SANDRA MATURANA
Director
Assistant Director
2014-2015 Hope by Jack Thorne. Dir: John Tiffany Royal Court
2012- 2013 The Mouse and his Child. Dir: Paul Hunter RSC. RST
2011 Seven Angels. Dir: John Fulljames. The Opera Group Tour & ROH2
2010 My Dad’s a Birdman. Dir: Oliver Mears Young Vic
2009 Secrets (Associate Artist) Southwark Playhouse
2009 Faithless Bitches. Dir: Harold Finley Courtyard Theatre
Movement Director
2014 Frankenstein: The Opera Dir: Richard Campbell The Space
2014 The Rover by Aphra Behn. Dir: Rikki Henry (Workshop) Young Vic
2013 Venus/ Mars by Patrice Etienne. Dir: Rikki Henry Old Red Lion and Bush Theatre
2013 Socrates and his Clouds. Dir: Melina Theocharidou Jermyn St Theatre
2011 The Government Inspector (Parallel Prod.) Dir: Rikki Henry Young Vic
2009 Sinbad. Dir: Josh Azouz Roundhouse theatre
2007 The Trickster of Seville by Tirso de Molina. RESAD. Spain
Work with Young People/Teaching
2018-2020 UPV. Basque Country University Teacher: Theatre ( Cursos Culturales)
2016 The Merchant Of Venice By Shakespeare Teacher and director. TAE. Spain.
2015-2016 The Harrodian School Drama Teacher
2015-2016 GSA Guildford School of Acting Audition panellist- BA in Acting
2014 Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Workshop Leader
2014 Thomas Tallis School Drama Teacher
2013-2014 Christ College Finchley Drama Teacher
2012 The Chimes by Dickens Director. David Russell Theatre. Portsmouth
2012 The Arsonists by Max Frisch Director. David Russell Theatre. Portsmouth
2012 Director in Residence Portsmouth Grammar School
2003-2015 Workshop Leader LSO, RSC, Young Vic, Barbican,UCL, The Opera Group, All Sorts Drama, Royal Court
Translator, Interpreter, Spanish Consultant & Reader
2008-2016 National Theatre, The Globe, The Royal Court, BBC, RADA, CASA Festival, Oberon Books, Judy Daish
Education
2018-2020 PhD in Theatre Studies UPV University
2007-2008 MA Text and Performance RADA and Kings College
Directing credits while studying:
- Director 8 ½ by Fellini RADA
- Director Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi RADA
- Director King Lear by Shakespeare RADA
2006-2007 PGCE Universidad Complutense (Spain)
2001-2006 BA in English Universidad Complutense (Spain) and UCL (London)
1998-2001 BA in Acting Juan Carlos Corazza Drama School (Spain)
Training
2014 The Odin Festival Odin Teatret ( Denmark)
2012 Physical Theatre Lecoq school (Paris, France)
2010 Directors Lab Lincoln Centre Theater (NY)
2010 Springboard- Directors Training Young Vic
2008 Directors Training Programme StoneCrabs Theatre
2005-2014 Workshops: Frantic Assembly, Complicite, Gecko, Clod Ensemble, Improbable, Song of a Goat, Tapa Sudana
2016 Certified Yoga Instructor( 200 hrs) by Yoga Alliance
2017 Matilda: The Musical ( Resident Director) Royal Shakespeare Company. Cambridge theatre. London
2017 Black out by Davey Anderson TAE. Vitoria. Spain
2016 Scheherazade. Company of Dreams Trinity Theatre and Sadlers Wells
2015 Liolá by Pirandello Italia Conti
2014 Dreams of the Orient ( Dance) Fairfield Halls
2013-2014 Theatre Directing Fellowship The Space
2014 Hamlyn by Juan Mayorga The Space
2013 Yerma by Lorca(R & D) Royal Shakespeare Company
2013 Resolutions by David Brown (Staged Reading) The Space
2013 Hamlyn by Juan Mayorga (Staged Reading) Southwark Playhouse
2011 Borderlands/ La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (scratch) CASA festival. Oval House
2011 Building Walls by Catherine Harvey Green Theatre 503
2011 A Date with Doris (Off Cut Festival) by Jilly Gardiner Riverside Studios
2011 The Man with Scars of Thunder in his Cheeks (Opera, R & D) The Opera Group
2011 Hamlyn by Juan Mayorga (R & D) Young Vic
2011 Quixote by Cervantes (R & D) High Tide
2011 Salome by Oscar Wilde Albany Theatre.
2009 A Spatial Discovery (devised play, Scratch Festival) BAC
2008 (Staged Reading) Love of Don Perlimplín by Lorca Albany Theatre
2009 Alice’s Shadow (devised play based on Alice in Wonderland) Edinburgh Fringe & TARA Arts
2002-2004 Several plays and short stories.Radio drama Top Radio. Spain
