Lora Mander

Lady Eros, created by Dumle Kogbara, is a night of classical female opera scenes strung together for a beautiful showcase of music. My role as associate director I directed arias from Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro.

Revival of a one-man biopic of the life of Somerset Maugham. Originally directed by Ninone Jerome at the New End Theatre, London.

A piece of new writing which I co-directed and developed with Caitriona Shoobridge in the Spring of 2010. The show, about 20-Somethings at pivotal points in their lives, premiered at the New End Theatre in July and showed at the Edinburgh Festival, at The Hive, throughout August.

Something Unspoken by Tennesee Williams and Porch by Jack Heifner were two shows I directed at the New End Theatre as part of Assistant Director Training. I chose the pieces, written by two Southern American writers, because the stories reflect worlds near where I grew up in Houston, Texas. I wanted to work on pieces that were set in the South and focused on two generations of women and their inability to be free of the societies they were living in.

Performed as part of Bare Bones Nights at The Old Red Lion, Merger Talks , by Tom Jenson, explores how two people meet to discuss a merger. We soon find out that the merger is more personal than we think.

A Certain Child, written by Caroline Tateo looks at how the celebrity idea of adopting children from abroad may be turned on it's head.

Completely devised by myself and Lucy Thatcher, we wanted to recreate the world of a cabaret singer in the 1950's. Lucy became Lita Lowe, singing songs such as "It Could Happen to You" and "Is That All Their Is", as her tragic life life is revealed to the audience.

I worked with the Asheville Lyric Opera in North Carolina, USA to stage this opera with very talented student singers and professionals from the area.

Jon Fosse's piece, written in prose was my masterpiece at St Mary's College. His very lyrical writing and vague story lines inspired me to create very full characters from scratch.

A devised physical piece, which I directed for students at St Mary's College. We explored the idea of entrapment with text from various poems.

I staged Artaud's short but famous piece after taking inspiration from his Theatre of Cruelty theory.

I directed this piece as part of a fundraiser for victims of domestic voilence while studying at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, USA

This piece was devised with fellow theatre students, and focused on student life at a small university such as ours.

A one-man show, written by Anthony Curtis and on the life of Somerset Maugham. I worked under the direction of Ninon Jerome.

This was my first experience working on a devised opera piece. Under the direction of Pia Furtado, we took apart Janacek's song cycle Disappeared and added more text and story line. It was performed at the Arcola's Grimeborn Festival.

This shortened version of Midsummer Night's Dream was performed at various outdoor venues across London.

Inspired by the original book by Kenneth Grahame, director Emma Stroud and the company devised a new musical comedy for families to be performed around Cambridge and Norfolk area Historic Trust homes.

I worked with director David Toulson on my first experience working in opera.

Directed by Scott Plate, I had the pleasure of developing the chorus.

Written by Sarah Kosar, Egg is a black comedy exploring the loss of youth, when Barbara goes to extremes to find her lost youth by cornering who soon to be daughter-in-law, Amelia who is desperate not to have children, for her reproductive eggs.

Written by Sarah Kosar, Phyllis looks into screwed-up relationships and family and the consequences of bad decisions.

Written by Catie O'Keefe, 264 Hours throws the characters into an experiment on sleep deprivation.

I assisted director Chris Johnston on this completely improvised production.

I managed the tour of this production and acted as the production assistant for director James Marvel.

Under the direction of David Starkey, I worked as a production assistant.