Naomi Said
Movement & Choreography includes:Beginning (NT, West End & UK Tour), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre & West End), Disco Pigs (Trafalgar Studios & Irish Rep, NYC), Myth (RSC), Committee, Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse), Forty Years On, Sleeping Beauty, Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre), To Kill A Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse), Watership Down (Watermill), Robin Hood (the egg, Bath), Amelie das Musical (Stage Entertainment, Munich), Hungry Nation (Coventry UK City of Culture).
As Movement Assistant: Taming of the Shrew (RSC), Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), War Correspondents (Helen Chadwick/Birmingham Rep/GDIF), The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Holland Park).
As Associate Director: Little Dogs (National Theatre Wales/Frantic Assembly). Naomi was Resident Company Movement Practitioner at the RSC (2011-12), where projects included The Heart of Robin Hood and The Comedy of Errors. She was a practitioner for Frantic Assembly from 2010, leading and co-directing physical theatre projects with young people across the UK and internationally. Naomi's acting work includes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (NT, West End), Dr Dee (ENO/MIF), 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic New Voices), The Gruffalo (West End/Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Mikado (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough) and many workshops for NT Studio. Her first work as writer-performer, The Wedge, was supported by Arts Council England and co-produced by Theatre Absolute at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry. Naomi has taught at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Oxford School of Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and on the NT Studio Director’s Course.