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We caught up with the multi-talented theatre Director Cora Bissett during our Directing Fundamentals day at the National Theatre Scotland to chat us through some of the highlights of her career and give some advice to emerging and early career directors.

Cora Bissett is a director/actor/writer/theatre-maker. She strives to make work which connects viscerally with audiences who feel theatre isn’t for them. Drawing on popular music forms, physical theatre and highly visual elements, she has taken astounding real-life contemporary stories and worked collaboratively to shape them into theatre shows which, though broad-ranging, often shine a light on the complex nature of injustice within systems. She has garnered many awards over the years, including multiple Fringe Firsts, Amnesty International Awards, Off West End Awards for best new Musical and an Olivier for her shattering site-specific piece on human Trafficking, Roadkill, created with Stef Smith. Most recently her screen adaptation of Adam won a BAFTA (written by Frances Poet). Her own play What Girls Are Made Of travelled from the U.S. to Melbourne to Sau Paulo and is under commission to Black Camel to be made into a screen adaptation.

Directing Fundamentals was an unmissable one-day workshop that took place at NTS Rockvilla for aspiring young theatre directors based in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. During the masterclass, award-winning director Cora Bissett demystified the directorial process, exploring how to take a scene from page to stage and get the most from your performers. 20 aspiring directors had the unique opportunity to get under the skin of Cora’s practice, discover their own directing style and ask burning questions they had about the industry.

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A final big thank you to Cora for her time and incredible insights.