ABOUT DRAMA RESOURCE

David Farmer’s plays with Tiebreak Theatre have been performed in residence at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester as well as the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House and at numerous theatres and festivals across the UK and USA. In 2011 and 2014 he directed community plays performed by the villagers of Bergh Apton in Norfolk, including ‘The Legend of the Rood’, a series of four Mystery Plays . He directed Kure Kure/Faraway featuring Anna Mudeka for UK tours in 2019/20.

‘David Farmer’s direction encourages a sense of wonder and wit’ – Sunday Telegraph
Total Theatre Award Nominee for My Uncle Arly with Hoipolloi Theatre.

David Farmer works worldwide with teachers, students and drama practitioners. He has trained teachers at international schools, conferences and universities in South Africa, Argentina, Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (Erasmus collaboration), Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey and toured his theatre productions and workshops across the USA and Canada, including New York, Los Angeles, Colorado and Vancouver. He has recently presented seminars and workshops in Amsterdam, Ankara, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Salzburg, Santorini and Vienna.

David has managed educational arts projects for the Natural History Museum, Forest Enterprise, Norwich Writers’ Centre, Creative Partnerships and Norfolk Arts Partnership. He was an adviser for Shakespeare Schools’ Festival on their teacher training programme. He visits schools across the UK to deliver INSET and CPD sessions and is a training consultant at the Norwich Institute of Language Education. He has taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University and and has presented at numerous conferences across the world.