Since graduating from the Central School
of Speech and Drama, Hannah has held the full time positions
of Artistic Director of Adrenalin Arts Childrens’
Theatre Schools, Associate Director (Education) for Y Touring
Theatre Company and full time Director / Lecturer and Course
Director for the Birmingham Theatre School. Hannah is now
Artistic Director of her own companies, Pink Space Theatre
Company and Birmingham Library Theatre Company.
As Artistic Director of Adrenalin Arts,
Hannah directed all youth theatre performances including
Colours a new musical by Nik Haley, performed by 300 young
people at the Bloomsbury Theatre and supported by BBC Radio
Northampton.
During her role as Associate Director
at Y Touring Theatre Company, Central YMCA’s award
winning professional touring theatre company for adults
and young people her knowledge and experience as a director
developed. Hannah directed professional, touring, innovative
and interactive pieces, including Dear DD, a T.I.E
piece which explored issues around sexual health and teenage
pregnancy and Wasted a new piece of writing by
Rhiannon Tise which toured schools raising student awareness
of binge drinking and addiction. She also created, ran,
devised with and directed the youth theatre group YT2.
Y Touring Theatre Company equipped Hannah
with the necessary training, experience and understanding
to work successfully as a freelance director. For Full House
Theatre Company, a professional Family Theatre Company,
she directed The Snow Queen, Playing the Dream
and The Firebird all of which completed successful
National tours and Beauty and the Beast performed at the
Bowen West theatre, Bedford. Hannah also directed the Snake
of Doom which I had co-written with Spin Off Theatre Company
and was performed at the Landor Theatre, London.
Hannah co-founded the company Street Classics
with composer and musical director, Nik Haley. Street Classics
re-created classical stories using contemporary form. Their
first original musical play which Hannah had co-written
and directed was Hades Corner which premiered at the Bloomsbury
Theatre London and then continued to play a number of venues
in London and Brighton.
As a director for the Birmingham Theatre
School, Hannah directed both devised and scripted performances
with full time and part time students. Past productions
included, Attempts on Crimp performed at Stratford
East, London, Etcetera theatre, London and the MAC, Birmingham,
Strindberg & Churchill’s A Dream Play
performed at The Cresent theatre, Berkoff’s Requieum
For Ground Zero and East, Claire Dowie’s Adult
Child / Dead Child and Why is John Lennon Wearing
a Skirt? Liz Lochhead’s Thebans and
Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life and Sarah Kane’s
4:48 Psychosis and Crave at the Matthew
Boulton College Theatre, Cecilia Parkert’s Witness
translated by Kevin Halliwell at the Etcetera theatre, London.
Recent directing credits with her own
companies, Birmingham Library Theatre Company is a devised
piece in celebration of Black History Month, It’s
Not All Black & White and with Pink Space include
Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Chicks and
Dicks, Penis Patter or Cock Chatter, Vagina Rex and the
Gas Oven and Fast & Furious Or Soft & Slow
which was performed in Birmingham, London and the Edinburgh
Fringe. (*** Three Weeks)
