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Jessica Swale on Writing & Directing | Rebel Park Productions
Jessica Swale is an English theatre director, writer and playwright. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the University of Exeter. She is the Artistic Director of Red Handed Theatre Company which she co-founded with Katie Bonna in 2006. Previously she worked as associate director at Out of Joint and Shakespeare's Globe.
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She has directed a number of plays, including The Busy Body, The Belle's Stratagem (nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director award in 2011), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Rivals, Mad Kings and Englishmen, The School for Scandal, The Glass Tower, Palace of the End, Bedlam, Winter, Finding Alice, etc. She has directed bilingual productions of Shakespeare in Bosnia and the Marshall Islands with Youth Bridge Global.
Swale attended Kendrick Grammar School in Reading for secondary education.
She is currently writer in residence at Arts Ed for 2015, for whom she is writing an original play.
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