Jessica Swale is a writer and director, and the Artistic Director
of Red Handed Theatre Company.
Her first play, Blue Stockings, premiered at Shakespeare's Globe
and won her a nomination for Most Promising Playwright in the
Evening Standard Awards 2013. Other plays include Nell Gwynn and
Thomas Tallis (both Shakespeare's Globe); All's Will That Ends Will
(Bremer Shakespeare Company); adaptations of Far from the Madding
Crowd, Sense and Sensibility (Watermill Theatre), The Secret Garden
(Grosvenor Park) and The Jungle Book (UK tour 2017 & 2018); and an
original play, The Mission, about illegal adoptions in the
1920s.
She has directed a number of award-winning productions for Red
Handed, which is dedicated to creating new work and rediscovering
forgotten plays. Recent productions include The Rivals starring
Celia Imrie, the London premiere of Palace of the End by Judith
Thompson, and the first major revival of Hannah Cowley's The
Belle's Stratagem, which won her a nomination for Best Director at
the Evening Standard Awards.
Other direction includes Bedlam (Shakespeare's Globe); Sleuth
(Watermill); Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse); Winter (TNL,
Canada); The Busy Body, Someone to Watch Over Me (Southwark), The
School for Scandal (Park Theatre); and productions at RADA and
LAMDA. She was Max Stafford-Clark's Associate Director at Out of
Joint from 2007–2010.
She is an associate artist with Youth Bridge Global, an
international NGO which uses theatre as a tool for promoting social
change in war-torn and developing nations.
She has written three titles in Nick Hern Books' popular Drama
Games series: Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops, Drama Games
for Devising, and Drama Games for Rehearsals.
'Small but perfectly formed, this is an essential purchase for
classroom teachers and workshop leaders alike'
*Total Theatre Magazine*
'A truly amazing little book. Don't let its size fool you; it's
packed full of good things. Whether you work with adults, tinies or
those in between, buy this book and banish those awful moments when
you know you know a game to use but just can't think of it. It'll
be in here, or one very like it'
*ReviewsGate.com*
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