Artistic Director @Outbox_Theatre Course Leader @actingcdt @CSSDLondon He/they
London, England
Joined February 2009
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Super proud of Team Outbox #CharBoden #MikaOnyxJohnson @BarraFitz @mandla_rae #YazZadeh for their continued work on @Outbox_Theatre BRIGHTER. Check out this thread and please RT and support all the fantastic LGBTIQ+ orgs we've worked with
📢Exciting BRIGHTER announcement! Today we are publishing the BRIGHTER booklet. Please share & RT to support artists from LGBTIQ+ groups across the UK. Here's associate artist #MikaOnyxJohnson to tell you more. 🧵
before Twitter implodes,the third year @CSSDLondon @ActingCDT are performing their version of ELECTRA directed by the incred Yasmin Hafesji. Look, I know I’m biased but when I tell you these actors are GLORIOUS. You won’t regret coming to see them cssd.ac.uk/events/electra
New show with @Outbox_Theatre opens this week! @CSSDLondon folk, theatre friends, #LGBT community and allies please came and dance with us. I’m really proud of what we’ve made and would love to share it with you shoreditchtownhall.com/whats…
Here’s me chatting about @Outbox_Theatre new production GROOVE, I’m proud of this one and it’s gonna be good vibes! If you love queer, clubby, dancey, joyful, community-led, mirrorball, laser-tastic joy-it’s for you and I’d love to see you 🪩💜🪩💜🪩💜
@BenBuratta talks about Groove, a performance uniting Queer people on the dancefloor at @ShoreditchTH from @Outbox_Theatre qxmagazine.com/2022/09/ben-b… via @QXMagazine
Any Central CPP or CDT grads?
Looking for a BIPOC queer woman, trans, non-binary or intersex person to join the creative team of GROOVE. This would be a paid assistant director role for someone interested in queer making processes and intergenerational practice. Any leads? Email Ben(@)outboxtheatre.com
🪩🪩🪩so excited to make a show about queers and dance floors… who’d have thought. Would love to see you there 🪩🪩🪩
We are so excited to share GROOVE with you this Autumn. A brand new performance exploring the queer dance floor as a place of protest, identity, belonging and desire. Coming to London @ShoreditchTH and @ContactMcr Link in bio
Recently took the role of Course Leader of @ActingCDT @CSSDLondon and these students are pure magic. It's tough training through a pandemic but they are now about to share their work and are resilient, brilliant and ready to be seen... Please support their upcoming work (thread)
Next: A Disturbance in Mirrors. A new devised piece exploring adulthood, identity and Sylvia Plath cssd.ac.uk/events/a-disturba…
And here they are in all their glory cssd.ac.uk/student-profiles?…
Come and support them
After a WILD weekend on Theatre Twitter just a reminder of what a generous place it can be. I posted this thinking no-one would reply- and it's now such a brilliant resource. The students were over the moon. Please do share away!
SO it's tough out there for graduating students. I want them to get some funding for their amazing practice. Producers/Theatre-Makers/Artists/Directors/Theatres what's your number one top tip for getting funding? Nothing is too obvious! Please RT and I will share with them
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Big thanks to a wonderful humans and artists @debbiehannan @RAWeiseArtist @EllenRMcDougall for their generosity and wisdom with 3rd year @CSSDLondon @cssdcpp students. So much hope for change and disruption 🙌
My first academic publication 🤔😅Thanks to @TheatreTopics, the wonderful @kareempuff and all the @Outbox_Theatre team who made Affection with me
The newest issue of THEATRE TOPICS is up and available on Project Muse. Please see our special issue on Queer Pedagogy in Theatre and Performance, co-edited by @noemontez and @kareempuff. You can find it at muse.jhu.edu/issue/42639
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Thanks to @UKRI_News for highlighting some of the important work taking place at Central including support for researchers with dyslexia @CSSD_Research, inclusive storytelling with @BenBuratta & @outboxtheatre, and ongoing collaboration with @feveredsleep ukri.org/about-us/equality-d…
Drama schools- Please read, take 📝 and then pay for further consultation @CSSDLondon
"The future of drama schools depends on the radical transformation of culture." As part of our Theatre 2021 series, @MaameAtuah, @KaleyaBaxe and @_StevenKavuma suggest actions for change to tackle racism in training establishments bit.ly/3fX8KCt
