marcia carr

Marcia completed her training at Royal Holloway (University of London) to which she has returned to embark upon a practice based PhD in Physical Theatre.

Marcia has toured both nationally and internationally. Tours include The Wild Party (The Mousepeople) Time Out Critics Choice and nominations for a Vita Award, Market Theatre, Johannesburg and Best Ensemble, Stage and Television Award; Pigtales (Inamorata), a performance that won her Best Fringe Performer 2000, Manchester Evening Standard and a nomination for Best Production; Othellophobia (xplosive Acts); Juliet's Dream (Sharp Theatre). Theatre includes: the Little Girl who was too fond of matches (Impetuous Kinship); PALS (Maverick Theatre); Transfigured (Atlas productions).

Television includes: Doctors (BBC), Dangerfield (BBC). Film includes: Mr Oakley (TaD too far), Sex Lives of the Potato Men.

Musical Theatre includes: Laborintus II (Electric Phoenix); Fax of Life (Limited Company); The Unit (Mary Stewart David and Denis King); Profiles, cast recording (Mary Stewart David).

Marcia is on tour both nationally and internationally educating both young and old either facilitating workshops on all aspects of performance studies or else lecturing to both undergraduates or postgraduates on both academic and vocational courses. Some of her recent credits include: Central School of Speech and Drama for MA Acting Musical Theatre (Movement Tutor, Acting Tutor, Choreographer), MA Classical Acting (Movement Tutor), Professional Development and Lifelong Learning (Intro to Acting, Scene Direction, Saturday Youth Theatre); Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; Coventry Youth Service (Team Building); Court Training Theatre (Physical Theatre Tutor, TIE Tutor/Director); Kingston University (Stage Directions); Gifted and talented (Birmingham & London); Wolverhampton University (Theatre Criticism, Experimental Theatre, Subverting the Canon, Approaches to Shakespeare, Practitioners and Practice); Winchester University (Intertextuality, Practice as Research, Contemporary Practitioners). International credits include: ST&M Theatre School (Amsterdam).

Marcia has directed and choreographed: The Little Girl who was too fond of matches (Adaptation and Direction, Impetuous Kinship); Merrily we Roll Long (Choreographer, Central School of Speech and Drama/ST&M, Amsterdam); CSSD MA Acting Musical Theatre Showcase (Choreographer); Celebrity Chatback (Director, TIE Court Training Theatre); The Person with Enormous Wings (Director, TIE Court Training Company); Moot (Choreographer, MABrum); Webster Dextrious (MABrum); Bottom's Dream (Director/Choreographer, Chamberlain Players); A Big Night Out (Director, Chamberlain Players).

Awards:

Pigtales

· Manchester Evening Standard Award Winner
· Marcia Carr - Best Fringe Performer 2000 (Manchester Royal Exchange Studio)
· Nominated for Best Performance 2000 - Manchester Evening Standard Award

The wild Party

· Time Out Critics Choice
· Nominated for Best Ensemble 1998 - The Stage and Television Today
· Nominated for a VITA Award 1999 - South Africa