TAMED or It’s Hard To Get A Real Horse
2024 – Movement Director
By Flight of The Escales
Photos by Andi Sapey
A space, place and people responsive project made on location at St. George’s Theatre in Great Yarmouth.
This is project about conforming to – and rebelling against – the status quo. Exploring how behaviour, thought and agency have been conditioned and tamed by the societies we live in.
As an investigation into the collective and the individual; TAMED or It’s Hard To Get Real Horse, looks at how the systems and structures we belong to, condition us to conform, and the consequences for those who do not
Presented by a chorus of Kates (of Taming of the Shrew fame) who playfully reimagine the role and versions of events. Fiction and reality merge, the line between performance and rehearsal becomes blurred, the actors perform and are performed by Kate, a community chorus emerges from the wings and the audience themselves are immersed, and participate, in the piece.
Creative Team
Director: Sarah Calver / Creative Producer: Eleni Kyriacou / Creative Engagement Associate: Julia Devonshire / Movement Director Anthea Lewis /Video & Media: Rory Willats / Composer and Sound Design: Garth McConaghie / Set & Costume Designer: Mayou Trikerioti / Lighting Designer: Pablo Baz / Production Manager: Lucinda Bray
Foxes by Dexter Flanders
2023 – Associate Movement Director
If one kiss had the power to destroy everything, would you risk it?
Foxes follows Daniel, a young black man trying to keep up with his life in London’s Caribbean community while balancing his own goals with his family’s expectations. When his relationship with best friend Leon brings an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart.A deeply moving and complex story of family, community, and sexual identity, Foxes tackles the Black gay experience with tenderness and beautiful depth.Winner of a Black British Theatre Award and an Offie Award. Presented as part of the 59E59 Brits Off Broadway 2023.
Directed by James Hillier, Co-production between Defibrillator and Theatre503, in association with The Actor’s Centre
Cast: Deena: Tosin Alabi Daniel: Raphel Famotibe Leon: Bayo Gbadamosi Patricia: Suzette Llewellyn Meera: Nemide May
Creative Team
Producers: Defibrillator & M. Green / Productions Director: James Hillier/ Writer: Dexter Flanders / Set Designer: Erin Guan / Lighting and Video Designer: Will Monks / Sound Designer: Josh Anio Grigg / Associate Director: Dylan Verley / Movement Director: Gerrard Martin / Associate Movement Director: Anthea Lewis / Fight Director: Esme Cooper / Intimacy Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt Costume Supervisor: Renzo Allen / Casting: Nadine Rennie / Production Stage Manager: Veronica Aglow Producer/ General Manager: Mitchell Reeve for M. Green Productions.
The Castle by Russell Bolam
2021 – Associate Director & Movement director
A searching, riotous voyage into what it is to be with or without power, in a land where it is a fight to be accepted.
By Franz Kafka Adapted by Russell Bolam & The Company at Central School of Speech and Drama, Performed by BA (Hons) Acting (CDT)Designed & produced by BA (Hons) Theatre Practice students. A land ruled by the Castle, Josef K arrives to start his new job as a land surveyor – but soon finds he is unwanted and unable to return home. A family is discreetly cast out after the daughter spurns the sexual advances of a high up official. The Castle by Franz Kafka’s final masterpiece – speaks to our era of Me Too, Brexit and the migrant crisis.
