Sally Woodcock is a theatre director, producer and playwright. She is founder-director of MESH Theatre Company.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Director Sally Woodcock's painstaking attention to detail takes this play to another level.
- The Daily Telegraph - on Journey's End, Ypres WW1 Centenary production. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sally studied directing at RADA.
Credits include:
Banging Denmark (The Finborough Theatre, London)
Journey's End (The Gunpowder Store, Ypres; Skindles Ballroom, Ypres; The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks; UK Tour)
The Soldier (Salisbury Playhouse, Painted Hall, Greenwich; Macready Theatre, Rugby; Kings College, Cambridge: Great War Huts, Suffolk; St Georges Chapel, Ypres and schools tour).
Blue Whales (Soho Theatre, Luton Hat Factory, RADA Festival)
Oxymoronic (RADA)
U Bend (RADA)
Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York)
All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell Theatre, London)
The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh)
Yerma (Corpus Playroom, Cambridge Arts Theatre)
Teechers (Corpus Playroom, Cambridge Arts Theatre)
Waiting For Godot (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Doll's House (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Caretaker (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Gate Escape (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
Nusu Nusu (Warehouse Theatre, Croydon)
In 2005 Sally co-founded HORSESHOE theatre co. with Toby Guy Parsons, producing live theatre productions of GCSE and A Level curriculum plays and running thematic workshops for schools. Together they produced and directed more than twenty modern dramas including An Inspector Calls, The Caretaker, Waiting For Godot, A Doll's House, Yerma and Teechers.
In 2016 Sally founded MESH theatre co to stage conflict-related dramas in significant locations. MESH's inaugural production was JOURNEY'S END by R C Sheriff in Ypres, Belgium which ran for 3 years over the WW1 centenary. This was followed in 2019 by a touring production of THE SOLDIER by multi-award winning playwright Rachel Wagstaff, inspired by the life of WW1 poet Rupert Brook - and his eponymous poem.
MESH. has recently been re-launched after a pandemic-induced period of silence. Find out more here.
PLAYWRIGHT:
Woodcock's writing is daring, assured and stingingly funny - Time Out on Fanta Orange ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Woodcock is master of the comic monologue" - The Stage on Wedding Belles ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Credits include:
Pink Gin (Salisbury Playhouse)
Blue Whales (RADA Festival / Soho Theatre / Luton Hat Factory)
Voices in My Head (Gate Theatre for Tamasha; Latitude Festival for Paines Plough)
Fanta Orange (Finborough Theatre; developed at NT Studio & RADA) winner Little Brother's Big Opportunity II, Exeunt Critic's Pick, nominated for Best New Play by Offwestend and Time Out and co-winner International Playwriting Festival
Kitchen Sink Drama (RADA)
Oxymoronic (RADA)
U Bend (RADA)
Shamba (TV commission for Little Brother Productions)
Horses For Courses (RADA, shortlisted for Papatango)
Clever (RADA, shortlisted for Menagerie Sparks)
The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh)
All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell Theatre)
Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon & Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh / 78th St Theater Lab, NYC)
Sally is a graduate of Tamasha Playwrights (first cohort) and the Royal Court Invitation Group of playwrights. She has an MA in Text and Performance (RADA / KCL); MPHIL in Arts Education (Trinity Hall, Cambridge); B Ed Drama (Homerton, Cambridge) and NCTJ Certificate in Newspaper Journalism. Born in Pakistan and raised in Kenya to Irish-Australian parents, Sally is a proud member of Stop The War Coalition, The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation, Equity and The Society of Authors. Published by Oberon Books.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Director Sally Woodcock's painstaking attention to detail takes this play to another level.
- The Daily Telegraph - on Journey's End, Ypres WW1 Centenary production. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sally studied directing at RADA.
Credits include:
Banging Denmark (The Finborough Theatre, London)
Journey's End (The Gunpowder Store, Ypres; Skindles Ballroom, Ypres; The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks; UK Tour)
The Soldier (Salisbury Playhouse, Painted Hall, Greenwich; Macready Theatre, Rugby; Kings College, Cambridge: Great War Huts, Suffolk; St Georges Chapel, Ypres and schools tour).
Blue Whales (Soho Theatre, Luton Hat Factory, RADA Festival)
Oxymoronic (RADA)
U Bend (RADA)
Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York)
All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell Theatre, London)
The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh)
Yerma (Corpus Playroom, Cambridge Arts Theatre)
Teechers (Corpus Playroom, Cambridge Arts Theatre)
Waiting For Godot (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Doll's House (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Caretaker (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
The Gate Escape (Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
Nusu Nusu (Warehouse Theatre, Croydon)
In 2005 Sally co-founded HORSESHOE theatre co. with Toby Guy Parsons, producing live theatre productions of GCSE and A Level curriculum plays and running thematic workshops for schools. Together they produced and directed more than twenty modern dramas including An Inspector Calls, The Caretaker, Waiting For Godot, A Doll's House, Yerma and Teechers.
In 2016 Sally founded MESH theatre co to stage conflict-related dramas in significant locations. MESH's inaugural production was JOURNEY'S END by R C Sheriff in Ypres, Belgium which ran for 3 years over the WW1 centenary. This was followed in 2019 by a touring production of THE SOLDIER by multi-award winning playwright Rachel Wagstaff, inspired by the life of WW1 poet Rupert Brook - and his eponymous poem.
MESH. has recently been re-launched after a pandemic-induced period of silence. Find out more here.
PLAYWRIGHT:
Woodcock's writing is daring, assured and stingingly funny - Time Out on Fanta Orange ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Woodcock is master of the comic monologue" - The Stage on Wedding Belles ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Credits include:
Pink Gin (Salisbury Playhouse)
Blue Whales (RADA Festival / Soho Theatre / Luton Hat Factory)
Voices in My Head (Gate Theatre for Tamasha; Latitude Festival for Paines Plough)
Fanta Orange (Finborough Theatre; developed at NT Studio & RADA) winner Little Brother's Big Opportunity II, Exeunt Critic's Pick, nominated for Best New Play by Offwestend and Time Out and co-winner International Playwriting Festival
Kitchen Sink Drama (RADA)
Oxymoronic (RADA)
U Bend (RADA)
Shamba (TV commission for Little Brother Productions)
Horses For Courses (RADA, shortlisted for Papatango)
Clever (RADA, shortlisted for Menagerie Sparks)
The Trouser Department (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh)
All the Wrong Reasons (Bridewell Theatre)
Wedding Belles (Gilded Balloon & Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh / 78th St Theater Lab, NYC)
Sally is a graduate of Tamasha Playwrights (first cohort) and the Royal Court Invitation Group of playwrights. She has an MA in Text and Performance (RADA / KCL); MPHIL in Arts Education (Trinity Hall, Cambridge); B Ed Drama (Homerton, Cambridge) and NCTJ Certificate in Newspaper Journalism. Born in Pakistan and raised in Kenya to Irish-Australian parents, Sally is a proud member of Stop The War Coalition, The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation, Equity and The Society of Authors. Published by Oberon Books.
