Martha Barnett

2023 MA Directing

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.