Eva Sampson
Eva Sampson trained on the National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course and at the University of Birmingham. She is the Co-Artistic Director of How It Ended theatre company and is an Associate of National Youth Theatre. Eva was the Sky Arts Artistic Associate for Theatre Royal Stratford East during 2022 – 2023.
Her credits as a Director includes: The Fir Tree (Artsdepot / How It Ended); Jane Eyre (GSA); Couple Goals (Young Vic / RWCMD); Velvet Pines (Tanner Street / Swamp), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Ultimate Pickle (Roundabout / Paines Plough); Wild (Unicorn Theatre / How It Ended); More Than We Can Bear (Almeida Theatre / Clean Break); Heart of Hammersmith (Lyric Hammersmith); Maryland, Meet Mo, Ribena, Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford East); At the Statue of Venus (Royal Opera House); The Little Gardener (Kew Gardens); Last Nine Months (Vaults); Sticky (Southwark Playhouse); The Tide (Young Vic); The Scarecrows’ Wedding (Watford Palace Theatre); A Peter Rabbit Tale (Singapore Repertory); Rudolf (Leeds Playhouse); Decades (Brixton House).
As Associate / Assistant Director: Wolf Witch Giant Fairy (Royal Opera House); Four Quartets (West End); Noye’s Fludde (Theatre Royal Stratford East / ENO); Twelfth Night (Young Vic); Father Christmas (Lyric Hammersmith); Unprecedented (Headlong / Century Films / BBC Four).
As Resident Assistant Director: This is My Family, 8 Hotels (Chichester Festival Theatre).
As Staff Director at The National Theatre: The Visit, Downstate (co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre).
For Film/TV/Radio: Trigger Point 2: The Experience (ITV / ITVX / Swamp), Four Quartets (Ralph Fiennes / Lone Star Productions Ltd / BBC); Keep the Home Fires Burning (The Culture Trust Luton); That’s How It Feels: REED TVC Campaign (MYNT / Kingdom Creative).
Session: Make a New Musical
An exciting opportunity for actors, singers and writers to create and perform a new musical in a week! Students who want to develop skills in one of these disciplines or all three are welcome. In the space of a week, you will decide on an idea and take it from initial concept to performance using inspiration from existing musicals, building your performance skills and experience in the process.
Whilst creating a new musical, students will:
- explore skills in storytelling, devising, writing, acting and singing.
- look at what it means to work truly collaboratively.
- develop a tight ensemble company to create a show, fully stretching multi-tasking skills. It will be about process and product!
- deepen and expand acting and singing techniques - in the former pushing for bravery, play and clarity in storytelling and in the latter looking at breath management, breath support, widening pitch and dynamic ranges, as well as clarity in articulation and acting through song.
This course will demonstrate how to make brand new material - and then how to achieve total clarity the very first time audiences hear it. It will celebrate students as individuals, as well as the power of ensemble.
If this sounds fun, challenging and a bit of you, then let’s make a show!