Jules Tipton Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

https://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/show/tiny-plays-with-jules-tipton/

Loughton, England, United Kingdom

Acting tutor on Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts: scene study, ritual & story-telling; classic text scene study & audition technique.Director working with MA/MFA Acting (International) students on devised/theatre making module & full scale professionally supported production. Recent: The Love of the Nightingale (Timberlake Wertenbaker) - June 2023.

Director & Theatre Practitioner working with Classic texts- Elizabethan [including Shakespeare & Marlowe], Jacobean & Restoration. Adaptation- including using archive material, verbatim testimony, and untold stories to create theatre ["John Morgan - voice of a Lascar": National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; "Frail & Fragile" - inspired by Florence Farmborough's diary of a Nurse at the Russian Front: The Little Festival of Everything, Coxwold, Yorkshire] New writing- Overground Festival 2012, Crystal Palace ["Waiting at Goodge Street" - Michael Sands]- International Playwriting Festival 2012, Croydon Warehouse Theatre ["Shaking the Tree" - Vivienne Glance; "MESH" - Hellie Turner]- regular director for WriteBites: works performed at Theatre 503 & other London fringe venues["How I Came To Be" - Adam Barnard; "SNAP" - Emma Jowett; "The Visit" - Amy Abrahams; "To Catch A Falling Knife" - John AD Fraser]Music Theatre Community Theatre- including site-specific projects ["Urchins" & "The Non-Conformists": East 15 Acting School; work with young people in formal & informal educational settings [Creative Partnerships, curriculum enhancement, & bespoke workshops]DevisingWork in drama schools- Visiting director at East 15 Acting School [BA Community Theatre: site-specific work; BA Acting: Contemporary Scenes; BA World Performance: devising workshop; & Certificate of Higher Education course]; Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts [BA Acting professional development workshops]

Delivering workshops and creative sessions in primary schools, exploring elements of the National Curriculum using drama & theatre, as part of PPA & Creative Supply programme; also bespoke workshops in secondary schools.

Barbican, London

Working with preliminary acting students (post-18 but pre- BA acting course) Creating specific location based tasks to develop creative research methods relating to context and character

London & Essex

As part of the National Theatre's Public Acts initiative: 'creating extraordinary acts of theatre and community...Using theatre as a force for change, bringing communities together...'Public Acts Project Associate - Planning and delivering workshops in the community; Assistant Director to Douglas Rintoul on "As You Like It" at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch: National Theatre's partner theatre for Public Acts. As You Like It: a musical adaptation of Shakespeare, UK premiere, originated at the Public Theatre, New York.

Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Working with actors in training in the BA Acting programme. Directing credits include: 2015 - The Mill on the Floss (Helen Edmondson); 2017 - FRONT (Robert Caisley); 2018 - Not a Game for Girls (Benjamin Peel)

Barking & Dagenham

Working with the community company on this re-imagining of 'The Merchant of Venice' as part of 'Shakespeare 400': a promenade, multi-site outdoor production in July 2016

London

Director & lead facilitator on an inter-generational participatory arts project exploring 'resistance' & 'resilience'

London, United Kingdom

Director on "Shakespeare & Beyond" - coordinating & leading the final stage of this London Schools Excellence Fund supported project introducing rehearsal room techniques into the English teaching classroom.Associate Director on Present Moment Theatre Lab 2014- working with 14-18 year olds to create a professionally supported production of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST [director: Joss Bennathan] to tour to their respective secondary schools, plus a gala performance at RADA Studio Theatre. Specific responsibility for delivery & assessment of Bronze Arts Award.Associate Director on Present Moment Theatre Lab 2013- working with 14-18 year olds to create a professionally supported production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM [director: Joss Bennathan] to tour to their respective secondary schools, plus a gala performance at RADA Vanbrugh TheatreAssociate Director on "Doctor Faustus" [director: Joss Bennathan] (Stratford Circus, Jan-Feb 2010); text support work & line managerial responsibility for an all-male acting intern ensemble group of 10. Also director of the young people's devised theatre project, and director of one of the new plays as part of the playwriting project for young people as part of the associated "Doctor Faustus in the Modern World".

