AUTHORS: Carran Waterfield
Carran Waterfield is an independent theatre and performance maker, teacher and published writer with several young people’s stories published along with devised playscripts and poetry. She is currently based in Southport, UK.
Born in Coventry, UK she founded and led the international Coventry-based touring company Triangle Theatre (UK) est. 1988 creating collaborative productions of physically driven theatre with accompanying educational and outreach programmes. Her performance repertoire includes: Omega and the Golden Water (1989) Edinburgh fringe and national tour. Married Blitz (1990) Best Actress Volgograd Festival of Experimental Theatre; Sticks and Stones (1990) Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge Olivier Stage London; The Dig (1992) Fringe First, Independent Theatre Award Short List; Tributaries (1994) Japan/India/Scotland collaboration; Godiva (1995) UK Denmark tour; My Sister, My Angel (1996) UK Denmark Tour; Looking for the Tallyman (1998) Edinburgh Fringe/UK Denmark Tour; Whissell and Williams Home Front Training Camp/Coventry Kids in the Blitz (2004) Museums and Heritage Award/Roots and Wings Award, UK, France, Australia; Dugout! (2002) Screen West Midlands Selection; Nina and Frederick (2002) UK/Denmark/France tour, feature film; The Pollard Trail (2006) UK/Australia/Belfast feature in Performing Heritage; The Last Women (2009) commissioned by Wellcome Trust, Belgrade Theatre, The Herbert Museum, Warwick University Centre for the History of Medicine; Birnam Wood (2010-2016) RSC Stratford, Universities of Salford, Manchester and Melton College; The House (2015) AHRC funded with University of Manchester. Her performance art work includes: Little Blue Man; (2015) with Universities of Northampton, Manchester, Salford and Move into Life Follow the Stone (2021) visual poem Southport coastline, Move into Life; Disrupted Meadow (2022) visual poem Move into Life, Castlefield Gallery, University of Sheffield, Dartington Hall. Her publications include: Redhair and Daffodil Friend (1988, 2001, 2022, 2024) installation, children’s book, stage adaptation with The Herbert Museum Coventry, University of Salford; The Brinepoint Colouring Book (2024) Pink Granite (2025) A Walking Companion (forthcoming). Training and influences: Carran’s theatre and performance training is drawn from mainly European/UK based practitioners and teachers including Peter Slade (Demmery and Slade); Odin Teatret (Barba, Wethal, Carreri, Fowler); Pantheatre (Wise, Pardo); Roy Hart Theatre (Manley, Pikes, Lucca); Jerzy Grotowski (Barba, Cynkutis); Ian Cameron (Gaulier, Lecoq, Pagneux, and Desmond Jones); Sandra Reeve (Move into Life, Suprapto Suryodarmo). In 2010, after twenty years practising in the West Midlands and extensive international touring, Carran moved from the West Midlands to Southport, Merseyside. Here she navigated a new direction collaborating with the universities of Salford and Manchester. She specialised in teaching movement at ALRA North (2010-2016), developed an extensive residency at Heron Corn Mill in Cumbria (2014-2017) and worked on a major research project on Performance and Poverty for the University of Manchester (2013-2017). Here she became an honorary research fellow. In 2018 she worked at Edge Hill University between whilst making contributions to Southport Constituency Labour Party as Women’s Officer. In 2019 she became an elected Labour Councillor for Sefton Borough Council where she led the development of a cultural strategy for the borough. She stood down from her councillor position in 2024. Currently she is working on Pink Granite a young adult story about quarrying communities, drawing on her paternal family history whilst developing A Walking Companion documenting her creative walks along the Sefton coastline. She is an associate artist at University of Salford and a board member of The Engine Room in Southport. You can read more about her work at these links: A Poetics of Third Theatre -Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Cultural Action. Jane Turner and Patrick Campbell. Routledge (2021) Digging deep: a dialogue on practice-based research Jenny Hughes and Carran Waterfield Taylor and Francis (2017) The House Carran Waterfield Taylor and Francis (2017) She wants you to kiss her: Negotiating Risk in the Immersive Theatre Contract Richard Talbot. Reframing Immersive Theatre James Frieze (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan (2016) Performing Heritage – Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation. Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd (eds.) Manchester University Press (2012) Quantum Theatre -Science and Contemporary Performance. Paul Johnson Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012) All at Sea: Tracing Jouissance in the Digital Archives of Triangle Theatre Patrick Campbell .Bristol.ac.uk (2011) Dugout! The Little Herberts Total Theatre Volume 15 Issue 3 Autumn Jessica Naish Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive (2003) Identity – Even if it is a fantasy: the work of Carran Waterfield Jo Trowsdale New Theatre Quarterly Volume 13 number 51 Cambridge University Press 1997 Websites: carranwaterfield.co.uk triangletheatre.carranwaterfield.co.uk ninaandfrederick.carranwaterfield.co.uk |
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