Looking to connect with some female-identifying playwrights - on the hunt for exciting pieces of new writing for a collaboration project in May' 2022 :)
Please please share far & wide & slide into my DM's or drop me a line on sofia.gallucci-giles
@oldvic
.ac.uk < 3
Something that really irks me is how many assistant director jobs hire so last minute. Big jobs that have only a week between the application deadline and the rehearsals starting is not a financially stable or sustainable way of living for most people
The utterly wonderful new cast of
@sixthemusical
opened last night. Start of my year w them as their res director. Soaking up all of the wisdom and learning from the brilliant team of associates over the last month in rehearsals and I am so excited for the year to come
Hey hello hi, really really really want to connect with some emerging producers for some really cool projects this year pretty please! Who's out there?
13.52pm - Received an offer from
@BOVTS
on their MA Directing course
13.54pm - Achieved a first class degree in English Literature and Drama from
@UniofExeter
with a first in my dissertation
🍾🎓✨
A busy afternoon, now to stop crying happy tears and start celebrating
I graduate from
@BOVTS
where I did my director training tomorrow. They always say the best way to learn your art is on the job (they’re right), but this gang of directors taught me how to make work from your heart and soul… and I’m so flipping proud of us
Hey, hello, hi! I'm a theatre director based in London and am about to finish my training at Bristol Old Vic. Have a little looksee at my new website (oooh) and please hire me as your next director/associate/assistant! Promise I'm good at my job
Finally had my graduation that was postponed from last year. My mum raised me on her own and did it with a lot of Roald Dahl and theatre trips to keep me busy. Yesterday I graduated with a first class English Lit and Drama degree from Exeter. Big up Mumma Gallucci
After a year as res des, I said a fond goodbye to SIX West End last Sun. Still processing all of the learning, lessons and joy that SIX has given me. Got some very exciting things lined up but this is a wee tweet to say I’M BACK and av for any assisting/associating opps!😊
I’m looking for a recent grad/emerging producer who has capacity to support a lovely transfer of an even lovelier wee play. Please drop me a message / share with any pals who may be interested🌟 thank u! X
Crossed the line smiling despite many many many tears along the way. Went from casual park runner to 4hr30 marathon runner in 2 months and raised £££ for
@TheBHF
- mega chuffed
I had a complicated op on both of my legs this morn, was v nervous. Turn out, the anaesthetist I had is a hardcore Six fan. She literally sang “don’t lose your head” at me as she smothered my face in a gas mask to knock me out. 10/10 for dealing w nervous patients. No notes.
I lost my hearing at 17 after popping my eardrums listening to Eminem at a festival (lol). Wearing hearing aids has completely transformed my life and means I can continue my career directing theatre and working w music
(1/3) Hoping theatre twitter can help me! I direct a group of mature adults weekly in NW Ldon who have been busy devising the most brilliant and hilarious play. This company are between the ages of 70 - 96years old and are part of a charity called Open Age. I’m wondering if
Having a controversial convo w my housemates… anyone born in the late 90’s/early 00’s watch teenage chick flicks like wild child, st trinians etc and they’d significantly shape their teens? Anyone else do the attractiveness test from Angus Thongs at sleepovers in year7?
Hello theatre friends. Urgently need to find a good 2 person show, 1m 1f, an hour in length, something challenging and exciting as a director and for actors. Tend to enjoy plays about intimate relationships, female-led narratives and plays that mess with form. Ta xxx
First show back as FOH at a major theatre for the hols. The industry is almost on its knees and it feels like audiences are adamant not to wear their masks in an auditorium of upwards of 1000 people. Please wear a mask and stop shouting at FOH staff with your pinot noir in hand
Had my last press night (for a while) at
@TheRSC
the other day and my heart is so full. Started working there as a weekend job when I was 16 and over the last 6 years it’s armed me w so much joy and inspiration to lead me into my career as a director. See you very soon ShakesP!!
Edinburgh has my entire heart. So tired, so hungover, (so broke), but SO SO SO inspired. My strava also got a nice wee upgrade on the running routes & pics this week too ♥️
Two brilliant deaf women on the telly this year in
#Strictly
&
#LoveIsland
. It’s really helped me to feel more confident about my own hearing loss but also helped the people around me to understand better too. More representation of people w deafness please 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Dear Reader, twas a very casual Saturday matinee when Anthony Bridgerton popped by. I absolutely spieled for too long about how much I loved him in the 2018 Company. I absolutely did not play it cool.
