Claudette Bryanston

Bryanston has an MA in Contemporary Performance from Middlesex University.{{Cite book|title=Théâtre Éducation au-delà des frontières|last=Praticiens et pédagogues du théâtre|publisher=Lansman Editeur|year=1999|isbn=9782872 822928|location=France|pages=129}}

In 1983 she co-founded Classworks Theatre Company, Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.classworks.org.uk/who/history/|title=History – Classworks Theatre|access-date=2019-05-20}} Classworks was initially the first youth theatre in Cambridge, meeting at the ADC Theatre and securing the first patronage given by HRH Prince Edward Earl of Wessex.{{Cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/the-earl-of-wessex|title=The Earl of Wessex|last=Emma.Goodey|date=2015-11-13|website=The Royal Family|access-date=2019-05-20}} Its productions toured to Germany, Finland, Poland and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1988 it won the first ever award given by The Independent for Best Production with The Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov.{{Cite web|url=http://actors.mandy.com/uk/company/2191/classworks-theatre-company|title=Classworks Theatre Company|last=|website=Mandy Actors UK|access-date=2019-05-20}}

Bryanston is the artistic director of Santé Theatre and Media company{{Cite web|url=http://www.stamproductions.co.uk/about/the-sante-theatre-warwick-team/|title=Meet the STAMP Team|website=Santé Theatre and Media Productions|access-date=2019-05-20}} which she founded in 2000. In 2003 she was appointed a Senior Research Fellow in Creativity and Performance at the Institute of Health at the University of Warwick.{{Cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/capital/about/people/fellows/bryanston/|title=Claudette Bryanston|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=2019-05-20}} From November 2008 to June 2009 she was also the Warwick University/Royal Shakespeare Company Fellow in Creativity and Performance.{{Cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/capital/about/people/fellows/|title=Warwick/RSC Fellows in Creativity and Performance|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=2019-05-20}} She is also Artistic Director of Stamp Theatre and Media Productions{{Cite web |title=Meet the STAMP Team |url=https://www.stamproductions.co.uk/about/the-team/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=STAMP: Theatre and Media Productions CIC |language=en-GB}} which has been nominated for a Royal Television Society award.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.stamproductions.co.uk/about/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=STAMP: Theatre and Media Productions CIC |language=en-GB}} Past projects include the play Cracked{{Cite web |title=Cracked |url=https://www.stamproductions.co.uk/past-productions/cracked/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=STAMP: Theatre and Media Productions CIC |language=en-GB}} The play is based upon findings from the Department of Health (NIHR) funded ENRICH programme of research conducted by Professor Swaran Singh at Warwick Medical School.Directed by Bryanston, it is an example of verbatim theatre also interspersed with poetry by Poet Laureate for Birmingham Symphony Hall, Julie Boden.{{Cite web |title=Cracked |url=https://www.stamproductions.co.uk/past-productions/cracked/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=STAMP: Theatre and Media Productions CIC |language=en-GB}}

Bryanston was appointed Guest Director of the Master in Fine Arts in stage direction programme at Boston University in America and has published academic articles on the practice of applied theatre.{{Cite journal |author=Maria Stuttaford |author2=Claudette Bryanston |author3=Gillian Lewando Hundt |author4=Myles Connor |author5=Margaret Thorogood |author6=Stephen Tollman |date=January 2006|title=Use of applied theatre in health research dissemination and data validation: a pilot study from South Africa |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00571418/|journal=Health |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=31–45 |doi=10.1177/1363459306058985|hdl=2262/52149 |hdl-access=free |pmc=2830105 }} [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7447103_Use_of_applied_theatre_in_health_research_dissemination_and_data_validation_A_pilot_study_from_South_Africa at ResearchGate] She has worked closely with the English playwright Edward Bond, from whom she commissioned the play "The Children", directing its first performance in 2000.{{Cite book|title=Edward Bond and the Dramatic Child: Edward Bond's plays for Young people|last=Davis|first=David|publisher=Trentham Books|year=2005|isbn=1858563127|location=UK and USA|pages=153}} She has also worked with English writers Mike Kenny{{Cite web|url=http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/|title=Nottingham Lakeside Arts|website=Nottingham Lakeside Arts|access-date=2019-05-20}} and Robin French and American playwright Deborah Lake Fortson.{{Cite web|url=http://deborahlake2.wixsite.com/bodyandsold/history|title=HISTORY|website=bodyandsold|access-date=2019-05-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://deborahlake2.wixsite.com/bodyandsold/about|title=ABOUT|website=bodyandsold|access-date=2019-05-20}} Bryanston has also been commissioned to direct productions by the Coventry Belgrade Theatre{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2007/02/15/gilgamesh_event_feature.shtml|title=Gilgamesh|last=BBC|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2019-05-20}} which is well known for developing the practice of theatre in education, and in the community.{{Cite web|url=http://www.belgrade.co.uk/about-us/about-the-belgrade/|title=About the Belgrade|website=Belgrade Theatre|access-date=2019-05-24}}

Bryanston's stage direction has been described as "visually incisive" by The Sunday Times and "extraordinary and impressive" by The Guardian.{{Cite web|url=https://albanytheatre.co.uk/wind-in-the-willows-creative-team-crew |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524113124/https://albanytheatre.co.uk/wind-in-the-willows-creative-team-crew |archive-date=2019-05-24 |title=Wind in the Willows: Creative Team |website=Albany Theatre |access-date=2019-05-24}}

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