Photography by Benkin Photography.
Imogen is currently co-creating new theatre works with Chaskis Theatre. Previous acting credits include: 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, 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, Imogen has worked as an actor, director, intimacy director, poet and playwright, across the UK and internationally. Imogen is 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. Imogen 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's award winning and Offie Nominated production of Paul Bradshaw's 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.
Most recently, Imogen directed Star Cross'd, an adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy Romeo & Juliet at Rose Bruford College.
Director
Star Cross'd by Imogen Frances & Tanya Bridgeman, directed by Imogen Frances. Photography by Felix Mosse.
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 playwright, poet and spoken word artist is auto-fictional. Their writing is often female-led or queer-centric, exploring the spaces within gender & sexual identity, resilience & the healing of trauma, and the nature of eros, intimacy & connection.
In 2020 Imogen was published in the photography book and poetry anthology Hidden in Chaos by Chris Holmes and Trope, and this year Imogen's play ; (pause before continuing) was long-listed for The RSC's 27 Plays Award.
Writer
Peckham Springs by Imogen Frances (printed as Hudson-Clayton), in Hidden in Chaos by Chris Holmes and Trope. Photography by Trope.
Photography by Sipke.
Photography by Benkin Photography.