Sam Redway

Sam Redway is an international award-winning, multi-disciplinary dramaturg, director, and writer with a deep passion for co-creation, climate-focused arts practice, and creative democracy. His work crosses theatre, opera, new music, and community performance and is always informed by equitable practice and the empowered performer.

Alongside the project with Crash, he is currently developing Don't Step on the Cracks as librettist with Laura Bowler and the Youth Opera Company for Royal Ballet & Opera and a co-created opera with NHS workers and the Manchester Medical Orchestra composed by Dave Roche and directed by Felicity Green. Sam is Associate Artist (Dramaturgy) of Smoking Apples Theatre Company (Kinder, Ettie and Offie TYAAwards), Associate Dramaturgy of Vertebra Theatre, and The Spark Arts for Children’s Associate Artist for Building Brave Spaces investigating the performing arts’ roles in improving child voice and agency in schools. Sam supports the youth voice work of Cambridge Handel Opera Company as a trustee, and was co-founder of the multi-international award winning Knaïve Theatre Bin Laden: The One Man Show & War With The Newts).

Recent work includes: Dangerous Matter with Zakiya Leeming, Rosie Middleton & RNCM post-graduate singers (director/librettist), Laura Bowler's The Girl With The Hurricane Brain (librettist, Copenhagen Opera Festival), ElifKarlidag's The Game (librettist) and Abel Esbenshade's HorsePerson Opera (director, Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival).

Speaking about his Residency with Crash, Redway said:
“Honestly, I'm ecstatic! To be invited as Artist in Residence at a time when opportunities to create and develop art are diminishing, and the artistic community is feeling more vulnerable by the week is a dizzying privilege. To spend this time surrounded by the incomparable imaginations and musicianship of Crash is both humbling and inspiring and will undoubtedly raise my creative game. I am at risk of hyperbole, but I am mountainously grateful for the trust Crash have placed in me, and giddy to call Dublin my creative home during this time!"

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