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Francesca Goodridge
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Francesca is a Welsh theatre director and first recipient of the Carne Traineeship for Directors in Wales at Theatr Clwyd. She is Associate Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd.
Francesca currently directs A Greasy Spoon at Liverpool’s Royal Court. She recently directed new Katherine Chandler play A Pretty Shitty Love (Theatr Clwyd/Chapter Arts Cardiff), which received critical acclaim in national press.
Francesca is a Welsh theatre director and first recipient of the Carne Traineeship for Directors in Wales at Theatr Clwyd. She is Associate Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd.
Francesca currently directs A Greasy Spoon at Liverpool’s Royal Court. She recently directed new Katherine Chandler play A Pretty Shitty Love (Theatr Clwyd/Chapter Arts Cardiff), which received critical acclaim in national press.
Further directing credits include The Brothers Grimm Cinderella (Barn Theatre), Once Upon a Christmas (Theatr Clwyd), Adam and Eve and Steve (King’s Head Theatre), Shout! the Mod Musical (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool).
Selected credits as associate director include the Famous Five (Theatr Clwyd/Chichester Festival Theatre).
She trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and is the former Trainee Director of The Other Room Theatre in Cardiff. She recently co-founded The Far Away Plays – an online play reading company that champions Welsh and Wales based creatives – with a view to revisit existing Welsh plays and discuss the reimagining of those classics for today.
Francesca is a guest director and visiting lecturer at LIPA, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, working with both acting and design students.