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The Director Designer Relationship

The Director Designer Relationship: Alex Brown and Madeleine Girling
The collaboration between designer and director is right at the heart of a creative process. In this workshop director Alex Brown and designer Madeleine Girling will reflect on their own process in creating The Chronicles of Kalki, and share practical ideas for ways to develop design ideas and build a creative working relationship.
 

Alex Brown trained at Sussex Uni and the NT Studio. Recent directing includes The Island (Young Vic) and Napoleon Blown Apart, The Red Helicopter (Arcola Academy). He is associate director on Great Britain (NT/West End) and has assisted on The River (Royal Court) and The Turn of the Screw (Almeida). He won the JMK Award 2013.

Madeleine Girling trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2012.  In 2013 she was awarded as a winner in The Linbury Prize For Stage Design for her collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse. Between April 2013 and July 2014 she worked for The Royal Shakespeare Company in a one-year, Design Assistant position. Previous design work includes: Time And The Conways; Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.; The Ant & The Cicada (Royal Shakespeare Company Midsummer Mischief Festival), Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated (Undeb Theatre), Tender Napalm; How To Curse (BOVTS Director’s Showcase), A Welshman’s Guide To Breaking Up (Boyo productions), Hey Diddle Diddle (Bristol Old Vic), The Cagebirds (LAMDA Director’s Showcase), The Life After (BOV Young Company).