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Chloe Kennedy 

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Director:  

 

King Lear, BA Acting, Fourth Monkey 2023

 

Scene Study (Modern), BA Acting, Fourth Monkey 2023

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Untitled Improvised/Devised Play, CPT (R&D), Short-listed for Camden People's Theatre Outside the Box Commission, Long-listed for BOLD Makers Commission 2022 - 2023

 

Constellations, City Academy Debut Theatre Class, Omnibus Theatre 2023

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Education, Education, Education, First and Second Year BA Production Design, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, (Visiting Director), 2022

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Hasbian: Pleasance Theatre, Stanley Arts Centre, (Arts Council Funded), 2022

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Hasbian: Camden People’s Theatre, (Arts Council Funded), 2021

On the Beach (Online R&D), Devised, 2021

Mango Rough (Online R&D), Sasha Kane, 2021

Reasons I want to hurt my boyfriend: (Short Film), Ellen Bannerman,  2020

Hasbian: Bunker Theatre: Queers Up Front, 2020

Babies/No Babies?: The Vagina Museum, 2019

Babies/No Babies? (WIP):  Omnibus Theatre/Dirty Rascals, 2019

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6 Conversations: The Glory, 2019

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Manifestor Unit: Student Director, RADA, 2017

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Assistant Director:

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The Rimers of Eldritch: RCSSD BA Acting, Assistant Director, 2018

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: RCSSD MA Acting, Directing Observation, 2017

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Directing Training:

 

JMK Directing Mentoring Programme, (Nik Partridge), Mentee, 2021

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RTYDS New Directions Workshops, 2020

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Robert Icke and Lyndsey Turner Lockdown Directing Classes, 2020 - 2021

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Teaching:

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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: Sep 2018 - Present

Visiting Tutor:

Masterclasses MA/MFA, Marking PGCERT/MA/MFA, Student Mentoring, MA/MFA Introductory Panel

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City Academy: Feb 2020 - Present

Tutor:

Improvisation Level 1/Taster, Acting Beginner/Improver, Comedy Acting

 

Arts Emergency: Mentor, 2022 

(Specialist mentor 2019)

 

Mountview: Sep 2020 - April 2021
Visiting Tutor:

Improvisation Foundation Acting and Short Courses

 

Identity School of Acting: Sept - November 2019

Visiting Tutor:

Improvisation

 

Performance Preparation Academy (De Montfort University): 2019

Visiting Tutor:

Investigative Studies Year 1, 2, 3

Modules Covered:

Uta Hagen, Dissertation Writing, Comedy and Wit, Prometheus Bound, Themes in Plays

 

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts: May - Aug 2017

Student Teacher:

Improvisation, Biomechanics
 

 

Workshops, Freelance:

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Acting/Improvisation: Independent Mentoring/Tutoring, 2018 - Present

Acting and Cognitive Disabilities: Free Workshop 2022

Improvisation and Acting: Part of the Main 2020

Improvisation: The Civil Service 2019

 

 

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Research:

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PlayWell: 2022

Research Support: Mental Health in the Performing Arts Report

 

Creative Freelance: Shaping London’s Recovery Cohort 2021

Partner Organisation: Turtle Key Arts

Researcher: Disability Report (Co-writer with Lauren Silver), Pay Report (Contributor: Higher Earner Data, Social Pay, Report Writer), Training Hub Report (Writer; further research provided by Shaniqua Benjamin and Hannah Tookey), Class Report (Contributor)

 

Global Improvisation Initiative/Improbable/Middlesex University: 2019

Speaker: Education and Improvisation Panel
Presenter: The Problem of White Feminism in Improv: Is Open Space Really Open?

 

TaPRA: Acting Training Working Group: 2019
Presenter: A Study of the Learning and Performance Impact of Narcissistic States in Acting

 

RCSSD/TaPRA: 2018, 2019
Presenter (in collaboration with Dr Jessica Hartley, Daisy Marsden): The Marginalisation of Actors in Training

Researcher: Improvisation and Cognition in Performance.

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RCSSD: 2016 - 2018

LTSE Board for Learning, Sexual Harassment Working Group

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Performing:

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Stand-up (Various), 2020, 2023

An Improvised Tennessee Williams Play, 2020 - 2023

An Improvised Caryl Churchill Play, 2019

The Showstoppers at C Venues, 2015

Baron Sternlooks Improvised Musical 2013 - 2015

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Media:

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SA, Various Film and TV: 2016 - Present

Film Editor, Reasons I want to hurt my boyfriend: (Short Film), Ellen Bannerman,  2020

Film Editor (Projection), Hasbian: Bunker Theatre: Queers Up Front, 2020

Stand-in, Romanganation, Zeppotron: 2020

Interview Editor, Babies/No Babies?: The Vagina Museum, 2019

Film/Text development, Kai Samra for Soho Theatre, (Stand-up), 2019
Presenter, Director, Editor, Guild TV: 2011 - 2015
Runner: Scottish Ballet/Cultural Olympiads Aberdeen: 2012

 

 

Dramaturgy/Writing:

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Writer, The Stage, (Article), ed. by John Byrne, 2021, https://www.thestage.co.uk/advice/director-chloe-kennedy-protect-your-voice--the-core-of-who-you-are, 2021

Contributor. The Authority Gap,(Book), Mary Ann Sieghart

Editing Support, Improv your Life!, (Book), Pippa Evans, 2020

Editing Support, Becoming Welsh,(Stand-up), Mo Omar for BBC Wales, 2020

Editor, Mango-Rough, (Play), Sasha Kane, 2020
Editor, Pro-Us, (Play), Daniel Reid-Walters, 2020

PTSD-STD, Writer (Monologue), Arcola Theatre, Monologue Slam, 2018

 

 

Education:

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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: MFA Actor Training and Coaching: Distinction: 2016/18

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University of Birmingham: BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts: 2.1: 2011/15

 

Aberdeen Grammar School (State School - Scotland): 2005/11

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Customer Service:

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LSO St Luke’s, Steward, 2018 - 2022

The Royal Albert Hall, Steward, 2017

Capital Theatres, Steward, 2015 - 2016

Paines Plough, Steward, 2016

Disney Merchandising, Assistant, 2016

Aberdeen Performing Arts, Waitress, 2013

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