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Mudlarks International Residency

The Mudlarks International Residency is  a week-long residency for both UK and International artists.

Participants arrive with a concept and are provided with a raft of resources to help them explore it: collaborators, facilitated sessions, mentors and creative provocations.

There have been two annual residencies so far, in 2023 and 2024, at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking. We have worked with organisations such as the Schaubühne, Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse and the Barbican who have nominated and financially supported artists, providing further opportunities to develop artistic networks.

We looked for people who:

  • Create innovative work that takes risks (and broadens what we, in the UK, might think of as a traditional forms).
  • Are committed to – or have an interest in – activism through the content of their practice or work, finding new ways of telling the story of the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
  • Have an integrity of practice, depth of thought and the willingness to do things differently.

 

2024 residency activists and artists:

Ramon Ayres (Actor, Director, Theatre maker)

Pauline Mayers (Writer & Theatre maker)

Lynn T Musiol (Theatre maker) Nominated by Schaubühne 

Natasha Nixon (Theatre Director & Performance Practitioner) Nominated by Activate Performing Arts

Sonny Nwachukwu (Writer & Director) Nominated by Queens Theatre Hornchurch 

Katie Thompson (Director) Nominated by St George’s Theatre Great Yarmouth and Sheringham Little Theatre 

Paula Varjack (Artist working across performance, video & participation)

 

2023 residency activists and artists:

Shankho Chaudhuri (Set & Costume Designer)

Rosie Elnile (Set & Costume Designer)

Alice Boyd (Sound Designer) 

Farrell Cox (Maker & Aerialist) Nominated by Nottingham Playhouse

Dom Garfield / High Rise Nominated by Barbican

Zakiya McKenzie (Writer) Nominated by Activate Performing Arts

Nora Wardell (Director) Nominated by Schaubühne

Christina Deinsberger (Director) Nominated by Schaubühne

Caroline Williams (Maker) Nominated by BOV

Stephanie Levi John (Performer & Writer)

 

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