Contrary to popular belief of my friends, no I am not going to Sweden. I am however directing a play called STOCKHOLM for
@BOVTS
and I’m having the best time. It opens 2 weeks today, it has the most brilliant team on it and I can’t contain my excitement. Come along!!
Been very lucky to work with the brilliant designer
@mcassardesign
this year. Our first project last September was on ‘A Doll’s House’ and most recently on Catastrophe Bay. Tonight he exhibited all his work along with the design cohort at
@BOVTS
. Hire them all !!! They’re fab
Happy new year all! This year has been a big one for me and the start of my professional career. I wrote a letter to myself a year ago today with what I hope to achieve career wise, and ngl, I am very chuffed🥹 2023 let’s gooooo
Obsessed with the final image of the brilliant Phoebe and Josh for the next show I’m directing. Even more obsessed with these two and the whole team working on it. Catch STOCKHOLM, 6th-7th May
@WardrobeTheatre
@BOVTS
. Very lucky - I can’t wait! Image by Ed Felton.
Hi Playwright Friends!! Got some time off next week (woohoo) and would love to get stuck in to some playreading - does anyone have anything they fancy sharing? Interested in anything really but have a soft spot for adaptations, funny stuff and musical stuff. X
A lovely lovely lovely couple next to us at lunch overheard it was my bday and paid our bill in secret and left before we found out … turns out they were celebrating their bdays too. Random acts of kindness 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
One day I want someone to write me an introduction in the same way that Simon Stephen’s introduces his guests on the royal court playwright podcast 🥹🥹🥹
In a bar in east tonight watching the preview of some dear friends’ cabaret show before fringe. Looking around the audience filled with mates from uni, all doing crazy creative brilliant things. 6 years ago we were playing zip zap boing in Exeter, not a lot has changed
The first weekend of 23! June has been pretty rough, but a yummy 3 days of birthday tiramisu, aperol, wild swims, city runs, good friends, genuine joy❤️🩹
Working w Emma Rice at the moment and she said a group of directors is called “an anxiety of directors” and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything more apt. Obsessed.
Directed a wee extract form
@hayleysscott
’s play ‘Pot Luck’ today in the
@BristolOldVic
studio. Coordination is key for every director-playwright duo, am I right or am I right ?
7yr old me took their first acting gig on a show about running so that 22yr old me could run the London marathon for
@TheBHF
and had something humiliating to lure the donations in with. 3 weeks until the big day and very grateful for any donations!!
Looking to connect with some London-based emerging producers interested in new writing projects and/or a transfer of a contemporary two-hander for upcoming stuff ... please please please hmu/share. Ta muchly x
Saw
@RedLionBristol
last night at BOV and LOVED it! Know nothing about footie but such a moving show. Also the glorious
@lowri_mathias
AD’d it so veeery proud !! Go and get your tix
This show. Where to begin? A glorious opening night and an incredibly lengthy (and well deserved) standing ovation for these champions of a cast and crew. Running till 2nd July
Come heave away, for the stars and the billowing spray 🌊🌟🎣
We’re sending thunderous applause and luck to the Catastrophe Bay company. The spirited folk musical by
@BuchanBarne
is about to be performed publicly for the first time ever - hold on to your oilskins!
@BristolOldVic
First night of Wuthering Heights
@Wise_Children
at
@BristolOldVic
and am high key obsessed with it. The storytelling, the music, the ensemble, literally everything is pure magic. Very excited to watch it a million times :)))
Caught the staff preview of
@TheRSC
'Dream' on Wednesday and
@creationtheatre
'The Duchess of Malfi' last night - two highly captivating, dynamic and exciting projects showing the lengths we can go with digitalising theatre
The first week of
@BOVTS
Directors Fest saw fascinating work across the board but fell hard for
@sofiagalluccig
sexy and disturbing STOCKHOLM. My full review of this alongside HAMLET/PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK/THE CITY can be found in my latest theatre week,
Went to Copenhagen on my hol & got pneumonia, tragedy. Whilst on bed rest I’ve learnt that 3packs of fizzylaces have done more for me than 2weeks of antibiotics, I Hate Suzi Too is the best telly ever and Tesco don’t do 3for£1 sweets anymore. Here are some cute pics of my trip:)
Really really really chuffed to be offered a spot on the
@NationalTheatre
writing course … 🥳🥳 looking forward to a bit of a confidence boost and maybe actually see a fully developed version of Eton Mess by the end of it (?!?!!)
