Dramatis Personae
Thea Sharrock studied French and Philosophy at Corpus Christi, graduating in 1998. She won the
prestigious James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Young Directors last year and has subsequently become the country's youngest Artistic Director, at 25, based at the Southwark Playhouse. Thea is also Associate Director of the West End hit Art and has just directed Caryl Churchill's Top Girls for the Oxford Stage Company.
I already begun to sow the seeds in the dramatic world before university. I didn't do a huge amount of drama at Oxford, but I did produce Peer Gynt at the Playhouse and I directed Sex, Truth and Jellybabies by Lydia Prior, who won the University New Writing competition with that play, at the OFS. I was also President of OUDS.
Well, I'd fallen in love with theatre by then and I gained experience after Oxford by working very hard for no money at all, mostly as assistant director to various directors.
If you know that there is nothing else in the world you'd rather do, then you have to believe you can do it and simply go for it. And it is very
important to keep a perspective at all times - through the setbacks and the successes.
4th Oct 2001