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Episode Eighteen - Anna Simpson Irish Theatre At Play

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Anna is a freelance theatre director, playwright, and physical theatre practitioner.  

Since training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she was the youngest ever recipient of the Elsa Roberts Award for Directing, Anna founded Quintessence Theatre in Louth, with whom she is the Artistic Director. Since then Anna has created plays all across Ireland and the UK, specialising in collaborative physical ensemble storytelling on socially provocative issues. Anna was an Education Practitioner with Shakespeare's Globe, London, and a Young Creative Associate of the Pleasance Theatre, London and Edinburgh.  CRACKS, an originally devised play exploring suicide and mental illness in Ireland, toured nationally in 2018, and her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA won the Broadway World Ireland Regional Award 2018/2019 for Best New Play. BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, a devised play exploring abuse in lockdown, premiered last month in the Drogheda Arts Festival, and can be streamed on their…

​... and all 4 episodes can be streamed for free on their YouTube Channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQyxh1NGoS8YDlCsvl_zhfg

Her latest digital play, AFLOAT, with Sunday’s Child Theatre, will play as part of the digital programme of Summerhall in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

You can get more info and tickets to watch it here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/afloat-by-eva-o-connor-and-hildgegard-ryan

Website: https://annasimpson050987.wixsite.com/annasimpson

Insta: @the_director_anna_simpson  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quintessencetheatreco/

Twitter: @annasimpson87 @quintessencepro

Drogheda Arts Festival - YouTube

Drogheda Arts Festival is back with an exclusive programme of events; online, offsite, outdoors and live over summer 2021. Beginning on the June Bank Holiday..

Anna is a freelance theatre director, playwright, and physical theatre practitioner.  

Since training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she was the youngest ever recipient of the Elsa Roberts Award for Directing, Anna founded Quintessence Theatre in Louth, with whom she is the Artistic Director. Since then Anna has created plays all across Ireland and the UK, specialising in collaborative physical ensemble storytelling on socially provocative issues. Anna was an Education Practitioner with Shakespeare's Globe, London, and a Young Creative Associate of the Pleasance Theatre, London and Edinburgh.  CRACKS, an originally devised play exploring suicide and mental illness in Ireland, toured nationally in 2018, and her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA won the Broadway World Ireland Regional Award 2018/2019 for Best New Play. BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, a devised play exploring abuse in lockdown, premiered last month in the Drogheda Arts Festival, and can be streamed on their…

​... and all 4 episodes can be streamed for free on their YouTube Channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQyxh1NGoS8YDlCsvl_zhfg

Her latest digital play, AFLOAT, with Sunday’s Child Theatre, will play as part of the digital programme of Summerhall in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

You can get more info and tickets to watch it here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/afloat-by-eva-o-connor-and-hildgegard-ryan

Website: https://annasimpson050987.wixsite.com/annasimpson

Insta: @the_director_anna_simpson  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quintessencetheatreco/

Twitter: @annasimpson87 @quintessencepro

Drogheda Arts Festival - YouTube

Drogheda Arts Festival is back with an exclusive programme of events; online, offsite, outdoors and live over summer 2021. Beginning on the June Bank Holiday..

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