Tue 01 Jul
11:30-13:30
St David's Building, Mold
Rehearsal Room One / Adeilad Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug - Ystafell Ymarfer Un

Join Gwennan Mair, our Community, Wellbeing and Education Director. She'll dive into her work with the communities of North Wales and what it means to create a large scale community production.

Gwennan is a community theatre facilitator and artist, who finds joy in the power of the arts to bridge divisions and create connections. Her commitment to using theatre as a tool of engagement is rooted in listening, gaining trust, caring and supporting people. She has extensive experience in creating and delivering community-centered projects in North Wales, her home (tir) Welsh soil; poor, rural, agricultural (post) industrial and largely forgotten land.

In her role as Director of Creative Engagement at Theatr Clwyd (since January 2017) she has had the privilege of leading a dedicated team in crafting a programme of community-driven projects. Over the past eight years her focus has been on making theatre more accessible and relevant to communities that might not have had the opportunities to be involved before.

Under her guidance, our Creative Engagement team reaches over 40,000 young people annually through music, drama, dance and theatre making activities, a partnership with Betsi Cadwaladr health board to co-deliver a project for people with dementia and their carers, and introducing intergenerational friendships with a primary school.

Thu 24 Jul
15:00-18:00
St David's Building, Mold
Rehearsal Room One

Sit in on rehearsals for Wrecslam!, our upcoming Eisteddfod performance, and take part in an exclusive Q&A with the directors, Daniel Lloyd and Rhian Blythe.

To note: this will be a Welsh language-led event. If you're a Welsh learner and are wondering if the event will be accessible for you, please contact Lucy.

Daniel is a Director, Actor-Musician and Songwriter and was raised in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrecsam. He is the Associate Director at Theatr Clwyd and an associate artist at Theatr na n’Og. Dan trained at East 15 and has over 20 years’ experience working in Theatre, Film, TV and Radio. He is passionate about championing Welsh culture, its language and its unsung heroes and stories.

Dan’s director credits include: Hafan, Cinderella, Constellations, Cytserau, Sleeping Beauty, Truth or Dare, Mother Goose the Rock n Roll panto – all for Theatr Clwyd. Wrecslam!, Rwan Nawr and HaHa (new writing co productions between Theatr Clwyd/Theatr Cymru) Rownd a Rownd (S4C), Miss Wales (in development Theatr Clwyd) Without You - The Badfinger Musical, The White Feather, Arandora Star, Abertawe’n Fflam, The Butterfly Hunter, Far From The Madding Crowd (Theatr na n’Og), Toxic Whispers and Cloudbusting (ACW).

Rhian is Theatr Cymru’s Associate Director. She was a member of Awenau – a mentorship scheme for new directors from Theatr Cymru in 2019 – and since then, she’s directed Byth Bythoedd Amen by Mared Jarman and Swyn by Krystal S. Lowe for Theatr Cymru, as well as Rŵan/Nawr at Eisteddfod 2023 and Ha/Ha last year for Theatr Cymru and Theatr Clwyd. Rhian also directed Enfys by Melangell Dolma, a digital micro-play for BBC Cymru Fyw and Theatr Cymru, Croendena by Mared Llywelyn for Frân Wen, and Helo?! and Noson yn y Glwys for WAVDA.