Back in rehearsals remounting
@hayleysscott
's epic play HAVE A NICE DAY! after a lovely wee run last month and before it heads back out to the Old Red Lion 21st-25th Nov. COME ALONG!!!!
My year group from my undergrad at
@UofEDrama
are all going AMAZING places rn and we only graduated less than a year ago… can’t wait till they all start winning oliviers
Got to sit in the tech today for
@yuxuan7liu
’s brilliant show which opens tonight at
@VAULTFestival
- he pitched it to our directing cohort whilst training at
@BOVTS
last year, became one of the vault five and now this fab show is happening! Go and see it if you can!
Delighted to be working with Jon again, directing his new play Provenance for the
@CriTheatre
showcase
@GregMosse
, with the brilliant Andrew McDonald and
@ConnickLizzie
. New writing industry folk, hmu for tickets!
Hello
#OVConnect
😊 Early career director and playwright here, interested in new writing and adaptations.
Just finished working on ‘Eton Mess’ written for
@ExeterNorthcott
.
Looking to connect with theatre folk in the south west/L’don who are keen to develop some new writing!
Get yourself friends who proof read scary work emails and delete all the soft, cushty 'if that's okay', 'I was wondering if', 'if that's possible', 'i'm only the...' sentences that "a man definitely wouldn't say".
Had my last little run before the London Marathon this Sunday. I’m running for
@TheBHF
in memory of my Nonno. I am absolutely *not* a runner but super proud of how impressive my strava looks to strangers. very grateful for any donations!! X
Really excited to be directing Bryony Lavery's 'Stockholm' at the Wardrobe in May with a fantastic cast and creative team. It's going to be electric. Get booking now!
(3/3) This group of actors are the most inspiring people I’ve ever met and Wednesday’s with them are the highlight of my week. I’d love to support them in to their work to the next level so any leads, people who might be able to help, would be HUGELY appreciated. DM’s open! Ta x
Spring Awakening at
@AlmeidaTheatre
is just brilliant, spectacular performances, incredible design, the whole lot was just stunning. (Also can I hear a hell yes for regional accents in mt !!)
On a 06:58am Monday morn train from Ldon to Bham for a day of facilitating and three guys have sat on my table, in a completely empty carriage and each cracked open a crate of whiteclaw… give me strength
☕️SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT☕️
My new play ‘Have a Nice Day!’ is debuting this October as a part of
@ClaphamFringe
🎭 Unbelievably chuffed to be alongside the other shows going up this year. More info to follow 🥐
My favourite thing about Six matinees are that it’s always the dads and granddads in the audience who are singing every word along to Six at the end of the show
Last day of rehearsals and into tech tomorrow with this brilliant bunch. Catastrophe Bay opens on Sat
@BristolOldVic
and although I’m definitely bias, it’s really a very special show. Runs until 2nd July - come along!
I’m running the London Marathon next month for
@TheBHF
♥️I ran the Battersea half on Sat as some race practice and it all feels very real now, so I would be so grateful for any spare pennies to help support this amazing charity
(2/3) there are any buildings, participation producers/ outreach officers out there who may be interested in a collaboration with this charity to share and support their work to a wider audience? They have such powerful, moving, honest, hilarious stories to share
Catastrophe Bay is back on today at
@BristolOldVic
and is now in rep with ‘Loam’. Swinging a new understudy in before tonight’s performance so a big day ahead. Always immensely proud of this team.
Been driving up and down the country for a total 12hours this weekend and had exclusively Harry Styles and
@Wise_Children
Wuthering Heights cast recording on the aux. An eclectic mix, equally theatrical
As someone who never wins ANYTHING, I won £100 on my second ever lottery ticket, went back to sainos local and said “hi, I think I’ve won the lottery” to the lady behind the till and nothing has ever felt cooler
Seeing as the film How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days is blowing up again, I remember when an ex boyfriend made me watch that once and then 10 days later dumped me and I was convinced he did it to try and hint what was coming whilst keeping me in denial
Caught ‘Can’t Take my Eyes off You’ tonight from
@BOVTS
tonight. Really exciting and interactive concept and added a whole new meaning to zoom performances. Loved it!!
#canttakemyeyesoffyou
Really gutted I can't make the
@ExeFringe
but sending all the luck, good wishes and theatre magic to those involved, particularly the brilliant
@RMcCayHines
,
@ThePaulBraund
and
@michachloe
!! Exeter based folk definitely check it out!