Hannah Sullivan
I am interested in working as project manager and/or producer on innovative and experiemental performance work within Bristol. I am an active performance maker seeking opportunties to develop my own practice and collaborate.
I have a BA in Theatre and Visual Practices from Dartington College of Arts and a MA in Performance Research from The University of Bristol. I have completed a Theatre Management Internship at Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham and have been employed by Gryphon Venues, Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh Festival season.
I am the Associate Producer for Ausform Performance, a Bristol based producing house. I contribute to the deliverance of a Bi-Annual New Work Platform, host shows from Visiting Artists and also support our Associate Artists. www.ausform.co.uk
I am a co-partner in The Showroom Project ltd who manage and curate The Parlour Showrooms, a community focused exhibition and performance venue in the centre of Bristol.
I have previously worked as a Production Assistant for Compagnie Animotion, Prototype Theatre and Mercurial Wrestler. Working within a team to develop and produce exciting pieces of theatre, often in non-theatre spaces and with advanced technology.
I write for Total Theatre Magazine, my feature articles include 'Immerse Yourself' (Autumn Ed 2011), 'Black Holes and Shining Lights' (Spring Ed 2012) and an upcoming article on 'The Art of Demonstration' (Summer Ed 2012). These Articles are produced through direct contact with companies and their work. I have also visited the Stockholm Fringe Festival in which i delivered my Masters Research on International Festivals as a lecture.
I am a Deviser and Performer, I have previously performed within an ensemble company Openbatch Theatre and as a Puppeteer with Clockwork Moth. I have performed at BEfestival (Birmingham), Flourish at the Barbican (Plymouth), North Devon Fringe, The Wardrobe Theatre (Bristol), The Cube (Bristol), The Exeter Phoenix, Bristol Live Open Platform at The Arnolfini (Bristol), NEU/NOW (Lithuania), The Ustinov (Bath) and Prototype at the Tobacco Factory (Bristol)
I am currently developing my solo practice with a dance piece 'Echo Beach' which scratched at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter in Nov 2012.
Key Projects
- Instructions for a serenade
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Taking you through the steps for a serenade, a woman sings a marvin gaye classic to a panda, opening up her arms and risking rejection.
- Charles Bukowski
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Inspired by the crude writing of Charles Bukowski and his chain smoking slow speaking persona, this is a small character piece developed out of writing down dreams and the set-up of a poetry reading.
- Two women in a western
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An experiment into the visualization of text in performance, using cardboard signs and blackboards, this piece is part improvised and part structured game to a western soundtrack.
- Echo Beach
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An autobiographical dance solo beginning with a story about Millennium and my parents dancing - I was 12, my brother was 6 and we went to the cricket club. I am interested in the uniqueness of individual dancing, of social dancing. Moving from telling a story to just re-living it to a sound track by Martha and the Muffins, featuring the international hit 'Echo Beach'.
- The Parlour Showrooms
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A community focused exhibition and performance venue with a rolling programme of inventive and diverse events. The Parlour Showrooms was set up as part of the Capacity Bristol scheme, and is now run by The Showrooms Projects ltd - Hannah Sullivan, Martha King and Alice Tatton-Brown.
- Ausform Performance
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Ausform Performance is an up and coming producing house based in Bristol delivering a bi-annual platform for new performance. Previous platforms have shown the work international, national and local artists: Sleepwalk collective, Greg Wohead, Coda dance, Jack Dean, Will Bock, Izzy Cressy and Hannah Kew, Wait and See, Jackie Vitale... to name a few.