Sarah Slator
-Theatre and Movement Director
-Choreographer
In addition to her work with This is my Theatre Sarah enjoys working with other companies as a freelance director and movement director.
Sarah has also developed a unique personalised approach to emotional connectivity in performance for actors which she now teaches to professional and training actors across the globe. To find out more about EMA (Emotion Map Acting) Technique please click here
Credits:
This Is My Theatre (Director)
A Christmas Carol. National Tour and residency at The Hawth Theatre. November-December 2023
Much Ado About Nothing/Robin Hood. National Tour. July-September 2023
Wuthering Heights/The Wind in the Willows. National Tour. April-June 2023
The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King. National Tour. November-December 2022
The Railway Children/Pride and Prejudice. National Tour July-September 2022
The Comedy of Errors/Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. National Tour April-June 2022
The Snow Queen. National Tour and residency at The Hawth Theatre November-December 2021
The Secret Garden/Jane Eyre . National Tour July-September 2021
The Tempest/Treasure Island. National Tour April-June 2021
A Christmas Carol. National Tour and residency at The Hawth Theatre. December 2021
Macbeth. National Tour. October 2021
Halloween Ghost Stories. Digital. October 2021
The Three Musketeers. National Tour. August/September 2021
The Snow Queen/A Christmas Carol. National Tour. November/December 2020
The Wind in the Willows/The Importance of Being Earnest. National Tour. July-September 2019
Romeo and Juliet. National Tour. June 2019
Macbeth. National Tour. April-May 2019
Medieval Tales. Crawley. April 2019
A Norman's Tale. Horsham Year of Culture (promenade performance) April 2019
A Christmas Carol. National Tour. December 2018
The Importance of Being Earnest & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. July/August 2018
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Touring May/June 2018
St George Crawley High Street, April 2018
A Christmas Carol. Touring. December 2017
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Brighton Open Air Theatre, September 2017
The Importance of Being Earnest. Brighton Open Air Theatre, September 2017
Macbeth. Touring. July/August 2017
The Tempest. Brighton Fringe Festival, May 2017
George and the Dragon. Crawley. April 2017
A Christmas Carol. Touring. December 2016
Romeo and Juliet Touring April & July 2016
Training:
Additional Skills:
Other
Director: Frankenstein, Parkwood Theatres, November 2022
Director: Skellig, Parkwood Theatres, March 2022
Director: The Poppy Red. Parkwood Theatres. November 2021
Co-Director: Alice in Wonderland. The Hazlitt Theatre. September 2021
Director: Robin Hood. Parkwood Theatres. July 2021
Director/Movement Director: Treasure Island. Parkwood Theatres. March 2020
Movement Practitioner: Chichester Festival Theatre. 2018-2020
Choreographer: The Greatest Week. The Hawth Youth Theatre
Movement Director: In Flanders Fields. West Sussex Community Project. November 2019
Director: Aladdin. The Hawth Youth Theatre. August 2019
Director: Bugsy Malone. The Hawth Youth Theatre August 2018
Movement Director: Communicating Doors. Dir: Rebecca Gadsby. Leatherhead Rep. May 2018
Director: Music Through the Ages. Crawley Borough Council. The Hawth Theatre October 2017
Director: Beauty and the Beast (Disney Musical) Parkwood Theatres August 2017
Community Ensemble Resident Movement Director: 40 Years On. Dir: Daniel Evans, Chichester Festival Theatre April/May 2017 (production trailer link)
Event Co-ordinator: Imagi-Nation. School’s event. The Hawth Theatre April 2017
Director: An Ideal Husband. THAT Company. March 2017
Choreographer/Movement Director: Glamour Girl. Dir: Rebecca Gadsby. Quill & Inkling, September 2016
Youth Movement Director: 23 Submarines. Dir: Nancy Hirst, Icon Theatre, (Outdoor promenade) Chatham Riverside, September 2016
Assistant Director/Movement Director: The Jungle Book (International Tour) Dir: Philip Stevens. Chapterhouse Open Air Theatre Company, July 2016
Assistant Director/Production Manager: Great Tangley Manor 1000 Years Son et Lumiere Celebration, Dir: Rebecca Gadsby, Great Tangley Manor, June 2016
Movement Director: Peter Pan Dir. Rebecca Gadsby. Chapterhouse Theatre Open Air Theatre Company, May 2016
Movement Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dir: Richard Main. Chapterhouse Open Air Theatre Company, May 2016
Movement Practitioner: Stumpwood, Cloudland Children & The Elementals. Icon Theatre, March 2016
Choreographer: Ariel Children’s Theatre Showcase. Dir: Marisha Jenkins, The Capitol Theatre, Oct 2015
Assistant Director/Movement Director: The Jungle Book. Dir: Philip Stevens. Chapterhouse Open Air Theatre Company, June 2015
Movement Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. Dir: Rebecca Gadsby, Chapterhouse Open Air Theatre Company, May 2015
Movement Director: The Secret Garden. Dir: Philip Stevens. Chapterhouse Open Air Theatre Company, May 2015
Director: With My Head In The Clouds. A Physical Theatre Film. May 2015
Director: For The Sins Of My Brother. R & D Workshop. April 2015 (video link)
Choreographer: Shut Up & Sit Down. A Physical Theatre Short. April 2015
Movement Director: Blue Stockings. Dir: Sarah Stephenson, GSA. March 2015
Movement Director: Titus Andronicus (Undergraduate Scenic Studies), GSA, Oct-Nov 2014
Guest Choreographer: Worthing Thunder Cheerleaders 2014-15 Season, Jul-Sept 2014
MA Creative Practice & Direction (Movement Direction & Choreography)
Introduction to Intimacy Coordination (Lead Educator: Lizzy Talbot)
BASCC, Basic Stage Combat accreditation in sword, knife & unarmed
BASCC Intermediate accreditation in rope & knife, unarmed & staff
BASCC Advance accreditation in broadsword, escrima, case of rapiers, french small sword
Frantic Assembly, Advanced Physical Theatre Techniques,
Stopgap Dance Company, Integrated Practice Training
NATD, Teaching accreditation, Contemporary Dance Grades 1-6,
Sussex University, Qualified Teaching Status, 2007-2008
Middlesex University, BA Drama & Theatre Studies with Performing Arts 2002-2005
Animal Studies
Character and Embodiment of Roles Techniques
Intimacy Direction
Lift and Physical Theatre Techniques
Laban
Contact Improvisation
Mask Technique
Puppetry Technique
Belly Dance
Ballet
Contemporary Dance
Street/Hip Hop
Movement/Motif Notation
Full DBS
Licensed Chaperone
Get in Touch
Looking for a director or movement director for your next project? It would be lovely to chat!
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Emotion Map Acting (EMA) Technique was developed in response to a need for actors to be simultaneously connected and distanced, authentic and sincere on stage night after night and, above all else, work without risk of a “character hangover”, qualities of an imagined reality impacting on their real life.
Developing personal Emotion Maps can be an effective tool for actors to find greater physical emotional connectivity in performance.
The technique uses theories of psychology and holistic approaches to acting and is a useful method within any actor's toolkit.
"Working as a movement director I became really interested in how the "lived" body, one that has a physical remembering of events and trauma, could influence connection to roles and in particular emotion within scenes, in a safe and effective way"-Sarah Slator. Creator of EMA.
This technique has a basis in psychology and treats the actor as an individual and holistic performer
Sarah teaches workshops at both educational institutions and online. For further details please contact: sarahslatordirection@gmail.com