Creative and Production
TeamDirector – Russell BolamAssociate Director / Movement Director – Anthea Lewis / Voice Coach – Tamsin Newlands / Costume Supervisor – Bex Kemp / Production Manager – David Salter /Design Mentor – Nicolai Hart-Hansen / Sound Mentor – Kieran Lucas / Stage Management Mentor – Matthew Hales Radio Voice Actor – Natasha K Stone Acting (CDT) Course Leader – Ben Buratta Recorded for Broadcast – Guildhall Live Events. Set & Costume Designer – Thananya Kaewsanthia /Lighting Designer – Steven Cox Sound Designer – Ali Taie Associate /Production Manager – Maria Guevara /Stage Manager – Jordan Littlewood / Deputy Stage Manager – Lauren Hastings / Assistant Stage Managers – Rebecca Elsey, Nancy Fry, Vendula Pospisilova / Props Supervisor – Jehona Shapeta / Chief Electrician – Ciara Moss / Production Sound Engineers – Alex Baker, Patrick O’Sullivan, Dylan Saberton
Asos x Adidas
2020 – Event Manager
Curator Mina Aidoo and and Anthea Lewis organised in-house activities for the ASOS team to celebrate the Ivy Park and Adidas new collection launch.
“We worked together when I was Artistic Director on a project and brought her in as my producer, we had a great working relationship and very open communication. She is able to understand what your vision is and really support that. She’s highly effective and organised. At the time I had a 6-month-old baby to look after so her support on the project was invaluable. As a producer she’s an all-rounder and help make the project run smoothly, foreseeing problems before they arrive and liaising on this directly with the client. She is amazing!” – Mina Aidoo, Curator, choreographer and Non-Linear Movement Method® teacher
TBC To Be Connected by Gerrard Martin Dance
Production Assistant 2020
Tech rehearsal for TBC by Gerrard Martin Dance with Movement Director Joanne Bernard.
Photo: Desiree A. North
Jesus Hopped the A Train
2019 – Associate Movement Director
Will one man’s redemption lead to another’s damnation?
From Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, comes this critically-acclaimed dark comedy about the American justice system and the contradictory nature of faith. Inside the lockdown wing of Rikers Island prison, a frightened young man accused of murdering a cult leader is confronted with a charismatic born-again serial killer and a sadistic guard.
Cast and Creatives
Director Kate Hewitt | Set Designer Magda Willi | Costume Designer Kinnetia Isidore | Lighting Designer Guy Hoare | Sound Designer Peter Rice | Movement Director Imogen Knight | UK Casting Director Julia Horan CDG | US Casting Director Jim Carnahan CSA With Oberon K. A. Adjepong, Matthew Douglas, Dervla Kirwan, Ukweli Roach and Joplin Sibtain
Re:generations
2019 – International Showcase Production Manger
Hosted in partnership by One Dance UK, IRIE! dance theatre, Middlesex University and dance Immersion.
The focus for the 2019 conference was ‘Dance and The Digital Space’. Delegates explored the ways in which digital technologies could be used for artistic innovation and creative practice; uniting global communities through online platforms and increased visibility of diverse work to mainstream audiences.
SystemsLAB Mixed Bill
2019 – SystemsLAB Mixed Bill Tour Producer & Tour Manager
Curated by Dance Umbrella Guest Programmer Freddie Opoku-Addaie. A Dance Umbrella production. Choreography & performances by Theo Inart / Becky Namgauds/ Ffion Campbell-Davies/ Tyrone Isaac Stuart & Jonzi D.
“As a colleague I’ve had absolute pleasure of working with Anthea Lewis over a decade in roles of performing, producing, curator and confidant. If I was asked to pick a handful of artistic visionary leaders today with diverse skills & expertise, sensibility, laughter and inspiring beyond the ‘3 Ts’ (Tick Box/Tokenism/Tolerated), Anthea Lewis is on that list.” – Freddie Opoku Director of SystemsLAB
The Decameron Project
2018 – Project Co-ordinator
What Protects Us: Stories From Everyday Rebels
Using the Decameron Method of verbatim interviewing, four artists from three communities across two countries have made a cross-artform show from a riot of unheard voices. Bringing to life local stories collected from Deptford, Stratford and Amsterdam around the moments in people’s lives when they’ve had the feeling of regaining control.
The Decameron artists: Gabriel Jones, Urielle Klein-Mekongo, Sebastian H-W and Leila Sahir.
