Rachel Barnett - Theatremaker

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Career Highlights

2011

The Withered Arm performed at Tête a Tête: The Opera Festival

Received a Brighton Festival Commission and Arts Council England funding for Draw Me a Bird

Your Call Is Important To Us performed at Brighton Festival as part of the Up-Stream Showcase

Invited to take part in a cultural exchange between Polka Theatre, London and La Baracca, Bologna 

2010

Received Arts Council England funding to write a play, The Law of Inertia (working title). This project will culminate in a sharing at Oxford Playhouse Theatre. 

2009

Short-listed for the Adrienne Benham Award, for emerging playwrights writing for young people, administered by the Theatre Centre


2008

Different plays being performed on the same day in the UK, USA and India

Working as translator, dramaturg and producer on the first production for Peut-être Theatre

Shortlisted for the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Play Festival


2007

Recipient of a 'Special Commendation' in the Verity Bargate New Writing award for A Sky Full of Stars 

Shortlisted for the inaugural Young Theatre-Makers Bursary - supported by Company of Angels and The Junction, Cambridge for This is Not a Play - a new translation and adaptation of short stories written by Eugene Ionesco, a collaboration with director Daphna Attias

2006

"The 50" - One of 50 young writers supported by The BBC and the Royal Court to celebrate the Royal Court's 50th anniversary year

Represented England in 'Poets Now' in Mulheim, Germany - a world cup for playwrights

Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant - to support work at Chichester Festival Theatre

Writer on Attachment at Chichester Festival Theatre 

Recipient of Welcome Trust Funding for Yellowing, with Sphinx Theatre 

Writer on Attachment at Sphinx Theatre, London


2005

Recipient of Arts Council Research and Development Funding for Yellowing

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