Jayne Gold
Researcher, creative producer & teacher
Projects
Promenade theatre history performance on the streets of Brecon
Using her doctoral research on Brecon's theatre history, Jayne secured Heritage Lottery funding and collaborated with the community theatre group Brecon Little Theatre to tell the story of Brecon's theatrical past. The sell-out show was entirely community led and produced. To accompany the project, Jayne worked with a local designer Signe L Design to create a self-guided walking history map and schools' education packs.
Build your own Brainstorm
This project was a collaboration between Jayne and Ned Glasier, Artistic Director of Company 3, in response to their production of Brainstorm (National Theatre). It was developed as a six-week explorative project with 180 Year 8 students at EGA which culminated in the creation of a 20-minute film and accompanying resource pack funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Coming Home
Coming Home was developed as part of the Barbican Box project in collaboration with Complicite. Co-directed and devised by Jayne, it uses movement and speech to tell young people’s own moving experiences of migration.
The Princess Party
The Princess Party by the award-winning playwright Alia Bano, premiered at Rich Mix and the Soho Theatre as part of the Schoolwrights scheme. Directed and facilitated by Jayne, the play was developed with a group of seven young women and is a feminist reworking of traditional views of the 'fairytale princess'. It empowers young women to look beyond outdated views of power and beauty and instead find role models in female doctors, teachers and lawyers and women who help change the world for the better.
Sharing Voices
In collaboration with educator and director Ali Godfrey, Jayne co-founded and delivered a Theatre for Development project in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. With funding secured from the Leverhulme Trust, this project improved the teaching of English at a local charity for the poorest children in the region. To ensure longevity, the unique programme trained teachers in Drama teaching methodologies alongside working with the young people.
Oz
Working with her wonderful Drama club members at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, Jayne directed and wrote an original script for an all-female version of The Wizard to Oz set on ‘Kansas Estate’ in Islington. Finding life difficult in foster care and at risk of being excluded from school, after chatting online, Dorothy decides to run away. After meeting the Scarecrow, the Tin Woman and Lion in Oz and being enrolled into the new Emerald City Academy, Dorothy realises after all that there is really is no place like home.
For enquiries about obtaining a copy of the play please get in contact.
Trading Ages
Trading Ages was an intergenerational community performance project produced, directed and facilitated by Jayne, involving East London school students and residents from a nearby care home for the elderly. Through the sharing of dance, song and poetry, the two generations came together to celebrate each other’s stories and experiences. This helped foster community cohesion and built a lasting connection between the two community groups.