Rafaella Marcus | Director | Dramaturg | Writer

Rafaella Marcus is a 2021 MGCFutures bursary winner and JMK Award finalist. Her work as a writer & director focuses on new writing and bringing to the stage marginalised voices, especially women. She is currently developing new self-penned play Sap, and writing new audio drama for Big Finish TBA.

Other recent directing credits include: Sap (as writer/director, VAULT Festival), Stop Kiss (Above The Stag), I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream (VAULT Festival – 2018 People’s Choice Award winner), Bury the Dead (Finborough), Alley. Pearls. Gunshot. (The Yard), Spooky Action At A Distance (Bunker Theatre), Crave (Bunker Theatre), The Wild Party (The Hope Theatre), The Window/Blank Pages (The Hope Theatre), Sonya and Andrey (Sheffield Theatres), and Laughing Boy (site specific, Bethnal Green).

Work as associate director includes: Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre), Fury (Guildhall) for Nicole Charles; The Cause (Jermyn Street Theatre) for Andrew Shepherd.

Work as Assistant Director includes: Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe), Romeo and Juliet, The Wind in the Willows (Chester Performs), Boeing Boeing, Afterplay, Love Your Soldiers, The Winter’s Tale (Sheffield Theatres), and The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre).

Rafaella trained on the Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA.

She is an occasional contributor to The Stage and Exeunt Magazine; other writing credits include Epifania, an interactive audio play as part of Hotel Europe (Green Rooms).