Anna Brownsted
+44 (0) 7548 351685
annabrownsted(at)gmail.com
EDUCATION
MA Performance Practice as Research, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
BFA Directing and Playwriting, University of Wyoming
FORTHCOMING
2019 Shelter - Pier Projects Residency Commission, Felixstowe
RECENT WORK
2019 The Gold 45 Prototype (vinyl flexidisc book + series of collages)
2019 The Gold 45 Listening Party
2018 9th and Castle - Commissioned for the House at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2018 The Gold 45 Live Record Review - My Little Festival, Sunday Papers Live, Cambridge Festival of Ideas
2018 Still Murmuring -
2018 Pence Sterling - Commissioned by Other Ways for In Your Way, Cambridge
2018 My Vinyl Ate Your MP3 - Watch Out Festival, Cambridge Junction
2018 ‘Actions’ - Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (group exhibition)
2018 P.S. We’re Still Here - Artist talk & interactive event, Cambridge Junction/Cambridge Science Festival
2017 The Bread Project - ‘Open House’ collaborative community project, commissioned by Kettle’s Yard
2017 Splitter - Watch Out Festival, Cambridge Junction (commission)
2017 Perfect Day - Co-commissioned by Cambridge Junction & Cambridge City Council for Hunt & Darton’s Radio Local
2017 Diplomat - Commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, ‘Can You Hear Me?’ digital exhibition
2016 A VALE - Art Language Location, Cambridge; UCL Festival of Culture, London (commission)
2016 Marginalia - Watch Out, Cambridge Junction (commission)
2016 Good Fortunes - Midsummer Common, Cambridge
2015 We Have Only This - ‘Views From the ‘Bridge’, Cambridge Junction
2015 Backseat Driver - Art Language Location, Cambridge
2015 Five Possible Selections - Art Language Location, Cambridge
2014 Fade into View - Romsey Art Festival, Cambridge (commission)
2014 The Fictional Woods - ‘One Day in the City’, UCL, London (commission)
2012 Point of Interest - Accidental Festival, The Roundhouse, London
2012 The Invisible City - ‘One Day in the City’, UCL, London (commission)
2011 Bent Space - Forest Fringe Travelling Sounds Library, London/Edinburgh/festival circuit
2011 The Portable Emporium - Accidental Festival, The Roundhouse, London
2011 Shore Leave - Hide & Seek Sandpit, National Maritime Museum, London
2010 The Gilded Rail - The Old Vic Tunnels, London (commission)
2010 Coming Forth By Day - The British Museum, London (commission)
2010 Virtue in Flames - The British Museum, London (commission)
2010 The Invisible City - The Old Vic Tunnels, London (commission)
2010 Object 27 - The British Museum and BBC/Radio4, London (commission)
RELATED
2017 Selected Artist, Collusions' Data Culture Lab: Cambridge
2017 Curator, Collisions Festival: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2016 Artist Facilitator, Kettle’s Yard Open House collaborative project with The Grove Primary, Cambridge
2016 Devising Ensemble, This Is Not A Drill: Cambridge Junction, with Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari
2016 Curator, Collisions Festival: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2015 Artist Mentor, Circuit: Unlock Cambridge ‘Alternative Tours’, Kettle’s Yard and Wysing
2015 Producer, Collisions Festival: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2015 Director, Aletia Upstairs’ Memetronome, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival
2014 Producer, Collisions Festival: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2013 Production Assistant, Adrian Howell’s Unburden, BAC, London
2012 Director, Aletia Upstairs’ Kathakali Kabaret, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
2011 Director, Aletia Upstairs’ In These Shoes?, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
2010 Director, Pop-Up Shakespeare, Renaissance Late @The British Museum, London
2010 Design Assistant, The Duchess of Malfi: Punchdrunk/ENO, London
2010 Director, Cold Hands (staged reading), Theatre 503, London
2010 Director, Bernarda Alba, Trinity Laban, London
2009 Director, Iggy & Em, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2009 Director, White People, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA, US
2009 Director, If The Whole Body Dies, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA, US
2009 Design Assistant, Sleep No More: Punchdrunk/American Repertory Theatre, Boston MA, US
LECTURING
2010-now Visiting Professional & Visiting Lecturer, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
2007-2008 Lecturer, Undergraduate Playwriting, University of Wyoming
GRANTS & AWARDS
2018 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (R&D: The Gold 45 Prototype)
2017 Long-listed for Celeste Prize (Sculpture, Installation & Performance)
2016 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (Organisational Development)
2015 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (R&D: Devising Experiential Narratives)