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Dan Baker

Dan Baker
Worked with:
The Old Vic, The Bush Theatre, Barbican Theatre Plymouth, Greenwich + Docklands Festivals
Location: South West
Gender: Male
Age: 31

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Desert, May/June 2013

the MolinoGroup
? A design for life My recent time in New York opened my eyes to a lot of different ways of thinking, and flagged up some big differences between the ways we collaborate in the UK from how they do in the US. One of the main differences which stood out - and something which I've often questioned myself - is how designers seem to be considered a much more crucial component of theatre making on the other side of the Atlantic. It begs the question - why are we not collaborating with designers at an early stage in...
A design for life (BurntArts, 170611)

? A design for life My recent time in New York opened my eyes to a lot of different ways of thinking, and flagged up some big differences between the ways we collaborate in the UK from how they do in the US. One of the main differences which stood out - and something which I've often questioned myself - is how designers seem to be considered a much more crucial component of theatre making on the other side of the Atlantic. It begs the question - why are we not collaborating with designers at an early stage in the creative process? For years I've been fascinated with the work of designers in theatre, and how much good design can enhance a production - from early theatre visits to see work by the likes of Complicite and Kneehigh, I was struck with just how much the visual and aural elements added to each piece. Seeing how the likes of Ultz, Miriam Buether, Jo Scotcher and Laura Hopkins are being increasingly recognised for the quality of their work - not to mention the lighting and sound design by artists such as James Farncombe, Adrienne Quartly and Malcolm Rippeth - is...
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About me

I am a freelance producer with experience in delivering projects, festivals and outdoor work from Fringe to large-scale. I am a director of Toast, who will present the inaugural Plymouth Fringe Festival in 2015.

I am Producer for Barbican Theatre Plymouth for projects including From Devon With Love (presented in partnership with the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter), as well producing as for the MolinoGroup – whose production Much Further Out Than You Thought won the IdeasTap Underbelly Edinburgh Award 2015 – and Agent 160, who presented twelve specially-commissioned pieces by female playwrights for Fun Palaces at the Wales Millennium Centre.

I have previously produced the Outpost pop-up theatre season in Plymouth for New Model Theatre, as well as producing work for the Bush Theatre, The Old Vic, and Greenwich + Docklands Festivals.

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  • Hi Dan,

    Thanks for inviting me to Desert - I'm definitely coming. I'm also doing a residency at The Bike Shed in July with Tidy Carnage, a new theatre company who fuse new writing with dance and multimedia.

    Our piece dream//life is about one man's experience of motor neurone disease. Trapped in a body which no longer functions, he retires into his imagination and discovers a world of memories and dreams which allows him the freedom his body cannot. Two performers sing, dance and laugh their way through imagination beyond the realms of possibility (dream) while coping with the reality of a debilitating condition (life).

    Sounds like our companies have a lot in common. Maybe we could do some kind of cross-promotion with each other? Would be great to catch you whilst your At The Bike Shed.

    Best Wishes,

    Kelly Smith

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