Long Programme, Devised and directed an adaptation of '253' by Geoff Ryman Alpha Partners China, I wrote the theatre curriculum, line managed a team of Director and was a core facilitator of a strand of the project across Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu. 2013- 2016 E15 Acting School, BA Community Theatre,3rd Year Directed and devised 'Desirous', site specific production in The Royal Hotel, Southend On Sea. Canterbury Christ Church, BA Drama (Directing), 3rd Year, a guest workshop exploring 'Viewpoints and Ensemble Practise- a practical guide' Royal Holloway, University Of London, BA Drama and Theatre Studies, this workshop explored 'Systems Of Rehearsal' Identity Drama School led modules in Devising / Textual Analysis / Physical Theatre " A virtuosic male performance.” (New York Times, Continuity) 'It is an Irish tour de force. Unmissable theatre’ (Prestridgesquared, Continuity) 'Director Shane Dempsey ensures the 10-strong company never becomes sedentary... .The result is a rousing piece of political theatre ' (The Stage , The Non-Stop Connolly Show) ' Ivan’s hectic slapstick chase through Moscow and Margarita’s trance-like flight across the USSR are brilliantly executed..the dynamism of the overall production is thrilling' (Emily McGovern, Russian Art and Culture - The Master & Margarita) ‘Shane Dempsey did a lively and enjoyable production of Seven Jewish Children, which accurately caught the spirit and politics of the play’ (Caryl Churchill, Seven Jewish Children) National Theatre Studio, Resident Director (cover) July - Oct 2018 National Theatre Studio, Workshop with Carrie Cracknell and Alice Birch on 'The Seagull' National Theatre Directors Course 2017 Shortlisted for Clore Leadership Fellowship 2017 Full member of Stage Directors UK. Founder and Artistic Director of Stagecraft, Ireland, 1998 -2016. Responsible for child protection, budgeting, staff development, and programming. Stagecraft is one of Ireland’ s leading youth theatre’s and has produced work by Enda Walsh, Jack Thorne and Abi Morgan. STAGECRAFTYT.COM Former Artistic Director of Fragments, a dynamic physical ensemble. Fragments work played at The Bussey Building, Theatre 503, Edinburgh, The Rag Factory, The Space and The White Bear Theatre. Patrons included Neil LaBute, Stephen Atkinson and Max- Stafford Clark. Led workshops in Moscow and observed contemporary actor training at The Moscow Arts Theatre and Vakhtangov Institute. Invited by Lev Dodin to observe The Maly Theatre at their Paris season 2009 and again to observe his production of 'The Cherry Orchard' in Milan 2017 Invited to lead a series of devising and physical theatre workshops for New Dance Amsterdam, New York Work-shopped with Lloyd Newson, Declan Donnellan, Lyndsey Turner, Ian Rickson, Jeremy Heron, Marianne Elliott and Melly Still Participant in 'The Next Stage' Abbey Theatre / Dublin Theatre Festival Lighting Designer RENT, Burying Your Brother In The Pavement, Fugee and Salt Mountain. Observed lighting designer Jack Knowles on Barbershop Chronicles, The National Theatre Hobbies include: Photography, Graphic Design, Swimming, Yoga and Aikido MA Theatre Directing / E15 Acting School (University Of Essex) Diploma in Speech & Drama Studies / DIT / Dublin Ian Rickson (details on request) .