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Who's Who
Who's Who
Director
Director
Conrad Lynch
Producer
Producer
Hilary Rhodes
Marketing & Design
Marketing & Design
Linnhe Harrison
Production Assistant
Production Assistant
Tristan Barratt
About Us
About Us
Shared Experience produces work characterised by thrillingly distinctive performance styles which celebrate the union of physical and text-based theatre. Since 1976, we have continually worked to excite and inspire people with the unique delights of live performance and unpredictability of the stage.
Steered by producer Conrad Lynch, supported by directors Rebecca Gatward and Kate Saxon, writer and director Jessica Swale, the company is now in its fourth edition, creating a new body of work with a fresh voice.
Shared Experience was founded by Mike Alfreds in 1976, later joined by Artistic Director Nancy Meckler in 1987 and Polly Teale in 2000. Since 1976, Shared Experience has pioneered a thrillingly distinctive performance style that celebrates the union of physical and text based theatre. It was Shared Experience’s work in the 1970s that sparked the contemporary British interest in stage adaptations of literature, with landmark productions of Arabian Nights and Dickens’ Bleak House. Over the years Shared Experience has masterminded over 30 productions including classics such as Mill on the Floss, to modern classics like Speechless. Look through our archive or download one of our education packs from the education page.
If you would like to help us to continue to build on our ambitions to produce bold, innovative and accessible theatre, please email Conrad.
Reviews
Reviews
"Shared Experience is one of the most distinctive theatre companies in the land. Those who have seen the company are unlikely to forget its thrilling productions"
Daily Telegraph
"A performance to treasure - the kind of singular this-is-what-theater-can-be show that doesn't come along every year"
Washington Post on Mill on the Floss
"One of the true highlights of a lifetime of theatre-going"
New York Post on Anna Karenina
Awards
Awards
Speechless
Nominated Best Sound, Off West End Award 2011
Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2010
A Passage To India
Fenella Woolgar - Nominated Best Actress in a Visiting Production, Manchester Evening News Theatre Award 2005
Nominated - Manchester Evening News Theatre Award
Best Visiting Production 2005
Gone To Earth
Nominated - TMA/Opus Award for Best Touring Production 2004
After Mrs Rochester
Best Play in the West End - Time Out Live Award 2004
Polly Teale - Evening Standard Award for Best Director 2003
Nominated - Evening Standard Award for Best Play 2003
TMA/Opus Award for Best Touring Production 2003
The Clearing
Best Supporting Actress - Maread McKinley 2002
Best Supporting Actor - Richard Attlee (nominee) 2002
Mill On The Floss
Helen Haynes Award - Outstanding Non-Resident Production in Washington DC 2001
Jane Eyre
Neil Warmington - Winner Best Designer, 1998 Barclays Theatre Awards
War and Peace
Helen Edmundson -Nominated as Best West End Play,
Writer's Guild Awards 1996
Desire Under The Elms
Nominated Best Visiting Production,
Manchester Evening News Awards 1996
Shared Experience
Peter Brook Empty Space Award 1995
Mill on the Floss
Nominated Best Overall Production Martini / TMA Awards 1994
Helen Edmundson - Best Adaptation Time Out Awards 1994
Nancy Meckler
Nominated for a Prudential Arts Award in 1993 for her outstanding contribution to innovation and creativity in British Theatre.
Anna Karenina
Best Touring Show Martini / TMA Awards 1993;
Outstanding Theatrical Event, Time Out Awards 1992
Vacancies
Vacancies
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