Biog
Joseph Coelho CV
Performance Poet & Workshop Leader
Education/qualifications: University: BA Archaeology, University College London
Young Writers Course, The Royal Court, London
BA Course, Theatre Design, The Slade
Trained in technical theatre, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Current CRB Certificate
Workshop leader
Various projects for Creative Partnerships combining curriculum needs with performance poetry 2006 - Present.
Associate Artist at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith improving basic skills with young people who are NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training)2006 - Present.
R & D work for Oily Carts production, ‘If all the world were paper’.
Series of performance poetry workshops for RIFCO’s musical ‘Bhangra Bling’
Workshops in Lighting and poetry for groups with learning difficulties for Slough Inclusive Youth Theatre Project.
Musical/Performance Theatre Workshops for the BBC and British Library as part of their ‘Silk Roads Project’ led to final performance.
Preferred Learning Styles series of workshops at Islington Green School for Apples and Snakes.
Tabletop workshop at the Pontefract liquorice festival 2004, created an 8 Meter poetry banner on the theme of liquorice, with all ages.
Performance Poetry Coach for ‘The Lynk Reach London Slam’ 2005, 2006, 2007.
Coach for the winning UK National Poetry Team 2007.
Ran emotional awareness workshops through poetry for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka late 2005.
Theatre Directing
Trainee Assistant Director - Talawa Theatre Company –The UCL Bloomsbury
Assistant Director - Jonzi D’s ‘Aeroplane Man’ - Library Theatre, Manchester
Assistant Director - Youth theatre group - Battersea Arts Centre
Director/Producer - ‘The Crucible’ - The UCL Bloomsbury
Director/producer - ’12 Angry Men’ - Garage Theatre, Bloomsbury, London
Writing & Performance
‘Apples and Snakes’ National tour ‘Broken Words’ featuring performance poetry based on Dickens ‘Great expectations’
The International Writers Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall (6 original pieces inspired by the works of Anna Akmatova) and published by the South Bank Centre.
Poems published for the Clerkenwell Literature Festival 2004.
Poem published in 'The Works 6 - Every kind of poem you will ever need for assembly' Macmillan. 2007
Currently working on a new play based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy for an European Peace project initiated by 'Theatre Alive', London.
Aritcle "stepping up to the mic" published in emagaine - English and Media Centre
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
Article published in Sable Lit Mag - Spring issue 2007.
Poems to be published in Serbia in 2006 as part of an international anthology.
Reference: Lisa Mead, Education Manager, Apples and Snakes, lisa@applesandsnakes.org
Performance Poet & Workshop Leader
Education/qualifications: University: BA Archaeology, University College London
Young Writers Course, The Royal Court, London
BA Course, Theatre Design, The Slade
Trained in technical theatre, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Current CRB Certificate
Workshop leader
Various projects for Creative Partnerships combining curriculum needs with performance poetry 2006 - Present.
Associate Artist at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith improving basic skills with young people who are NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training)2006 - Present.
R & D work for Oily Carts production, ‘If all the world were paper’.
Series of performance poetry workshops for RIFCO’s musical ‘Bhangra Bling’
Workshops in Lighting and poetry for groups with learning difficulties for Slough Inclusive Youth Theatre Project.
Musical/Performance Theatre Workshops for the BBC and British Library as part of their ‘Silk Roads Project’ led to final performance.
Preferred Learning Styles series of workshops at Islington Green School for Apples and Snakes.
Tabletop workshop at the Pontefract liquorice festival 2004, created an 8 Meter poetry banner on the theme of liquorice, with all ages.
Performance Poetry Coach for ‘The Lynk Reach London Slam’ 2005, 2006, 2007.
Coach for the winning UK National Poetry Team 2007.
Ran emotional awareness workshops through poetry for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka late 2005.
Theatre Directing
Trainee Assistant Director - Talawa Theatre Company –The UCL Bloomsbury
Assistant Director - Jonzi D’s ‘Aeroplane Man’ - Library Theatre, Manchester
Assistant Director - Youth theatre group - Battersea Arts Centre
Director/Producer - ‘The Crucible’ - The UCL Bloomsbury
Director/producer - ’12 Angry Men’ - Garage Theatre, Bloomsbury, London
Writing & Performance
‘Apples and Snakes’ National tour ‘Broken Words’ featuring performance poetry based on Dickens ‘Great expectations’
The International Writers Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall (6 original pieces inspired by the works of Anna Akmatova) and published by the South Bank Centre.
Poems published for the Clerkenwell Literature Festival 2004.
Poem published in 'The Works 6 - Every kind of poem you will ever need for assembly' Macmillan. 2007
Currently working on a new play based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy for an European Peace project initiated by 'Theatre Alive', London.
Aritcle "stepping up to the mic" published in emagaine - English and Media Centre
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
Article published in Sable Lit Mag - Spring issue 2007.
Poems to be published in Serbia in 2006 as part of an international anthology.
Reference: Lisa Mead, Education Manager, Apples and Snakes, lisa@applesandsnakes.org
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