Martha Barnett

2023 MA Directing student

Experience at LAMDA

Dead and Kicking
Director and Creator
Mulch Productions
LAMDA, July 2023

Tea Time
Director and Creator
Written by Martha Barnett & Eve Cowley
LAMDA, June 2023

Woyzeck
Assistant Director
Directed by Matt Wilde
Written by Jack Thorne
LAMDA, May 2023

Untitled Film [Short Film]
Assistant Director
Directed by Michelle Bonnard
Written by Michelle Bonnard & Annabel Mutale Reed
LAMDA, March 2023

Close Quarters
Assistant Director
Directed Emily Aboud
Written by Kate Bowen
LAMDA, February 2023

Boudica
Assistant Director
Directed by Psyche Stott
Written by Tristan Bernays
LAMDA, November 2022

As Director

In the Kitchen with Martha
Curator, Director and Producer
Hessle View, Leeds, July 2021

Fine Young Artists - Tusk Tusk
Director
Written by Polly Stenham
Calgary, February 2020

Fine Young Artists - The Flick
Director
Written by Annie Baker
Calgary, November 2019

Dr Faustus
Co-Director
Written by Christopher Marlowe
Pyramid Theatre, Leeds, October 2018

As Assistant Director

Tomorrow is Already Dead
Assistant Director
Directed by Sam Curtis Lindsay
Written by Ms Sharon Le Grand
Hackney Showroom, Soho Theatre, May 2023 & Latitude Festival, July 2023

Ants
Assistant Director
Directed by Tom Mitchell
Written by George Manson
The Lending Room, Leeds, February 2022

Neighbourhood Watch
Assistant Director
Directed by Lottie Fowler
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Banham Theatre, Leeds, February 2018

Other Experience

Leeds University Union
September 2021 – September 2022
Development and Engagement Coordinator: Music, Dance and Performance.

National Theatre
London, July - August 2021
The Understudy

The Memory of Water
Producer
Written by Shelagh Stephenson
Banham Theatre, Leeds, May 2019

Tangled Feet Workshop
Leeds, 2019
Participant

Kneehigh Workshop
Leeds, 2018
Participant

Leeds University Union Music Society
Leeds, September 2018 - June 2019
Manager of ‘Chorus’ choir.

Leeds Student Radio
Leeds, 2017-2019
Presenter of a weekly jazz, funk and soul show; coverage of World Island Music Festival, including interviews and features; presenter and curator of a poetry podcast.

Frantic Assembly Workshop
Redhill, 2017 Participant

National Theatre
London, March 2018
Shadowing the Deputy Stage Manager for ‘Amadeus’, including cueing, calling, stage hand and backstage work.

Voces8 Schools Programme
Redhill, October - March 2016
Participant and leader of workshops to children and youth.

St Mary’s Church
Redhill, 2015-2017
Youth work including leading games, workshops and condensed theatre exercises for children and youth.

Education, Training & Awards

LAMDA (MA Directing, 2022 – 2023)
Leverhulme Arts Scholarship

University of Leeds (English Literature and Theatre Studies [International], 2017 – 2021)
First Class Honours