Additional Information for DYCP application
Hello, thank you for considering this DYCP application. Below you will find further information about my work as a writer. I have written over 80 scripts for theatre, television and audio since starting my professional career - here are a few highlights.
Photo credit: Mike Eddowes - Noah, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2012
Highlights and Selected Productions:
2024: Recipient of a Barnet Cultural Partnership Microgrant
Princess and the Pea produced at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2023: Recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence at artsdepot
2022: Creative UK Accelerate Film and TV Cohort
Recipient of a Screenskills Bursary
2019: Co-founded Fly High Stories and wrote and produced Fly High for Singapore Repertory Theatre
2018: Recipient of the Sally Goldsworthy Memorial Bursary from the Discover Story Centre
Paddington at the Seaside for Butlins
2016: Milton Keynes Writer in Residence
Forward to Victory for York Theatre Royal
2015: Dreaming for Royal Albert Hall / Hertfordshire Music Festival
2014: Welcome to My Museum for Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Pitt Rivers Museum
2013: Gorilla for Polka Theatre
2012: Noah for Chichester Festival Theatre
2007: Special Commendation in the Verity Bargate Award
2006: Selected as one of the BBC / Royal Court Theatre 50
2004: Co-founded Peut-être Theatre and wrote and produced three national tours (This is A That, The Bug and The Butterfly, Draw me a Bird). Supported by Arts Council England, other trusts and foundations
Some of the work of my company Fly High Stories
Fly High - two videos from the R+D and production of my most recent stage play, Fly High at Singapore Repertory Theatre - it ran for 6 weeks to full houses and much appreciation.
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Forward to Victory - a commission from York Theatre Royal for their youth theatre. Performed at York Castle Museum as a site responsive promenade production about York's history during the First World War.
Selected Press Reviews
Jina and the Stem Sisters - Little Angel Theatre, 2022
Musical Theatre Review
Rachel Barnett-Jones’ words are witty as well as enlightening. Anyone who can put the words “persist” and “sister” next to each other gets a big tick from me – for the sound world as well as the sentiment.
Gorilla - Polka Theatre, 2014
The Guardian
At its best, the show has a touch of both a pop-up book and a silent film, and it has enough witty jokes to keep the adults amused. … Gorilla is a delicate show ... full of charm
The Stage
... a sweetly detailed small scale adventure
Sid’s Show - Touring, 2012
The Public Reviews
A fun, cheerful, upbeat and interactive show ... a great introduction to theatre for younger children
Boiling Point - Northern Touring Company, 2011
British Theatre Guide
It's cleverly written and often very funny, but there are also moments of great poignancy
Time Out: Delightfully barmy
For A Button - Arcola Theatre, 2006
For a Button, by Rachel Barnett, which tells of two friends who are almost obsessively close. When one meets the man of her dreams, what will the other do? If this sounds a bit Basic Instinct-esque, it is in the furious, roiling, passionate subtext - the overt signals are comic, but there is a lot going on beneath the surface about over-intimacy and possession. With a very well-staged climax, For a Button was a small treasure.
Musical Theatre Review
Rachel Barnett-Jones’ words are witty as well as enlightening. Anyone who can put the words “persist” and “sister” next to each other gets a big tick from me – for the sound world as well as the sentiment.
Gorilla - Polka Theatre, 2014
The Guardian
At its best, the show has a touch of both a pop-up book and a silent film, and it has enough witty jokes to keep the adults amused. … Gorilla is a delicate show ... full of charm
The Stage
... a sweetly detailed small scale adventure
Sid’s Show - Touring, 2012
The Public Reviews
A fun, cheerful, upbeat and interactive show ... a great introduction to theatre for younger children
Boiling Point - Northern Touring Company, 2011
British Theatre Guide
It's cleverly written and often very funny, but there are also moments of great poignancy
Time Out: Delightfully barmy
For A Button - Arcola Theatre, 2006
For a Button, by Rachel Barnett, which tells of two friends who are almost obsessively close. When one meets the man of her dreams, what will the other do? If this sounds a bit Basic Instinct-esque, it is in the furious, roiling, passionate subtext - the overt signals are comic, but there is a lot going on beneath the surface about over-intimacy and possession. With a very well-staged climax, For a Button was a small treasure.
Photo credit: SRT - Fly High, Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2023
