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    Sir Peter Blake’s 90th show

      Graeae patron, Sir Peter Blake celebrates his 90th birthday on the 2nd December at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The concert features live music from legends such as Madness, Noel Gallagher, Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Chrissie Hynde and Baxter Dury. All proceeds from the event will go to Graeae and Teenage Cancer Trust. Jenny Sealey […]

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    25 years at Graeae

      On 18 August 2022, we will be celebrating Jenny Sealey’s 25 years as Artistic Director and CEO at Graeae. Since 1997, Jenny has been running Graeae with tenacity, kindness and an unwavering commitment to ensuring Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists shine in the spotlight, while also nurturing and cultivating a future generation. She has […]

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    Interview: Director of KERBS, Nickie Miles-Wildin

      Director Nickie Miles-Wildin talks about her upcoming show Kerbs by Michael Southan. Can you start by telling us a bit about the narrative of the play? Who is Kerbs about and what happens in it?  Kerbs follows Lucy and David as they embark on a dating app. Their first date doesn’t quite go according to plan and there’s […]

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    Parents & Carers in Performing Arts

    Graeae are proud to be a PiPA (Parents and Carers in Performing Arts) Charter Partner, striving towards creating a more family friendly working environment. Graeae are committed to developing best practice in all areas, and we are excited to work together with PiPA in the coming months. PiPA campaigns to enable and empower parents, carers and employers […]

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    Appointment of new Associate Artists & Trainee Producer

    Continuing our commitment to nurturing the talent of the future, the four new posts will cover the areas of directing, devising, new writing and artist development.

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    Kash Arshad & Jenny Sealey | In Conversation

    Kash Arshad, director of 10 Nights, and Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae, sit down at the Bush to chat. They discuss all things 10 Nights – the process of making, the changes to the show, and the ways they have experimented with integrated creative access.     Last week, Graeae, Tamasha and the Bush announced that the […]

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    Shahid Iqbal Khan – Royal Court residency

    Graeae and The Royal Court Theatre are delighted to announce that Shahid Iqbal Khan – a graduate from the Graeae Write to Play programme – will begin a year-long attachment programme in January 2022.

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    The Tempest – Swimming for Beginners

      We’ve been working on an international project in collaboration with the British Council and Owlspot Theatre to stage a production of The Tempest: Swimming for Beginners which will be performed at Owlspot Theatre, Tokyo, Japan from 1 – 6 June 2021. Directed by Jenny Sealey, The Tempest is a bold, modern reworking of Shakespeare’s […]

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    Hear Me Now: volume 2

      Graeae are delighted to be one of the partners on Tamasha Theatre Company’s next volume of Hear Me Now, audition monologues for Actors of Colour. With a focus on actors and writers who are either ethnically diverse and/or Deaf or disabled, the new volume will feature over 100 brand new monologues. Conceived in 2016 […]

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    Graeae year in review

    Huge thanks to all our funders, donors and audiences for the support during the unusual year that has been 2020. It’s meant that we’ve been able to continue championing and cultivating the talent of Deaf and disabled artists at all stages of their career. We couldn’t have done it without you! Click here to listen […]

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    Thrive Aid – The Art of Protest

    Register below. Thursday 3 December 2020, 7pm – 9:30pm GMT Three chances to catch Thrive Aid-The Art of Protest, a premiere international collaboration of disabled artists from around the world; coming together to protest the stigma disabled people world-wide face every day!! Thrive Aid-The Art of Protest is a world-wide virtual event that will debut […]

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    In memory of David Toole OBE

    We are deeply saddened by the recent news of world renowned dancer, actor, disability rights campaigner and our friend David Toole passing away on Friday 16 October, at the age of 56. We were lucky enough to work with David on several occasions, including in our productions of The Fall of the House of Usher […]