 IMOGEN
KUSCH
Si diploma presso la Central School of Speech and Drama a Londra
in Regia teatrale. Come aiuto regia lavora tra gli altri con Cherif,
Luca Ronconi e Annabel Arden. Le sue regie comprendono - a Londra, "Vasco" di Georges Shehazade, "Orfeo" di Jean Cocteau, "Marathon" di
Edoardo Erba, per il quale vince il premio dello "Scotsman" a
Edinburgo.
IMOGEN KUSCH curriculum vitae (theatre)VIA CELIMONTANA 28 00184-ROME. Tel.: 06-70450689 339-5787876 2 VICTORIA MEWS NW6-6SY, LONDON, UK . Tel.: +44-207-6251402
education: 1988 Abitur A-levels (Maturità scientifica) . German School of Rome (DSR). 1991 Morley College Theatre School. Theatre Foundation course. Londra. 1992-93 Central School of Speech and Drama. Master in Creative Theatre (Directing). Londra.
directed:
1992 -‘Gallow’s humor’ by Jack Richardson. Hourglass Theatre Company. White Bear Theatre, London e Festival ‘Fiuggiplateaeuropa, Fiuggi. 1993 -‘Orphée’ by Jean Cocteau. Theatro Technics, London. Hourglass Theatre Company. 1994 -‘VASCO’ by John Hoggarth. Bagley’s Warehouse, London. Hourglass Theatre Company. -‘Maratona di New York’ di Edoardo Erba. Hourglass Theatre Company. Festival di Edimburgo. 1996 -‘I Foraminiferi’ by Alexander Mueller–Elmau. Teatro Colosseo, Rome. 1997 -‘As you like it’ by William Shakespeare. La Palma, Rome. Anguillara, Trevignano and Cerveteri. 1998 -‘Maratona di New York’ by Edoardo Erba. INSEAD, Parigi. -‘Progetto Esagono’-staged readings of contemporary English , American and Irish plays. Directed and translated ‘Eloise e Ray’ Stephanie Fleischmann (USA) and ‘The Censor’ by Anthony Neilson. Artistical director of the project. Teatro dei Contrari, Rome 1999 -‘Progetto Esagono’- staged readings of contemporary English , American and Irish plays.. Teatro Vascello, Rome. 2000 -‘Il Censore’ by Anthony Neilson, Teatro Colosseo, Rome.Teatro dei Contrari, Rome. -‘La luce dei lampioni’ by Andrej Longo. Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria. -ENZIMITEATRO per ‘Zone Attive’. Direction of three Italian contemporary plays: -‘Sotto Berlino’ by Gianni Guardigli. -‘Cubiste’ by Alessandro Varani. -‘Todo por pedro’ by Giulia Ricciardi. 2001 -‘Sotto Berlino’ by Gianni Guardigli, Teatro Tirso, Rome. -‘Tessuti Umani’ by Edoardo Erba, Teatro Tirso, Rome. -‘Tarantula’s dancing’ by Larry Myers, (reading) Teatro Tirso, Rome. -‘Il Bosco’ di David Mamet, Teatro Tirso, Fontanoneestate, Rome. -‘Il buon Dio di Manhattan’ by Ingeborg Bachmann, Teatro Tirso, Rome.
2002 -'La luce dei lampioni' by Andrej Longo, Teatro Duse, Roma. Ferraraestate, Ferrara. -'Tarantulas dancing' by Larry Myers, Teatro Duse e Teatro dei Contrari, Roma. -"La ballata di Bonnie e Clyde" by Imogen Kusch, Teatro Colosseo, Roma. -Funds the company KLESIDRA with Francesca Olivi, Silvia Mazzotta, Giorgio Santangelo (www.klesidra.org) 2003 'Gli Amanti del Nuovo Mondo' by Gianni Guardigli and Imogen Kusch. STUDIOS studi cinematografici, Rome. 2004 -'Tape' by Stephen Belber. Teatro Nuovo, Salerno. -'People next door' by Henry Adam'T eatro Belli, Rome.
Assistant director:
1989 -‘La passione di Cleopatra’ di Ahmed Shawqui. Director: Cherif.. Gibellina, Sicily. 1990 -‘Il Silenzio’ by Luca Zingaretti. Director: Luca Zingaretti. Teatro Argot, Rome. Teatro Porta Romena, Milano. -‘I Paraventi’ by Jean Genet. Director: Cherif. Teatro Testoni, Bologna. 1991 -‘TV-TV’ by Jean Claude van Itallie. Director: Mario Mazzarotto. Festival Fiuggiplateaeuropa. 1994 -“I Giganti della Montagna” di Luigi Pirandello. Director: Luca Ronconi. Festival di Salisburgo, Austria. 1995 -‘Moonlight’ by Harold Pinter. Director: Cherif. Teatro di Roma. 1997 -‘Don Giovanni e il suo servo’ by Rocco Familiari. Director: Augusto Zucchi. Teatro Valle, Rome. 2003 'Simon Boccanegra' by Giuseppe Verdi. Regia di Franco Ripa di Meana. Teatro dell'Opera. Trieste
translated: (theatre) ‘Maratona di New York’ by Edoardo Erba. Italian/English. ‘As you like it’ by William Shakespeare. English/Italian. ‘Foraminiferi’ by Alexander Mueller Elmau. German/Italian. ‘Orphée’ by Jean Cocteau. French/English. ‘Gallow’s humor’ by Jack Richardson. English/Italian. ‘Giro di chiave’ by Paolo Zuccari. Italian/English. ‘Eloise e Ray’ by Stephanie Fleischmann. English/Italian. ‘The Censor’ by Anthony Neilson. English/ Italian. ‘Tarantula’s dancing’ by Larry Myers. English/Italiann. ‘Sleeping around’ by H. Fannin, S. Greehorn, Abi Morgan, M. Ravenhill. English/Italian. ‘Il viaggio in piroga o li testo teatrale per il film della guerra’ by Peter Handke. German/ Italian.
Also worked as:Translator, Production assistant, location manager for Film and television. Syncroinizing director. Voice-over artist. English teacher in Italy and Italian teacher in England.
Languages: Italian, German, English, French.
“ Imogen Kusch grew up as a German in Rome , where she did her A-levels at the German School . She then moved to London where she graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 1994. As an Assistant Director she has worked with Luca Ronconi, Annabel Arden, Luca Ronconi and many others. Her work as a director includes: London 'Vasco' by Georges Shehazade, 'Orfeo' by Jean Cocteau , ' Marathon ' by Edoardo Erba,. Rome: As you like it' by W. Shakespeare, 'Il Censore' by Anthony Nielsen , 'The good God of Manhattan' by Ingeborg Bachmann, 'Tarantula's Dancing' by Larry Myers and The ballad of Bonnie e Clyde' and ‘Faust in Hiroshima' written by herself. She is the artistic director of Klesidrateatro, a rome-london based theatre-company. Klesidra produces theatre and has a theatre- therapy company for people with neurodegenarative diseases. Currently Imogen is holding workshops and directing a production for the National Youth Theatre. She is also holding theatrical workshops at various high-schools in London and rome and teaching creative drama at IES, Rome ( American University )”
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