Melly Still Masterclass
Thursday 7th February 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Director and designer Melly Still gave a masterclass based on her collaborative work with Carol Ann Duffy. Afterwards Melly took questions from the audience about this and her other extensive theatre work.
Melly also worked with Masterclass members onstage on the below story from 'The Stolen Childhood & Other Dark Fairy Tales' by Carol Ann Duffy and featured in the recent stage production 'Rats' Tales' at Manchester Royal Exchange.
To download an extract from 'The Stolen Childhood & Other Dark Fairy Tales' by Carol Ann Duffy for use in the Masterclass, please click here.
Images from the session can be viewed here.
Beginning with the most recent, Melly's credits include:
The Pied Piper Manchester Royal Exchange and Carol Ann Duffy 2012 (Director)
The National Theatre’s National Theatre, 2012 (Director)
Jubilee Salute
The Cunning Little Vixen Glyndebourne, 2012 (Director)
Rusalka Glyndebourne Opera 2009 and 2011 (Director)
Beasts and Beauties Hampstead Theatre, 2010 & 2011(Director/Des)
Zaide Classical Opera Co. Sadlers Wells, 2010 & on tour
Nation Royal National Theatre, 2009 (Director/Co. Designer)
Cinderella Lyric Hammersmith, 2008, Warwick 2009
The Revenger’s Tragedy Royal National Theatre, 2008 (Director/Co. Designer)
Watership Down Lyric Hammersmith, 2007 (Director/Designer)
Coram Boy Royal National Theatre & Broadway
2007 Tony Award Nominee for Best Director, Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, Olivier Award 2006 Nominee for Best Director and Best Design (Director/ CoDesigner)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Bristol Old Vic (Director/ Designer) TMA award.
Casa, Greenwich Dance Agency (Designer)
Beasts and Beauties, Bristol Old Vic and the National Theatre of Norway, Bergen (Director/ Designer)
having begun The Place Theatre (Costume consultant)
Midnights Children RSC presented at Barbican Bite Festival, Michigan and The Apollo Theatre, Harlem (Designer and Co Director)
Diary of a Scoundrel National Theatre of Norway, Bergen (Designer)
Much Ado About Nothing Maxim Theatre, Berlin (Designer and Movement )
Les Miserables Tel Aviv Opera House (Co Designer and Movement)
As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night,
Blood Wedding Young Vic (Designer)
The Jungle Book, Young Vic (Designer and Movement);
Tales from Ovid RSC (Designer and Co Director)
More Grimm Tales Young Vic and New Victory NY (Design and Choreo)
Knight and the Lion RFH (Designer)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, National Theatre (Designer and Co Deviser)
Grimm Tales Young Vic and Festival Tour (Designer)
Epic of Gilgamesh Whale National Theatre (Movement)
In Development:
From Morning Til Midnight National Theatre. Writer Dennis Kelly
Cymbeline RSC
Mr Timothy Charlie Smith and Neil Laidlaw Producers
Jumbo National Theatre with Gerry Cottel and Robert Jolley
Tagged Fluidity Films
Invisible Fuel
Coram Boy Bristol Old Vic
Moon Tiger Simon Reade
World’s Wife Simon Reade
The Conjuror Allan Scott, Mathew Byam Shaw Producers