Date: April 3rd
Location: Sunrise Suite, Diorama Arts Studios, 201 Drummond Street, London, NW1
Time: 10.30 - 17.30

We are delighted to welcome Melly Still (National Theatre, Royal Exchange, RSC) to The Actors' Guild. Using her unique theatrical style Melly will be working on the process of adapting stories for theatre.

Through this process participants will work closely with Melly as she shares key exercises from the rehearsal room. 

Melly has worked as a director, choreographer, designer and adaptor for many companies including the National Theatre, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre, The Manchester Royal Exchange and the Young Vic. She has been nominated for Olivier and Tony awards (best director and best design). Her work has travelled throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, the Far East, US and Broadway. She lives in London with her partner and three children.

Credits include: From Morning til Midnight (Kaiser/Dennis Kelly),  National Theatre; Rats’ Tales Manchester Royal Exchange (Dir, Adaptor);  Rusalka Glyndebourne Opera on Tour (Dir); The Cunning Little Vixen Glyndebourne Opera Festival (Dir);  Coram Boy, Bristol Old Vic (Dir); Beasts and Beauties Hampstead Theatre, (Dir/ Designer, co adaptor);  Nation, Royal National Theatre, (Director/Co. Designer); Cinderella Lyric Hammersmith, Warwick (Dir, Writer), The Revenger’s Tragedy, Royal National Theatre, (Director/Co.Designer); Watership Down, Lyric Hammersmith, (Dir/Des); Coram Boy, Royal National Theatre & Broadway (Tony Award Nominee for Best Director, Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, Olivier Award),  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Bristol Old Vic (Dir/ Designer) TMA award; Midnights Children, RSC Michigan/NY (Designer and Co Director, The Jungle Book Young Vic (Designer and Movement).

Projects in development include: Open Up Festival, National Theatre, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo/Zimmer) Regents Pk Open Air Theatre, The Changeling (Selma Lagerfeld) Theatrerites/RSC, Raft of The Medusa (Georg Kaiser/ Fin Kennedy) Bristol Old Vic, The Doll’s House (Ibsen) Bristol Old Vic, Cymbeline (Shakespeare) Royal Shakespeare Company, Jumbo (Melly Still, Tim Supple, Carl Grose) National Theatre, Queen Lear (Carol Ann Duffy) Royal Shakespeare Co.