Gilly Roche workshop: The Mess

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In association with Platform scratch nights

How do we create space for mess? Space for mucking it up instead of "making it"? For unexpected encounters? For community building? For wild artistic leaps into the unknown with soft landings when we inevitably fall?

Gilly Roche is a producer, academic and artist who's been obsessed with these questions for a solid fifteen years. At this workshop, they'll share some examples of spaces from their own practice as well as inviting you to dream up your own and attempting to answer any questions you have about what any of this might look like practically at the University of York.

Gilly is a producer working within the arts and higher education. They specialise in creating inclusive inter-, cross- and anti-disciplinary spaces for collaboration, community and artistic experimentation. They are currently Head of Interdisciplinary Practice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

During Gilly's tenure as New Work Producer at Leeds Playhouse, projects developed by the Playhouse won or were nominated for two Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Awards; multiple Fringe Firsts; the Stage Special Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Playwriting.

Gilly studied Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow, with a focus on radical socialist Catalan theatre under Franco. They have worked as a producer with the National Theatre of Scotland, the Citizens Theatre and freelance, and as a graphic designer in Barcelona and San Francisco. They are a trustee of campaign-led verbatim theatre company, LUNG.