AARON PARSONS

Aaron is a theatre director and movement director. He has a Masters in directing from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and trained with SITI Company.

His work with emerging artists has seen him work with theatre organisations as well as drama schools to generate new initiatives for writers, and actors. As well as deliver and direct on their acting programs.  

He previously worked with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to deliver the MA in Directing. As well as working as the Associate Director for Prime Theatre where he ran the youth theatre, facilitating and directing projects.

He works with the learning department at the RSC which has seen him work across the UK, and internationally to deliver a variety of projects. His particular interest is on developing work around representation in Shakespeare’s cannon, especially in relationship to social conscious work. He also sits on a steering group focusing on new research in the role of arts in education.  

As a director a selection of credits include: 

Blood Wedding (Bristol School of Acting), A Very Expensive Poison (BOVTS) Falkland Sound (RSC), Welcome To Thebes (Bristol School of Acting), Tales From Shakespeare (RSC), Romeo and Juliet, Pericles (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) Julius Caesar (Reading Between the Lines), Home (Bristol School of Acting), This way up for (Travelling Light Theatre Company), Romeo and Juliet (Reading Between the Lines), Robin Hood (New Mutiny), Hillstories  (Travelling Light Theatre Company and Wyldwood Arts), Butterfly (Prime Theatre & Light and Lark Theatre), The Odyssey (Prime Theatre), Walk Ashore (Thimble Theatre), The Laramie Project (Prime Theatre).

Associate: Richard III, Henry VI: Rebellion, Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, The Winter’s Tale (All for the RSC)

Movement:  Metamorphoses (CSSD),The Trials (Donmar Warehouse), Faith (Coventry City of Culture Trust and the RSC. Movement Consultant)

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