Hi theatre pals - I’ve just set up a new insta (@ollieharringtondirector) to host my directing & community portfolio. I’d love to have you follow me, if you’re over there too! I might keep one eye on this place, but I’ll be easiest to find here:

Some memories from @ColchFringe last weekend. Mother/Land by @EMullane97 @firstsite Fri 25 & Sat 26 Oct 2024 Dir: @ollierjh AV: Wesley Laing-Bimson LX & Photo credit: Sam Copus

It's that time again, pals, for me to ask you to see a play I directed. @MotherLand_Play opens TOMORROW as part of @ColchFringe!!! Shows are 8:30pm on FRI 25 & SAT 26 OCT at @firstsite - so grab your £8 tix and I'll see you there x https://t.co/ua47eCaOHa

Colchester pals - please join me & @EMullane97 for a fab quiz & a few drinks on Tuesday at the gorgeous patch! https://t.co/1k0wIBQjX9

Dear friends, we are hosting a FUNdraising Quiz Night & Raffle this Tuesday 10th September at patch in Colchester! Tickets to enter are just £5 and the delightful patch bar will be running throughout the evening - we hope you'll join us! https://t.co/M8KRfvqYLW

Can’t wait to bring @EMullane97’s brilliant new play to @ColchFringe this October. Give @MotherLand_Play a follow, or even better get your tix now!

It's official, Mother/Land is coming to @ColchFringe 2024! See you on 25th & 26th October in the Firstsite Studio. Tickets on sale now: https://t.co/Y12mvGBgvx… 🎟️

#Follie back to our best with a generous helping of @TheNickHelm

Great time repping the Young Cultural Leaders at @NorwichTheatre’s Creative Assembly Launch tonight (& extra proud to have sat in one of these v comfy chairs for the YCL panel.) Check out how we’re changing the way arts get done in the East: https://t.co/Zqd7mGa7ox

Theatres hiring assistant directors: we don’t want any barriers to applying ❤️ Also theatres hiring assistant directors: oh btw the job starts full time 2 days after the interviews so if you have literally any work lined up you can’t even apply lol. Rich people only pls x

Nice shout out from Stewart Lee in Sunday's @ObserverUK: "Eastern Angles theatre company has spent decades embodying rural working-class experiences in flexible mobile productions that can fill village halls, or transfer to London venues" - full article at https://t.co/jIycthbNhG

We join our friends at Eastern Angles and several cultural organisations across Suffolk in calling on Suffolk County Council to reconsider this damaging proposal. We owe so much to the audiences who welcomed us across Suffolk on our last tour. Their communities deserve better.

Eastern Angles Theatre Company advocate for a reconsideration of cultural investment cuts proposed by Suffolk County Council. Read the full statement at: https://t.co/nwj0oSDpgs

Not only is this proposal terrible for artists & communities in Suffolk - a wonderful place to make theatre, in my experience - but a total funding withdrawal there will inevitably damage the cultural ecology across East Anglia & beyond. Such short-sightedness has to be reversed.

If you are still blessed enough to be in that golden 18-25 arts opportunities bracket then make sure you sign up for this! @easternangles are the most wonderful company and their support has always made a huge difference to me & my East based theatre pals 💚

Great to finally spend an eve at @NorwichTheatre to meet my Young Cultural Leaders cohort + big thanks to @nicolanaismith1 for helping us reflect on embracing slow ways of working & persevering through tough times when every door seems firmly shut. A much needed re-energiser 😌

Calling Young Writers aged 18-30 in the East & South East of England, check out this amazing opportunity from our fab friends at @Menagerie_ 👇

It is sort of genius though 😬 the hypocrisy laid bare in how we romanticise historical protesters & revolutions that have got us to where we are today - even the very violent ones - but hate anything that inconveniences us now

Any London pals free tonight up for a rehearsed reading? Pls come get a taste of our play & let us know your thoughts - at the least there is a nice lil pub downstairs for afters!🍻 @MotherLand_Play Drayton Arms Theatre 7:30 Wed 16 Aug Free tix & info: https://t.co/Z8Evo9DF5Y

Our Mother/Land R&D started today @draytonarmsSW5 with the team exploring the world of @EMullane97's script and preparing for tomorrow evening's rehearsed reading. Join us for a taste of our play at 7:30pm, Wednesday 16th August. Free tickets: https://t.co/wwoQuT9C2E