Teaching & Mentoring
2024: I will again be facilitating the theatre strand of the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School in July.
As well as being a translator myself, I love championing the field of translation and sharing practice, be it with seasoned colleagues, emerging translators, theatre practitioners, or more general audiences.
(Photo by Terry Cripps.)
As Translator in Residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation, in collaboration with companies such as Foreign Affairs and Out of the Wings, or working individually, I designed and delivered or co-delivered workshops on the subject of theatre translation for other translators, non-translators, theatre professionals, students (from school age to graduate) and the general public.
Translation workshop at the Encuentros LatAm takeover at the Young Vic, 2023
Translation in schools with Performing International Plays, 2023
Bristol Translates Summer School, theatre translation workshop, 2022 & 2023
English PEN International Translation Day, theatre translation workshop, 2022
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, ‘A World in Translation’, with Vivien Munn (info), 2021
British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School, five-day literary translation workshop, specialising in theatre (info; review), 2020 and 2021
Foreign Affairs Theatre Company, 2016-present, mentor for the Foreign Affairs Theatre Translation Programme since 2016, providing one-to-one mentoring to participants, overall consultancy regarding recruitment, strategy and planning, and workshop design and facilitation (about the programme: watch or read).
Workshops with Foreign Affairs
Workshops for Foreign Affairs Translates and Translation Lab since 2016
‘Working with Nordic Translations’ (info), with Cut the Cord Theatre, 2021
‘My First Theatre Translation’ (info), 2020
‘Whose Translation is it Anyway?’, 2020
‘Troubling Text’, with Charis Ainslie, 2020
Translating Japanese Drama, with Trine Garrett and Nozomi Abe, SOAS (info), 2018
‘Translation Centre Stage’, International Translation Day plenary workshop, with Trine Garrett and Camila França, British Library, 2017
‘Playing around with Luther’, School of Advanced Study, with Trine Garrett, 2017
Theatre translation workshop, International Translation Day, with Trine Garrett and Camila França, British Library, 2016
British Centre for Literary Translation
As Translator in Residence (info), 2020-21
Online coffee morning and mentoring session with MA Literary Translation students, with Olivia Hellewell, 2021
Two-part workshop on theatre in translation combining students of Literary Translation with those of Drama and Creative Writing, with Sophie Stevens, 2020
Theatre translation workshop with MA Literary Translation students, with Sophie Stevens and Thomas Boll, 2020
‘The Translated Word embodied; the Translated Voice Found’, public workshop, 2020
Other Organisations
American Literary Translators Association, theatre translation masterclass, 2020, 21 and 22
University of Leicester, theatre translation workshop (info), 2022
University of Nottingham, theatre translation workshop, 2022
Theatre503, ‘Found in Translation (info), 2019
University of Warwick, ‘Page to Stage’ (watch), with Lucy Phelps, 2019
Out of the Wings, Jerwood Space, ‘Staging Translation’ (info), with Kate O’Connor, 2018
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ‘Myth Translated, Translated’ (MA Classical Acting; info), with Ben Naylor and Anna Healey, 2018
University of Alicante, theatre translation workshop, 2018
British Academy, ‘Rehearsing the Translated Play’ (info), with Catherine Boyle, 2017
This page focusses on my work teaching and mentoring. Elsewhere you can read about my work in dramaturgy and script reading, translation, writing and editing, conceiving of and producing projects, and speaking or chairing discussions.
