CARLOTA MATOS

Orpheus & Eurydice, Big Community Show retelling the Greek myth, in an epic journey into the underbelly of Bristol and beyond, by a cast of over 100 people.

M2M Assistant Director | Bristol Old Vic, 2023

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Developing Your Creative Practice, grant supporting professional development, focussing on access & inclusive practice, upskilling, networking, creating own projects & scaling up my work.

Arts Council England | 2022-2023

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Light Up School Learning, working with Bristol primary schools and supporting teachers to explore how drama-based learning can develop language, speech and emotional literacy, support wellbeing and address inequality of opportunity which affects educational outcomes. Travelling Light Theatre Company

Artist | Travelling Light Theatre Company | 2021-2023

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Same Storm, Same Sky, a musical performance about being apart and finding our way back together again. 

Youth Facilitator | Many Minds | Bristol Old Vic, 2021

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PROJEKT ELEVATE, commission to develop an idea for co-created work with local communities, in a collaboration with Royal & Derngate (Northampton).

Artist | Projekt Europa | 2022

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A Play in a Week: The Nile and the Amazon, week long residency in a Bristol primary school creating a play inspired by current curriculum topics, written by Mike Akers based on pupils' ideas, culminating in two final performances.

Co-Director | Travelling Light Theatre Company | 2022

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Social Skills Agency, using Drama to help young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder develop skills such as emotional vocabulary, self-awareness and social communication.

Co-Facilitator | Social Skills Agency | 2021-2022

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Meadows to Meaders, community soap opera exploring real stories of living and growing up in Southmead, a Bristol inter-war council estate. Myers-Insole Local Learning CIC

• Episode 3: Love on the Mead

Facilitator & Assistant Director | Greenway Centre, 2019-2022

• Episode 4: Southmead Cares (radio play)

Director | BBC Radio Bristol, 2021-2022

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Story Sharings in BS4 and BS11, working with the playback group Breathing Fire and two communities - Knowle West and Lawrence Weston - to create forum theatre pieces, shared in both areas at the end of the workshop series.

Artist | Many Minds | 2022

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Looked After R&D, devised piece exploring the experiences of foster carers and care professionals who support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK.

Co-Director | Lightbox Theatre | 2022

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I've been waiting ..., a sound journey devised by people with experiences of mental ill-health, exploring their experiences of Nature during lockdown.

Assistant Director | Many Minds | Bristol Old Vic & The Theatre on the Downs, 2021

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Creative Summer School, a week-long workshop creating a devised performance inspired by young people’s experiences of lockdown, shared with an in-person audience and via livestream.

Co-Facilitator | Bristol Old Vic & Many Minds | 2021

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A Fine Balance, exhibition and performances telling the story of Carlos Trower, who escaped slavery to become one of the world’s greatest tight rope walkers and used this platform to promote the emancipation of enslaved people.

• The Carlos Trower Story - short film by pupils from inner-city primary school

• Performance by David Ellington and Sula Gleeson, with integrated BSL interpretation

Co-Director | Myers-Insole Local Learning, Bristol Beacon | 2021

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Digital workshop series, working with people with experiences of mental ill-health, exploring their experiences of language, communication, and home.

Trainee Director/Facilitator | Many Minds | 2021

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Choices, The Thing & The Take Over, theatre performances devised by young people aged 8-16.

Facilitator/Director | The Big Act | 2019

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Off-Peak, Play The Goat theatre company’s show as part of the Made in Bristol scheme.

Co-Director & Movement Director | Bristol Old Vic | 2019

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On the Way to Language, experimental movement piece and soundscape based on autobiographical experiences of migration, language, identity and mental health.

Creator & Performer | Circomedia, Bristol Old Vic, Tobacco Factory Theatres, PRSC & UCA | 2018-2019

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As a performer in Porto, Portugal:

• TEATRO EXPANDIDO! | Mauser by Heiner Müller | Dir. by João Sousa Cardoso | Teatro Campo Alegre, 2015

• Ricardo Machado & circolando | Rei-Sol | Teatro Campo Alegre, 2015

• TEATRO EXPANDIDO! | A Ronda by Arthur Schnitzler | Dir. by João Sousa Cardoso | Teatro Campo Alegre, 2015

• Ana Borralho & João Galante | Atlas | Teatro Rivoli, 2014

• Teatro Bruto & Teatro Nacional São João | Projecto K. by Franz Kafka | Dir. by Ana Luena | Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, 2014

• circolando | Rios do Sono | Dir. by André Braga | Teatro Rivoli, 2014

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For more details of my facilitation experience, please click here.