Photography by Benkin Photography.
Imogen is currently co-creating new theatre works with Chaskis Theatre. Previous credits include: We Are Social Netflix Advert for Stranger Things; Lady Macbeth in The Quarter Too Ensemble’s Macbeth; The Artful Dodger in TNT and ADGE’s Oliver Twist; Protestor in Pussy Riot and The Connor Brothers' Let the Refugees In at Dismaland; and Anne Boleyn in Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton, directed by Ian Brown.
Actor
Lava Lamps, written and performed by Imogen Frances and directed by David Zoob. Photography by Sipke.
Imogen Frances* (she/they) trained as an actor at RADA & Rose Bruford College, graduating in 2014. Since then, she has worked as an actor, director, poet, writer, and intimacy director, across the UK and internationally. They are dedicated to the creation and development of new theatre works, and an advocate for emerging artists; with a belief that stories have the power to connect, heal, and liberate us.
Imogen is currently one of the core Acting Tutors at Rose Bruford College; teaching the Meisner Technique to first year Actors & Actor Musicians, in collaboration with Raymi Ortuste Quiroga, who attended The William Esper Studio. Their work as Meisner facilitators is very much influenced and inspired by the work of Brené Brown. She is Associate Director of the transcultural theatre company Chaskis Theatre; making work to encourage empathy across borders, and Associate Artist of The Quarter Too Ensemble; committed to producing new and accessible theatre, workshops & collaborative community based projects.
*Formerly Hudson-Clayton
Criterion New Writing Workshops, led by Greg Mosse. Photography by Benjamin Graham
Imogen is currently working alongside writer Paul Bradshaw on various projects. Their production of tell me straight was part of the 2021 Queer Season at The King’s Head, and the 2022 revival at Chiswick Playhouse won the Standing Ovation award for Best Black Box Theatre. Previous work includes Yerma by Frederico Garcia Lorca, adapted by Ursala Rani Sarma and Assistant Director on Wojtek: The Happy Warrior by The Quarter Too Ensemble.
Director
Two Cities movement workshop, led by Imogen Frances. Photography by Rebecca Rayne
May I ask Who is Steering? by Imogen Frances (printed as Hudson-Clayton), in Hidden in Chaos by Chris Holmes and Trope. Photography by Trope.
“They remind us that women are not rays of sunshine but supercell storms.” - Female Arts Review.
Imogen’s work as a writer and poet is auto-fictional. They explore the spaces within gender & sexual identity, the nature of eros, intimacy & connection, and the healing of trauma through embracing grief. In 2020 she was published in the photography book and poetry anthology Hidden in Chaos by Chris Holmes and Trope. NAMELESS, a piece of spoken word gig theatre; a passionate, reckless and raw story about trauma, survival and love, is currently in R&D.
Poet
Peckham Springs by Imogen Frances (printed as Hudson-Clayton), in Hidden in Chaos by Chris Holmes and Trope. Photography by Trope.
Photography by Spike.
Photography by Benkin Photography.