Kandinsky
★★★★★ ‘No-one else makes theatre quite like this’
Time Out on Dinomania, 2019
Kandinsky makes and tours live theatre nationally and internationally. We believe in theatre as a force for collaboration and transformation, and our work aims to delight, challenge and surprise our audiences, young and old.
Our previous credits include: Dog Show, New Diorama Theatre (winner: OffWestEnd Award, Peter Brook Festival Award); Trap Street, New Diorama Theatre (transferred to Festival of International New Drama at the Schaubühne, Berlin); There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; SHTF, Schauspielhaus Wien; and The Winston Machine, New Diorama & UK tour.
Kandinsky is run by James Yeatman and Lauren Mooney.
James Yeatman
James has directed and co-written all of Kandinsky’s productions to date.
In other work he is a Complicite Associate, and his work with them includes: The Dark Is Rising – BBC Radio 4 (Dramaturg), The Kid Stays In The Picture – Royal Court (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney), Beware of Pity – Schaubuhne (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney) Lionboy by Marcelo Dos Santos – Tricycle and International Tour (Co-Director with Clive Mendus); The Master and Margarita adapted from Bulgakov – Barbican & International Tour (Associate Director)
Other work includes: The Winters Tale adapted and directed by Jeff James – Dailes Teatr Latvia (Dramaturg); Felix’s Room by Adam Ganz and Scanlab Projects – Berliner Ensemble (Associate Director); The Language of Kindness – Shoreditch Town Hall and Touring (Co-Director/Adaptor with Sasha Milavic Davies), The Merchant of Venice – LAMDA (Director), Persuasion – Royal Exchange (Dramaturg/co-adaptor with Jeff James); Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood – Harold Pinter Theatre (Associate Director).
Lauren Mooney
Lauren co-runs Kandinsky and has worked on all the company’s shows since 2015, variously as a writer, producer and dramaturg. Credits as a dramaturg beyond the company include Fanboy (Pleasance / Soho), ColLab (annually at LAMDA since 2020) and forthcoming My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Paines Plough Roundabout / UK tour 2024, Yard Theatre / SoHo Playhouse New York 2025, winner: Fringe First Award, Summerhall Lustrum Award). Additionally, she has worked as a reader for the Royal Court and National Theatre, holds multiple audio credits with Big Finish as both a writer and script editor, and has written for Exeunt, The Stage and The Guardian. Before going freelance, she worked for two years in the literary and producing team at Clean Break Theatre Company, where she co-edited their monologue collection Rebel Voices (Methuen, 2019).
Lauren is a graduate of the Royal Court Playwriting course and the Creative Writing (Prose) MA at University of East Anglia, where she held the David Higham scholarship. Her prose fiction is represented by Veronique Baxter at David Higham Associates.
Kandinsky is registered charity no. 1134756
Trustees: Michael Walling (chair), Julian Connerty, Roxan Kamali-Sarvestani, Sofia Stephanou, Jemma Tabraham.
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