“For me theatre is about the electric, live connection between the audience and the actors, and the imaginative space they share for those few hours together. There is still an old magic in theatre. In this lonely digital age it is more and more important that we find time to be together again and dream together again.”
ROSANNA MALLINSON
DIRECTOR. WRITER. DRAMATURGE.
Rosanna has a playful, exploratory directing style with collaboration and innovative process at the core. She works with new writing and devising work, and is always searching for new projects with an urgent voice and boundary breaking new form. She values open mindedness, passion for craft and finding ways to bring theatre to new audiences.
Rosanna trained at Trinity College Dublin and at École Internationale de Théâtre Jaques Lecoq in Paris. She has directed over 30 productions and been the Artistic Director for two companies and was co-founder of Akimbo Theatre Ltd. She is a champion for stories which bring under-appreciated voices back into the conversation and an avid reader and writer of mysteries.
She is the Artistic Director of Crag Pit Studios, a residency space in Suffolk which develops new work and new devising companies.
UPCOMING SHOWS
PAST PROJECTS
REVIEWS
“ingeniously conjured… holds even the smallest children spellbound”
THE STAGE
“Cleverly blending local historical fact with fiction… a hugely enjoyable way to spend an evening”
THE TIMES
“subtle, ingenious, quietly satisfying and insidiously memorable”
SCOTS GAY
“disorienting, nightmarish and incredibly compelling piece of theater that will give you shivers as you leave the auditorium”
BROADWAY BABY
“tightly plotted, gripping and excellently directed – cannot be recommended too highly”
EVERYTHING THEATRE
“This has everything, humor, depth, gravity defying fight scenes – simply flawless”
BROADWAY BABY
“Quick, slick and endlessly inventive”
REV STAN
AWARDS
OFFIES CRITICS CHOICE AWARD. THE ANIMATOR. SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE BOROUGH
YOUNG PERSONS CHOICE AWARD. NO ONE: THE INVISIBLE MAN. SHOWBOX OSLO.
DRAMATURGY
Creation and Clarification
Rosanna is a dramaturge with 13 years experience in writing, directing and devising. She has been the dramaturge for a number of shows, from micro-cinema puppetry at Edinburgh Fringe to a multi-media Hip Hop dance shows at Sadlers Wells. If you are looking for support to bring your vision to life then please send me an email and let me know about your project, whatever stage of development you are at.
Dramaturgical Services
PLAYING WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Interactive Audio-immersive
- Film Projection
- Live Animation on Stage
- Live Online Theatre
Rosanna’s projects often explore the exciting new possibilities that technology can bring to theatre, providing new platforms to reach new audiences and new forms of expression. These include live streaming animation, audio immersive experiences and interactive online shows about the dangers of performing for social media. Below is a link to an immersive show you can experience with any nearby tree: ‘As Natural As Photosynthesis’ by the novelist Naomi Ishiguro. Just find a friend, put on headphones together, sync up and experience life as a trees reborn.
PLAYING WITH AUDIENCES
Rosanna was the artistic director and writer for immersive and site-specific company, ImmerCity. The driving force behind the work was reaching non-traditional theatre audiences who were excited by being able to explore and interact with a space, rather than being passive observers.
Over ten years, she wrote and directed over twenty projects, including the incredibly successful Immersive Mystery series. These shows took over a unique historical location and developed a story that brought to life true events and themes that resonated with what was happening today. It increased peoples engagement with local monuments and cultural spaces, like libraries, museums, churches and even the clocktower in Kings Cross.
She also created interactive corporate events for companies like Jo Malone, Weddings at Wilton’s Music Hall and haunted ghost walks for Opera Holland Park.
“I am interested in work that explores how theatre can be a uniquely present event, bringing people together in an experience. For me a show is about the audiences journey. In immersive theatre their journey is driven by their curiosity and learning how to peak that is the key.”