User:Andrew Dawson/sandbox

Projects
2016 Created and Perform Spirit of the Ring Wagner's Ring cycle in 30 mins, commissioned by the Royal Opera House (2013).

2010 -2016 Choreographer Pearl Fishers The Metropolitan Opera, and English National Opera London.

2012 – 2014 Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award Recipient to create a one man theatrical work The Russian Doctor-Chasm of Sorrow the story Anton Chekhov’s astonishing exploration to Sakhalin Island in 1890. Artist Residency at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary art.

2013 Movement Director A Midsummers Night’s Dream Bristol Old Vic, Directed by Tom Morris in association with Handspring Puppets.

2012 Movement Director Our Town British première Guildhall School of Music London.

2012 Commissioned by Dello Scompiglio Italy to create and perform in theatre performance I am Half of Who I Am with Lou Colman.

2012 Lead Puppeteer Olympic Games London 2012, Opening Ceremony.

2012 Co-Directed The Heads for Blind Summit Theatre Company opening the London International Mime Festival.

2011 Director Kaffen Blir Kald (Before the coffee turns cold) Norwegian commission For theatre company Krutt og Kampher, Olso, Norway

2010 - Wellcome Trust Arts Award Recipient with Professor Jonathan Cole, to create theatrical project and one man piece The Articulate Hand in 2011 the piece was presented at the World Science Festival New York and  3 talks at TEDMED San Diego.

1987-2016 On man show Space Panorama Performances include the Kennedy Centre Washington DC for the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (2009) Broadway Across America at Under the Radar festival, New York and The Natural History Museum, New York, 2015 on The Intrepid Air and Space Museum New York. 2001 performance of Space Panorama at Astronaut reunion Dinner, Houston Texas

2008 Choreographer Dr Atomic The Metropolitan Opera New York and 2009 at English National Opera London.

2008 Performance Quatre Mains UCLA, Los Angeles.

2007 Arts Council England Large Arts Award recipient for solo show Lietmotif

2007 Director and co deviser The Idiot Colony for Redcape Theatre Company.

2006 Director Amnesia Curiosa for Rainpan 43 Theatre Company, Premièred in the oldest surgical amphitheatre in Philadelphia

2006 Created and Performed Absence and Presence toured to Push Festival, Vancouver, Canada, Adelaide Festival, Australia, MASS MoCA -Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA in Los Angeles  and PS122 New York.

2005 Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award recipient with Professor Jonathan Cole, filmmaker and co-founder of Rosetta Life Chris Rawlence, and Alexander teacher Lucia Walker, created The Process of Portrayal explored neurological impairment through motor neuron disease and spinal cord injury

2005 Director Do you want to Die with Me for Dance Company Fabrik Potsdam, Germany

2003 Choreographer Pandora 88 for Fabrik Potsdam, Germany. The show won Fringe First and Total Theatre awards.

1998 Quatre Mains created with Jos Houben performed at London International Mime Festival and Lyric theatre,Hammersmith London

1995-1997 Wallace and Gromit – A Grand Night Out Created and directed the stage show of Aardman Animations infamous characters Wallace and Gromit. The Production toured in the UK with a season at The Peacock Theatre in London’s West end.

1994-1995 As a performer in Gerry Anderson’s Sci Fi TV show Space Precinct a British television series that was broadcast from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in the UK, and in first-run syndication in the United States.

1984-1992 co founder of Mime Theatre Project, toured with British Council to Senegal, Beirut, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Chile creating and performing  Thunderbirds F.A.B. The show was an international success with tours to Australia and Japan and went on to 6 seasons in London’s West End, The Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue (twice,) The Mermaid, The Ambassadors, The Playhouse and The Aldwich. Other works by MTP include '''The Three Musketeers, The Six Sided Man, What is All This Dancing? and Vertical Deserts,'''

Teaching
Andrew regularly teaches students including Central school of Speech and Drama, London, Goldsmith Collage, London, Fabrik, Potsdam and in Los Angeles.

Awards
Absence and Presence

Carlo Tambor Award best of Edinburgh 2005, Herald Angel 2005, Total Theatre 2005

The Idiot Colony

Fringe First 2008, Total Theatre Award 2008

Pandora 88

Total Theatre 2003,Fringe first 2003, Herald Angel 2003

Chorographer - DR Atomic

Grammy 2012 for best live recording.

Personal Life
Andrew is married to Sara, they have two children Roman (23) and Cornelia (16) they live in London and Los Angeles.

Links
www.andrewdawson.info