AUTHORS: Carran Waterfield
Carran is an independent theatre and performance maker, teacher and published writer.
She founded and led the international touring company Triangle Theatre (UK) est.1988 creating numerous collaborative productions of physically driven theatre with accompanying educational and outreach programmes until 2018. She now creates as an independent solo artist. Her repertoire includes: 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; Little Blue Man; (2015) with Universities of Northampton, Manchester, Salford and Move into Life; Follow the Stone (2021) visual poem; Disrupted Meadow (2022) visual poem; Redhair and Daffodil Friend (1988, 2001, 2022, 2024) installation, children’s book, stage adaptation with The Herbert Museum, University of Salford; Pink Granite (forthcoming). 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). After a brief time working as an actor/teacher for Gloucestershire Theatre-In-Education following her teacher training in Cheltenham (1975-1978), Carran worked as a Drama/English teacher in Coventry between 1979 and 1995. The inception of the National Curriculum drove her away from teaching in the statutory sector. In 1989 she established Triangle Theatre based in Coventry creating and performing her first children’s solo show Omega and the Golden Water (Edinburgh and National tour). With a core of young people from her school drama classes she established a fledgling youth theatre, Bare Essentials Youth Theatre (1988-1998). Bare Essentials seeded artists including Rachel Karafistan of COSmino Theatre (Berlin) and creatives including Dr Patrick Campbell (Brazil/Denmark), dancer Matthew Winston, West End performer Liam Tamne and West Midlands based creative teachers Paul Murphy and Lisa Shelton. After twenty years practicing in the West Midlands and extensive international touring Carran moved from the West Midlands to the Northwest of England in 2010 to navigate a new direction. Here she collaborated with the universities of Salford and Manchester, teaching movement at ALRA North (2010-2016), developing an extensive residency at Heron Corn Mill in Cumbria (2014-2017) and working on a major research project on Performance and Poverty for the University of Manchester (2013-2017), where she was honorary research fellow. She also worked at Edge Hill University between 2018 and 2019 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. Alongside her councillor work she developed a walking practice derived from her movement studies with Dorset based movement therapist Sandra Reeve. She stood down from her councillor position in 2024. Currently she is developing a stage adaptation of her children’s book Redhair and Daffodil Friend and working on the prequel Pink Granite. 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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