Bethan Dear

Bethan Dear is a storyteller, writer, director, performer and theatre maker. She is the artistic director of Jackdaw Theatre. She is a feminist and proud to identify as a woman. She believes deeply in equality for all and is passionate about telling stories. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the stories we are told about ourselves, the stories the world tells us, about one another. The stories our culture or society tell us have a truly magical power, they can create or they can destroy. They need to be continually questioned, rewritten, retold, seen, watched, and heard.

Bethan has worked in the professional theatre and arts sector for over eleven years and has worked with a variety of successful British companies, venues, directors, writers and artists. These include; Jagged Fence, Nabakov, High Tide, Tamasha, Tangled Feet, The BAC, Rich Mix, The Almeida, The Finborough, Oval House, Tara Arts, MIF, The Royal Exchange, Mathew Dunster, Sarah Frankcom, Blanche Macintyre, Phillip Osment, Jatinder Verma, Abhishek Majumdar, Colleen Murphy, Ben Ellis and a long list of wonderfully talented British and international performers. In 2013, following her production of Harlesden High Street, she was invited to attend the last directors course, at the National Theatre Studio in London.

In 2014 Bethan received the International Artist Development Fund for a writing, research and development project, based in and around Bangalore in India. In 2015 she became the associate director for Sudha Buchar’s My Name Is… and took the show on National tour of Scotland. Bethan has also written for Divine Ridiculous, The Rollright Fayre Festival, Majical Youth Theatre and Loko Zine.