About Josie
Josie is a director, movement director and facilitator in theatre and opera, specialising in devising new work.
Upcoming: Director of StoryFirst plays Indigo and The Boy in the Bed for National Youth Theatre’s new writing festival, Storyfest.
Recent: Director of Worn, a Complicité x NSCD collaboration at The Place, and Movement Director of The Reckoning at Arcola Theatre.
Josie is an Associate Artist of The PappyShow and has worked with theatre company Complicite since 2010. She leads courses and workshops for performers and non-performers 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 create and direct new work in collaboration with musicians, actors, dancers and other artists.
Photo credits on homepage: Elly Welford Worn, Orebro Concert Hall The Rake’s Progress, Helen Murray Much Ado About Nothing, Pascal Victor Requiem, Alex Brenner Girls.