Samara Hersch
Theatre maker, director and teaching artist whose practice explores the intersection of contemporary performance and community engagement.
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Samara Hersch is a theatre maker, director and teaching artist whose practice explores the intersection of contemporary performance and community engagement. Her recent work focuses on critical trans-generational dialogue with an enquiry into conversation-as-performance / performance-as-conversation.
Samara regularly collaborates with artist Lara Thoms. Their work subverts notions of adults as experts, foregrounding the voices of young people in the retelling and reimagining of national stories and identities.
Samara recently completed her Masters at Das Theatre, Amsterdam. Her current research is an exploration into public acts of intimacy, particularly through imagining new perforative frames for non-professional performers and audiences to inhabit. She is currently an artist in residence at Theatre Rotterdam and is part of the EU Network, ACT – Art Climate Transition.


Works
Independent
It’s Going to Get Dark
DEVELOPMENT
Sex and Death_and The Internet
2020
For The Time Being
2020
Body of Knowledge
2019
Dybbuks
2018
Sex and Death
2016
Collaborations
Please Stand
with Lara Thoms
DEVELOPMENT
The Invisible Opera
with Sophia Brous, Faye Driscoll and Lara Thoms
DEVELOPMENT
We All Know What’s Happening
with Lara Thoms
2017