SUE MACLAINE

Sue MacLaine creates highly original performances that provoke and move in equal measure. Trans-personal, poetic scripts written by MacLaine are married with illuminating choreography and placed within a sparse striking visual aesthetic.  All productions thus far have been made possible by funding from Arts Council England and support-in-kind.

Sue was a performer-devisor in the feminist performance collective Scarlet Harlets (now Scarlet Theatre) from 1984- 1989 and was a member of the performing company of Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company 1989-1992.  Since then she has been writing and creating her own work including co collaboration with Emma Kilbey for Sid Lester’s Christmas Special and Hannah Ringham for The Untethered Joke.

Awards/Reviews

Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form (Can I Start Again Please 2015)

Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form nominee (Still Life 2012)

British Council Showcase 2016 & 2019

Artistic Collaborators

All emerging ideas go through the rinse of creative and philosophical conversation with Jonathan Burrows and Liz Aggiss

The dramaturgical underpinning for bi-lingual British Sign Language & English performance; Nadia Nadarajah and Brian Duffy

For all things filmic: content production, editing, and creative ideas then Eleanor Sikorski is the person

Thoughts & manifestation of choreography are the purview of Seke Chimutengwende

Sound design is Owen Crouch

Costumes design Lucy Bradridge and Holly Murray

Set & Lighting design Ben Pacey

Performers: Emma Kilbey, Nadia Nadarajah, Hannah Ringham, Angela Clerkin, Temitope Adjosa-Cutting, Kailing Fu, Tess Agus, Angela Clerkin, Karlina Grace Paseda

Contact: sue[at]suemaclaine.com