Rachael Nanyonjo
Rachael Nanyonjo
Movement Director / Choreographer
Training includes:
BA Honours in Dance Studies (Roehampton University).
MA in Choreography (Middlesex University)
Credits:
Choreography & Movement Direction credits include: Cinderella (Nottingham Playhouse), The Spine (20 Stories High- Unity Theatre & Stratford Circus), In A Word (Young Vic), Great Expectations (National Youth Theatre at Southwark Playhouse), Either (Hampstead)
Two Trains Running (ETT - Royal and Derngate) American Dream (Young Vic) Does My Bomb Look Big In This (Soho Theatre, Tara Arts), Babylon Beyond Boarders (The Bush Theatre), Macbeth (Orange Tree) The Jumper Factory (The Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic)
Misty (Trafalgar Studios) Olivier Award Nominated , Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East) Black British Theatre Award Best Choreographer Nominated, After It Rains (National Youth Theatre), Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse & Theatre Royal Stratford East) Bernstein’s Mass (Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre); Twilight (Gate Theatre); The Divide (Old Vic); Cover My Tracks (Old Vic).
For TV and Film: Pirates ( dir. Reggie Yates - BBC); Christmas Storyland ( CBEEBIES); The place we go to hide (dir. Zawe Ashton – BBC & Working Titles); Happy Toys ( dir. Zawe Aston BBC & Asylum Features).
Directing credits include: recognition – Audio Play (45 North & Ellie Keel Productions); Freedom Project (YoungVic); Bobsleigh (Old Vic Monologues); Amazina (Film); An Alternative Musical (National Theatre, for NT Learning as co-director); Assata – She Who Struggles (Young Vic, for Young Vic fresh direction); 2:1 (Kanzaze Dance Theatre at Rich Mix).
As an Associate Director: Moonlight / Night School (Pinter Theatre as associate to Lyndsey Turner & Ed Stambollouian); Pericles Public Acts first stage (National Theatre)
As Assistant Director: The Step Mother (Chichester Festival Theatre, dir. Richard Eyre); Caroline Or Change (Chichester, dir. Michael Longhurst); Underwater Love (Arcola/Clapham Omnibus, dir. Caroline Bryant); Kayla (Young Vic, dir. Justin Audibert)
Pronouns: She/her
Contact: info@rachaelnanyonjo.com