Rachel Warr is a director, dramaturge and puppeteer. She is trained in dance, mask and mime. Rachel frequently develops new work with playwrights and through devising with performers. Previous directing work includes new writing at The Wolsey Theatre, Chester Gateway Theatre, Eastern Angles, Windsor Arts Centre as well as various fringe venues. She has directed productions at the New Wimbledon Theatre and for European tours. Her recent work includes: Antoine & The Paper Aeroplane shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2009; Flight of Hope (a music based piece in development) with Strikeachord Theatre, and Hidden Lives and Unvisited Tombs in St Pancras crypt for Scary Little Girls.
What we say about Rachel
What a privilege it is to have a gem of a director like Rachel onboard with us scaries. As well as devising some exciting storytelling projects with us, providing vision and focus on our scripts and in-development work, Rachel is also directing our Literary Cabarets and helping us to create our first tour! She provides a rapier wit, searing insight and wicked artistic vision to all projects we turn her attention too, changing the gear on our work and forcing us to level up every time we are in a room with her. There is seemingly no end to her generosity and talent and we are delighted to be benefiting from her skills and care.
Having meet and directed Rebecca when they were both at Sheffield University, Rachel didn't know it but her radical interpretation of classic text and piercing analytical approach were to influence our founder scary little girl profoundly - much of the ethos of the production hub comes from seminal artistic friendships like that provided by Rachel. She taught Rebecca vital early lessons about theatrical group dynamic, an audience's relationship with stories and self aware and self confident feminism in art and life. And now all our scary little artists and audiences can enjoy her gifts too, exciting times!