Director Milone Reigman
Artist Mentors are Libby Liburd and Caleb Femi.
Commissioned and produced by the Albany, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, Future Arts Centres, and Stichting LikeMinds (Amsterdam).
Supported by Future Arts Centres and Creative Europe.
GOD
by Imogen Knight
2018 – Performer
GOD is here and she’s a woman. A short film based on a live improvised performance about patriarchy and postnatal depression by Imogen Knight. Filming & photography by Joseph Lynn sound by Peter Rice.
Whitechapel Woods
2016 – Project Manager
The Brick Box was commissioned to develop a co-created community artwork for the hoardings outside Whitechapel Hospital in Tower Hamlets, London. Anthea worked with the brilliant Fabric Lenny who delivered workshops for local young people, creating colourful woodland characters and forest-ey frolicking in central London.
Thamesmead Garage Gala
2016 – Assistant Project Manager
The Brick Box has worked with the community in Thamesmead, South East London, since 2013. As part of the Thamesmead Arts Festival 2016, Anthea helped develop a project that reimagined The Moorings estate’s empty garages in SE28.
Green Street Festival
2015 – Project Manger
The inaugural Green Street festival at Queens market in Upton Park. Commissioned by Newham Council, the superhero themed day brought the whole community together to celebrate all that the area has to offer, reimagining how the market space can be inhabited
Thamesmead
2015 – Assistant Project Manger
The Brick Box were commissioned by Peabody to help them consult Thamesmead residents on the Thamesmead Futures Plan. The brief was to devise, produce and facilitate creative consultations, which would allow people to share their views, aspirations and concerns about the area.
Pattie Shop Diaries Industry Workshop by Mike Scott-Harding at the Albany
2015 – Assistant to Director & Production Assistant
An original music-theatre piece composed and written by Mike Scott-Harding. It tells the story of a family running (and living above) a Caribbean restaurant in Brixton, SE London in 1999.
Settlement by SOIT x LAPD
2014 – Performer/ Artistic Consultant
SOIT in collaboration with the Los Angeles Poverty Department and the BOX Gallery. ‘Settlement’ was a performance constructed in three weeks with a group of performers from LAPD and other Angelenos, directed by SOIT. The performers generated a village whose inhabitants occupied an alternative universe separate from the modern world.
ATT BEGÄRA TRE SYSTRAR by SOIT
2013 – Choreographer Assistant / Performer
A Gothernburg City Theatre Prodcution. Director Mellika Melouani Mellani Movement Direction by SOIT.
Men swarm around them, they have money and status. They have in short, everything — except a job. Chekhov’s Three Sisters is thrown into raw contemporaries where mass unemployment and economic crisis could spread like wildfire through Europe.
Photos: Alex Tarragüel
WE WAS THEM by SOIT
2009 – Performer
An allegory on life in refuge, sharing a self-made reality, an acquired confinement in the company of a rebel and others.
Five individuals retreat to an abandoned domain, far away from the world. They train themselves mentally and physically as a defense strategy against intruders, but realise danger comes from within. They become captive of each other, of their own, their fears and desires. They are not only in the now, they have woken up hidden ghosts and memories lying around in this forsaken place.
Direction: Hans Van den Broeck; co-creation and performance: Robert Clark, Ivan Fatjo, Harold Henning, Anthea Lewis, Anuschka Von Oppen.
Photos: Chris Vandeburght
Excellent performance by Hans Van den Broeck. We see a group of people approaching each other, fighting, the onset for a lot of memorable scenes and a very demanding physical dance. Even if the theme seems brutal, everything is treated choreographically and poetically… – LA LIBRE BELGIQUE 10/10/2009
Fragile State In Mind by Anthea Lewis
2008 – Choreographer & Performer
Excerpts of a duet directed by Anthea Lewis, devised with Kate Zamira Mummery playing with the conflict between the internal and external self. Audio by Anthea Lewis & Jason Yarde.
Blulilli Projects 