Directing Helen Edmundson's adaptation of "The Mill on the Floss" as part of the '4 in Rep' season with 3rd year BA actors

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

BA in World Performance, Applied & Political Theatre module. Director/tutor, working with students to create a piece of devised political theatre: "Short Fall" [2014];"Blue Fields" [2013] "The Last Resort" [2012]

Promoting & supporting the arts within Waltham Forest

Freelance visiting director/workshop leader & tutorDelivering workshops with young people on Saturdays [acting & musical theatre], & actors in training as part of their professional development.

Loughton, Essex

Working with students on the Certificate of Higher Education [foundation] course on the approaches to classic text; directing Pierre Corneille's "The Theatre of Illusion" (1639); delivering classes in sight-reading technique; & audition support

University Of Essex: Loughton & Southend

Co-directing 3rd year Community Theatre students in their site-specific promenade performances: "Urchins" in Loughton (2009), "The Non-Conformists", in Southend (2010)February 2011 - March 2011: directing 1st year Acting students in Contemporary ScenesJanuary 2012: short project with students on the Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts courseJanuary 2012: devising workshops with 3rd students studying on the BA in World Performance course.September 2012: BA in World Performance, Applied & Political Theatre module - director/tutor on 3rd year students' devised theatre performance "The Last Resort".January 2013: Working with students on the Certificate of Higher Education course: directing Thomas Middleton's "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside", & on sight reading & audition pieces.

"Earlsfield at the Centre of the World" - an interactive exhibition, incorporating performance as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2012, tracing the history of Earlsfield from field to factory. Dramaturgical work on detailed research, development of script in collaboration with director.

"Earlsfield at the Centre of the World" - an interactive exhibition, incorporating performance as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2012, tracing the history of Earlsfield from field to factory. Dramaturgical work on detailed research, development of script in collaboration with director.

Director & workshop facilitator on "Bully Richard" - exploring Shakespeare's Richard III in the context of the school bully (London & tour); director on "When the Lights Went Out" - the Diwali story for primary school children (2009 London & tour)Project Director on SAILING TO BRITAIN for Tara Arts: a participatory arts and heritage theatre project for 14-22 year olds culminating in a performances at Greenwich Theatre."John Morgan - voice of a Lascar": inter-active performance within National Maritime Museum's Trader's Gallery [ongoing]

Creating an "opera" in collaboration with a composer, involving an entire junior school in Chigwell. Based around the theme of Raising Aspirations and Inspirational People. Organising curriculum influenced sessions for creating story-line, narrative structure, and story-boards to improve literacy and enhance richer descriptive language, exploring the conventions within the genre of opera.Liaising with staff and senior management to enlist their contributions for artwork (set/backdrop design and production), to create a site-specific promenade performance around the school.

Regular director for new writing "shorts" as part of the "WriteBites" initiative including pieces at RADA, Theatre 503 & the Fishtank Festival.

1 - Project with a school in Haringey, North London, designed to develop the drama skills of school staffs through joint planning, modeling and Inset training2 - Project with a school in Whitechapel with Early Years & Foundation stage, and KS1 working with staff to develop language and vocabulary through "oral rehearsal" to improve confidence and ability in written & spoken English.3 - Within in a primary school in London N8, creating a site-specific promenade performance to explore their local history and promote community cohesion.4 - Second project in the school exploring Philosophy for Children ("P4C" within National Curriculum) through drama.

Creative Director: co-ordination (devising, planning, and artistic direction) for company sessions, rehearsals and outreach projects, liaising with other members of the creative team.Creating bespoke inclusive projects for schools.Planning & facilitation of children's & youth inclusive theatre company sessions; direction of productions performed by the company at Millfield Theatre; adaptation & writing original script, songs & music

Ma, Theatre Directing

Graduated with distinction Areas of study: Shakespeare; Techniques of Adaptation; Music Theatre; working as an Assistant Director

Ba Honours 2:1, Drama & English