Biog
Co-Artistic Director

Marcia completed her training at Royal Holloway (University of London) to which she has returned to embark upon a practice based PhD in Physical Theatre.

Marcia has toured both nationally and internationally. Tours include: the Little Girl who was too fond of matches (Impetuous Kinship) Best Actor 2007, Buxton fringe festival and a nomination for Best Production; The Wild Party (The Mousepeople) Time Out Critics Choice and nominations for a Vita Award, Market Theatre, Johannesburg and Best Ensemble, Stage and Television Award; Pigtales (Inamorata), a performance that won her Best Fringe Performer 2000, Manchester Evening Standard and a nomination for Best Production; Big School (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); A Devilish Exercise (Into the Breech Theatre); Othellophobia (xplosive Acts); Juliet’s Dream (Sharp Theatre). Theatre includes: The Lost Thing (Impetuous Kinship); PALS (Maverick Theatre); Transfigured (Atlas productions). Television includes: Doctors (BBC), Dangerfield (BBC). Film includes: Mr Oakley (TaD too far), Sex Lives of the Potato Men. Musical Theatre includes: Laborintus II (Electric Phoenix); Fax of Life (Limited Company); The Unit (Mary Stewart David and Denis King); Profiles, cast recording (Mary Stewart David). For Royal Opera House, Sun & Heir.

Marcia is on tour both nationally and internationally educating both young and old either facilitating workshops on all aspects of performance studies as well as lecturing to undergraduates and postgraduates on both academic and vocational courses. Some of her recent credits include: Central School of Speech and Drama for MA Acting Musical Theatre (Movement Tutor, Acting Tutor, Choreographer), MA Classical Acting (Movement Tutor), Professional Development and Lifelong Learning (Intro to Acting, Scene Direction, Saturday Youth Theatre); Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; Coventry Youth Service (Team Building); Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch (Youth Theatre; Community Group); Court Training Theatre (Movement/Physical Theatre Tutor, TIE Tutor/Director, dissertation/practice as research tutor); Kingston University (Stage Directions, Creative Acting, Staging Women, Devising, Staging Posts); South Bank University (Brief led performance, Twentieth Century Practitioners); Goldsmiths University (Women Practitioners, Modernism and Postmodernity), Gifted and talented (Birmingham & London); Wolverhampton University (Theatre Criticism, Experimental Theatre, Subverting the Canon, Approaches to Shakespeare, Practitioners and Practice, Devising); Winchester University (Intertextuality, Practice as Research, Contemporary Practitioners). International credits include: ST&M Theatre School (Amsterdam). Marcia is also an Associate Artist with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and is an examiner with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Marcia is also Director of Youth Theatre at The Broadway, Barking.

Marcia has directed and choreographed: Harry From the Hill (Queen's Theatre); The Lost Thing (Adaptation and Direction, Impetuous Kinship); The Snow Queen (Physical Direction, Groundlings Theatre Company); the Little Girl who was too fond of matches (Adaptation and Direction, Impetuous Kinship); Corpus Variorum or The Emender of Stories (KUDOS); The Silver Tongued Grandiloquent (Court theatre Training Company); Trainride & Girls’ Night Out (Impetuous Kinship); Merrily we Roll Long (Choreographer, Central School of Speech and Drama/ST&M, Amsterdam); CSSD MA Acting Musical Theatre Showcase (Choreographer); Celebrity Chatback (Director, TIE Court Training Theatre); The Person with Enormous Wings (Director, TIE Court Training Company); Moot (Choreographer, MABrum); Webster Dextrious (MABrum); Bottom’s Dream (Director/Choreographer, Chamberlain Players); A Big Night Out (Director, Chamberlain Players). Marcia has worked as a casting director on Peter Pan, Snow Queen for Groundlings Theatre Company and The Wiz for Victoryland.

Awards:
The Little Girl who was too fond of Matches – Buxton Festival Award Winner
Marcia Carr – Best Actor 2007 (Underground Venues)
Nominated for Best Production 2007 – Buxton Fringe Festival

Pigtales - Manchester Evening Standard Award Winner
Marcia Carr – Best Fringe Performer 2000 (Manchester Royal Exchange Studio)
Nominated for Best Performance 2000 – Manchester Evening Standard Award

The wild Party -Time Out Critics Choice
Nominated for Best Ensemble 1998 – The Stage and Television Today
Nominated for a VITA Award 1999 – South Africa


Marcia is represented by Jean Diamond of Diamond Management who can be contacted on 0207 631 0400. You can also hear Marcia at www.diamondvoices.co.uk.

Contact Details
Email: marcia@impetuouskinship.co.uk
Website: www.impetuouskinship.co.uk