Georgina Sowerby

Georgina Sowerby trained as an actor at the Drama Centre London and went on to work at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland, amongst many other places.  

Georgina has also been teaching acting in various settings, both open-access and conservatoire, for the last 25 years, and she’s directed over 30 shows with students. Before joining Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as the Head of MFA Professional Acting, she was Course Leader for MA Acting at Drama Centre London, a supervisor for MA Creative Performance Practice at LSBU, Head of Year at Fourth Monkey Actor Training and Head of Acting at the Oxford School of Drama.

Georgina co-founded and co-directs Dirty Market Theatre http://www.dirtymarket.co.uk ,making imaginative performances in spaces where theatre doesn’t normally happen. Dirty Market uses ‘bricolage technique’ to make new work, where unusual elements are incorporated and transformed. Their process is documented in Robert Daniel’s D.I.Y. and D.I.Y Too series, as well as in the contributory chapter Alchemical Adaptations that Georgina co-wrote with Jon Lee for Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, pub. Vernon Press, Series in Art. With Dirty Market, Georgina has created https://www.omagemi.com/ – an interactive discussion game helping people have difficult conversations regarding medication and pregnancy, where there is no perfect outcome.

Georgina also writes about acting. Her contributory chapter, Communion, Mindfulness and the Imaginative Actor, for the forthcoming book Stanislavsky and Mindfulness, is due to be published by Routledge in 2025.