About Josie
Josie is a director in theatre and opera, specialising in devising new work, collaborating with young people and facilitating collective creativity in ensembles. Josie is Lead Facilitator on NYT’s accredited course Stepping Up.
Recent: Director of Letters to my Younger Future Self for NYT at Southbank Centre.
Upcoming: Revival Director of There’s a Bear on My Chair at Southbank Centre.
She has worked with theatre company Complicite since 2010 as a performer, director and facilitator. She leads courses and workshops for performers and non-performers for Complicite and other companies in a variety of settings across a range of disciplines including creative collaboration, play, devised physical theatre, puppetry and movement.
She has revived opera productions for Simon McBurney and Romeo Castellucci at Adelaide Festival, Teatro di San Carlo Naples, La Monnaie Brussels, Wiener Festwochen, Theater Basel, Palau des Arts Valencia, Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam and English National Opera.
Josie is interested in weaving together her experience in theatre and opera to devise and direct new, interdisciplinary work in collaboration with musicians, actors, dancers and non-performers.
Photo credits on homepage: Johan Persson Letters to My Younger Future Self, Elly Welford Worn, Helen Murray Much Ado About Nothing, Orebro Concert Hall The Rake’s Progress, Pascal Victor Requiem.